Imagine with the Festival May 14 - June 27, 2021
In 2020, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas reinvented its summer Festival at the last second, launching a 2-month virtual extravaganza of 200+ events that drew more than 120,000 people from throughout the world. Now, the Festival is taking what it learned from its 2020 virtual programming and stepping into the future, listening to their local and global communities to Imagine 2021 together.
A predominantly virtual festival, Festival 2021 will take place May 14 - June 27, 2021, and its 200+ events—80% free—will feature such luminaries as Jacob’s Pillow-awardee choreographer Ronald K...
Interview with Artistic Director & Choreographer Ronald K. Brown
Dancer, choreographer, and Jacob's pillow awardee Ronald K. Brown is known for his innovative and community-oriented choreography. As head of EVIDENCE: A Dance Company, he has told stories of the African diaspora, mixing traditional African dances with contemporary music and staging. Here, he shares his process, philosophy, and visions of Imagine 2021:
What’s your creative process? How do you envision connecting past and present—both personally and more broadly—in your work?
When I get an idea for a piece, I begin to write down images that I think belong to the particular...
The Minds behind Box City
Every year at the Festival, Box City graces the green, with miniature cities rising from cardboard boxes crafted lovingly by participants of all ages. This year, as the Festival went virtual, so did Box City. I had the pleasure of interviewing the team at Pickard Chilton who helped make virtual Box City possible this year: Jonathan Cook and Andrew Swartzell.
Let's Talk about the Juneteenth Celebrations
As we get closer to the Juneteenth Celebrations I checked in with Hanan Hameen, Doctoral Candidate and Founder of the Artsucation Academy Network and the Annual Juneteenth New Haven Celebration with Arts & Ideas, about the inside scoop on this upcoming weekend June 19-21st.
Artist Response to Stephanie Burt's Advice From the Lights
Last night I had an in depth conversation with artist Bubblicious (the artist goes by both Bubblicious and Tia Lynn Waters) about her art and contribution to the Virtual Art Gallery - Advice From the Lights: An Artistic Response to the poetry of Stephanie Burt. Stephanie’s poetry is an insight into her life, emotionally raw and as Bubblicious put it, a diary of her younger years.
The Pride Center and Nasty Women Connecticut came together to create an exhibit full of responses to Stephanie's poetry by trangender artists from Connecticut. The Gallery opening is Monday at 6,...
