Chautauqua Arts Education Receives Kennedy Center Contract for School Residencies Program
...Southwestern Central School District, Love Elementary and Washington Middle schools in the Jamestown Public Schools, and Little Seeds Pre-School in Jamestown. While this is the sixth Kennedy Center contract that Chautauqua Institution has received for this work, the contract for 2019–20 is the largest amount to date. “The residencies in the BOCES Educational Centers provide the only music education that these students get during the school day,” shared Suzanne Fassett Wright, director of arts education....
Chautauqua Travels: Stories of Slovenia
...secrets that lurk just beneath their surface. Baby Dragons of the Postojna Cave Within the dark, damp interior of the Postojna Cave dwells a pale skinned, red tufted, long tailed, four-legged, snakelike, eyeless aquatic beast — a baby dragon. Since the 17th century the people of Karst reported sightings of offspring of a ferocious dragon lurking in Postojna Cave. Better known today as olms, these “baby dragons” can be found in very few places in...
Shared Sky – Exploring the Solar Eclipse with Chautauqua’s Poetry Makerspace
...Shared Sky! As we prepare for what promises to be an exciting day of activities on Chautauqua Institution grounds outside of the summer assembly season, grab your eclipse glasses and make sure to drop by the Poetry Makerspace, which will be open from 12 – 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, Sunday, April 7, and Monday, April 8 for a slew of family-friendly eclipse activities. Learn more about the Poetry Makerspace at Chautauqua at poetry.chq.org....
Three Taps of the Gavel closing the 150th Assembly
...I have been pouring over it ever since, looking at what life was like for our beloved Chautauqua in those days. And I assure you that it’s not because the first headline from Thursday, September 1, 1921, is titled “Mr. Bestor’s Vacation,” in which President Bestor is granted a five-month sabbatical after his seventh summer. In 1921, the “Community Library” was in the Post Office building, and Chautauqua was adding books to it. In the...
Shared Sky – Exploring the Solar Eclipse with Chautauqua’s Poetry Makerspace
...Shared Sky! As we prepare for what promises to be an exciting day of activities on Chautauqua Institution grounds outside of the summer assembly season, grab your eclipse glasses and make sure to drop by the Poetry Makerspace, which will be open from 12 – 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, Sunday, April 7, and Monday, April 8 for a slew of family-friendly eclipse activities. Learn more about the Poetry Makerspace at Chautauqua at poetry.chq.org....
Sinatra & Beyond with Tony DeSare and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
...headlining with major symphony orchestras, Tony DeSare delivers a fresh take on old school class in an outstanding, critically-acclaimed tribute to the great Frank Sinatra that includes songs like Come Fly with Me, I’ve Got the World On a String, It Was A Very Good Year, One for My Baby, The Summer Wind, I Get A Kick Out of You, Night and Day, New York, New York, My Way, and so many more Sinatra classics....
Shared Sky – Exploring the Solar Eclipse with Chautauqua’s Poetry Makerspace
...Shared Sky! As we prepare for what promises to be an exciting day of activities on Chautauqua Institution grounds outside of the summer assembly season, grab your eclipse glasses and make sure to drop by the Poetry Makerspace, which will be open from 12 – 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, Sunday, April 7, and Monday, April 8 for a slew of family-friendly eclipse activities. Learn more about the Poetry Makerspace at Chautauqua at poetry.chq.org....
Gamelan Dharma Swara
Preview Premiere and Reception: Gamelan Dharma Swara Tuesday, May 21 Gamelan Dharma Swara is proud to present at Chautauqua the Preview World Premiere of a new Dharma Swara commission, co-created by Artist-in-Residence Gusti Komin and longtime dance teacher and choreographer Shoko Yamamuro. The traditional welcome piece to open a performance or event is reimagined. Works of this genre — typically in the female style — often focus on notions of reception and invitation alongside purification...
Newly Established Chautauqua Literary Arts Chair Honors Entertainment Lawyer, Chautauquan Michael I. Rudell
...of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer — and year-round through the CHQ Assembly online platforms — with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. ...
Chautauqua Institution Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2020 Opera Festival
...to have a voice, as well as the ongoing battle for human rights that connect them.” For more information on projects included in the Arts Endowment grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news. Four, six and seven-day overnight packages for the 2020 Chautauqua Opera Festival are available at the Athenaeum Hotel. Individual opera event and Festival ticket-only packages are also available. Visit http://chq.org/festivalweekend for details. Hotel packages are available now. Single event tickets go on sale April 1....