Join us for a brief online conversation between General and Artistic Director Steven Osgood and Stage Director Keturah Stickann, as they discuss The Mother of Us All, which will close our 2020 mainstage season on August 1.

We’ll be on Facebook, revisiting Joshua Bennett’s Amphitheater lecture and spoken word performance from July 26, 2019, which wrapped our week celebrating “The Life of the Spoken Word.”

Brooks is an op-ed columnist at The New York Times, a senior fellow at Yale University, and a regular commentator of PBS’ “NewsHour.”

This week, enjoy Jazz Baby by Lisa Wheeler, Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie as students learn through observation and active engagement about steady beat, scat singing, jazz music – and how families bond together through music and love.

Fr. Richard Rohr is a globally recognized ecumenical teacher, Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Through the book Pout-Pout Fish Goes to School by Deborah Diesen, illustrated by Dan Hanna, Deborah guides viewers through verse-chorus form, steady beat, and how just one helpful, caring person can make a difference in a child’s life.

Join us for a brief conversation between General & Artistic Director Steven Osgood, Stage Director Omer Ben Seadia, Composer Kamala Sankaram and Librettist Susan Yankowitz, as they discuss our 2020 mainstage opera Thumbprint.

Wynn-Grant is a conservation scientist, large-carnivore ecologist, nature storyteller, and advocate with expertise in using emerging technology to identify how humans are changing the way carnivores use landscapes.

Join Deborah on an adventure through the book Way Far Away on a Wild Safari by Jan Peck, illustrated by Valaria Petrone, as she guides viewers through singing and marching their way through a child’s very active imagination.

For this week’s Chautauqua Lecture Series #CHQWatchParty, we’re revisiting James Geary's lecture "Five Ways to be Witty" from July 31, 2019, which was part of last season's "What's Funny? In Partnership with the National Comedy Center."

While singing through the book Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea by Jan Peck, Illustrated by Valaria Petrone, Deborah guides viewers to meet the animals under the sea, to learn about call and response form and explore the depths of the ocean – and their imagination.

Join us for a brief conversation between General & Artistic Director Steven Osgood and Stage Director Sarah Ina Meyers, as they discuss our 2020 mainstage opera Tosca.

As we approach the 50th anniversary of May 4, 1970, when members of the National Guard opened fire on a group of Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War, we’re revisiting Beverly J. Warren's lecture “Kent State Beyond the Shootings: Journey of the Wounded Healer.”

Through the book The Pout-Pout Fish, by Deborah Diesen, illustrated by Dan Hanna, Deborah uses singing and steady beat to tell the tale of a fish with the blues – and how one kind person can help turn a frown upside-down.

Poet Mary Biddinger will join Director of Literary Arts Sony Ton-Aime in the first installment of the CHQ Authors Convening to discuss the role of poetry and poets during pandemics — both throughout history and in this time of COVID-19.

For this week’s Chautauqua Lecture Series #CHQWatchParty, we’re revisiting Arthur C. Brooks' lecture “Work, Life and Happiness After 50: How to go from Strength to Strength,” from Aug. 3, 2018, which closed our week on “The Changing Nature of Work.”

For this week’s Chautauqua Lecture Series #CHQWatchParty, we’re revisiting Amy Chua's lecture that she delivered on July 6, 2018, drawing on her book "Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations." That lecture closed our week on "American Identity."

Goluboff is the 12th, and the first female, dean of the University of Virginia School of Law. She is a nationally renowned legal historian whose scholarship and teaching focuses on American constitutional and civil rights law, and especially their historical development in the 20th century.

McKibben is an author, environmentalist and co-founder of anti-carbon campaign group 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized 20,000 rallies around the world in every country save North Korea...

For five years, James and Deborah Fallows traveled across America in a single-engine prop airplane and reporting on the people, organizations and ideas re-shaping the country.