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June 24 @ 10:45 am Week One (June 22–29)

Jon Meacham

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Monday, June 24th 2024 @ 10:45 am - 12:00 pm

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Jon Meacham

Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham is one of America’s most prominent public intellectuals, and he returns to the Chautauqua Lecture Series to open a week dedicated to tracing “The Evolution of the Modern Presidency” and, more importantly, to launch Chautauqua’s 2024 Summer Assembly Season and the celebration of the Institution’s 150th anniversary. With a depth of knowledge about politics, history, religion and current affairs, Meacham brings historical context to the issues and events impacting our daily lives.

The author of several No. 1 New York Times bestsellers, Meacham has written acclaimed books about America’s history and her presidents, including Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush (Meacham delivered eulogies for both President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush); American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation; and American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. His latest New York Times bestseller, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle, was published in October 2022.

Meacham is a contributing editor at Time, a former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, and served as Newsweek’s managing editor from 1998 to 2006 and editor from 2006 to 2010. Since 2021, he has served as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral.

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the Society of American Historians, Meacham is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, where he holds the Rogers Chair in the American Presidency. He is a graduate of The University of the South, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in English.

June 25 @ 10:45 am Week One (June 22–29)

Elizabeth Goitein

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Tuesday, June 25th 2024 @ 10:45 am - 12:00 pm

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Elizabeth Goitein

Elizabeth Goitein is senior director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program, which seeks to advance effective national security policies that respect constitutional values and the rule of law. A nationally-recognized expert on presidential emergency powers, government surveillance, and government secrecy, Goitein joins the Chautauqua Lecture Series during a week on “The Evolution of the Modern Presidency” to discuss the design and effectiveness of checks and balances among the three branches of government, and how the executive branch has historically interacted with the other two.

Goitein’s writing has been featured in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs and The New Republic, and she has appeared frequently on MSNBC, CNN, and NPR; she is also the author of several book chapters. She has testified on several occasions before the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.

Before coming to the Brennan Center, Goitein served as counsel to U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and as a trial attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. In 2021–22, she was a member of the inaugural class of Senior Practitioner Fellows at the University of Chicago’s Center for Effective Government.

Goitein graduated from Yale Law School and clerked for the Honorable Michael Daly Hawkins on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

June 26 @ 10:45 am Week One (June 22–29)

Andrew H. Card Jr.

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Wednesday, June 26th 2024 @ 10:45 am - 12:00 pm

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Andrew H. Card Jr.

Andrew H. Card Jr. is the second-longest tenured White House Chief of Staff and has served in senior government roles under three U.S. Presidents. It is this decades-long experience that Card will draw on for the Chautauqua Lecture Series week on “The Evolution of the Modern Presidency” as he shares how he’s seen the presidency change in his career and lifetime, traces shifts in how Congress interacts with the Executive Branch, and considers how we might think differently about the presidency going forward.

Card served as chief of staff to President George W. Bush from January 2001 to April 2006. In this capacity, in 2001, he led a government-wide reorganization to best allocate resources to deal with the aftermath of 9/11 and the new terrorist environment. Prior to that, he served as deputy chief of staff and then as a cabinet member for President George H.W. Bush as the 11th Secretary of Transportation, directing President Bush’s transition office during the transition from the Bush Administration to the Clinton Administration. Card also served as special assistant and later as deputy assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs for President Ronald Reagan.

Since the White House, Card has been chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy; interim chief executive officer of the George & Barbara Bush Foundation; president of Franklin Pierce University; executive director of the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Texas A&M University; and acting dean of The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M.

Card is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, and attended the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1965 to 1967.

June 27 @ 10:45 am Week One (June 22–29)

Melody Barnes

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Thursday, June 27th 2024 @ 10:45 am - 12:00 pm

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Melody Barnes

As the founding executive director of the University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute of Democracy, Melody Barnes guides the organization on an action-oriented path to realizing democracy in both principle and practice. A public servant with more than 25 years of experience crafting public policy, Barnes served in the administration of President Barack Obama as assistant to the president and director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. It is this experience she will draw on during the Chautauqua Lecture Series week on “The Evolution of the Modern Presidency,” offering insight into how the power and authority vested in the presidency and executive branch touch the everyday lives of Americans.

