Community Activities Fair
Bestor Plaza Bestor Plaza
Free Sunday Event
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Play CHQ: Jumbo Games
Bestor Plaza Bestor PlazaPlay CHQ invites families to explore together through games, crafts, STEM activities and more throughout the 2024 season. You can join the fun at pop-up locations across the grounds!
Free with a valid gate pass or single ticket
The Great American Picnic with the Alumni Association of the CLSC
Alumni Hall Porch Alumni Hall Porch
Twelve Step Meeting
Hurlbut Marion Lawrance
Free
Open Play and Location Tours at Children’s School and Group One
Children's School Children's SchoolChildren's School is open for free play! We would like to extend a special invitation to our families with children under 2 years old for this special afternoon play session but welcome all to join! Children are required to be accompanied by an adult or caregiver (16+) for this event. On Sundays from 1-2 p.m.,...
Free with a valid gate pass or single ticket
StoryCorps Recording (Reservations Required)
Cohen Multimedia Studio150th 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 will be highlighted on each day’s schedule with a white box. Each recording session is designed for two people to be in conversation. Think of...
Chautauqua Piano Program Showcase
Amphitheater AmphitheaterNicola Melville, Chair Alexander Kobrin, 2024 Heintzelman Family Artistic Advisor Pianists from the Chautauqua School of Music present a scintillating program of works for one and two pianos, with repertoire drawn from virtuoso works of the great classical composers and arrangements of popular and familiar tunes. Don't miss your chance to see the next generation...
Chautauqua Theater Company presents Birthday Candles
Bratton Theater Bratton TheaterBy Noah Haidle Ernestine Ashworth contemplates her cosmic insignificance on her 17th birthday, a feeling that follows her through the swift passage of time. In the blink of an eye, she reaches her 18th birthday, hurtles toward her 41st, accelerates into her 70th, and glides into her 101st. Birthday Candles is a heartfelt and humorous...
$45 – $55
Operalogue: Love and Longing by the Lake
Smith Wilkes Hall Smith Wilkes HallJoin us for an operalogue to learn more about the music, with performances by young artists.
Wine, Women and Dementia, presented by Chautauqua Women’s Club
Hall of Christ: SanctuarySeeking healing and comfort in the community, a dementia family caregiver road trips the U.S. to swap caregiver stories of love, humor, devotion, and death with other dementia caregivers who share this hilariously heartbreaking end-of-life journey. The documentary feature "Wine, Women, & Dementia" exposes the isolation, financial stress, and physical and emotional toll these family...
$10
“Wonder & Awe: Ash Eliza Williams” Exhibition Opening Reception
Strohl Art Center 2nd Floor"Wonder & Awe: Ash Eliza Williams" exhibition Opening Reception July 21, 3-5pm. Exhibition runs July 21-August 20. Ash Eliza Williams, born in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southwest Virginia, makes work about interspecies communication and alternative languages found in the natural world. Their work is “driven by a deep sense of wonder and curiosity about...
Voice students softball
Sharpe Field Sharpe Field
Chautauqua Writers’ Center Faculty Reading with Frank X. Walker, II (Poetry) and Stacy Hawkins Adams (Prose)
Hall of Philosophy Hall of PhilosophyChurch of the Wild
Outdoor ClassroomKriss Miller
Chautauqua Opera Company presents Love and Longing by the Lake
Chautauqua InstitutionA trio of chamber operas performed on the lawn of the Athenaeum Hotel, including two world premieres from The Summer Place, a new opera inspired by oral histories and true accounts of life at Chautauqua Institution across the decades. Conceived to be performed outdoors on the grounds of Chautauqua, The Summer Place is a fitting...
$25
FCWC Open Mic
Alumni Hall Prose Room Alumni Hall Prose Room
Hebrew Congregation, Shirley Lazarus Sunday Evening Lecture Series
Smith Wilkes Hall Smith Wilkes Hall
Free
Palestine Park Tour
Palestine Park Palestine Park"A Journey through the Holy Land in the times of Jesus" (weather permitting)
Free Sunday Event
Sacred Song Service – A Service of Remembrance
Amphitheater AmphitheaterA Service of Remembrance
Free Sunday Event