Afro Bop Alliance to Perform for Festival Benefit on Guilford Green
The Latin Grammy award-winning Afro Bop Alliance Latin jazz sextet will be the featured entertainment as the 2019 Guilford Performing Arts Festival kicks off on Thursday, September 26, with a benefit dinner under a tent on the historic Guilford Green. The...
Benefit Dinner on the Green to Kick off Festival
The 2019 Guilford Performing Arts Festival will kick off on Thursday, September 26, with an exclusive Dinner on the Green for patrons and guests, held under a tent on the historic Guilford town green.The elegant evening will feature a farm-to-table-style dinner with...
Festival Announces Two Dozen More Performers
We've just announced a second wave of 24 performers, bringing to more than 60 the number of artists committed to the 2019 festival. More performers, including several national “marquee” names and artists who will teach in the public schools, will be announced in the...
First Wave of 2019 Performers Announced
We’re very excited to announce that we’ve lined up 38 performers in our first wave of commitments to the 2019 festival! We’re continuing to review applications and will announce a second wave, including several national “marquee” names, in early July. A full schedule...
Community Foundation for Greater New Haven Makes Grant to Festival
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven has granted the festival $4,000. The grant will help support the festival’s diverse performance and educational programming, as well as a pilot community-service project in which members of a contemporary dance company...
Essex Savings Bank Joins Festival as Sponsor
Welcome and thank you to Essex Savings Bank, which has signed on as a festival sponsor for the first time, joining us at the Silver level.Based in Essex, the 168-year-old bank has Shoreline branches in Madison. Old Saybrook and Old Lyme.We appreciate your...
Welcome, Mia Kriksciun!
Those of you who have met or spoken to her already know this, but we’re very fortunate to have Mia Sage Kriksciun working with us this summer as an intern, helping out in marketing and production. Mia’s a recent graduate of Middletown High School, a singer,...
Guilford Foundation Renews Support for Festival
The Guilford Foundation, whose initial grant provided the seed money for the first Guilford Performing Arts Festival in 2017, is supporting us in 2019 with another substantial grant.Funding from the foundation has been critical in enabling us to bring a few national...
Whitfield & Water Shoppes Sponsors Festival
Whitfield & Water Shoppes, a collection of stores, offices and residences in downtown Guilford, is supporting us as a platinum-level sponsor and exclusive sponsor of a patrons’ event that will open the 2019 festival. Watch this space, as we plan to announce...
Paid Internship Available
The Guilford Performing Arts Festival has an opening for a paid intern, and we're looking for a college student, emerging creative professional or military veteran for a roughly four-month position in marketing and production. The intern will work approximately 250...