Earlier in her career, Barnes was executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress and chief counsel to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Her experience includes an appointment as director of legislative affairs for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and assistant counsel to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights. Barnes started her career in New York as an associate at Shearman & Sterling.

In addition to her role at the Karsh Institute, Barnes is the J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, a distinguished fellow at UVA’s School of Law, and co-founder of the domestic-policy strategy firm MB2 Solutions. She is also the W.L. Lyons Brown Family Director for Policy and Public Engagement at the Democracy Initiative, an interdisciplinary teaching, research, and engagement effort led by the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at UVA.

Barnes earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she graduated with honors in history, and her JD from the University of Michigan.

July 1 @ 10:45 am Week Two (June 29–July 6)

Joanna Stern

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Monday, July 1st 2024 @ 10:45 am - 12:00 pm

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Joanna Stern

Joanna Stern is an Emmy Award-winning technology journalist and NBC/CNBC contributor who has spent the better part of two decades covering gadgets and apps, and helping people make smarter tech decisions. Since 2013, she’s been a personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal where her explanatory reporting — in both writing and video — has garnered numerous awards. Stern opens the Chautauqua Lecture Series week on “The AI Revolution” with an up-to-the-minute primer on how artificial intelligence has developed ever-more-rapidly, and considers where we may be headed as these remarkable and potentially dangerous technologies continue to evolve.

At The Wall Street Journal, Stern’s reporting on AI has included putting fast-food drive-thrus “staffed” by chatbots to the test and examining popular AI photo apps that distort reality. In April 2023, she penned a column about creating an AI version — or deepfake — of herself, highlighting the technology’s double-edged potential. Stern began her technology writing career at Laptop Magazine and then spent three years at Engadget. In 2011, she and several colleagues left Engadget to create the technology news website that would eventually come to be known as The Verge. Prior to joining The Wall Street Journal, Stern was the technology editor at ABC News.

In 2016, Stern received a Gerald Loeb Award for her Wall Street Journal videos, and a second Gerald Loeb Award in 2022 for a series about TikTok. Her documentary about death and technology, “E-Ternal: A Tech Quest to Live Forever,” won the 2021 Emmy in the category of outstanding science, technology or environmental coverage. Stern is a graduate of Union College.

July 2 @ 10:45 am Week Two (June 29–July 6)

Conrad Tucker

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Tuesday, July 2nd 2024 @ 10:45 am - 12:00 pm

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Conrad Tucker

Conrad Tucker is an Arthur Hamerschlag Career Development Professor of Mechanical Engineering and holds courtesy faculty appointments in machine learning, robotics, and biomedical engineering, and CyLab security and privacy at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on employing machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to predictively improve the design and output of engineered systems. He joins the Chautauqua Lecture Series to help us to understand, from an engineer’s perspective, the actual mechanics of AI and the large language models that drive it: how they were constructed, how they work, and what their potential is — both good and bad. He will also provide insight into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s AI Commission on Competitiveness, Inclusion and Innovation, tracking policymakers’ ability to manage the impact of AI on the American economy and society.

Tucker explores applications of AI in domains including engineering design, healthcare, engineering education, and cybersecurity. He has served as PI/Co-PI on federally/non-federally funded grants from the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Army Research Laboratory, the Office of Naval Research via the NSF Center for eDesign, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In February 2016, he was invited by National Academy of Engineering President Dan Mote to serve as a member of the advisory committee for the NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium.

Tucker received his Ph.D., M.S. (industrial engineering), and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

This program is presented in partnership with the African American Heritage House Lecture Series.

July 5 @ 10:45 am Week Two (June 29–July 6)

Jamie Metzl

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Friday, July 5th 2024 @ 10:45 am - 12:00 pm

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Jamie Metzl

Along with our new capabilities in genetics and biotechnology, AI will transform most every aspect of our personal and professional lives — how we live and work, our economies, our healthcare, the foods we eat, and our interactions with the world around us. To navigate these transformations, Jamie Metzl — one of the world’s leading technology and healthcare futurists — will join the Chautauqua Lecture Series to close a week on “The AI Revolution” with a discussion on his latest book: Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World.

