 | Guandaline Sagliocco will bring the biblical story of Salome alive June 17-22 during Arts & Ideas New Haven. Her solo performance, which takes place at Yale's New Theater, is based on a play by Oscar Wilde. |
Trailblazing artists from around the world and discussions of topics both local and global will highlight the eighth annual International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
Yale is once again a major sponsor of and a venue for the festival -- also known as Arts & Ideas New Haven -- which will take place June 12-28.
"In building a festival, it is critical that we bring something extra -- an experience which simply cannot happen at any other time of the year or, for that matter, anywhere else," says Mary Miller, director of Arts & Ideas New Haven. "That is what a festival is for: to celebrate, explore, take risks and seek adventure, and to present the exceptional."
"For 2003," she adds, "we've been fearless in tackling some of the big issues: the things that divide us and the powerful forces that bind us together."
The festival will include both free and ticketed events. The former include a performance on the New Haven Green by the Metropolitan Opera, while the latter will include a performance by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. A complete schedule of festival activities is available at www.artidea.org.
The following is a list of the activities taking place on campus or featuring Yale affiliates. Tickets for events can be purchased by calling 1-800-ART-IDEA.
"The Threepenny Ring," a mini-opera by pioneering "street opera" troupe Les Grooms of France, is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to Richard Wagner's "Ring Cycle" that mixes screwball comedy with music by a nine-piece brass band, three opera singers and assorted eclectic sounds. It will be staged at 6:30 p.m. June 26 & 27 in the New Theater, 1156 Chapel St. Tickets are $20.
A chamber opera by Mexican composer Hilda Paredes, "Phantom Palace" is a multicultural and multilingual collaboration by Arts & Ideas New Haven, the English National Opera and Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart. The work, based on a novella by Isabel Allende about a diplomat's wife who is enslaved by a ruthless benefactor, will make its world premiere at the festival. It will be presented at 8 p.m. June 12-14 and at 7 p.m. June 15 in the University Theatre, 222 York St. Tickets are $38.
The members of the artistic team for "Phantom Palace" will discuss their work on the opera in an "Artists-in-Conversation" session at 1:45 p.m. on June 14 at the University Theatre. This event is free and open to the public.
Two acclaimed Mexican poets who write in their indigenous languages and whose work is featured in the libretto for "Phantom Palace" will read from their original works. They are: Natalia Toledo, who writes in Spanish and Zapotec, and Juan Gregorio Regino, who writes primarily in Mazatec. The reading will be at 5 p.m. on June 13 in the University Theatre. Tickets are $5.
Also in conjunction with the world premiere of "Phantom Palace," the festival has commissioned the original youth theater project "Wandering Home," another adaptation of Isabel Allende's novella. The work features dance, music and performances written and presented by New Haven area students of various ethnic backgrounds and elders from Casa Otoñal. It will be staged at 6 p.m. June 12-14 in the Jonathan Edwards College courtyard, 68 High St. Tickets are $5.
An "Artists-in-Conversation" session with the artistic team for "Wandering Home" will be held at 12:30 p.m. on June 14 at the University Theatre. That event is free and open to the public.
Based on Oscar Wilde's controversial one-act play about the biblical seductress, "Salome" was created by the Sagliocco Ensemble, a creative team of performers from France, Norway and Sweden. In the solo performance, Guandaline Sagliocco presents her interpretation of five of the
most essential characters from Wilde's play. It will be performed at 8 p.m. June 17-21, at
2 p.m. on June 21 and at 7 p.m. on June 22 in the New Theater. Tickets are $30.
Sagliocco will take part in an "Artists-in-Conversation" session at 12:30 p.m. on June 19 in the New Theater. This event is free and open to the public.
Hailed as one of the leading Baroque orchestras around the world, Canada's Tafelmusik will present a selection of masterworks by Corelli, Handel, Locatelli, Marcello and Vivaldi at 8 p.m. on June 16 in the University Theatre. Tickets are $30.
