Festival Stories

Celebrate the Festival's Fall Fellows!

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Time: 5:30pm-7pm

Location: 195 Church Street, 12th Floor, New Haven

Light refreshments will be served

Kindly RSVP to Dawn Gibson-Brehon by Monday, October 4, 2010

Click here for more information on the Arts & Ideas Fellowship Program

A blog from the road by Director of Performance Programs Cathy Edwards

It's been a great start to the Time-Based Art Festival (known affectionately as TBA Festival here in Portland), where I am in my second of three years as guest artistic director of the Festival. The Festival takes place for 10 days every September and kicks off the annual arts season in Portland. What does TBA mean? Time-Based Art means it unfolds over time (as opposed to something static like a painting) and also that the festival is designed to be contemporary and reflect upon the arts of our time. I love balancing...

Congratulations to Bill T. Jones, one of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors recipients. Joining Bill this year on December 5 are Merle Haggard, Jerry Herman, Paul McCartney, and Oprah Winfrey.

Bill T. Jones took part in a conversation with Elizabeth Alexander as part of the 2010 Festival's Ideas programs. The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company performed Blue Phrase, Ballad, Soon, and Some Songs as part of the 1997 Festival.

Be sure to watch the gala broadcast on Tuesday, December 28 on CBS.

A blog from the road by Festival Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie.

School doors are open. Students bustle on New Haven streets. Temperatures have chilled. Summer is already a blur in the rear view mirror.

It seems like years since we danced together with Dan Zanes on the New Haven Green, following him and his locally purchased red sneakers in a trail of music and delight!

And no wonder. It has been a very busy summer!

Besides our usual Festival clean-up and accounting there were lots of meetings with colleagues and artists about projects for the future. In times of chaos,...

Grammy Award winner and MacArthur Grant recipient Miguel Zenón will be performing at the Polish National Home, 60 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford on Saturday, September 4. Tickets are $10 each. Click here to read the article in the Hartford Advocate.

La Rayuela is the title of a novel by Argentinean author Julio Cortazar that takes place both in Paris and in Buenos Aires. Miguel teamed up with French pianist Laurent Coq in writing the music, with Miguel focusing on the Parisian chapters as an inspiration, and Laurent focusing on the Argentinian chapters. The new music has its world premiere in...

The editors of Connecticut Magazine® have featured the International Festival of Arts & Ideas as the Best of Connecticut® 2010 Winner for Best Festival. More than 200 Best of Connecticut 2010 winners are highlighted in the September issue. The Festival has won Best of Connecticut four years in a row.

For more than 30 years, Connecticut Magazine has coupled award-winning journalism with a monthly slice of Connecticut living in a magazine that has a relationship with and is a respected resource to more than 340,000 readers statewide.

“The Festival is excited to have been selected once again by...

Ed Chase of Seymour, one of the inaugural Arts & Ideas Fellows in 2010, is the recipient of a $3,500 scholarship from the Connecticut Chapter of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (CONN-NAHRO). He was one of only three students in the state of Connecticut to receive this award. Click here to read the articles about Ed Chase in the New Haven Register and the Valley Gazette.

Born in Bridgeport, Ed graduated from Co-Op Arts and Humanities High School in June. He is very active in theater and recently had one of his plays performed by Yale School of Drama students....

David Leddy's "Sub Rosa" is one of the features of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Click to read articles by Christopher Arnott in the New Haven Advocate and Steven McElroy in the New York Times.

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas presented the U.S. Premiere of David Leddy's Susurrus in 2010.

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas Fellowship Program will be offered this coming Fall 2010. The Fellowship Program is specifically designed to give high school juniors and seniors exposure to careers in the arts, as they prepare to pursue college and/or enter the workforce. The program combines instruction in critical writing, nonprofit management and various performing arts disciplines, with opportunities for job shadowing and hands-on work experience around Festival events. It is our belief that the arts contribute to the overall vitality and connectedness of our community and that...

The Festival has just added a new benefit for all 2010 Members: a 20% discount on select tickets for Pilot Pen Tennis, New England’s ultimate tennis experience! This discount offer is valid July 23 through August 6.

Are you not currently a Member of the Festival? Click here to purchase a 2011 Festival Membership and receive this discount from Pilot Pen. The Festival will be announcing additional benefits for Members throughout the year!

Share your thoughts with the Festival! Please take a few minutes to fill out the 2010 Online Festival Survey. It will help us gauge the impact of this year's Festival while providing us with helpful suggestions for the future. And, you'll be entered to win a 2011 Festival Membership! The survey closes on Friday July 30.

Click here to take the 2010 Online Festival Survey.

Click here to read the Hartford Courant review by Dana Astmann of the world premiere of String Quartet No.3 by Christopher Rouse.