OUR MISSION, LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT, AND ANTI-RACISM COMMITMENTS

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to create an internationally renowned festival in New Haven of the highest quality, with worldclass artists, thinkers and leaders, attracting and engaging a broad and diverse audience, celebrating and building community and advancing economic development.

Artist: Bassel and The Supernaturals, Photo: Leigh Busby

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas is created and produced on the traditional lands of the Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, and the Quinnipiac, in the land we all call home, Connecticut. We hope that from wherever you are—you take a moment to to acknowledge and honor the native people whose lands you are on, and the history of the place you are in.

Visit native-land.ca to learn more.

Photo: Judy Sirota Rosenthal

ANTI-RACISM COMMITMENTS

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas recognizes that solidarity is more than just words, and in our commitment to anti-racism we pledge to take action to decenter white voices and dismantle white supremacy. We pledge to acknowledge what we do not yet know and to continue learning and we will develop a channel of direct communication with our communities to ensure that we are held accountable in this vital work.