Sunrise Paddle – Kayak/SUP
Enjoy the beauty of the lake during our sunrise paddle. This is not a guided tour but an opportunity to rent a kayak, SUP or canoe for an enjoyable hour at sunrise. Reservations accepted one day in advance at the Sports Club. Contact sportsclub@chq.org with questions....
Chautauqua School of Music to Engage Students Online in 2020Â
...Arts Deborah Sunya Moore. “The Chautauqua Online School of Music has been designed and will be nimble enough to continually evolve, with the specific input from our incoming class of young artists. I hope that one day these artists all look back to this as a time when we simply kept making music in the best ways possible.” The Chautauqua Online School of Music will begin on Monday, July 13, and continue until Friday, August 7. Information on...
Chautauqua Theater Company’s 2020 New Play Workshop Series to be Broadcast Online
Chautauqua Institution’s New CHQ Assembly Platform to Feature Works by Charly Evon Simpson and Heather Raffo CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Andrew Borba and Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy, will preserve its commitment to new work development by presenting virtual workshops of Charly Evon Simpson’s it’s not a trip it’s a journey, directed by Nicole A. Watson, on July 15, and Heather Raffo’s Tomorrow Will Be Sunday (working title), directed by Jenny Koons,...
Chautauqua Theater Company Announces 2024 SeasonÂ
...birthday, hurtles toward her 41st, accelerates into her 70th, and glides into her 101st. Birthday Candles is a heartfelt and humorous story that guides the audience through the significant, challenging, and remarkable moments as time inexorably marches on. One ordinary woman’s life is measured by the simple tradition of baking a birthday cake. Originally developed as a New Play Workshop during the 2017 season and then performed around the country, Chautauqua will finally mount its...
Only Art Held Me: The Ying Quartet Presents the Beethoven Cycle Partnership with Bowdoin Festival, Chautauqua and Eastman
ROCHESTER, NY— Internationally renowned string quartet the Ying Quartet, in partnership with Bowdoin International Music Festival, Chautauqua Institution, and the Eastman School of Music, will present the full Beethoven String Quartet cycle in a series of concerts throughout the 2020/2021 season, in honor of Beethoven’s 250th birthday. The Yings have given the series the overall title Only Art Held Me. The first in a series of 10 concerts will be held Sunday, December 6 at 4 p.m.,...
Boyz II Men
Chautauqua Institution welcomes legendary R&B vocal group Boyz II Men to its 2024 summer concert series. The smooth harmonies and enduring themes of Boyz II Men earned them the distinction of best-selling R&B group of all time, with 64 million albums sold. With past hits like “End of the Road,” “I’ll Make Love to You,” “One Sweet Day” and “Motownphilly,” the group redefined popular R&B, and continues to create timeless hits that appeal to fans...
Patricia McBride
Former distinguished prima ballerina with the New York City Ballet. She has been celebrated as the outstanding American ballerina of our day and is a star of international stature. In 2014 she received one of the Kennedy Center Honors for her lifetime contributions and achievements in dance. Her career with the New York City Ballet spanned more than three decades and provided audiences with dazzling performances of some of the greatest masterpieces in dance. George...
Joshua Stafford Officially Named Chautauqua Institution Director of Sacred Music, Organist
Celebrated Musician and Jamestown Native First to Hold Jared Jacobsen Endowed Chair CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of Joshua Stafford as the Department of Religion’s Director of Sacred Music, including its organist, and the first to hold the newly established Jared Jacobsen Chair for the Organist of Chautauqua Institution. Stafford served as Institution organist in an interim capacity during the 2020 summer assembly season. An internationally renowned and award-winning organist and...
Countdown to Season: What To Expect (June 1 update)
...The state has not yet released detailed guidance on how to implement this pivot. As soon as we have that detailed guidance, which we expect any day, we will be able to better articulate its effect on our experience together this summer. What we do know: We will designate a large section in each of our performance venues where vaccinated adults and accompanied non-vaccinated children can sit with no distance. Masking will be optional...
Chautauqua Mirror Project: Past Events
...support your topic. Added November 2, 2020 In Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community, Martin Luther King advocates for social changes that persist to this day. In this spirit, we encourage you to write about something in our society that you have long wished to see changed and, in your own words, tell us how we as a society can change it. Please note that submissions cannot be longer than 1000 words....