Last Saturday afternoon, the thermometer hovered in the high 80s, and despite a cooling breeze off the Long Island Sound, the sidewalks of downtown New Haven radiated heat. …
Melodies and Movements

Change yourself to change the world…
Composer Byron Au Yong led a group of 18 local activists in this simple, repeated, four-note song. The sanctuary of…
The Big Idea

For the finale of his one-man show L’homme Cirque, performed several times daily inside a small circus tent erected on New Haven Green, David Dimitri shoots himself out of a cannon onto a hanging rope, climbs the rope to …
Showtime

The face of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas is a place.
There’s also a phrase or a name or a concept with which folks attempt to shorthand Arts & Ideas if they want to. This year’s official theme/slogan …
This Week in New Haven (June 3 – 9)

It’s a great week of harmony in New Haven. It begins with a steel drum orchestra in a city park, continues with a community talent show raising funds for arts scholarships and wends its way through choral concerts and gallery …
For Your Previewing Pleasure

You can’t always tell that spring began two weeks ago. But when the International Festival of Arts & Ideas appears, there’s no doubt summer has arrived.
A harbinger of balmier times…