Melvin Johnson Sculpture Garden 2024 exhibition runs June 23–August 23. Featuring outdoor sculptures by Dan Droz, Carin Mincemoyer, and Lydia Musco.
"Off the Walls" exhibition runs June 23–August 20. Opening reception June 23, 3-5pm. "Off the Walls" is an exhibition featuring a dozen contemporary artists who create small sculptures, and are...
"Wonder & Awe: Ashley Eliza Williams" exhibition runs July 21-August 20. Opening reception July 21, 3-5pm. Ashley Eliza Williams, born in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southwest Virginia, makes work...
"In the Garden" exhibition runs July 24-Aug 21. Opening Reception July 24, 3-5pm. Inspired by what we learn from the garden, this exhibition reflects the complicated histories and often tenuous...
"Nature Inspired: Open CVA Members Exhibition 2024" runs August 7–22. Opening reception August 7, 3-5pm. We are once again happy to host our annual Member exhibition. This year our members...
Weeks 1 to 8 | M, Tu, W, Th | Sheldon Hall of Ed. 202 | Ages 3+Play CHQ Premium is inspired by Play CHQ pop-up programs and invites families...
Weeks 1 to 9 | M, W, F | Turner Gym | Ages 18+ A high–intensity, total–body workout that includes cardio, strength and core movements using a variety of different...
Weeks 1, 7, and 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Heinz Fitness 2| Ages 14+This mixed-level meditative practice will focus on the subtle body for a balanced, calm...
Week 1 to 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Hurlbut Marion Lawrance | Ages 16+Learn basic yoga breathing and stretching.
Week 9 | M, W, F | Heinz Fitness 1 | Ages 12+This class welcomes all ages and all levels of ability.
Monte Thompson was a professional dancer, and also spent years as a restauranteur. His life was spent on his feet. Now retired, he is interested in continuing to be able...
Weeks 1 to 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Turner 204 | Ages 6-12 Get ready to create, and join us for fun and exciting projects!
Week 9 | M, W, F | Alumni Hall Poetry Room | Ages 18+Too often, tone is ignored or thought to be secondary to the life of a poem, but...
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Hultquist 101 | Ages 14+ Discover how visual art can inspire creative writing and how writing can deepen our experience of...
Each morning, members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will introduce you to a foundational concept of American music, from blues to Afro–Cuban traditions and more, and guide you...
Weeks 1 to 9 | Tu, Th | Turner 107 | Ages 18+ This class is designed to increase muscle strength and enhance range of movement while improving balance and...
Weeks 8 to 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Heinz Fitness 2 | Ages 14+Vinyasa Flow Yoga allows you to fluidly move from one pose to the next...
Week 9 | Mon | McKnight Hall | Ages 14+Sherman Irby, lead alto of the JLCO, takes you to the very heart and soul of American music by exploring and...
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Pier Building Classroom | Ages 14+Learn how to make journals and basic book structures in this beginner workshop with no experience...
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th | Hultquist 201B | Ages 16+This course is for adults of all ages and young adults interested in learning how to tackle a...
Weeks 1, 3, 6, 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Turner 208 | Ages 12+The mountain dulcimer is a very sweet-sounding and versatile instrument.
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th | Turner 106 | Ages 14+Learn how to use the essential elements of basic photography knowledge to improve your own nature photographs —...
Weeks 1 to 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | John R. Turney Sailing Center | Ages 7–12This course is for young sailors regardless of sailing experience. Instructional sights...
Weeks 1 to 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | John R. Turney Sailing Center| Ages 13–18This course is for teen sailors regardless of sailing experience. Instructional sights include...
Weeks 1 to 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Arts Quad | Ages 18+Ready to work on your own project? This one-week pass grants you access to the...
Weeks 1 to 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | CVA Arts Quad Ceramics Studio | Ages 18+Ready to work on your own project? This one-week pass grants you...
Weeks 1 to 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | CVA Arts Quad Print Studio | Ages 18+Ready to work on your own project? This one-week pass grants you...
Weeks 1 to 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Arts Quad | Ages 18+Ready to work on your own project? This one-week pass grants you access to the...
A third-generation warrior for civil and human rights, The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III, has built his ministry on community advancement and racial and social justice activism. As Senior Pastor...
Weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | Tu, Th | Sheldon Hall of Ed. 201 | Ages 0-3yrs with caregiver Weeks 7, 8, 9 | M, W, F |...
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th | Smith Library Classroom | Ages 30+Let your inner logophile fly!
Weeks 8, 9 | M, T, W, Th, F | Hultquist 201A | Ages 14+This course spotlights artists who developed and advanced the Hollywood musical as an art form.
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Turner 205 | Ages 10+Cookies, cupcakes and cakes, oh my!
Weeks 1 to 9 | Tu, Th | Turner 107 | Ages 18+ This gentle Hatha class is for all levels of experience.
Weeks 1 to 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Turner 202 | Ages 12-14Drawing, painting, and sculpture are avenues for exploration within this class.
Wynton Marsalis returns to Chautauqua to open a week on “Rising Together: Our Century of Creativity and Collaboration with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra” with a...
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Beeson Craft Room | Ages 6-12 Each day students will work with a different medium. Drawing with pencil/colored pencil, painting with...
