Great Art, Big Ideas Podcast
Festival 2024 Playlist
STOUT - LIVE at the 2023 International Festival of Arts & Ideas
STOUT started her musical journey at the age of three in her grandmother’s basement in New Haven, Connecticut. Since then, she has shared the stage with Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Carlos...
DEMOCRACY AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE
Join author and award-winning journalist Ari Berman and award-winning scholar, educator, and author, Khalilah Brown-Dean, for a discussion on the history and contemporary relevance of voting rights....
PECHAKUCHA NEW HAVEN
How much can you share in 20 slides, 20 seconds each? PechaKucha, in which performers tell a story on a subject of their choosing in a unique presentational format, began in Tokyo in 2003, and has...
Stir the Style
Love a good story? Then you definitely won’t want to miss this one-of-a-kind event. It’s a storytelling mash-up featuring all styles of great stories told through all flavors of engaging formats —...
GRUPO TENTACIÓN LIVE on the New Haven Green
Hailing from New London, CT this talented group is set to light up the stage and get your heart racing with their infectious rhythms and captivating melodies from lead singer Jocelyn Rosario.
With...
UNDERSTANDING HOUSING INSECURITY
A world without housing insecurity. A realistic goal? Only if we better understand the inter-related array of steps that can lead to its elimination. Deepen your understanding and broaden your...
VOICES OF SOCIAL EQUITY
How we tell the stories about ourselves, traumatic or otherwise, can be used to categorize us in ways that are not always equitable. Are marginalized groups expected to share traumatic experiences...
KULTURALLY LIT PODCAST X SITTING PRETTY BOOK DISCUSSION
Members of the Kulturally LIT Team & One City One Read Advisory Committee will use the themes of resilience, disability rights, and access in our NEA Big Read book as a springboard to discuss the...
LOVING ALL OF ME: A CONVERSATION ON DISABILITY, LOVE & DATING
Join Lucy Gellman, Editor of the Arts Paper, Justin Farmer, City Councilor of Hamden’s 5th District, and Elaine Kolb, activist & musician in a conversation on disability, dating, and love. Listen in...
A DIVE INTO SPECIAL EDUCATION
Kiomary Sotillo, Parent Consultant of the Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center will lead on conversation on the current state of special education and her experience as a parent of children with...
2023 NEA Big Read Kick-Off
Check out the official kick-off of our citywide reading revolution! NEA Big Read author, Rebekah Taussig and Executive Director of National Disability Rights Network Marlene Sallo join us virtually...
Colorism in the Latiné Community
Join us for a talk with the director of Theatreworks Hartford's QUEEN OF BASEL Cristina Angeles and racial justice advocate Kica Matos about colorism in the latiné community. Moderated by Hartford’s...