As a Festival Director in Europe and Australia, Jonathan Holloway has repeatedly reinvented the ways in which festivals explore, reclaim and celebrate their city for all those who use it, from the...
NEXT PRESENTS THE CITIES PROJECT: NEW LIFE FOR NEW ENGLAND’S INDUSTRIAL PAST
July 8, 2019
New England is filled with old factory buildings and other remnants of our industrial history. This built environment is one of our distinguishing characteristics, but it also provides challenges as...
STONEWALL AT 50
June 27, 2019
How do we honor this landmark in a struggle that began before the “first brick was thrown” and still continues? How do we tribute the indignation, outrageousness (fabulousness) and complexity of ALL...
RISK, ANXIETY, AND GENEROSITY - DEFINING THE CULTURE OF MONEY FROM SHAKESPEARE TO TODAY
September 6, 2018
What does a venture capitalist have in common with a Venetian man brought to life by Shakespeare more than 400 years ago? Our panel features experts in both economics and the Bard drawing parallels...
I’LL BE YOUR QUBIT! THE ENTANGLEMENT OF QUANTUM PHYSICS AND ART
September 6, 2018
How do you envisage something that would be altered simply by your own observation of it? Join Quantum Physicist Michel Devoret and Visual Artist Martha W. Lewis to investigate the relationships...
GERMANY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
September 6, 2018
How was Germany able to transition from the “sick man” of Europe in the 1990s into the political and economic predominance within the European Union it is today? Director of the Yale Program in...
CURATION AND THE DEMOCRACY OF ARTS
September 6, 2018
Curators play a significant role in shaping the visual dialogue of our times, in ways that are often mysterious or obscure in the minds of the museum-going public. Keely Orgeman and Justin Brown will...
YOUNG PEOPLE’S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY: MUSIC AS A UNIFYING FORCE
July 26, 2018
MacArthur Fellow and Musical America’s 2018 Educator of the Year, Francisco J. Núñez, is a composer, conductor, visionary, leading figure in music education, and the artistic director/founder of the...
THE RACIAL IMAGINARY
July 26, 2018
When Claudia Rankine was recognized by the MacArthur Foundation in 2016, she used her $625,000 award to build an extraordinary Interdisciplinary Cultural Library to provide a platform for artists and...
REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT - A NOBLE AMERICAN TRADITION UNDER ATTACK
July 26, 2018
Chris George, Executive Director of IRIS with a panel of guests lead a lively discussion of refugee resettlement in Connecticut. Where do refugees come from? How are they selected? How can we be sure...
THE CHASM AND THE PRISM: DEPLOYING MAGIC STRATEGIES IN THE SORTED-OUT CITY
July 26, 2018
Look at our city. What do you see? Who do you see? Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, psychiatrist and founder of the University of Orange, with University of Orange colleagues Molly Rose Kaufman and...
ISLAM & MUSIC: THE CASE OF IRAN
July 23, 2018
How did the newly established Islamic Republic regulate music following the 1979 revolution, and what have been the effects of those policies on music in contemporary Iran? Journalist and author,...