During the season stop by Bestor Plaza to try something new! We won't have the Food Festival during Week Nine this year, but we have food trucks and tents throughout...
Presenters Susan Allen and Irene Cramer will lead a community discussion on our Week Nine CLSC selection, Dances: A Novel, by Nicole Cuffy
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Beeson Craft Room | Ages 12+ During this class we will work in two different mediums: painting and jewelry making.
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Heinz Fitness 1 | Ages 14+No matter where we start, we can move our health forward with meditation practice.
Weeks 1 to 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Pickleball Courts at Chautauqua Tennis Center | Ages 12+Pickleball is exploding worldwide.
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Hultquist 101 | Ages 18+The Russian-born intellectual Lou Andreas Salome (1861-1937) had an influential relationship with each of these great thinkers.
Week 9 | M, W, F | Turner 205 | Ages 10+ Three separate sessions of one classThis chocolate talk (with substantial samples!) is sure to be the perfect afternoon...
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Hultquist 201B | Ages 14+To truly understand the spiritual core of James Bond, or 007, the modern world’s most famous spy,...
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Smith Memorial Library Classroom | Ages 15+Class will consist of reading The Laramie Project and discussing its journalistic and theatrical power.
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Hultquist 201 | Ages 16+How did we get from aspirations of a Europe "whole, free and at peace" at the Cold...
Weeks 2, 9 | M, W, F | Turner 203 | Ages 14+This is a fun, beginner dance class for newcomers as well as those looking to refresh their skills...
Weeks 1, 4, 6, and 9 | M, Tu, W, Th | Heinz Fitness 1 | Ages 14+Do you suffer with chronic pain of any kind?
Enjoy learning more about the lake and water-shed conservation efforts while paddling along during this hour-long guided kayak tour. The tour begins and ends at the Sports Club. The cost...
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th | Hurlbut Marion Lawrance | Ages 14+Gentle Qigong warm-up exercises in the first half-hour will prepare us for learning simple Tai Chi movements...
Weeks 1 to 9 | M, W, F | Sports Club | Ages 14+ This is a wonderful opportunity to learn in a friendly stress-free and supportive environment.
Week 9 | MWF | Prose Room, Alumni Hall | Ages 18+In this generative workshop, attendees will leave with a working knowledge on how to create a book proposal, publicity...
Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and the Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. Educated in his...
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Beeson Craft Room | Ages 6-16We will create animals, boxes, airplanes and everything in between!
Week 9 | M, Tu | Turner 106 | Ages 14+Explore using soy wax as a resist on fabric to create a sophisticated look of multi-dimensional layering in easy-to do...
Weeks 1 to 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | John R. Turney Sailing Center | Ages 18+This course is for adult sailors regardless of sailing experience. Instructional sights...
Weeks 1 to 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | John R. Turney Sailing Center| Ages 10+This course is for advanced sailors of all ages, or anyone looking to...
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Girls' Club | Ages 8-12 The lights of Broadway have come to Chautauqua!
Weeks 8, 9 | M, Tu, W, Th | Turner 103 | Ages 12+ Have fun teaching your dog manners and earn a Trick Dog Title using reward-based, positive-reinforcement methods...
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Turner 106 | Ages 6+ with an adultThis course is for youth to learn together with an adult.
Weeks 5, 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Turner 208 | Ages 10+Learn guitar basics in one week!
Each afternoon, Seton Hawkins (curator of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Swing University program) will guide you through the movements of Wynton Marsalis’ magnum opus All Rise. Drawing on the JLCO...
Weeks 8, 9 | M, W, Th, F | UCC Chapel | Ages 16+Emerging evidence suggests the potential health and wellness benefits of group singing in areas including respiratory function,...
Week 9 | M, Tu, Th, F | Pier Building Classroom | Ages 14+Anyone can make recycled paper by hand! No experience necessary — learn the basic techniques including preparation,...
Week 9 | Mon | McKnight Hall | Ages 14+Each afternoon, Seton Hawkins (curator of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Swing University program) will guide you through the movements of Wynton...
Weeks 6, 9 | M, W, F | Hultquist 201B | Ages 14+Participants in this class, individually and as a group, will engage in creating calls to worship, litanies, prayers...
Celebrate Chautauqua's 150th Anniversary with the Play CHQ team. In this session, you will have the opportunity to build models showing your dreams for Chautauqua's next 150 years. Play CHQ...
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Girls' Club | Ages 10-18So a funny thing happened on the way to the ... Can't remember the rest of the...
Weeks 8, 9 | M, Tu, W, Th | Turner 103 | Ages 12+ Test for the AKC CGC title with your dog, but be prepared! Practice the test items...
Sound Meditation from An Artist and Poet
Chautauqua Institution presents author Tananarive Due with the 2024 Chautauqua Prize for her book The Reformatory: A Novel. Awarded annually since 2012, The Chautauqua Prize celebrates a book of fiction...
150th Anniversary StoryCorps Archive: The Cohen Multimedia Studio is available for recording your StoryCorps conversation for inclusion in Chautauqua's 150th Anniversary Archive. Book your recording time online here. Available times...
"A Journey Through the Holy Land in the times of Jesus:
Celebrating their 40th Anniversary, 10,000 Maniacs has a lot in common with Jamestown, New York, the city that spawned them back in 1981. Both are honest and hardworking, a step...