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with Tom Griggs on the New Haven Festival

Posted May 07, 2018

The International Festival of Arts and Ideas is a year-round organization that culminates in an extravaganza of performing arts, lectures and conversations that takes over theaters and open spaces in New Haven, CT each June. Tom Griggs joins Newsmakers.

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