The Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues & Ideas

A Festival of Un-Conventional Wisdom to Coincide with the Republican National Convention. 100 events under one banner created by a coalition of the city’s finest artists, authors, producers, presenters, humorists and humanitarians.

Participating artists and venues include: Margaret Cho · The Apollo Theater · John Sayles · Joe’s Pub · The Beacon Theater · Tammy Faye Starlite · Dance Theater Workshop · Lewis Black · People for the American Way · Me’Shell Ndegeocello · The Thalia Follies · E.L. Doctorow · Symphony Space · Marisa Tomei · The Moth · Art:21 · Nuyorican Poets Cafe · The Art Students League of New York · Lewis Lapham · Laura Flanders · The Onion · The Point · Cat Power · Asia Society · Julie Atlas Muz · Chocolate Genius, Inc. · Danny Simmons · Calvin Trillin · The New School · AFL-CIO · F.E.V.A. · Eiko & Koma · HERE · The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center · Bronx Academy Of Arts and Dance · Bowery Poetry Club · John Malpede · The Art Students League of New York · The Municipal Arts Society · Planned Parenthood · New York Theater Workshop · The Vera List Center for Art and Politics · Urban Bush Women · CUNY · Creative Time · Roy Blount Jr. · Kathleen Chalfant · This or That · The JCC · Art Spiegelman · Robert Thurman · The Culture Project · The Tank · CroBar · Black Book · KnitMedia · PS1 (and a great many more)