Metzl is the author of six books, including the international bestseller, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, which has been translated into 12 languages. A faculty member of Singularity University and NextMed Health, senior fellow of the Atlantic Council, and founder and chair of the global social movement, OneShared.World, in 2019 Metzel was appointed to the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on human genome editing.

Previously, Metzl served in the U.S. National Security Council, State Department, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee and with the United Nations in Cambodia. He appears regularly on national and international media and his syndicated columns and other writing in science, technology, and global affairs are featured in publications around the world. He is a former partner in a global private equity firm and serves on advisory boards for multiple biotechnology and other companies.

Metzl holds a Ph.D. from Oxford University, a law degree from Harvard Law School, and an undergraduate degree from Brown University.

July 9 @ 10:45 am Week Three (July 6–13)

Kori Schake

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Tuesday, July 9th 2024 @ 10:45 am - 12:00 pm

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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 we’ve learned from and those we’ve not, and how this can inform American military strategy as we engage in a new era of diplomacy and defense.

Before joining AEI, Schake was the deputy director-general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has had a distinguished career in government, working at the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. She has also taught at King’s College, Stanford, West Point, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, National Defense University, and the University of Maryland, and served as senior policy adviser to the McCain-Palin campaign in 2008.

Schake is the author of five books, including America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved?; Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony; State of Disrepair: Fixing the Culture and Practices of the State Department; and Managing American Hegemony: Essays on Power in a Time of Dominance. She is also the coeditor, along with former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, of Warriors & Citizens: American Views of Our Military.

Schake holds a PhD and MA in government and politics from the University of Maryland, as well as an MPM from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. She received her bachelor’s degree in international relations from Stanford University.

July 10 @ 10:45 am Week Three (July 6–13)

Kai Bird

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Wednesday, July 10th 2024 @ 10:45 am - 12:00 pm

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Kai Bird

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, historian and journalist Kai Bird is the co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer — the definitive biography of the theoretical physicist and “father of the atomic bomb” that served as inspiration for director and screenwriter Christopher Nolan’s most recent film, “Oppenheimer.” A relentless chronicler of history and a consummate storyteller, Bird elevates lessons from the past to undeniable relevance for audiences of today. He joins the Chautauqua Lecture Series in a week confronting “What We Got Wrong: Learning from Our Mistakes” to discuss the legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose groundbreaking work altered the course of history, and help us navigate the tremendous ethical and moral ramifications of that work.

For American Prometheus, Bird and his late co-author Martin J. Sherwin were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography, the National Books Critics Circle Award and the Duff Cooper Prize for History. Bird is the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, and biographies of Jimmy Carter, John J. McCloy, McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy. He chronicled his childhood in the Middle East in his memoir, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, which was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The executive director and distinguished lecturer of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, his work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the CIA.

An elected member of the prestigious Society of American Historians, Bird received his bachelor’s degree from Carleton College and his master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

July 12 @ 10:45 am Week Three (July 6–13)

Amy C. Edmondson

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Friday, July 12th 2024 @ 10:45 am - 12:00 pm

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Amy C. Edmondson

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School where she studies teaming, psychological safety and organizational learning. The No. 1-ranked management thinker in the world by Thinkers50, she has been studying psychological safety and workplace behaviors for more than 20 years. Her most recent book, Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well, will frame her presentation for the Chautauqua Lecture Series, concluding a week on “What We Got Wrong: Learning from Our Mistakes.”

In Right Kind of Wrong, which won the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023, Edmondson considers what she calls “intelligent failures” as the vital stepping stones that lead to innovation and discovery. Diving deep into the distinction between intelligent, basic and complex failures, she explains the proactive steps that can prevent harmful failures in the future. Edmonson’s other books include The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth, and her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review.

