Chautauqua Institution Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2020 Opera Festival
...to have a voice, as well as the ongoing battle for human rights that connect them.” For more information on projects included in the Arts Endowment grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news. Four, six and seven-day overnight packages for the 2020 Chautauqua Opera Festival are available at the Athenaeum Hotel. Individual opera event and Festival ticket-only packages are also available. Visit http://chq.org/festivalweekend for details. Hotel packages are available now. Single event tickets go on sale April 1....
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...
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”...
Literary Arts
...Chautauqua Writers’ Center Each week of the summer season, the Chautauqua Writers’ Center offers its Free Sundays Faculty Reading Series featuring two highly-accomplished Resident Faculty Writers, who offer budget-friendly three-day workshops for writers at all levels of development. Learn More Kwame Alexander Writers’ Lab & Conference The 2024 Kwame Alexander Writers’ Lab & Conference (previously the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival) will take place over the four days (Tuesday to Friday) before Week One of Chautauqua Institution’s...
Chautauqua Institution is delighted to announce “Jean” by Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos as the winner of the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize
As the author selected from five finalists by guest judge Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Pitsirilos will receive $5,000 and will give a public lecture and reading at a celebratory event 5 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in the parlor of the Athenaeum Hotel as part of the Chautauqua Institution’s 2022 Summer Assembly. A prose and comic book writer with work in numerous anthologies and a 2021 Broken Pencil finalist zinester, Pitsirilos has been called a...
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....
October on CHQ Assembly
...Simon has reported from all 50 states and every continent. He has covered 10 wars, hundreds of campaigns, sieges, natural disasters, civil wars, scandals — and his fair share of sporting events. The host of “Weekend Edition Saturday” and a lifelong fan of the Chicago Cubs, Simon joins the Chautauqua Lecture Series on Independence Day to reflect on what the stories of touchstone moments in the world of sports have meant in American history, and...