Weeks 1 to 6 | M, Tu, W, Th | CVA Arts Quad Print Studio| Ages 14+Our printmaking courses focus on the exploration and development of students’ unique ideas and sensibilities inspired by the printmaking medium.
Weeks 3 and 6 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Arts Quad Annex 2 | Ages 14+Embark on a visual exploration of Chautauqua with our daily landscape painting class.
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 include on–the–water, classroom, and dockside.
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 take their sailing skills to the competitive level.
Weeks 6 to 8 | M, W | Sheldon Hall of Ed. First Floor | Ages 2-6Our tiniest artists and their adults will create, learn and play together in this art class designed specifically for families with toddlers.
Weeks 1 to 8 | Tu, Th | Children's School | Ages 0 to 4 with an accompanying adultReconnect with other children from the Chautauqua community each afternoon.
Kate Shaw is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. A constitutional law scholar, her academic work and writing focus on executive power, the law of democracy, the Supreme Court, and reproductive rights and justice. Her scholarly writing has appeared, among other places, in the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia...
Week 6 | M, Tu, W, F | Turner Conference Room | Ages 16 +This course introduces the early beginnings of country music, focusing on the stories and legends of Nashville's Music Row.
Week 6 | M, Tu, W, Th | Hultquist 201A | Ages 16+Come learn engaging tools and techniques to retrieve and record your adventures, loves, losses, successes, mistakes and more with ease and, yes, grace, no matter where you are in the process.
Week 6 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Pier Building Classroom | Ages 14+This class is an invitation to enjoy drawing as a process for expressing creativity, practicing mindfulness and connecting our inner and outer worlds.
Week 6 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Hultquist 101 | Ages 14+A movie's music can have a significant impact on how we view the characters and their stories.
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 and blessings while learning about the drama of worship, the purposes of liturgy, different styles of worship, effective use of language, and the creative use...
The Harlem Quartet, hailed for its fresh approach to classical music, combines diverse programming with a collaborative performance style, broadening its repertoire and audience reach. Committed to advancing diversity in classical music, the quartet engages in educational and community outreach activities, earning recognition and grants for its efforts. Collaborating with renowned artists and performing worldwide,...
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 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...
Weeks 1 to 7 | M, W, F | Carnahan-Jackson Dance Studios | Ages 3 to 4 Explore movement through music in a fun, creative and supportive environment.
Week 6 | M, Tu, W, Th | Girl's Club | Ages 12-16Sharpen your scientific critical thinking ability as you play the role of a psychological scientist.
Weeks 1 to 7 | M, W, F | Carnahan-Jackson Dance Studios | Ages 5 to 6 Explore movement through music in a fun, creative and supportive environment.
Week 1 to 7 | M, W, F | Carnahan-Jackson Dance Studios | Ages 13+This class requires four to five years of formal ballet study
Sound Meditation from An Artist and Poet
Join us for Voyage and Vines with CHQ Travels. We invite you to join us in taking the first step of your next adventure. Learn more about CHQ Travels, Chautauqua’s curated travel experience program. Enjoy wine tastings and light snacks at Afterwords Wine Bar and hear about the programs we have planned for the upcoming...
Join us for Voyages and Vino with CHQ Travels. We invite you to join us in taking the first step of your next adventure. Learn more about CHQ Travels, Chautauqua’s curated travel experience program. Enjoy wine tastings and light snacks at Afterwords Wine Bar and hear about the programs planned for the upcoming year from...
CVA Lecture Series, Cosmo Whyte, School of Art Faculty: "Disruptions of Identity by Migration" Cosmo Whyte (b.) 1982, Jamaica, attended Bennington College in Vermont for his BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art for his Post-Baccalaureate Certificate and the University of Michigan for his MFA. Whyte has exhibited his works in the United States, Jamaica, Norway,...
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 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...
"A Journey Through the Holy Land in the times of Jesus"
Featured on this concert will be the 2023 winners of the SAI Competition, all from the Opera Conservatory. I due timidi by Nino Rota Marlena Malas, Director* John Matsumoto Giampietro, Associate Director Timothy Muffitt, Music Director Nino Rota’s one-act romantic/comic opera I due timidi is the story of two young people who, having seen each...
Weeks 1 to 9 | Tu, Th | Turner 107 | Ages 18+A high–intensity, low–impact workout designed to enhance cardiovascular endurance and muscular strength.
Week 6 | Tu, Th | Heinz Fitness 2 | Ages 14+ Begin your day with a morning stretch!
Weeks 3, 6 | Tu, W, Th | Pier Building Classroom | Ages 16+Experience this exciting course in watercolor painting.
Weeks 1 to 9 | Tues | Sports Club | Ages 14+The Sports Club is offering SUP lessons for beginners.
Week 6 | TuThu | Prose Room, Alumni Hall | Ages 18+In "Writing Nature: Prose and Poetry," we will be studying writing in the classroom at Chautauqua Institution and on field trips into local natural habitats.