Edmondson received her PhD in organizational behavior, Master of Arts in psychology and Bachelor of Arts in engineering and design from Harvard University. Before her academic career, she was director of research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked on transformational change in large companies, and in the early 1980s, she worked as chief engineer for the legendary architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller.

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July 13 @ 8:15 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Paul Taylor Dance Company with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra

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Paul Taylor Dance Company with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra

Saturday, July 13th 2024 @ 8:15 pm - 10:15 pm

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Paul Taylor Dance Company with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra

Rossen Milanov, conductor

One of the most iconic and dynamic modern dance ensembles of our time, the Paul Taylor Dance Company has been innovating and transforming the artform of modern dance since 1954. With a history of multidisciplinary collaborations, passionate expression and thrilling athleticism, the Company is known worldwide for its vast repertory, performing work from the Founder’s canon; new works created by some of today’s most engaging and established choreographers; and important historical dance from the 20th and 21st centuries. Dedicated to sharing modern dance with the broadest possible audience, the Company tours annually, both domestically and internationally, with performances and a variety of educational programs and engagement offerings. The Company returns to Chautauqua in two separate programs at the Amphitheater, with Saturday’s program featuring live music from the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra under the baton of music director Rossen Milanov.

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Mercuric Tidings
Syzygy
Promethean Fire

July 14 @ 1:30 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

StoryCorps Recording (Reservations Required)

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July 14 @ 2:30 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua School of Dance: Student Gala I

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July 14 @ 2:30 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua Theater Company presents Birthday Candles

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Sunday, July 14th 2024 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

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Chautauqua Theater Company presents Birthday Candles

By Noah Haidle

Ernestine Ashworth contemplates her cosmic insignificance on her 17th birthday, a feeling that follows her through the swift passage of time. In the blink of an eye, she reaches her 18th birthday, hurtles toward her 41st, accelerates into her 70th, and glides into her 101st. Birthday Candles is a heartfelt and humorous story that guides the audience through the significant, challenging, and remarkable moments as time inexorably marches on. One ordinary woman’s life is measured by the simple tradition of baking a birthday cake.

Originally developed as a New Play Workshop during the 2017 season and then performed around the country, Chautauqua will finally mount its own full production of Birthday Candles. What a fitting way to open CTC’s mainstage season and celebrate Chautauqua Institution’s 150th birthday!

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July 14 @ 7:30 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua Theater Company presents Birthday Candles

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Sunday, July 14th 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

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By Noah Haidle

Ernestine Ashworth contemplates her cosmic insignificance on her 17th birthday, a feeling that follows her through the swift passage of time. In the blink of an eye, she reaches her 18th birthday, hurtles toward her 41st, accelerates into her 70th, and glides into her 101st. Birthday Candles is a heartfelt and humorous story that guides the audience through the significant, challenging, and remarkable moments as time inexorably marches on. One ordinary woman’s life is measured by the simple tradition of baking a birthday cake.

Originally developed as a New Play Workshop during the 2017 season and then performed around the country, Chautauqua will finally mount its own full production of Birthday Candles. What a fitting way to open CTC’s mainstage season and celebrate Chautauqua Institution’s 150th birthday!

This production may not be suitable for youth under 8.

July 15 @ 10:45 am Week Four (July 13–20)

Jennifer D. Sciubba

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Jennifer D. Sciubba

Jennifer D. Sciubba is one of the world’s leading experts on demographic trends and their implications for politics, economics, and social relationships, and an advocate for policy-relevant research. Her work argues that a deeper understanding of fertility, mortality and migration trends points us toward the investments we need to make today to shape the future we want tomorrow, the central theme of her book, 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World, published in 2022. It is this book that frames her presentation for the Chautauqua Lecture Series as she opens a week on “Eight Billion and Counting: The Future of Humankind in a Crowded World.”

Sciubba is affiliated with the Wilson Center and the Hess Center for New Frontiers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, both in Washington, D.C. She is formerly a tenured professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the nation’s leading liberal arts colleges. She works to educate the broader public about the importance of population trends through writing in The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, and other publications, as well as publishing her research in numerous scholarly articles and edited books.

