Great Art, Big Ideas Podcast
Festival 2024 Playlist

NEA Big Read Kick-Off 2024
On April 3, 2024 we welcomed everyone to our 2024 NEA Big Read Kick Off celebrating Thi Bui's "The Best We Could Do"! Attendees gathered at the Stetson Library Branch for activities, received their...

Get ready for Festival 2024!
Save the Dates! Buy Tickets Now! Embrace Movement. Reimagine Legacy. Crear Cultura. Feed Your Mind. Be the Change. Be Changed. Festival 2024: June 14-29. Be there!

2024 NEA Grant Press Conference with Sen. Richard Blumenthal
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal announced a $45,000 federal grant for the New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas to support their multidisciplinary artistic programming this year.
The...

Intergalactic Draganza: Rise of the Dragons
The Intergalactic DRAGanza is a theatrical experience fusing Drag and Ball culture through a futuristic space adventure. Drag Queens across the universe must unite using the 5 elements of Vogue to...

2023 ADULT INVITATIONAL POETRY SLAM
Experience the power of live poetry with the top slam poets from throughout the Northeast. Equally skilled in their writing as in their delivery, the poets will engage and entertain guests while...

Ada Vox LIVE at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Ada Vox, is an accomplished vocalist, songwriter, and drag queen who found success and pushed boundaries as a contestant on the hit singing competition series American Idol.
This Festival 2023...

THE ART OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Listen in on a discussion between Brennan Buck, senior critic at the Yale School of Architecture and Ira Revels, founder of Black Tech Futures, on the pros and cons of using AI across artistic...

EL FUTURO ES AHORA: ACTIVISM AND INFLUENCES IN THE ARTS
Join us for a Behind the Actor's Studio-style interview with powerhouse practitioners in social change and cultural equity! Grantmakers in the Arts President Eddie Torres will be joined by Pregones/...

Mical Teja LIVE at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Join a Soca party on the New Haven Green! Trinidad’s own Mical Teja brings his unique sound to close out the Caribbean Day Festival celebration. The man with the hottest pen in Soca music, Teja has...

The Future of Automobiles
Are flying cars, self-driving vehicles, and biomass-mobiles really in our future? Learn just how far — and how soon — technology will transport us into the future with this podcaster, author and...

Berdine LIVE on the New Haven Green
Let your heart & soul be serenaded by Connecticut based Haitian Neo Soul, R&B, jazz infused recording artist and songwriter, Berdine Joseph.

KEYNOTE: AMELIA WINGER-BEARSKIN
Amelia Winger-Bearskin showcases her art and science storytelling work and demonstrate how new technologies can help preserve and engage with ancestral knowledge. Attendees will discover how...