Sailors learn the ropes at instructor training at Chautauqua Institution
Twelve sailors from many different locations flocked to Chautauqua Institution in late May for a four-day course to achieve their Level 1 Small Boat Instructor Certifications for on- and off-water instruction. Much like schoolteachers have to go through extensive training in order to receive all of their proper certifications, so must sailing instructors. During these courses, it is crucial that the students not only learn proper on-water safety techniques, get vital hands-on time with small...
Preview Performance of SOMEWHERE, Dinner and Conversation
...and Choreographer Yue Yin during the elegant spring meal that follows. $69: Preview performance and four-course dinner $69: Dine with a Dancer! Sponsor a dancer to join your table for dinner! Reservations for Dinner and Conversation close on Wednesday, May 15 at 5 p.m. Reservations for performance only tickets will stay open until day of this event. Menu: Bread Baguette and Olive Ciabatta Soup Spring Pea Soup, White Truffle Drizzle, Borage Flower (Vegan) Salad Shaved...
Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Song Of The Cell Wins 2023 Chautauqua Prize
Pulitzer Winner Will Give Public Reading at Chautauqua Institution on Aug. 23 CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution today proudly announces The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Scribner) by Siddhartha Mukherjee as the 2023 winner of The Chautauqua Prize. Awarded annually since 2012, The Chautauqua Prize celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and to honor the author for a significant...
Four Leaders Join Institution Board of Trustees
Chautauqua Institution’s Board of Trustees elected Stephen F. Messinger, Jill Penrose, and Stephen J. Zenczak to four-year terms at the final meeting of the body’s 2022–23 cycle on Aug. 26. Additionally, members of the Chautauqua Corporation elected Bob W. Obee as the newest of the four trustees selected by Chautauqua property owners at the Corporation’s annual meeting on Aug. 12. The new trustee class officially began its term on Oct. 1. Messinger, of Arlington, Virginia,...
Young Playwrights Project
...members visit your classroom in-person, to read and act out your students’ plays. Phase 3 – Field Trip: Seeing the Plays Will take place in mid-June, 2024. Students are invited to visit Chautauqua Institution for an entire day that includes: Viewing a select number of plays from all those submitted after Phase 1 Experiencing other activities on-grounds, including STEM or Literary Arts, Recreation and a Mindfulness Moment Eating your sack lunch by Chautauqua Lake or...
Johnny Mathis, David French, Amanda Ripley, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Headline Week Four of Chautauqua Institution’s 2021 Season
...half improvisation and playing like a Shakespeare improv with modern day language, Chautauqua Theater Company’s Commedia will delight with familiar yet ridiculous storylines and references ripped from today’s headlines. 8:15 p.m. Thursday, July 22, Amphitheater: Conducted by Timothy Muffitt, the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra will perform an evening of works by Walker, Britten and Dvořák. 4 p.m. Friday, July 23, Performance Pavilion on Pratt: An opera by Derrick Wang, directed by Cara Consilvio and conducted by Steven Osgood, Chautauqua Opera Company’s Scalia/Ginsburg is a one-act comedy about the unlikely friendship between U.S. Supreme Court...
Closing Three Taps Address: “Doubling Down on Democracy’s Platform”
...occasions since that day, it was unlike anything we had experienced in our nearly 150-year history. Before I share any further thoughts, please allow me to extend the prayers of the Chautauqua community both to Salman Rushdie and Henry Reese for their continued recovery, and I want to say more about that in a bit, but it goes without saying that they have been foremost in our minds these past many days. As a quick...
2024 Long-term Rate
2024 Long-term (6 days or more) Rate Make your 2024 vacation a true CHQ experience with a stay at the Athenaeum Hotel. Be inspired by Chautauqua Institution’s programming, discuss the day’s lecture with new friends on the 200-foot lakeside porch and dine at Heirloom Restaurant. Each week is a different theme and your gate pass gives you access to all lectures and concerts at the Amphitheater, book signings and most of the events that occur...
President Michael E. Hill Opens 147th Chautauqua Assembly with ‘Three Taps’ Address
...founding. And yet, today, my “ordinary” greeting of “welcome home to Chautauqua” is still the right one, as we are welcoming you home to what our co-founder Bishop John Heyl Vincent called, “the Chautauqua of ideas and inspirations, (which) is not dependent upon the literal and local Chautauqua.” Today, from the opening three taps of a historic gavel, we usher in Chautauqua’s 147th Assembly. So much has happened in our world since the last time...
From the President: You’re Invited to CHQ Assembly
...rescheduled for 2021. In other cases, events may take on a different form. In a limited number of cases where we are unable to translate a planned event into an online presentation, events have been canceled or postponed while we consider other options. We are also planning to present many programs on the same days and times that they would have occurred in the traditional Summer Assembly. Each day will keep a familiar rhythm that...