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...
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
...at Sarah Lawrence College, Pace University, and community writing centers. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she grew up in Providence, Rhode Island; Dayton, Ohio; and Jamestown, New York. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. ABOUT THE CHAUTAUQUA JANUS PRIZE Awarded annually since 2018, the Chautauqua Janus Prize celebrates an emerging writer’s single work of short fiction or nonfiction for daring formal and aesthetic innovations that upset and...
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...
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)....
Chautauqua Institution Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2020 Opera Festival
...have fought 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....
Chautauqua Interfaith Prayer Vigil: Creating Beloved Community After Charlottesville
...injured that day. Today is not about providing words that make us feel better; we shouldn’t feel better until we are better. Today calls us to dig deep into our own conscious and to ask how we might embrace one another while shattering the prejudices that lay in ignorance and intolerance. We must ask ourselves: what role do we have, as Hosea says, in making those we do not love or understand, our “beloved”? This...