Susan Cinoman Reports Progress on Artists’ Award-Winning Play Guenevere
Playwright Susan Cinoman, our 2019 Artists’ Award winner in drama, has been busy reworking her play Guenevere for presentation at the festival in September. A staged reading is scheduled for Saturday, September 28, at the Christ Episcopal Church in Guilford, our home...
Coast Guard Band to Perform at Festival; Will Do Side-by-Side Performance with GHS Wind Ensemble
The United States Coast Guard Band, one of America’s premier military concert bands, will perform on Sunday, September 29, as part of the Guilford Performing Arts Festival. The free show, to be held at the Guilford High School (GHS) Performing Arts Center, will...
Pilobolus to Perform and Teach at Festival
The internationally acclaimed dance company Pilobolus will perform, teach in the public schools, and hold dance and movement classes for the public as part of the 2019 Guilford Performing Arts Festival. Pilobolus will present a full-company performance of “Come to...
Guilford Receives $5,000 Humanities Grant for Performing Arts Festival
The Connecticut Humanities Council, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment of the Humanities, has awarded the Town of Guilford and the Guilford Performing Arts Festival a $5,000 grant. The money is being used to help bolster humanities programming within the...
Shoreline Ballet Sponsors Festival, Curates Dance Program
So many thanks to Shoreline Ballet and its director, Katie Contessa, for sponsoring the 2019 festival at the Major level! This outstanding dance studio in Guilford is helping support the cost of an innovative dance performance, teaching and public-service program,...
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...
Festival Partners with Guilford Schools
The Guilford Performing Arts Festival (GPAF) and Guilford Public Schools have formed a partnership in which musicians, actors and dancers from the festival will teach at Guilford High School and some festival performances will be held at the high school’s 500-seat...
Guilford Performing Arts Festival Announces Production Team
The Guilford Performing Arts Festival has hired Colin Sheehan as line producer and Lori A. Cartwright as stage manager for the 2019 festival, scheduled for September 26-29 at some 20 venues throughout Guilford.Sheehan will be responsible for production planning and...
Shore Publishing Returns as Festival Sponsor
We’re happy and honored to welcome Shore Publishing/Zip06 back as media sponsor for the 2019 Guilford Performing Arts Festival. Shore Publishing, which also sponsored the 2017 festival, publishes seven weekly newspapers that deliver hyperlocal news to every home and...
Performer Applications Are Open!
The Guilford Performing Arts Festival is accepting applications for musicians, dancers, actors, poets, storytellers, comedians and others to perform or teach at the next festival, September 26-29, 2019.
Support the 2019 Festival
The first acts will soon take the stage to open the 2019 Guilford Performing Arts Festival—the second season of an entirely FREE, biennial event that in its inaugural year drew nearly 4,000 people to some 50 performances at just under 20 Guilford venues. More than 300...