Festival Featured as USA Today "Travel Destination" in Connecticut
To kick off the summer travel season, USA Today's Travel staff tracked down free events and attractions in every state (and the District of Columbia). The International Festival of Arts & Ideas is featured as the "Travel Destination" in Connecticut.
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Festival Artists are all around
Cathy Edwards
Director of Programming
May 8, 2009
I went to Sprague Hall this past Sunday, May 3, to hear Concerti Grossi of the Baroque, performed by music students working with Robert Mealy, director of the Yale Collegium. The concert this past Sunday featured music by Vivaldi, Handel and Bach. Robert was a very dynamic and engaged leader of the ensemble, and this was the first time I had seen or heard the "natural horn" (the valveless horn that is the predecessor to today's horn), which was part of the Water Music suite by Handel.
Robert is working with the Festival to put together the...
Festival Featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer "Travel" Article
The International Festival of Art & Ideas was featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer's "10 for the Road" article in the Travel section, detailing festival and events within driving distance from Philadelphia (from Virginia to Vermont).
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Click here to watch preview videos of Circus and find out more information about all of these FREE events: They Might Be Giants, the Favorite Poem Project Community Reading with Robert Pinsky, Noon to Night on the New Haven Green, Children's Film Festival, Bike Tours and Walking Tours.
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Festival Featured As Weekend Getaway in Time Out New York
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U.S. Premiere of "Ivanov" Featured in New York Times "Summer Stages"
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U.S. Premiere of "Circus" Featured In American Theatre Magazine
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Choreographer Wally Cardona Shares a Favorite Poem
From WALLY CARDONA
Choreographer, Really Real
Men are accustomed to traveling the world, looking for rivers and mountains, new stars, birds of gay-colored plumage, monstrous fishes, ridiculous races of men; they abandon themselves to an animal stupor and gaze openmouthed at life, believing that they have seen something. None of these things interest me at all.
To be able to fall in such a way as to appear at once standing and walking, to be able to transform the leap into life into a normal gait, to be able to express perfectly the sublime in terms of the pedestrian - only the knight can do...
Favorite Poem Project
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, in association with the Connecticut Library Consortium, will officially launch the "Favorite Poem Project" at the Connecticut Library Association Conference on Wednesday April 29 with an introduction by Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States. Mr. Pinsky comes to New Haven to celebrate April as National Poetry Month and launch the Festival’s statewide initiative celebrating Connecticut’s residents and their best loved poems.
As part of the launch events, Mr. Pinsky will hold a special book signing at 2pm at the Yale Bookstore...
Don't Miss Out - Become an "Ideas Insider" Today!
All Ideas events at the Festival are free, but you can purchase an Ideas Insider Pass today to guarantee your seat up to 15 minutes before the scheduled start time of all Ideas events. As an added benefit, you will be invited to attend a special post-Festival discussion with the programming staff to talk about plans for the 2010 Festival.
Buy your Ideas Insider Pass for $35 to guarantee your seat at the following events:
Favorite Poem Project: Community Reading with Robert PinskySAT JUNE 13 at 3pm
Playing in the Dark: Videogame Luminaries Discuss the State of Their Art SUN JUNE 14 at 3pm
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Festival Selected as a Blue State Coffee Cause
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas has been selected as one of four local causes by Blue State Coffee to receive a donation of 5% of their sales this fiscal quarter. The donation will be made according to a proportional vote of Blue State's customers; each customer gets one vote per purchase.
Be sure to vote for the Festival whenever you head over to Blue State Coffee, located at 84 Wall Street (between College Street and Temple Street) in New Haven, to pick up a delicious coffee (or tea, or hot chocolate, or scone).
Eileen Wiseman on the G-20 and the Festival
By EILEEN WISEMAN
Ideas Program Curator
From their highly protected meeting place in London this week, the leaders of the world's 20 richest countries had their collective finger on the planet's fiscal button. Between the chatty photo ops and Michelle's literal (good gracious!) embrace of the Queen, these leaders were engaged in impossibly difficult and intensely urgent conversations and negotiations on the nature of, and the way out of, our global financial disaster. It certainly is a lot of intellectual firepower---the very fact of these folks coming together has driven up markets in...
Festival Member Ticket Sale Extended Through April 6
The Festival Member advance sale (discounted $25 tickets for all performance programs, plus Foodie Tour tickets before the public on-sale April 7 at 9:30am) will be available through Monday April 6 at 5:30pm. To become a Member and take advantage of this offer:
On Saturday April 4 - call or visit the Shubert Theater Box Office (247 College Street, New Haven) at 203-562-5666 or 888-736-2663 from 10am to 6pm.
On Sunday April 5 - call or visit the Shubert Theater Box Office from 11am to 5pm.
On Monday April 6 - call the International Festival of Arts & Ideas office at 203-498-3758 from 9:30am...