Jill McCormick Named Director of Communications at Chautauqua
Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of Jill McCormick to the position of Director of Communications and Special Projects. In this role, McCormick will be responsible for developing and implementing communications plans to inform the public, news media, and internal audiences of Chautauqua’s programs and operations, bringing Chautauqua’s compelling mission to life through story. She will also serve as project manager for Chautauqua Travels, a new venture that brings Chautauqua’s mission to educational group travel...
Chautauqua Community Mourns Passing of Jared Jacobsen
...created with the iconic Massey Memorial Organ at the Chautauqua Amphitheater as the “heart and soul” of Chautauqua. This sentiment speaks not only to Jared’s talent, but of his ever-presence during our summer assembly season, his untiring love for music, and his generous willingness to share his passions with Chautauquans across generations. His music ushered in each day, heralded the noontime and afternoon hours, and closed each Sunday evening of the summer assembly, keeping the...
President Michael E. Hill on Sir Salman Rushdie’s release of “Knife”
...Chautauqua Fire Department who collaborated on the plan for security and emergency medical care, who were present that day, and who were also critical components of the life-saving response. Since August 2022, we’ve been on a journey with Sir Salman, including his emotional return to the Chautauqua Amphitheater with his wife, Eliza, on Sept. 18, 2023, which he poignantly recounts in the book. Chautauqua and Sir Salman will forever be linked because of this tragedy...
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....
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...