Sciubba has studied at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, and served as a demographics consultant to the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy). A member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Council on Foreign Relations, she is vice chair of the board of the Population Reference Bureau. Sciubba received her Ph.D. and Master of Arts from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree from Agnes Scott College.

July 15 @ 2:00 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Bob Roberts & Imam Mohamed Magid

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Bob Roberts & Imam Mohamed Magid

Dr. Bob Roberts Jr. is a pastor and renowned bridge builder who has dedicated his life to promoting and advancing religious freedom, peacemaking, and civil engagement. He is the founder of GlocalNet, a ministry dedicated to mobilizing the church to bring about transformation in the public square, co-founder of the Multi-Faith Neighbors Network (MFNN), an organization committed to promoting religious freedom through intentional cross-cultural relationships, and newly appointed president of the Institute of Global Engagement (IGE), an organization that catalyzes freedom of faith worldwide so that everyone has the ability to live what they believe. With decades of experience in peacemaking and international religious freedom, Dr. Roberts’ groundbreaking work has earned him respect and recognition from the United Nations, U.S. Department of State, World Economic Forum, ambassadors, international royal families, and policy leaders worldwide. His impressive contributions were honored by The White House in 2022 when he and the MFNN co-founders received the Uniter Award for their inspiring grassroots bridge-building work across faith groups throughout the US. For over 30 years, Dr. Roberts led Northwood Church near Dallas, Texas, where he is now the Founding Global Pastor. He is also a prolific author of six books and the host of the “Bold Love” podcast, where he shares stories of his journey and encouraging people to boldly love their neighbors. Dr. Roberts holds a Doctorate of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary, a Masters of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a BA from Baylor University.

Imam Mohamed Magid is the Executive Imam of All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center in Sterling, Virginia. He is the Chairman of International Interfaith Peace Corps (IIPC) and the former President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). He is also the Chairman of Muflehun, a think tank which focuses on confronting violent extremist thought through research-driven preventative programs within a religious paradigm and one of the Co-Founders for Multi-Faith Neighbors Network. Imam Magid works with various think tanks such as the Atlantic Council, Aspen Institute, Brookings Institute, and CSIS Center for Strategic and International Studies. Imam Magid also has a long history of commitment to public service through organizations, such as The Peaceful Families Project. Imam Magid has co-authored three books: Before You Tie the Knot: A Guide for Couples, Reflections on the Qur’an, and Change from Within. He has helped in organizing training and workshops for Imams and religious leaders, domestically and internationally, on the issue of violence against women. Imam Magid is also leading an initiative to protect religious minorities in Muslim majority countries through seminars and Imam training workshops. He has written for the Washington Post and Huffington Post and has been profiled in Time Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. He is the recipient for the Washingtonian of the Year 2009 and the Human Rights Award 2005 from Fairfax County

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July 15 @ 4:00 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua Chamber Music: Akropolis Reed Quintet

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Chautauqua Chamber Music: Akropolis Reed Quintet

Monday, July 15th 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

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Chautauqua Chamber Music: Akropolis Reed Quintet

Akropolis Reed Quintet, hailed for their daring performances and collective excitement, celebrates 15 years as a reed quintet pushing the boundaries of chamber music. With numerous awards and accolades, including the Fischoff Gold Medal, they have premiered over 130 works and appeared on prestigious stages worldwide. Their innovative approach extends beyond music, collaborating with diverse artists and actively engaging with their Detroit community through education and outreach programs. Akropolis continues to captivate audiences with their dynamic performances, showcasing their boundless creativity and unwavering commitment to musical exploration.

July 15 @ 8:15 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Music School Festival Orchestra - Opening Night

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Music School Festival Orchestra – Opening Night

Monday, July 15th 2024 @ 8:15 pm - 10:15 pm

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Music School Festival Orchestra – Opening Night

Comprised of top-tier students from conservatories and universities in the U.S. and abroad, Music School Festival Orchestra members participate in a variety of musical activities during their summers at Chautauqua including chamber music and private lessons along with their meticulous orchestral training. Alumni from the MSFO can be heard in many of the world’s top orchestras and chamber ensembles and can be found on music faculties worldwide. The MSFO is led by Artistic Director Timothy Muffitt, who serves as Music Director of the Lansing Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Laureate of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra.
Joining us on our opening night will be Kwame Alexander, Michael I. Rudell Artistic Director of Literary Arts at Chautauqua.

