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WE ARE: A Nation of Immigrants — New Haven

Opening Day Celebrations for "WE ARE: A Nation of Immigrants — New Haven" are on June 8 at 6:00pm. Joe Standart, photographer and Luciana Q. McClure (photo assistant and portrait subject) discuss...

How do you festival?

Come festival with your baby.

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Come festival with your friends.

How do you festival?

Come festival with this generation.

Festival 2018 is Launched!

For 23 years New Haven has had the opportunity to Festival. To see our City come to life with world-class artists, thinkers,and leaders. To come together to celebrate our families, our neighbors, and...

TALKING AROUND THE BACK PORCH: STORIES ON AUGUST WILSON

The late American playwright August Wilson, whose Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning play Fences premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre, is legend for his depiction of the African-American experience...

Tim Snyder: On Tyranny

Author Tim Snyder discusses his guide to identifying and understanding the frightening parallels between our current reality and that of 20th century Europeans.

We thought it was about the economy?

Since the inauguration, we've seen executive orders on immigration, controversies surrounding Russia, and tweets about crowd size and wire tapping. But hold on—wasn't it supposed to be about the...

Cheers to our Festival Volunteers!

Thank you to the hundreds of volunteers who give so generously of their time to make the Festival a success for all!Learn more about Volunteering at the Festival and submit a 2018 Volunteer...

AMERICAN CUISINE, NEW ENGLAND CUISINE, NEW HAVEN CUISINE

Paul Freedman, author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America shares a history of American eating preferences and how we got to where we are. From New England’s culinary identity created by the myth-...

CITIZENSHIP: AN EXPLORATION

Citizenship has been the underlying theme of much of our national conversation in recent months. Beyond the legal sense of “membership in a particular nation state,” citizenship has broader meanings...

"Festival" is a verb.

We know it; you showed it. Thank you - to our audiences, artists, thinkers, volunteers, and staff - for making Arts & Ideas the "Crown Jewel" of the arts in Connecticut!

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