Live Ideas Festival
Funding Amount
Varies
Deadline
Rolling / Open
Grant Type
foundation
Overview
Live Ideas 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.
- Performances
- Interactive installations
- Workshops
- Outdoor parties
- Symposiums
- And more
Program Details
Live Ideas is an antidote to challenging global issues, offering multiple days of art and action with:- 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)
Past Festival Themes
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.Geographic Scope
New York City-based festivalContact Information
Organization Address: 219 W 19th Street, New York, NY 10011Phone: 212.691.6500
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
artshumanitiesperforming-arts
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