CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution proudly announces the program lineup for Week Four of its 2021 season. The week, which begins July 17 and concludes July 24, features events, lectures, and classes both in person on the grounds and livestreamed through CHQ Assembly. Week Four includes renowned guests such as Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Johnny Mathis, senior editor at The Dispatch and Time columnist David French, New York Times bestselling author Amanda Ripley, and Princeton professor and public intellectual Eddie S. Glaude Jr. The week launches on Saturday with the first “Film in Concert” of the summer, as the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra accompanies Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” as it plays above them on the big screen.  Chautauqua Institution’s nine-week season features weekday lectures focusing on weekly cultural themes. Week Four’s theme...

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution today proudly announces the program lineup for Week Three of its 2021 season. The week, which begins July 10 and concludes July 17, features events, lectures, and classes both in-person on the grounds and livestreamed through CHQ Assembly. Week Three includes renowned guests such as multi-award-winning country music star Wynonna Judd, author of The Sum of Us Heather McGhee; Edelman chief executive officer Richard Edelman; and author of Why Trust Science? Naomi Oreskes. Chautauqua Institution’s nine-week season features weekday lectures focusing on weekly cultural themes. Week Three examines “Trust, Society, and Democracy,” in which speakers in the 10:30 a.m....

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution today proudly the program lineup for Week Two of its 2021 season. The week, which begins July 3 and concludes July 10, features events, lectures and classes both in-person on the grounds and livestreamed through CHQ Assembly. Week Two includes renowned guests such as Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental journalist and author Elizabeth Kolbert; Hugo Award- and Nebula Award-winning science fiction writer Ted Chiang; space architect Ariel Ekblaw; and featured vocal soloist from President Barack Obama’s 2013 inauguration Alicia Olatuja.  The week also features the return of two beloved community Independence Day traditions: The students of the...

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — With programs that date back nearly to the founding of Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua’s Literary Arts program will be sustained in part over the next five years by its first endowed chair.  The Michael I. Rudell Director of the Literary Arts is an endowed chair established in memory of a beloved Chautauquan who, among other things, inspired Chautauqua’s first literary award, The Chautauqua Prize, which annually celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and honors the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts. The endowment will support the...