July 16 @ 9:15 am Week Four (July 13–20)

Preserving farmland in a crowded world

Hurlbut Church sanctuary

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July 16 @ 10:45 am Week Four (July 13–20)

Homi Kharas

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Tuesday, July 16th 2024 @ 10:45 am - 12:00 pm

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Homi Kharas

Homi Kharas is a senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development, housed in the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings Institution. In that capacity, he studies policies and trends influencing developing countries, including aid to poor countries, the emergence of the middle class, and global governance and the G-20. He joins the Chautauqua Lecture Series to discuss his latest book, The Rise of the Global Middle Class: How the Search for the Good Life Can Change the World.

Prior to joining Brookings, Kharas spent 26 years at the World Bank, serving for seven years as chief economist for the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific region, and director for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, responsible for the Bank’s advice on structural and economic policies, fiscal issues, debt, trade, governance, and financial markets.

From 2012 to 2013, Kharas was the lead author and executive secretary of the secretariat supporting the High Level Panel, co-chaired by President Sirleaf, President Yudhoyono and Prime Minister Cameron, advising the U.N. Secretary General on the post-2015 development agenda. He has served as a member of the High Level Panel on the Reform of the Development Assistance Committee; the International Panel Review Committee on Malaysia’s economic and governance transformation programs; the post-Busan Advisory Group to the DAC co-chairs; the National Economic Advisory Council to the Malaysian Prime Minister; and a member of the Working Group for the Commission on Growth and Development. Kharas has also served as a nonresident fellow of the OECD Development Center.

A graduate of King’s College, Cambridge, Kharas earned his PhD in economics from Harvard University.

July 16 @ 12:15 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Tuesday Brown Bag Lecture Series with native gardens expert Carolyn Summers

Smith Wilkes Hall

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July 16 @ 2:00 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Mahan Mirza

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Tuesday, July 16th 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

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Mahan Mirza

Dr. Mahan Mirza is a Teaching Professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs and Executive Director of the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion at the University of Notre Dame. An Islamic studies scholar, Dr. Mirza previously served as lead faculty member for the Madrasa Discourses, a project to advance scientific and theological literacy at the Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He also served as Dean of Faculty at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, America’s first accredited Muslim liberal arts college. Mirza holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Texas Austin, an MA from Hartford Seminary in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, and a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He has taught a range of courses in Arabic-Islamic studies, western religions, history of science, and global affairs, along with foundational subjects in the liberal arts including logic, rhetoric, ethics, and politics. His doctoral research was on the intellectual world of al-Biruni, an 11th-century scientist from Central Asia. Dr. Mirza has edited two special issues of The Muslim World and served as assistant editor of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. His recent articles include “Deed over idea: Toward a shared Caliphate” in The Routledge Handbook for Religious Literacy, Pluralism, and Global Engagement (2022) and “Between Tyranny and Anarchy: Islam, Covid 19, and Public Policy,” in Religions (2023).

July 16 @ 2:30 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua Theater Company presents Birthday Candles (Sensory-Friendly Performance)

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Tuesday, July 16th 2024 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

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Chautauqua Theater Company presents Birthday Candles (Sensory-Friendly Performance)

This performance of Birthday Candles has been selected to be sensory-friendly. To better accommodate neurodiverse audiences, patrons should expect dimmed house lights, creating a more calming environment with softer and less intense lighting and reduced sound levels to minimize sudden loud noises or jarring sounds. Audience members are permitted to move around, vocalize, or express themselves as needed. This can include the freedom to leave and re-enter the performance space without judgment.