Music director Jeanne Lamon and members of Tafelmusik will speak at an "Artists-in-Conversation" session at 12:30 p.m. on June 17 in the University Theatre. This event is free and open to the public.
The performance by the sopranos comprising Trio Mediæval -- Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth and Torunn Østrem Ossum -- blend sacred medieval polyphony, traditional melodies from their native Norway and contemporary musical compositions. They will perform at 5 p.m. on June 21 at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St.; and at 7 p.m. on June 23 at Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St. Tickets are $25. The trio will also present shows in Greenwich and Chester, Connecticut; see www.artidea.org for details.
Trio Mediæval will take part in an "Artists-in-Conversation" session at 12:30 p.m. on June 23 in the New Theater. This event is free and open to the public.
Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble, a 19-member group created in the South African township to empower underprivileged youths, will present a program of European classical masterworks, South African Kwela music and other "surprises" at 8 p.m. on June 26 and 27 in the Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS) courtyard, 320 York St. Tickets are $25. The ensemble will also perform in Old Lyme; see www.artidea.org for details.
An "Artists-in-Conversation" session featuring members of the ensemble and its director, Rosemary Nalden, will take place at 12:30 p.m. on June 27 at the University Theatre. This event is free and open to the public.
Led by guitarist/composer Pierre Dørge, Denmark's New Jungle Orchestra will present a program weaving elements of swing jazz and bebop with new and diverse sounds from Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East at 8 p.m. on June 28 in the HGS courtyard. Tickets are $25.
The group will take part in an "Artists-in-Conversation" session at 12:30 p.m. on June 28 in the University Theatre.
This collaborative program between the Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery combines music, decorative arts and architecture. Solo artists from Tafelmusik and Pierre Dørge's New Jungle Orchestra will perform alongside contemporary craft chairs from the Yale Art Gallery's "Please Be Seated" exhibition that have been located throughout the architecturally unique galleries of the British Art Center. Tafelmusik artists will perform at 6 p.m. on June 17; New Jungle Orchestra musicians will be featured at 6 p.m. on June 27. Tickets are $25.
The deep-seated divisions and conflicts that -- like the geological fault lines in the earth's strata -- continue to divide the world's people will be explored in this series of dialogues featuring scholars, international advocates and policymakers.
Dates, times and specific topics will be: June 16, 5 p.m.: "The Global Income Divide," in which three economists (including Ernesto Zedillo and Gus Ranis of Yale) will examine globalization's effect on poverty worldwide; June 17, 5:30 p.m.: "Fault Lines in America," looking at internal tensions within the United States; June 18, 5:30 p.m.: "Ethnicity, Identity and Violence," in which Yale scholars Arjun Appadurai and Amy Chua will evaluate the force of ethnicity and nationalism today; June 23, 5:30 p.m.: "Religion: Dividing or Uniting?" exploring the role religion plays in both creating and resolving conflicts; June 24, 5:30 p.m.: "Governance and Corruption," in which three experts on governance and corruption (including Susan Rose-Ackerman of Yale) will discuss the challenges of developing good governance in volatile places; June 25, 5:30 p.m.: "Europe/USA Tensions in the West," focusing on the ever-shifting political climate among longstanding allies (Paul Kennedy of Yale will moderate); and June 26, 5 p.m.: "America the Empire?" assessing the nature of the growing U.S. power, prosperity and global reach.
All the "Fault Lines" sessions will be held in the University Theatre. Tickets are $5.
Harold Hongju Koh of Yale will moderate a session on "Late-Breaking International Affairs," focusing on the most pressing issues of the day, to be held at 5:30 p.m. on June 20 at the University Theatre. Tickets are $5.
"Seeking the Sacred in New Haven" features interviews with local people about their hopes, concerns and sacred values, which were conducted by 10 area high school journalists involved in the Youth Ideas Radio Project, who have added their own commentaries and reflections. The five segments of the program will be presented as a sound installation, with the students on hand to discuss their experience. It will be held 4:30-5 p.m. on June 16 and 26, and 5-5:30 p.m. on June 17-18, 20 and 23-25. It is free and open to the public.
