Join us for the International Festival Of Arts And Ideas!!

150+ events, one Festival. It all happens in New Haven, Connecticut.

Schedule of Events:

6:00 pm: NEA Big Read Intergenerational Conversation about Book Ban - Stetson Branch Library

Join a discussion with our Adult and Teen Services Librarians regarding censorship and book banning, one of the themes in the NEA Big Read selection for 2025. This conversation will include discussing this year's book, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, but also many other controversial titles. Open to ages 13 and up, including adults. Pizza will be provided.

This event is part of the 2025 NEA Big Read. NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest

6:30 pm: Wednesday Book Club - West Haven Public Library

Come join us the in our book discussion every fourth Wednesday. It's a fun way to get connected, make new friends, and read more books! New members welcomed; books available for loan in advance of the discussion. Copies are first come, first served.

Fahrenheit 451 "Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known."