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David Brown

Amphitheater Amphitheater

For nearly 30 years, Harmony Project founder and creative director David Brown has created original programming, concerts and events that unite participants and audiences to give back to their communities. Since 2009, Brown has grown Harmony Project, in Columbus, Ohio, into a national model for building community and redefining equity and accessibility through performances, programming...

Play CHQ: Play Back in Time

Butterfly Garden

Play CHQ is stepping back in time to celebrate Chautauqua's 150th Anniversary. Join us for a session of Victorian style play with traditional games, toys, and activities! 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...

Colored Pencil: Basics and Practice Week 5

Chautauqua's Classroom Chautauqua's Classroom

Weeks 1, 5 | Tues, Thrs | Pier Building Classroom | Ages 16+This course is perfect for those who want to learn the beginning skills of colored pencils as an art medium. The first class, "Basics," provides information about colored pencils that are important to know before you get started using this tool. The instructor...

$55.00

CTC Brown Bag: Fabulation, or The Satirization of Stereotypes

Smith Wilkes Hall Smith Wilkes Hall

Theater Chats (formerly known as Brown Bags) On selected Thursdays at 12:15 p.m., bring lunch to Smith Wilkes Hall and join special guests, including actors, designers, playwrights and more, for a look at our upcoming productions and discussions on the craft of theater-making. Free and open to the public.

The Innovative Craft and Far-Reaching Impact of Poetjournalism Upon Our Society

Chautauqua's Classroom Chautauqua's Classroom

Week 6 | Thurs | Alumni Hall Ballroom | Ages 16+A best-selling author and social entrepreneur, Aaron Dworkin, leads a conversation about the Institute for Poetjournalism, a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to transforming the news through the fusion with the poetic medium.

$49.00

CHQ Dialogues

Everett Jewish Life Center Everett Jewish Life Center

Duplicate Bridge

Sports Club Sports Club

Don't have a partner? One will be provided. Game managed by Shelley Dahlie. $10/person.

Play CHQ Premium: Tie Dye

Bestor Plaza Bestor Plaza

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...

Miller Cottage Tours

Miller Cottage

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,...

Free but a ticket to hold reservation is necessary

A Summer of Wonder: Seeing Nature and Writing It in Chautauqua Week 6

Chautauqua's Classroom Chautauqua's Classroom

Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8 | Thurs | Poetry Room, Alumni Hall | Ages 18+A summer–long nature writing class that combines in–person and online elements. The course is designed so that workshops participants can take a single session of the class or all four.

$45.00

Jolene Rickard

Hall of Philosophy Hall of Philosophy

Dr. Jolene Rickard is an enrolled citizen of the Skarù·ręʔ - Tuscarora Nation, Turtle Clan, and associate professor of Indigenous Art in History of Art and Visual Culture at Cornell University where she also holds affiliations with American Studies, American Indian and Indigenous Studies, and Art and Performance and Media Studies. Recent contributions include an...

$19.00

CVA Open Studios

CVA: Arts Quad

We are excited to invite you to CVA Open Studios, occurring prior to the annual Resident Group Exhibition. Celebrate the work our resident artists have created during their time at Chautauqua Visual Arts. This event is free and open to the public.

Chautauqua Theater Company presents Fabulation (Sensory- Friendly Performance)

Bratton Theater Bratton Theater

This performance of Fabulation has been selected to be sensory-friendly. To better accommodate neurodiverse audiences, patrons should expect dimmed house lights, creating a more calming environment with softer and less intense lighting and reduced sound levels to minimize sudden loud noises or jarring sounds. Audience members are permitted to move around, vocalize, or express themselves...

$45 – $55

CVA Resident Group Exhibition

CVA: Arts Quad

CVA is honored to share our annual Resident Group Exhibition. Please join us to celebrate our resident artists at the CVA School of Art Gallery on the Art Quad. Join us to see the work our residents have created during their time at Chautauqua Visual Arts. This event is free and open to the public.

Eric Gansworth

Hall of Philosophy Hall of Philosophy

Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle and CLSC Young Readers Presentation — Apple: Skin to the Core, by Eric Gansworth The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." In his poetic memoir, Apple: Skin to the Core, Eric Gansworth tells his...