The Rev. Traci deVon Blackmon is the Associate General Minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries for The United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO. 

Jacob White is an assistant professor at Ithaca College. His story collection Being Dead in South Carolina was published by Leapfrog Press in 2013. Mary Biddinger is the author of six full-length poetry collections, including a new book of prose poems, Partial Genius (Black Lawrence Press, 2019). 

David began his study and practice of yoga and dharma in 2001. In 2003, he became a certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher, studying directly under Sharon Gannon and David Life.

Please join all of Chautauqua in silent prayer/reflection for five minutes from wherever you are.

The Rev. Traci deVon Blackmon is the Associate General Minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries for The United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO. 

July 6–August 24 | Virtual Opening: Monday, July 6, 10 a.m. EST

New glass works by four contemporary glass blowers and sculptors will be shown together highlighting their personal styles and techniques.

A visionary leader who has served over four decades in law enforcement and public service, Cedric Alexander is the former Chief of Police in DeKalb County, Ga., former president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives...

Join fellow readers to discuss this week’s Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selection, A Nail the Evening Hans On by Monica Sok. Conversation is facilitated by CLSC staff and a member of the Chautauqua community. All readers welcome.

Michael O'Sullivan, Senior Dharma Teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen, is the founder and abbot of The Three Treasures Zen Center, located in Oneonta, New York.

With the regular appearance of his award-winning blog, “Martini Judaism: for those who want to be shaken and stirred,” published by the Religion News Service, Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin has risen to the forefront of being one of American Judaism’s most prolific and most-quoted rabbis and thought leaders.

Ruth Marcus, Deputy Editorial Page Editor of The Washington Post, is a highly acclaimed reporter who has covered every major institution in Washington, including the Supreme Court, the White House and Congress. 

Launched in 2012 by Cleveland Orchestra principal clarinet Franklin Cohen and daughter Diana Cohen, concertmaster of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, ChamberFest Cleveland focuses on creating thematic programming for unique chamber music experiences in a variety of venues.

Bob Moore | I’m a lay monk of the Soto Zen tradition. I also have a deep background in Taoism. I am a Zen practitioner with deep training in Buddhist meditation, and the movement meditations of Taoism.

Please join all of Chautauqua in silent prayer/reflection for five minutes from wherever you are.

The Rev. Traci deVon Blackmon is the Associate General Minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries for The United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO. 

A Homecoming: Alumni from CTC return for an informal talk about life after Chautauqua. Featuring a live Q & A.

Mary Biddinger is the author of six full-length poetry collections, including a new book of prose poems, Partial Genius (Black Lawrence Press, 2019).

Along with his wife Susan, Larry founded The Spiritual Life Society, an inter-denominational center for spiritual and holistic studies, where he teaches yoga and meditation and gives weekly talks.

Acharya Judith Lief is a Buddhist teacher who trained under the Tibetan meditation master Ven. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. She has been a teacher and practitioner for over 35 years and continues to teach and to lead pilgrimages and retreats throughout the world. 

Megan Smith, former U.S. Chief Technology Officer | "20for2020: The (Inclusive) Future of Innovation, Work, AI, Living Planet, and Democracy #CollectiveGenius"

Salvador Jimenez-Flores is an interdisciplinary artist. Born and raised in Jalisco, México, he is also an Assistant Professor in Ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL.

Beginning with jazz is the perfect example of how this series featuring musicians of the CSO will surprise and delight. Bassist Kieran Hanlon, in his first season as a member of the CSO, joins with CSO Principal Percussionist Brian Kushmaul and SUNY Fredonia Head of Jazz Studies, pianist Nick Weiser.

Subagh Singh Khalsa met his spiritual teacher, Yogi Bhajan, in 1971. Yogi Bhajan had arrived in the West a few years earlier and declared that he had not come to gather disciples but to create teachers.

Please join all of Chautauqua in silent prayer/reflection for five minutes from wherever you are.

The Rev. Traci deVon Blackmon is the Associate General Minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries for The United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO. 

Franklin Leonard is founder and CEO of the Black List, a well-known force in Hollywood for finding the best unproduced screenplays by writers of color and getting those films made.

Featuring Ryann Cooley in conversation with Judy Barie, Susan and John Turben Director of VACI Galleries

In 2004 Eryl retired from her physical therapy management position to join Wayman at the Chapin Mill Retreat Center. In 2008 Wayman was ordained as a Buddhist priest.

Joel N. Lohr is an award-winning author, scholar of religion, and passionate leader in interreligious relations and higher education.

This event has been rescheduled from Tuesday, July 7 at 10:45 a.m. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former war correspondent David Rohde returns to Chautauqua to discuss his latest book, In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America’s “Deep State”.

Kim Hehr RN, also known as Karampreet Kaur, is a life-long Chautauquan and a certified level 2 teacher of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, as taught by Yogi Bhajan.

Please join all of Chautauqua in silent prayer/reflection for five minutes from wherever you are.

The Rev. Traci deVon Blackmon is the Associate General Minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries for The United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO. 

Hosted by Judy Barie, the Susan and John Turben Director of VACI Galleries

Joan Donovan is director and lead researcher of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

Kainat Felicia Norton and Muinuddin Charles Smith are senior Sufi teachers, retreat guides, and interfaith ministers within the Inayati Sufi Order. Together they founded and facilitate the Light of Guidance Center for Sufi Studies in NYC.

Share your observations on and aspirations for CHQ Assembly in this Virtual Porch event.

Gretta Vosper has served West Hill United Church in Toronto for over two decades, supporting its transition to becoming a theologically non-exclusive community, the first of its kind within traditional Christianity.

In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge regime—memory that is both real and imagined—according to a child of refugees.

Applauded by the Calgary Herald as “…talented, sensitive…brilliant,” JiJi is an adventurous artist on both acoustic and electric guitar, playing a wide range of music from traditional and contemporary classical to free improvisation.

Carol grew up at Chautauqua and says that her love of mystical practices began here on the grounds. She was formally introduced to meditation many years ago at an off-season yoga and meditation retreat let by Subagh Singh Khalsa and has been practicing Centering Prayer daily ever since.

Please join all of Chautauqua in silent prayer/reflection for five minutes from wherever you are.

The Rev. Traci deVon Blackmon is the Associate General Minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries for The United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO. 

In his debut book, Thompson shows how blockbuster success isn’t a matter of chance, but a fascinating intersection of power, network, science, art, and sheer brilliance — making some ideas disappear, and others explode.

Jacob White is an assistant professor at Ithaca College. His story collection Being Dead in South Carolina was published by Leapfrog Press in 2013.

Dr. Willie James Jennings is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale University Divinity School.

Presented by Jon Schmitz, Archivist and Historian for the Chautauqua Institution

Multi-platinum selling singer-songwriter Ben Folds has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records.

Join us for a review of the week and a quick look ahead with CHQ Assembly program vice presidents Matt Ewalt, Deborah Sunya Moore and Bishop Gene Robinson.