President Michael E. Hill Delivers Annual Closing ‘Three Taps’ Address
...someone with whom you violently disagree?”. In the initial days of Chautauqua Institution with Miller and Vincent, those exchanges were many, exacted as a mutual exchange of viewpoints to both state a position and, ideally, find common ground. Today, these visionary founders would see that Chautauqua remains in this mold as a place where inquisitive people of all educational backgrounds, interests, and economic and demographic descriptions can explore — and get to know more about...
The Smith Memorial Library
...and public desktop computers Copy, print, scan & fax service Follow Us on Facebook Contact Information Scott Ekstrom Library Director library@chq.org 716-357-6296 Closed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Good Friday, Easter, Mother’s Day, Day before Memorial Day, Memorial Day, Father’s Day, Labor Day Weekend, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Thanksgiving, the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Search, Hold, Renew and Download catalog-search & hold E-books &...
Elizabeth Kolbert, Ted Chiang, Ariel Ekblaw, Alicia Olatuja, Return of Beloved Independence Day Traditions Headline Week Two of Chautauqua Institution’s 2021 Season
...from President Barack Obama’s 2013 inauguration Alicia Olatuja. The week also features the return of two beloved community Independence Day traditions: The students of the Music School Festival Orchestra step in for the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra to perform the popular Independence Day Celebration program on Saturday, and the Chautauqua Community Band entertains the Fourth of July crowd with a Bestor Plaza concert on free-admission Sunday. Chautauqua Institution’s nine-week season features weekday lectures focusing on weekly...
Announcing the 2024 Abrahamic Program for Young Adults
...as our commonalities. Zack Steinberg is a song leader and Jewish program coordinator from Buffalo, New York. He grew up attending diverse public schools while also attending his temple’s religious school and spending summers at Camp Lakeland, a Jewish sleepaway camp. At Lakeland, he learned to play guitar, conduct Shabbat services, and create community away from home. After completing degrees in music and business at the University at Buffalo, he moved to New York City...
Chautauqua Celebrates 150 Years of Seasons and Stories With a Packed Calendar of Events and Special Initiatives
...is Chautauqua’s annual celebration of the original first night of Chautauqua’s season, which historically began the first Tuesday of August. In addition to the beloved traditions of this annual celebration, a special participatory performance on Bestor Plaza by puppeteers and band Squonk will bring all generations of Chautauquans to their feet. This will be followed by a giant birthday cake served from the porch of the Athenaeum Hotel, from which participants can also view Chautauqua...
Margo Price and Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah, Cheryl Strayed, Brian McLaren Headline Week Six of Chautauqua Institutions 2021 Season
...Amphitheater or the Performance Pavilion on Pratt, with some offerings available via livestream and on-demand through the CHQ Assembly platform. 4 p.m. Saturday, July 31, Performance Pavilion on Pratt: Half scripted, half improvisation and playing like a Shakespeare improv with modern day language, Chautauqua Theater Company’s Commedia will delight with familiar yet ridiculous storylines and references ripped from today’s headlines. The production will see addition stagings at the same time on Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday. 8:15 p.m. Saturday, July 31, Amphitheater: Conducted by...
Board of Trustees
...a year: in August during the Summer Assembly season and in November, February and May. The responsibilities of the Board include the hiring of the President of the Institution; establishing policies to guide the Administration in conducting the affairs of the Institution; and overseeing the way those policies are implemented. This last responsibility is largely carried out during our annual evaluation of the President’s performance. The Board is organized into seven committees. Three committees —...
2020 Annual Report
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The 20th Annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States — Kate Shaw
Kate Shaw is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. A constitutional law scholar, her academic work and writing focus on executive power, the law of democracy, the Supreme Court, and reproductive rights and justice. Her scholarly writing has appeared, among other places, in the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the Northwestern University Law Review, and her popular writing...
