Evenings with award-winning poets, translators, and writers: Paul Muldoon, Alan Jenkins, Lydia Davis, Richard Pevear (Center for Writers & Translators, under the direction of Dan Gunn)

Minding the Gap: Manipulating ‘Cultural’ Translation in a Global Economy, with Professor Bella Brodzki, Sarah Lawrence

Circles of Silence: On Wagner, Opera, and Buddhism, with composer Jonathan Harvey

New Work from New York, with documentary filmmaker Carol Dysinger, playwright and director Len Jenkin, and photography specialist Fred Ritchin

Beyond the Biennale: Architects as Activists, with Aaron Levy, Curator of the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale-Architecture 2008.

Soirée Balanchine, with star Balanchine dancers Violette Verdy and Suki Schorer; dance scholars and filmmakers.

Actors Workshop, with Elizabeth Kemp of The Actors Studio of New York.

Dreamstories, co-production with the French company Escalier4 at the Théâtre Adyar.

Visions of the City (under the direction of Natalie Debroise).

Festivals and master classes: Claude Chabrol and James Ivory.

Monthly exhibitions and vernissages, with an eye to new visual artists and artists from diverse cultural and geographic backgrounds (Combes Gallery, under the direction of Ralph Petty).

Le défi d’enfants: dessins d’enfants sur le thème ‘Famille et Prison’, conference and exhibition.

Arts Arena publications are published in collaboration with Sylph Editions, UK. An alliance has been forged with The Dalkey Archive Press, US.

The Cahier Series: a bi-monthly series of short books that cross cultures and languages, written text and visual images. Launched in 2007, the series has received recognition for its original content and superb design.

Balanchine Then and Now: the first full-format Arts Arena publication, April 2008. The book has been selected for sale at the Opéra National de Paris and at Lincoln Center.