Melvin Johnson Sculpture Garden 2024 exhibition runs June 23–August 23. Featuring outdoor sculptures by Dan Droz, Carin Mincemoyer, and Lydia Musco.
"The Art of Robert Villamagna" exhibition runs June 23-July 18. Opening reception June 23, 3-5pm. Robert Villamagna grew up in the Rust Belt in Ohio and started making art as...
"Passion for Paper" exhibition runs June 23-July 21. Opening reception June 23, 3-5pm. Enjoy this exhibition featuring seven talented artists who work with paper. Working with paper requires a special...
"Holding Space: Woven Works" exhibition runs June 23-August 4. This exhibition is a nuanced exploration into woven structures including jacquard weaving, pulled warp tapestry, and basketry. While distinct in style...
"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...
Theraveda Buddhism-Mindfulness Meditation
Bishop Cynthia Moore-Koikoi was elected to the episcopacy in 2016. She serves as the resident bishop of the Pittsburgh Episcopal Area and one of the assigned bishop of the Harrisburg...
Underwater artifact hunter Patrick Whitton, has been scouring the bottom of Chautauqua Lake and has retrieved a number of items from earlier years. Can you identify what they are? Come...
Conrad Tucker is an Arthur Hamerschlag Career Development Professor of Mechanical Engineering and holds courtesy faculty appointments in machine learning, robotics, and biomedical engineering, and CyLab security and privacy at...
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! In...
Heather Holm is a pollinator conservationist and award-winning author of four books: Pollinators of Native Plants (2014), Bees (2017), Wasps (2021), and Common Native Bees of the Eastern United States...
Garden Room Time Conflict
Theraveda Buddhism-Mindfulness 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...
Margarita Simon Guillory is an Associate Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Boston University. She is the inaugural Associate Director of digital humanities housed in the Boston University...
Social hour at the Baptist House, Catholic House, Christian Church, Everett Jewish Life Center, Episcopal Cottage, Lutheran House, Unitarian House and United Methodist House
Family Life and Women
As part of the Oliver Archives Center’s 2024 Heritage Lecture Series celebrating Chautauqua’s history and its 150th anniversary, Patrick Whitton will present "Sunken Treasures of Chautauqua Lake." Since 2019, metal...
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! In...
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...
Bring gate pass. Adjacent to Turner Community Center
The Last Bumblebee: a solution-based documentary featuring interviews with scientists and environmentalists discussing the importance of bumblebees as pollinators and the various threats they face. With filmmaker Janice Overbeck.
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...
Rossen Milanov, conductor Featuring the Horn Section of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Step into a world of enchantment and virtuosity as the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra invites you to revel in...
Enjoy the beauty of the lake during our sunrise paddle. This is not a guided tour but an opportunity to rent a kayak, SUP or canoe for an enjoyable hour...
Theraveda Buddhism-Mindfulness Meditation
Join Chautauqua's StoryCorps Ambassador Nancy Stanley for a cup of your favorite morning beverage to discuss the process of capturing your StoryCorps conversation for Chautauqua's 150th Anniversary StoryCorps Archive.
Bishop Cynthia Moore-Koikoi was elected to the episcopacy in 2016. She serves as the resident bishop of the Pittsburgh Episcopal Area and one of the assigned bishop of the Harrisburg...
Enjoy watching master voice teachers at work as they mentor Opera Conservatory students.
"Simpatico: Works by 2024 School of Art Faculty" exhibition runs July 3-August 11. Opening reception July 3, 3-5pm. Simpatico: characterized by shared attributes or interest, compatible. It is an honor...
Kelly Carlin and Joely Fisher, each stewards of Hollywood family legacies, appear together in conversation during the Chautauqua Lecture Series examination of “The AI Revolution” to discuss how AI is...
Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m. on the Porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall will now feature the CLSC Young Readers Book Discussion, geared toward educators, librarians, parents, and...
Miller-Edison Cottage Shipman Garden Tour and Q&A: Hosted by the Bird, Tree and Garden Club of Chautauqua, with support from Betsy Burgeson, Supervisor of Gardens at Chautauqua, these weekly tours...
Enjoy paddling while learning about historic sites along the shores of Chautauqua Institution during this hour-long guided kayak tour. The tour begins and ends at the Sports Club. The cost...
Sigal Samuel is a senior reporter for Vox. She writes primarily about the future of consciousness, tracking advances in artificial intelligence and neuroscience and their staggering ethical implications. Before joining...
"Simpatico: Works by 2024 School of Art Faculty" exhibition Opening Reception July 3, 3-5pm. exhibition runs July 3-August 11. Simpatico: characterized by shared attributes or interest, compatible. It is an...
Conrad Tucker is an Arthur Hamerschlag Career Development Professor of Mechanical Engineering and holds courtesy faculty appointments in machine learning, robotics, and biomedical engineering, and CyLab security and privacy at...
Shia-Sunni Divide and Religious Hierarchy
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! In...
Play CHQ is partnering with our friends in Arts Education to bring you Drumming with the School Residencies “Feelin’ the Beat” program throughout the summer! Play CHQ invites families to...
Therapeutic Gong Meditation
Join us for a one-time-only reading of The Summer Place, featuring Michael E. Hill and Kwame Alexander as Chautauqua Institution's founders, as well as dozens of personalities from Chautauqua's staff...
CVA Lecture Series, Alex Callender, School of Art Faculty: "Disentangling the Interwoven Relations of Race, Gender, and Capitalism" Alex Callender works in drawing, painting, and installation to trace and remap...
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...
YAC Dance for 12-17 year olds. Admission is $4.
Curated by Sasha Janes, Artistic Director for Chautauqua School of Dance, the annual All-Star Dance Gala serves as a celebration of the exceptional talent consistently produced by the Chautauqua School...
Theraveda Buddhism-Mindfulness Meditation
Bishop Cynthia Moore-Koikoi was elected to the episcopacy in 2016. She serves as the resident bishop of the Pittsburgh Episcopal Area and one of the assigned bishop of the Harrisburg...
Annual Children's School Parade to Bestor Plaza. Join us as we celebrate our country and sing patriotic songs with the Thursday Morning Brass on the front steps of the Colonnade!