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"The Events"

What becomes a community arts festival with a global bent? For Mary Lou Aleskie, executive director of New Haven’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas—who officially announced this year’s festival schedule yesterday (more…)

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Stuck Elevator. Photographed by Kevin Berne.

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 is “Dreaming New Worlds.” The kick-off act is a free concert by New Orleans R&B […]

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Preview-palooza: Arts & Ideas 2012

Mark Morris Dance Group

The first big event of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas happened last night, months before the festival actually takes place June 16-30. It was a standing room-only smash hit. It was the announcement of the festival’s main acts. The “oohs” and “aaaahhhs” from a room full of politicians, arts patrons and festival fans […]

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