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 the grounds!
Children'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.,...
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...
Join us for a special masterclass where the next generation of opera stars from our esteemed conservatory have the unique opportunity to receive valuable insights and artistic mentorship from renowned soprano Renée Fleming. Experience the transformative power of music as students hone their skills, delve into repertoire, and explore the nuances of vocal technique, interpretation,...
Sonia De Los Santos, born in Monterrey, Mexico, has been enchanting audiences with her infectious smile and bilingual melodies since 2007, when she embarked on her musical journey with Dan Zanes and Friends. Her solo career boasts three acclaimed family music albums, filled with songs inspired by Latin American rhythms and North American folk traditions,...
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...
Kriss Miller
"A Journey Through the Holy Land in the times of Jesus" (weather permitting)
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...
The Beauty of Holiness
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 to move easily and gracefully while using breathing and stretching techniques to help quiet his mind and prepare him to face each day with purpose...
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...
As an educator, Kaza has served on the faculties of the University of Houston, Rice University, St. Louis Conservatory, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, and has given master classes at the Eastman School, Juilliard School, Indiana University, University of Michigan, and many others. Students from his years of teaching fill orchestral positions worldwide,...
The Chautauqua Lecture Series begins a very special week “Exploring the Transformative Power of Music” with Renée Fleming in conversation with Francis Collins, with whom she has partnered for many years to study the intersection of music and wellness. Renée Fleming is one of the most highly acclaimed singers of our time, performing on the...
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 the season. Kosher Food Tent (bagels, lox, knishes, blintzes and more): 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m., Sundays through Thursdays, weekly Yakisoba’s (noodles, dumplings and more): Thursdays &...
Beyond Plastics executive director Judith Enck, former head of EPA Region 2 in the Obama Administration, will share some exciting opportunities to move our country beyond single use plastics!
Presenters Stephine Hunt and Dr. Donald Grinde will lead a community discussion on our Week Six CLSC selection, Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth
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 is for rental of single or tandem kayak plus $10 per person for the tour guide. Limited spots so please reserve one day before the...
Play CHQ Premium invites families to explore together with our activities. Access to Play CHQ Premium can be purchased online at learn.chq.org. The Premium play pass grants access to 4 events for the week it is purchased for. Play CHQ Premium pass is available online for $25. Individual events can be purchased at the start...
Dr. Francis Collins is a physician-scientist known for his leadership of the international Human Genome Project that read out the first copy of the human DNA instruction book in 2003. He subsequently served three U.S. presidents as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 2009 to 2021. His own research has led to new...
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...
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...
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" (weather permitting)
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 Jen Pitt, Stage Director Timothy Muffitt, Music Director Nino Rota’s one-act romantic/comic opera I due timidi is the story of two young people...
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...
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
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,...
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...
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."
HaeSun Paik, piano Tuesday, July 30 2024, 4:00 p.m. Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall
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...