During the kickoff Wednesday, Bui will participate in a virtual conversation hosted by the University of Connecticut Asian and Asian American Studies Institute and the Asian Pacific American Coalition of CT.
Quiala talks about all things Arts & Ideas Festival 2024 at the kickoff reception. Markeshia Ricks Photos.
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas turns 29 this summer. As it does, the upcoming celebration promises to weave together the cultural, political and intellectual threads of migration into a tapestry that is uniquely American and undoubtedly New Haven.
Festival insiders got an intimate look at this year’s festival last Thursday, during a reception highlighting the upcoming 2024 celebration. This year, the festival boasts a robust calendar that begins in April and May and crescendos with a blitz of events between June 14-29. (Check out the Arts & Ideas calendar here.)
“We actually have already started festival-ling,” Arts & Ideas Executive Director Shelly Quiala said to the crowd that gathered at the festival’s headquarters at 195 Church Street Thursday.
Festival insiders enjoy small bites from Claire’s Corner Copia at the reception.
Some of that activity begins this week. Once again, the festival is partnering with the New Haven Free Public Library for the “Big Read,” an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts that takes place in cities across the country. Starting with a kickoff at Stetson Library on April 3, readers will discuss Thi Bui’s illustrated memoir “The Best We Could Do,” which tells the story of Bui’s parents’ life in Vietnam and migration to the U.S.
During the kickoff Wednesday, Bui will participate in a virtual conversation hosted by the University of Connecticut Asian and Asian American Studies Institute and the Asian Pacific American Coalition of CT.
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