22nd Annual Festival
June 3-24, 2017
Performance Program
- (Be)longing – Arts & Ideas Commission Conceived by Byron Au Yong & Aaron Jafferis (June 17 & 18)
- Black Girl: Linguistic Play – Camille A. Brown & Dancers (June 15 & 16)
- Fulaso (June 17)
- Jimmy Greene Quartet (June 18)
- LEO – The Anti-Gravity Show (June 23 & 24)
- Manual Cinema: The End of TV – Arts & Ideas Commission & World Premiere (June 19-22)
- Rusted Root (June 24)
- The Wailers (June 24)
- TROKER (June 17)
- We Are Citizens – Theatre of Oppressed NYC (June 21)
- Whitman, Melville, Dickinson – Passions of Bloom – Arts & Ideas Commission & World Premiere (June 20)
- Wu Man & Miró Quartet – Arts & Ideas Commission & World Premiere (June 22)
- Yale Institute for Music Theatre – Presented in Association with Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre (June 23 & 24)
- Yale-China Fellows World Premieres (June 22-24)
ALTAR'd Spaces
- Afro Peruvian New Trends Orchestra (June 19)
- Alison Cook Beatty Dance (June 10)
- Deborah Lifton, Soprano (June 14)
- Happenstance Theatre (June 14)
- LayaVinyasa (June 21)
- Mariachi Mexico Antiguo (June 13)
- Olive Tiger (June 14)
- Rap Guide to Climate Chaos (June 13)
- Rolie Polie Guacamole (June 14)
- Shoreline Ballet (June 10)
- Taylor Ho Bynum + Friends (June 11)
- Tere Luna & Val Ramos Duo (June 19)
- The Survivors Swing Band (June 13)
- The Word Citywide High School Poetry Jam (June 21)
Ideas: Lectures & Conversations
- 4th Annual New Haven Documentary Film Festival (June 1-11)
- A Conversation with Taylor Mac and Bassem Youssef (June 24)
- African Literature Association Conference Featured Authors: Aminatta forna, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Imbolo Mbue, and Okey Ndibe (June 15-17)
- Citizenship: An Exploration – Moderated by Dr. Michael Rowe (June 20)
- Ideas on Foot
- Dixwell's Roots (June 4)
- The Changing Roles of Downtown (June 12)
- Wooster Square: The Immigrant Experience (June 21)
- Imaging New Haven
- Candy/A Good and Spacious Land (June 15)
- Engaging the City (June 16)
- Paul Freedman: American Cuisine, New England Cuisine, New Haven Cuisine (June 18)
- Survival of the Fittest: Youth, Guns, and the Culture of Violence – Arts & Ideas Fellows + Citywide Youth Coalition with Aaron Jafferis (June 8)
- Talking Around the Back Porch: Stories on August Wilson – A Conversation with Constanza Romero and Harry J. Elam, Jr. (June 22)
- Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century (June 13)
- We Thought It Was About the Economy? – Moderated by John Dankosky (June 14)