Webinar – Israel and Palestine: Dialogue and Relationships across Divides
...in a way we never have before. Either you are for Israel or for Palestine — there is no middle ground. Or is there? On Tuesday, March 26, join us for a conversation with Atiya Aftab, 2022 Interfaith Lecturer Series speaker and co-founder, and Roberta Elliott, President of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom. Atiya is Muslim and Roberta is Jewish. While they may not agree with one another on every aspect of this issue, working...
Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory: A Novel Wins 2024 Chautauqua Prize
Celebrated Author Will Give Public Reading at Chautauqua Institution on Aug. 19 Chautauqua Institution today proudly announces The Reformatory: A Novel (Saga Press) by Tananarive Due as the 2024 winner of The Chautauqua Prize. Awarded annually since 2012, the Prize celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and honors the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts. As author of this year’s winning book, Due...
2010 New Play Workshop Press Release
...include Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Rufus Collins plays Paul Barrow. Collins has appeared on Broadway in The Royal Family, To Be Or Not To Be, An Ideal Husband, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, and The Homecoming. Regional credits include In This Corner, directed by Ethan McSweeny at the Old Globe in San Diego. Daniel Pearce, who plays Steve, has appeared in three CTC productions: Arcadia, The Winter’s Tale, and Reckless. Pearce’s...
Chautauqua Institution and Campaign Legal Center Launch Partnership
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y., AND WASHINGTON, D.C. — To build on their respective missions that advance democracy, Chautauqua Institution and Campaign Legal Center (CLC) today announced a partnership to co-create, host and distribute programming centering on voter education and engagement. The partnership launches Nov. 1 on the Institution’s CHQ Assembly streaming channel with the premiere of a conversation between CLC Founder and President, and Republican former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Trevor Potter and Chautauqua...
Angela Schuettler Named Chautauqua CFO
Following a national search, Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of Angela Schuettler of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Schuettler begins her service October 23. As CFO, Schuettler will play a critical role as a member of the President’s Executive Team, advising Chautauqua leadership and leading initiatives that will ensure Chautauqua Institution’s long-term financial sustainability at a moment of exciting organizational transformation. Reporting directly to the president, her duties include the preparation...
Chautauqua Arts Education Opera in the Schools
...3,500 students. The program dazzled young audiences with a lively 45-minute adaptation of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, masterfully reimagined by Joshua Borths. The Chautauqua Opera Company will perform the enchanting opera Hansel and Gretel at the Chautauqua Amphitheater on Wednesday, July 24, so we tailored the program to introduce area students to this whimsical retelling with a twist that serves a need for kids today. “Hansel and Gretel vs. the Witch’ gives us a...
Plena Libre
...nearly three decades. Masters of the traditional Puerto Rican plena and bomba styles, Plena Libre fuses well-loved traditions with modern Afro-Caribbean influences, putting a new and always electrifying spin on this scintillating music. With mesmerizing hand drumming, raucous horns, and soaring three-part vocal harmonies, this multi-Grammy Award–nominated band always brings the heat. Take advantage of a unique opportunity to meet the band up close in a class earlier in the day (registration through Special Studies)....
Jordan Steves Named Interim Emily and Richard Smucker Chair for Education
...platform that takes place at 10:45 a.m. Monday-Friday during the Summer Assembly. “Jordan brings a deep knowledge of and commitment to the mission and history of Chautauqua and the morning lecture program,” said Deborah Sunya Moore, Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer. “Jordan has historically played a key role in our lecture theme development process and as producer for the Chautauqua Lecture Series, so we are both delighted and grateful that he will be...
Interfaith Lecture Series
Interfaith Lectures 2 p.m. EDT Monday–Friday, Hall of Philosophy The Interfaith Lecture Series is designed to present issues that impact the lived experience of everyday life from theological, religious, spiritual, ethical, and humanitarian perspectives. Week One • June 22–29 Race and the American Religious Experience Race remains a primary dividing line in American society. Religious practice can serve to reinforce those divisions, or to break them down and unite people around shared commitments. How does...
Seven Finalists Named for 2020 Chautauqua Prize
...up-close, steeped in historical awareness and lived experience.” A missionary doctor, a jazz pianist, a post-World War II society woman, a young woman in present day, and teenagers in a world yet to come: A house in Bangkok is the confluences of these lives shaped by upheaval, memory and the lure of home. Time collapses and these lives collide in Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s Bangkok Wakes to Rain, his first book, which readers called “a powerful debut”...