Festival Stories

SYDNEY FESTIVAL: WHAT WILL HAVE BEEN

Brisbane-based circus arts company Circa is one of Australia’s greatest cultural exports — a groundbreaking ensemble of circus artists constantly stripping back and reinventing their art form, and...

Rosanne Cash: 9th Annual Visionary Leadership Awardee

Join us on Tuesday, February 26th for the 9th annual Visionary Leadership Award Luncheon and Conversation. The Award Luncheon, which draws over 400 attendees from across the region, raises money for...

Daniel O‘Brien, hand-balancer and aerial straps artist, Circa ensemble

Australian circus artist Daniel O'Brien comes from Maryborough, three hours north of Brisbane. He started gymnastics at six years old but gave it up at 15. However, he later he moved to Melbourne to...

Arts & Ideas Makes Time to Vote

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, based in New Haven, Connecticut, stands with hundreds of leading companies and small businesses from coast to coast in support of a vital common goal:...

Geoff Sobelle builds a HOME at the International Festival

I hadn’t intended to get married when I left the house this afternoon.But by 5pm, I had a new husband – a stranger I had never met – who drank wine and toasted me with a moving but silent speech...

Tom Griggs on Mornings with Mubarakah

Our Co-Director, Tom Griggs, joined WNHH host Host Mubarakah Ibrahim to talk Festival!

Join the Journey to Pepperland

At the 2017 Golden Globes, Donald Glover made the proclamation that the Atlanta rap trio Migos was “The Beatles of our generation.” It was an ambitious statement, one that made audiences question...

Visionary Leadership Award Reflection

Claudia Rankine sits on stage. She has just won the 8th annual Visionary Leadership Award. Speaking calmly, taking pauses only to let her words resonate more clearly, Rankine discusses her award...

'Tell 'Em About the Dream': Kronos Quartet Explores Moment MLK Went Off-Script

Kronos Quartet performs a piece based on King's iconic "I Have a Dream" speech in Music for Change: The '60s - The Years that Changed America. Learn More >Martin Luther King may have never delivered...

Announcing Festival Co-Directors!

Tom Griggs, Chad Herzog, and Liz Fisher appointed Co-Directors of the Festival.

YQI welcomes Spencer Topel as second artist-in-residence for the upcoming academic year

Following the successful launch of the Yale Quantum Institute Artist-in-Residence Program in Summer 2017 and the overwhelmingly positive reception of the artistic residency of Martha Willette Lewis (...

Human Library Sparks Dialogue Between Diverse Community Members

Sociologists Billy Bromage and Virginia Spell have worked with Arts & Ideas to coordinate a Human Library event on the New Haven Green.

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