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....
Chautauqua Institution, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to Present Special Program on ‘Tehran Children’
Two-part Live Online Event on Dec. 8 to Feature Author Mikhal Dekel CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y., & WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chautauqua Institution and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum today announced a jointly presented online program titled “The Tehran Children: Iran’s Unexpected & Suppressed Connection to the Holocaust,” inspired by Mikhal Dekel’s 2019 memoir Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey. Dekel will participate in each segment of the two-part, 90-minute presentation, to air live beginning 7 p.m. EST Tuesday, Dec. 8, on the Institution’s CHQ Assembly video...
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Joan Chittister, Valarie Kaur, Mirabai Starr, Elaine Weiss, Carol Jenkins, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul Headline Week Five of the 2020 CHQ Assembly
...its talented students as they train under some of our era’s most sought-after artist-teachers. Presentations take place on the Virtual Porch. 2 p.m. EDT Monday, July 27: Voice master class with Craig Rutenberg 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 28: Piano master class with Natalya Antonova 4 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 29: Piano recital by Alexander Kobrin 7 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 29: Voice Program student recital 3:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 30: Violin master class...
Arts Education
...a year-round resource for arts-integrated teacher training and development, bringing best-practice educational techniques to classroom teachers to present the arts to students as part of their daily classroom activities. Learn More Battle of the Books Culminating in a lively academic competition, Battle of the Books improves reading comprehension, builds vocabulary, and teaches teamwork and good sportsmanship for Chautauqua County fifth-graders. Learn More “Explore Chautauqua” Field Trips Students will enjoy a day-long experience that explores key...
Kori Schake
Kori Schake is a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where her research areas include national security strategy, NATO, and alliances and U.S.-led international order. She returns to the Chautauqua Lecture Series for a week on “What We Got Wrong: Learning from Our Mistakes” to examine the contemporary legacy of American warfare — from Vietnam through Afghanistan to the current day — asking what mistakes...
Chautauqua Travels Terms and Conditions
...fees are based on the date of the cancellation notice reaching ATA. Up to 120 days prior to departure; refund of deposit less an administration fee of 50% of deposit. Cancellation between 119-91 days before departure: 100% of deposit is forfeited. Cancellation between 90-61 days, 50% of the trip price is forfeited. Cancellation within 60 days of departure: no refund. Cancellation on day of departure or after trip departs: no refund. No refund for unused...
The Roe Green Foundation Makes Transformational $4.5 Million Commitment to Chautauqua Theater Company
Chautauqua Institution today announced The Roe Green Foundation has made a transformational $4.5 million commitment to advance the completion of the new Roe Green Theater Center, a state-of-the-art, centralized facility for Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC). This gift, which consists of a $3 million outright contribution and a $1.5 million matching challenge gift, comes after a long history of supporting theater arts at Chautauqua, including the New Play Workshop series. The new Roe Green Theater Center...
2024 Guest Artists, Composers & Librettists
...America) – writes music described as “always dramatic, reflective, rarely predictable, and often electronic” (Musical America). She was the inaugural Resident Composer at Opera San José in the 2022-23 season and recently completed a three-year tenure as Composer-In-Residence at Opera Philadelphia. This season, Opera Philadelphia presented the “triumphant world premiere” (Wall Street Journal) of 10 Day in a Madhouse, co-commissioned by Opera Philadelphia and Tapestry Opera. The New York Times writes, “opera needs works like...
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Musicians Reach Agreement
...title, though he has long served as a go-to conductor for CSO pops concerts. In addition to the CSO schedule, 2021 patrons will enjoy the Music School Festival Orchestra on Monday evenings Weeks One through Four, with a special additional performance on Saturday, July 3, keeping symphonic music as the centerpiece of Chautauqua’s Independence Day celebration. ABOUT THE CHAUTAUQUA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1929 and today continues its legacy as...