Chautauqua Announces $36 Million in Transformational 2023 Philanthropy
Chautauqua Institution is proud to announce that 2023 philanthropic activity totaled more than $36 million. This amount reflects a combination of outright and planned gifts and pledges to Chautauqua Institution and the Chautauqua Foundation. Of the total amount raised, $5.9 million was contributed to the Chautauqua Fund, the Institution’s annual giving program, through one-time and multi-year commitments. Furthermore, the Chautauqua Fund exceeded the Institution’s budgeted goal for 2023. These contributions are a significant component of...
Chautauqua Opera General/Artistic Director Jay Lesenger to step down following 2015 season
Chautauqua Institution today announced that Jay Lesenger, general/artistic director of Chautauqua Opera Company, will step down from his post at the end of 2015. Lesenger has led Chautauqua Institution’s resident opera company, the nation’s oldest continuously producing summer company — and fourth oldest American opera company overall — since October 1994. “When Jay arrived here, he faced the daunting task of reinvigorating the passion in and for opera at CHQ,” said Marty Merkley, vice president and director of programming....
Phil Klay’s Redeployment wins 2015 Chautauqua Prize
Chautauqua Institution is delighted to announce Redeployment (The Penguin Press) by Phil Klay as the 2015 winner of The Chautauqua Prize. As author of the winning book, Klay receives $7,500 and all travel and expenses for himself and his wife for a one-week summer residency at CHQ. He will host a public reading and a book signing on Saturday, July 25, at the Hall of Philosophy. While his Week Four residency will be the first...
Staff
...Counsel Kimberly Schuette Managing Director, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra; Manager of Artistic Administration Carolyn A. Snider Administrative Assistant Adam Stahlsmith Systems Administrator Jennifer S. Stitely CFRE, Associate Vice President of Advancement Nancy Swanson Chautauqua Bookstore Assistant Manager Patrick Tanner Ticketing Systems Manager Sara Toth Editor, The Chautauquan Daily and Lecture Associate Ariel Vilardo Grants & Sponsorship Manager Maegan Washburn Assistant Director of Annual Giving Karen Williams Special Projects Coordinator, Human Resources James Zahm Office Services Assistant...
Chautauqua Opera General/Artistic Director Jay Lesenger to step down following 2015 season
Chautauqua Institution today announced that Jay Lesenger, general/artistic director of Chautauqua Opera Company, will step down from his post at the end of 2015. Lesenger has led Chautauqua Institution’s resident opera company, the nation’s oldest continuously producing summer company — and fourth oldest American opera company overall — since October 1994. “When Jay arrived here, he faced the daunting task of reinvigorating the passion in and for opera at CHQ,” said Marty Merkley, vice president and director of programming....
Ways to Give
...correspondence. Please do not send cash through the mail. Chautauqua Fund By supporting the Chautauqua Fund you are helping to provide a place where issues of the day are explored and the arts continue to flourish. Learn More Capital Support Regularly the Institution seeks philanthropic support for the major renovation of existing structures and the construction of new program and residential facilities. Learn More Gift Planning Planned gifts are deferred contributions which you can make...
Monthly Giving
...to remember to write another check. Setting up your monthly gift is easy—to start your monthly contribution today, please visit the secure, online form at giving.chq.org/monthly-giving or call 716.357.6404. Monthly gifts will be automatically deducted each month until you notify us to do otherwise. An annual statement will be provided in late January for tax purposes. To change an existing monthly contribution, please contact advancement@chq.org. Making a monthly gift takes little effort, is a more “green” method of payment and—because...
‘My Foreign Cities’ by Elizabeth Scarboro wins 2014 Chautauqua Prize
...at a young age. I’m so grateful for both.” The Chautauqua Prize, this year awarded for the third time, is an annual prize that 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. A portrait of a young couple approaching mortality with reckless abandon, “My Foreign Cities” is Scarboro’s memoir of her life with her first husband...
Prominent Chautauqua speakers to share diverse views on privacy issues
...present a debate on privacy issues at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Hall of Philosophy. The week also brings faculty members from Arizona State University’s Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics to present a series of lectures on privacy and ethics with regard to health, national security and love, at 4 p.m. Monday and Friday, also in the Hall of Philosophy. Elsewhere on the CHQ grounds that week, attendees will be treated to every form of...
CLSC Alumni Association
...books over Miller Echelon (201 total) Membership is available to all CLSC graduates on either an Annual or Life Membership basis. For more information on any of the above, please call the desk at Alumni Hall during the Season at 716.357.9312. From September to June you can contact the Alumni Association by: CLSC Alumni Association PO Box 1034 Chautauqua, NY 14722 email: alumassocexecsec@gmail.com phone: 716-640-0019 Guild of the Seven Seals application CLSC Alumni Association Website...