The Yale campus will be the starting point for two series of free tours being held in conjunction with Arts & Ideas New Haven.
Walking tours of "New Haven Treasures" will begin at the Yale Visitor Center, 149 Elm St. Tour dates, times and themes are: June 13, 3 p.m.: "Grove Street Cemetery"; June 14, 11 a.m.: "Rails to Trails"; June 15, 1:30 p.m.: "Kids' Architectural Treasure Hunt"; June 15, 3 p.m.: "Yale University Campus"; June 16, 1:30 p.m.: "Center Church and Crypt"; June 17, 2:30 p.m.: "Mory's"; June 18, 11 a.m.: "Robotics Lab at Yale University"; June 20, 1:30 p.m.: "The Freedom Trail" (trolley tour); June 21, 1 p.m.: "Habitat for Humanity" (bus tour); June 24, 1:30 p.m.: "Yale University Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory"; June 26, 1:30 p.m.: "Shubert Theater"; June 27, 4 p.m.: "Monuments of Modern Architecture, 1950-80"; June 28, 10 a.m.: "Community Gardens & Greenspace Project" (trolley tour); and June 29, 11 a.m.: "Public Art in New Haven."
Phelps Gate on College Street (between Chapel and Elm) will be the starting point for two- to three-hour tours led by members of the Elm City Cyclists and the Connecticut Bicycle Coalition. The dates, times and themes are: June 14, 9 a.m.: "Backroads to Sleeping Giant"; June 14, 11 a.m.: "African American History"; June 15, 10 a.m.: "Farmington Canal"; June 15, 2 p.m.: "New Haven Waterways"; June 21, 10 a.m.: "Lighthouse Point"; June 21 and 22, 2:30 p.m.: "Visions and Voices Art Installations"; June 22,
11 a.m.: "ReCycled Buildings: Adaptive Reuse"; June 28, 2 p.m.: "Community Gardens & Greenspace Project"; and June 28,
4 p.m.: "East Rock."
In "Bicycle Cities Around the World," European policy expert Roaelof Wittnik will discuss the increased use of cycling in urban and social planning as part of the "Cycle City" series of events drawing attention to the benefits of petroleum-free modes of transportation. He will speak at 5:30 p.m. on June 19 at the University Theatre. Tickets are $5. For information on the other events, see www.artidea.org.
Several Yale organizations will join with other Connecticut-based organizations, corporations and artists to present interactive programs for children and their parents at the free "Heart of the Matter" celebration being held 1-6 p.m. June 14 and 15 on the New Haven Green. The University groups and the programs they are sponsoring are: Peabody Museum of Natural History, "The Hieroglyphics Hunt"; the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, "Passport to the World"; Yale University Art Gallery, "Chapel Street Sleuths"; and the Yale School of Nursing, "The Wonders of the Human Body."
T H I S
International festival returns June 12-28
"The Threepenny Ring"
"Phantom Palace"
"The Poetry of 'Phantom Palace'"
"Wandering Home"
"Salome"
Tafelmusik
Trio Mediæval
Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble
Pierre Dørge's New Jungle Orchestra
"Musical Chairs"
"Fault Lines"
"Late-Breaking International Affairs"
"Seeking the Sacred in New Haven"
"Explorations"
"Bicycle Cities Around the World"
"Heart of the Matter"
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Koplan elected as alumni fellow
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International festival returns June 12-28
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Pierre Hohenberg named to Eugene Higgins chair in physics
Dieter Söll is designated as Henry Ford II Professor in MB&B
Alumnus donates first novel by an African-American slave
Reunion events to explore world's public health crises
British Art Center acquisitions honor its founding 25 years ago
'Behold, the Sea Itself' showcases center's collection of marine art
Graduate/Professional International Study Grants
YCIAS offers Summer Institutes for educators
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