Art & Ideas Festival October 10-31, 2007 artideasfestival.org Art & Ideas, a collaborative of Pasadena-area arts and cultural organizations and organized by the Pasadena Arts Council, engages the Southern California community by creating provocative issue-based arts festivals. The festival is held every three years, and follows the model created by earlier festivals — "Radical Past" (1999), "The Universe" (2001), and "The Tender Land" (2004). Festival partners participate in Art & Ideas by creatively interpreting the festival theme according to their institutional focus. Drawing on the strengths of Pasadena area arts and culture, educational, and research institutions, Art & Ideas provides a diverse set of high-quality aesthetic and educational activities for mainstream public audiences that interpret a particular theme. The Festival presents high-quality, original programming, consistent with the theme that inspires public dialogue across a diverse population and works to contribute to arts appreciation and intellectual growth in creative and meaningful ways. Our goal is for the theme to ignite a broad discourse and provide multiple perspectives that are both innovative and timely, as well as artistically and intellectually resonant to a diverse audience and a changing world. For the 2007 theme, the Festival partners have chosen "Skin", and they will explore and interpret this theme through specially curated exhibitions and programs during the Festival period of October 10th through 31st, 2007. Topics such as cultural identity, architecture, beauty, biology, race, and sensuality are just a few of the many ways in which this unique theme will be interpreted through dance, visual art, music, theater, film, photography and literature. Festival Partners: Armory Center for the Arts Art Center College of Design Furious Theatre Company Gamble House Huntington Library Lineage Dance NewTown One Colorado Pacific Asia Museum Pasadena Arts Council Pasadena City College Pasadena Conservatory of Music Pasadena Cultural Affairs Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau Pasadena Museum of California Art Pasadena Playhouse Pasadena Public Library Pasadena Symphony Shumei Arts Council Spitzer Science Center The Theatre @ Boston Court Xiem Clay Center