Weeks 2 to 3 and 5 to 8 | Tu, Th | Turner Conference Room | Ages 14+Zumba Gold in a chair! The dance party workout using Latin and international rhythms, Gold means visual and audio/verbal cues! "In a chair" means joint issues and some physical limitations but still the desire to dance!
Weeks 1 to 9 | Tu, Th | Turner 107 | Ages 18+ This class is a combination of itermediate mat work and functional core stabilization.
Weeks 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7 | Tues | Fletcher Music Hall| Ages 18+ Weeks 3, 4, and 8 | Tues | McKnight | Ages 18+Brass ensemble has a rich and robust repertoire, with music composed from the Renaissance until the modern day.
Rabbi Jonathan Roos is the Senior Rabbi at Temple Sinai in Washington, DC. Jonathan believes that being part of the congregation should change a person’s life. He strives to make a difference through teaching and learning with students of all ages, audacious social justice work, pastoral care, and meaningful worship. Jonathan was ordained at Hebrew Union...
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 | Sheldon Hall of Ed. 201 | Ages 0-3yrs with a caregiverSing, dance, move and play in this parent-child class with instruction from the internationally renowned...
As Carnegie Hall’s Chief Education Officer, Sarah Johnson directs the Hall’s Weill Music Institute, the illustrious concert venue’s education and social impact arm. Programs created by WMI serve more than 800,000 people annually, including children, students, teachers, parents, young music professionals, and adults in the New York City metropolitan area, across the United States, and...
Community Art Project
Elmore Demott, Alabama, author, experiences with nature, beneficial, spiritual
Week 6 | Tu, W, Th | Pier Building Classroom | Ages 14+ with some school art class or experienceStudents will capture Chautauqua scenes by capturing boats and water with different approaches.
Leader: David Gluck (Hindu Meditation)
Miller Cottage Tours: Join Clara Miller for a 30-minute tour of the first floor of the historic Miller-Edison Cottage. The cottage was built in 1875 for the co-founder and first president of the Institution, Lewis Miller, an inventor and businessman from Akron, Ohio. President Ulysses S. Grant visited the property that year. Miller’s daughter, Mina,...
Weeks 2, 3, 6 to 9 | Tues | Turner 102 | Ages 11+ Discover the glass fusing process and create unique pieces.
Su’ad Abdul Khabeer is a scholar-artist-activist originally from Brooklyn, NY. She is curator of Umi's Archive, a multimedia project documenting Black and Muslim histories and co-founder of Sapelo Square, a digital media and education collective on Black Muslims in the US. Trained as an anthropologist, Su’ad’s first book, Muslim Cool: Race, Religion and Hip Hop...
or, The Re-Education of Undine By Lynn Nottage Previews: July 27-28 Performance Dates: July 30- Aug. 4 Undine is a powerful and successful business owner basking in the glory of all her accomplishments. She has everything from wealth to love and a fabulous wardrobe to match, but life has a wicked sense of humor. The...
Week 6 | Tu, W, Th | Turner 104 | Ages 16+ Chautauqua photos are used to create a table runner to celebrate Chautauqua's 150th birthday!
Weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | T, Th | Children's School | Ages 4-6 with an accompanying adultJoin your child and professional chef, father, and longtime Chautauquan in the basics of baking and cooking.
Week 6 | Tu, Th | Turner 205 | Ages 16+Join us on a journey to broaden your palate as we introduce you to the flavors of fine chocolate from around the world.
Social hour at the Baptist House, Catholic House, Christian Church, Everett Jewish Life Center, Episcopal Cottage, Lutheran House, Unitarian House and United Methodist House
As part of the Oliver Archives Center's 2024 Heritage Lecture Series celebrating Chautauqua's history and its 150th anniversary, Chautauqua Institution Archivist and Historian, Jonathan D. Schmitz, will present "Entertaining Gatecrashers: How music, theater and all that jazz came to Chautauqua."
Week 6 | Tu, W, Th | Smith Library Classroom | Ages 14+This is a great introductory/refresher course for those feeling rusty about their Judaism, as well as those who simply want to know more about the Jewish faith, history, customs, and the many ways to be/"do" Jewish.
Week 6 | Tu, W, Th | Turner 103 | Ages 16+Learn to take dramatic, unique and creative images with light painting techniques using light sources such as flashlights, glow sticks, light wands, LED lights and LED toys.
HaeSun Paik, piano Tuesday, July 30 2024, 4:00 p.m. Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall
Weeks 1 to 7 | Tu, Th | Carnahan-Jackson Dance Studios | Ages 7 to 14Designed for beginning ballet students.
Bring gate pass. Adjacent to Turner Community Center
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 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...
Rossen Milanov, conductor Melissa White, violin Aubry Ballarò, soprano Immerse yourself in an evening of two major orchestral works. Acclaimed violinist Melissa White takes center stage with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in the passionate and lyrical sounds of Max Bruch's first violin concerto. The program continues with Mahler's fourth symphony, known for its delicate and...
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