Live Ideas Festival
Funding Amount
Varies
Deadline
Rolling / Open
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
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Geography
- New York City-based festival
Overview
An annual humanities festival of arts and ideas, exploring the ideas, controversies and thinking informing a different bodily-oriented theme each time out.
Program Details
Live Ideas is an antidote to challenging global issues, offering multiple days of art and action with:
- Performances
- Interactive installations
- Workshops
- Outdoor parties
- Symposiums
- And more
Past Festival Themes
- The Worlds of Oliver Sacks
- James Baldwin
- This Time!
- SKY-Force
- Wisdom in America Today (curated by Laurie Anderson)
- MENA/Future-Cultural Transformations in the Middle East North Africa Region
- Planet Justice: are you here for it?* (2023 - explores climate justice rooted in social justice, anti-colonialism, global collaboration, human rights, and the rights of nature to thrive)
2023 Edition
The 2023 edition was co-curated with Slow Factory, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of climate justice and human rights for collective liberation by changing narratives, systems, and culture.
Contact Information
Organization Address: 219 W 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
What New York Live Arts Inc actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 14
- Total given
- $1.91M
- Median grant
- $14K
- Range
- $5,922–$1.46M
- By dollars: New York 88%, Connecticut 7%, California 4%. Top recipient cities: Brooklyn, NY; New York, NY; New Haven, CT.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
Example grants
Haunted Melodies LLC · Brooklyn, NY
Fiscal sponsorship
$1.46M
Sol Initiative LLC · New Haven, CT
Fiscal sponsorship
$129K
Romancello LLC · New York, NY
Fiscal sponsorship
$84K
Alef · Los Angeles, CA
Fiscal sponsorship
$80K
Mystical Feet Company LLC · Brooklyn, NY
Fiscal sponsorship
$39K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Arts
- Humanities
- Performing arts
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