Our Partners

Council on East Asian Studies at Yale (CEAS)

The Yale-China Artist Fellowship is sponsored by the Yale-China Association and the Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS). CEAS is Yale’s interdisciplinary hub for the study of all aspects of East Asia and its constituent peoples, cultures, and societies. For more than fifty years, its mission has been to support scholarship of the highest level across the humanities and social sciences, and to facilitate deeper understanding of the region at Yale and beyond. Home to the University’s undergraduate major and Master’s program in East Asian Studies, CEAS hosts a wide range of speakers, events and visiting scholars throughout the year; offers a competitive Postdoctoral Associates Program; and provides a generous array of grants and fellowships. 

Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New York

Representing the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, the Office (香港駐紐約經濟貿易辦事處) aims to promote and strengthen the business and cultural links between Hong Kong and the 31 eastern states of the USA. Visit our website (http://www.hketony.gov.hk/), follow us on Facebook (Hong Kong Meets America) and Instagram (@HongKongMeetsAmerica).

Yale School of Drama

Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre train and advance leaders to raise the standard of global professional practice in every theatrical discipline, pursuing excellence in art to promote wonder, empathy, and understanding in the world.

International Festival of Arts & Ideas

As one of Yale-China's primary partners for the Arts Fellowship, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas is a 15-day festival of performing arts, lectures, and conversations that celebrates the greatest artists and thinkers from around the world. Each June, the Festival takes over the theaters, open spaces, and courtyards of New Haven, Connecticut, attracting an attendance of more than 100,000 to its events, of which more than 80% of are completely free to the public.

The mission of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas is to create an internationally renowned festival in New Haven of the highest quality with world-class artists, thinkers and leaders, attracting and engaging a broad and diverse audience celebrating and building community and advancing economic development.

The Festival provides guidance and serves as a platform for fellows to showcase or workshop their projects, which reach a stage of maturity by the time of the Festival in June a year after the fellows' residency.

Program

The Festival's ambitious music, dance, and theater programs fill New Haven with renowned international stars, newly-discovered artists, and a number of U.S. and world premieres each season. The eclectic ideas program offers a mix of serious, controversial, and whimsical topics, all designed to inspire new ways of thinking. The Festival also features plenty of family-friendly events. It continues to make more than 80% of Festival events free to the public, including some of the most prestigious opera, jazz, classical, rock, folk and fusion music in the world.

Location

New Haven is home to several major cultural institutions, including three Tony award-winning regional theaters (Long Wharf Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Shubert Theater); the Yale Center for British Art, which houses the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom; and the Yale University Art Gallery, the country's oldest university museum. The city is also home to the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the fourth-oldest symphony orchestra in the United States.

Despite its small size, New Haven boasts strong arts and educational traditions, a profusion of fabulous restaurants and shops, and the New Haven Green, a picturesque gathering place in the heart of the city.

Venues

The entire city of New Haven plays host to The Festival. The New Haven Green, named one of the country's 10 most beautiful public spaces, is the jewel at the center. On the Green, the Festival presents a series of unforgettable concerts, art activities, and opportunities for creative play.

Many Festival events take place at Long Wharf Theatre, the legendary Shubert Theater, and in the historic courtyards, auditoriums, and theaters of Yale University. Tours by foot and bike take visitors throughout New Haven and beyond to discover its wealth of historic, ethnic and natural treasures.

Audience

The Festival attracts a strong local and regional audience, attendees from all 50 states, and a growing number of international visitors from dozens of countries. The Festival's marketing is aggressive and inclusive, reaching out to develop an audience base that is diverse in age, ethnicity, and interests.

Community and Education

The Festival plays a vital role in enriching lives in New Haven and throughout Connecticut by embracing diversity and leading people to understand how their futures are entwined.

Arts residencies are created in schools and community centers throughout New Haven to introduce a diverse audience to the performing arts. Every summer, international artists devote time to teach young students of music, dance, theater and the arts. See our "Opportunities" section for more information about artist residencies and how to perform at the Festival.