The diverse ethnic heritage of New Haven citizens and an exploration of Yale's role in the world at the start of the 20th century are among the themes that will be explored during the sixth International Festival of Arts and Ideas, which will take place at venues throughout New Haven June 14-30.

Yale has been a major sponsor of the festival since its premiere in New Haven in 1996. The festival aims to bring together people of the Greater New Haven community and visitors from other cities, states and countries through an annual celebration of artists and thinkers from around the globe. More than 175,000 attended festival events last year.

The central theme of this year's International Festival of Arts and Ideas is "Art and Conflict." As such, there will be a range of events that will investigate how art and artists are shaped by political and social strife, says Paul Collard, director of the festival. Discord around the globe will be explored in theatrical performances, talks and other offerings, and there will be a special program, "May Day," which will explore a local conflict of national importance: the 1970 protest in New Haven during the trial of nine Black Panther Party members in the city.

Among the array of events featured on campus this year will be two exhibitions at the Yale Center for British Art: "The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century" and "Snowdon," which will showcase contemporary portrait photography by Lord Snowdon. As part of a special series of talks offered as part of Yale's Tercentennial celebration that explore Yale's influence on the world and the impact of world events on the University, Paul Kennedy, the Dilworth Professor of History, will discuss the topic "Yale, America and the World: 1901."

According to Collard, this year's festival also boasts the strongest selection of theatrical performances in the event's history. Making its North American premiere at the festival will be Brian Friel's "Translations," a love story set in 1833 during England's invasion of Ireland, which will be staged by Ireland's Abbey Theatre. In addition, one of Russia's preeminent directors, Yuri Lyubimov, and his theater company, the Taganka Theatre, will perform an original musical version of Peter Weiss' "Marat/Sade," a "play within a play" in which inmates at an insane asylum, under the direction of the Marquis de Sade, reenact the death of Jean-Paul Marat.

Other dramatic offerings include "Fantasy Sketches," a look into the life of Mozart using sketches by Maurice Sendak and Mozart's music, which will be performed by Italy's Teatro Minimo in the company's first visit to the United States; "The Continuum: Beyond the Killing Fields," which explores the devastation of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime in a performance weaving dance, song, shadow puppetry, documentary film images and a live soundscape; and "A Servant to Two Masters," a coproduction of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Young Vic of an adaptation of an 18th-century Italian commedia dell'arte.

Musical offerings include a performance of "Tosca" by the Metropolitan Opera and performances by the Wycliffe Gordon Jazz Quartet, the Brazilian group Bebel Gilberto and the Mark O'Connor Jazz Trio. Among the dance groups that will perform are the New York-based Urban Bush Women and Argentina's "gravity-defying" Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Company.

As in previous years, the festival will also feature "Heart of the Matter," a variety of hands-on art and science activities for children; "Downtown," a sampling of artworks by local artists in their respective neighborhoods; tours of New Haven "treasures"; and "The Great Kinetic-Cut Sculpture Race," which features people-powered kinetic sculptures designed by teams of artists, scientists, students and ordinary citizens in a downtown street race.

Street performers from around the world will entertain visitors throughout the festival.

A complete schedule of festival events will be available in coming weeks. For further information, visit the festival's website at www.artidea.org.

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