StoryCorps Recording (Reservations Required)
150th Anniversary StoryCorps Archive: The Cohen Multimedia Studio is available for recording your StoryCorps conversation for inclusion in Chautauqua’s 150th Anniversary Archive. Book your recording time online here. Available times will be highlighted on each day’s schedule with a white box. Each recording session is designed for two people to be in conversation. Think of it as a conversation between friends or family members. Our StoryCorps Ambassador will help you get started and support you...
CHQ Travels: Culture, Creation & Reconciliation in South Africa with The Rt. Rev. Bishop Eugene Sutton
Join Chautauqua Travels for an extraordinary 12-day journey through the heart of South Africa, where culture, creation, and reconciliation converge. This captivating tour will examine the nation’s rich natural and cultural heritage alongside the triumphs and tribulations that have shaped its remarkable story. Your journey begins in Johannesburg, a city that epitomizes the paradoxes of South Africa’s past and present. Follow in the footsteps of Nobel Prize winners, Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu on Vilakazi...
Sailors learn the ropes at instructor training at Chautauqua Institution
Twelve sailors from many different locations flocked to Chautauqua Institution in late May for a four-day course to achieve their Level 1 Small Boat Instructor Certifications for on- and off-water instruction. Much like schoolteachers have to go through extensive training in order to receive all of their proper certifications, so must sailing instructors. During these courses, it is crucial that the students not only learn proper on-water safety techniques, get vital hands-on time with small...
StoryCorps Recording (Reservations Required)
150th Anniversary StoryCorps Archive: The Cohen Multimedia Studio is available for recording your StoryCorps conversation for inclusion in Chautauqua’s 150th Anniversary Archive. Book your recording time online here. Available times will be highlighted on each day’s schedule with a white box. Each recording session is designed for two people to be in conversation. Think of it as a conversation between friends or family members. Our StoryCorps Ambassador will help you get started and support you...
Chautauqua Institution is delighted to announce “Right Before the Fall” by Olivia Jung as the winner of the 2024 Chautauqua Janus Prize
...The 2024 prize recipient, Olivia Jung, will receive the $5,000 prize, plus a $2,000 travel and lodging stipend. She will give a public lecture and reading at a celebratory event at 6 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 9, in the parlor of the Athenaeum Hotel as part of Chautauqua Institution’s 2024 Summer Assembly. Olivia Jung was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in Massachusetts. A multi-genre writer, she won the 2019 Pigeon Pages Essay Contest...
StoryCorps Recording (Reservations Required)
150th Anniversary StoryCorps Archive: The Cohen Multimedia Studio is available for recording your StoryCorps conversation for inclusion in Chautauqua’s 150th Anniversary Archive. Book your recording time online here. Available times will be highlighted on each day’s schedule with a white box. Each recording session is designed for two people to be in conversation. Think of it as a conversation between friends or family members. Our StoryCorps Ambassador will help you get started and support you...
Pride Anthems
Come celebrate Pride Month and the opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitors Center with a journey through the past 50 years of Pride Anthems. From Donna Summer and Queen to George Michael, Erasure, Madonna, Lady Gaga, and beyond, these essential songs transport us from disco to the present day — guaranteed to get you dancing and singing along in no time. Musical Director Brian J. Nash is joined by some of today’s finest Broadway...
Preview Performance of SOMEWHERE, Dinner and Conversation
...and Choreographer Yue Yin during the elegant spring meal that follows. $69: Preview performance and four-course dinner $69: Dine with a Dancer! Sponsor a dancer to join your table for dinner! Reservations for Dinner and Conversation close on Wednesday, May 15 at 5 p.m. Reservations for performance only tickets will stay open until day of this event. Menu: Bread Baguette and Olive Ciabatta Soup Spring Pea Soup, White Truffle Drizzle, Borage Flower (Vegan) Salad Shaved...
PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS as delivered to members of the Bestor Society on August 6, 2017
...Chautauqua will be around for years to come. I close my President’s Address with profound gratitude for each of you and by personally pledging to do all I can to ensure that Chautauqua’s best days are yet to come. Thank you for the tremendous care you’ve shown me this first season; thank you for agreeing to partner with me for the days ahead. May God, called by many names through many traditions, bless you all. ...
Preview Premiere and Reception: Gamelan Dharma Swara
...Balinese music and dance ensembles. From their beginnings at the Indonesian Consulate of New York to the present day, they have been captivating audiences with raucous performances for over 33 years and counting. The group performs a spellbinding blend of iconic traditional pieces paired with bold, contemporary compositions, spanning some 500 years. It has been called “thrilling, mesmerizing and powerful” (New York Times) and “sublime, receiving perhaps the weekend’s most rapturous response” (The New Yorker)....