By Noah Haidle

Ernestine Ashworth contemplates her cosmic insignificance on her 17th birthday, a feeling that follows her through the swift passage of time. In the blink of an eye, she reaches her 18th birthday, hurtles toward her 41st, accelerates into her 70th, and glides into her 101st. Birthday Candles is a heartfelt and humorous story that guides the audience through the significant, challenging, and remarkable moments as time inexorably marches on. One ordinary woman’s life is measured by the simple tradition of baking a birthday cake.

Originally developed as a New Play Workshop during the 2017 season and then performed around the country, Chautauqua will finally mount its own full production of Birthday Candles. What a fitting way to open CTC’s mainstage season and celebrate Chautauqua Institution’s 150th birthday!

This production may not be suitable for youth under 8.

July 16 @ 3:30 pm Week Eight (August 10–17)

Heritage Lecture Series - Dr. Christina Jarvis

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Heritage Lecture Series – Dr. Christina Jarvis

Tuesday, July 16th 2024 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

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Heritage Lecture Series – Dr. Christina Jarvis

As part of the Oliver Archives Center’s 2024 Heritage Lecture Series celebrating Chautauqua’s history and its 150th anniversary, Christina Jarvis will present “Kurt Vonnegut Unstuck in Time: His Chautauqua Lectures & Planetary Citizenship.” Focusing on his July 1989 Chautauqua Institution residency, Jarvis will place Vonnegut’s key environmental, social justice, and civic engagement messages within the context of his life and career.

Christina Jarvis is professor of English at SUNY Fredonia, where she teaches courses in sustainability and 20th-century American literature and culture, including several different major author seminars on Kurt Vonnegut. Her book Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut’s Planetary Citizenship was published by Seven Stories Press in November 2022. She is also the author of The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II and many articles about Vonnegut’s fiction.

July 16 @ 4:00 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

School of Music Piano Guest Faculty Recital: Anna Genuishene

Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall

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School of Music Piano Guest Faculty Recital: Anna Genuishene

Tuesday, July 16th 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall

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School of Music Piano Guest Faculty Recital: Anna Genuishene

Anna Genuishene, piano

Tuesday, July 16 2024, 4:00 p.m.

Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall

Acclaimed 2022 Van Cliburn International Competition silver medalist joins the Chautauqua faculty for the first time.

Accolades ensued—Musical America named her Young Artist of the Month in July 2022 and Pianist magazine featured her on the cover in June 2023—and invitations from well-respected institutions followed. Recent and upcoming engagements are highlighted by debut recitals for Washington Performing Arts at the Kennedy Center, Wiener Konzerthaus, and the Bravo! Vail and Grand Teton Music Festivals; debut concerts at Tonhalle Zurich and Stadtcasino Basel, filling in for Daniel Barenboim in recital; and collaborations with the Taipei and Lithuanian Symphony Orchestras, conductors Gábor Takács-Nagy, Eliahu Inbal, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, and pianists Wu Han and Dmytro Choni. Anna’s newest album—a deeply personal project of lullabies spanning from John Field and Liszt to Dutilleux and Weinberg—is released in September 2023, and she is set to record a duo disc with her husband and frequent collaborator, pianist Lukas Geniušas, for release next year on the Alpha label. She joins the roster of the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 2024–2027.

Also an enthusiastic teacher, she actively teaches masterclasses and adjudicates competitions, and served as assistant professor at the Moscow Conservatory until 2022.

July 16 @ 6:30 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Opera Conservatory: Alcina

McKnight Hall

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Tuesday, July 16th 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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Opera Conservatory: Alcina

Alcina by G.F. Handel
July 16 & 18, 2024
Marlena Malas, Director*
John Matsumoto Giampietro, Associate Director

Welcome to the island of illusions. Peer beyond the palms to discover the beautiful Alcina, a sorceress skilled in the art of seduction. Her passion burns red hot–until she tires of her conquests and turns them into wild beasts or stone. When dashing knight Ruggiero succumbs to this femme fatale’s dangerous charms, his fiancée Bradamante takes on a daring disguise to free her betrothed and break the curse. But is Alcina finally falling for the man of her dreams?

The Chautauqua Opera Conservatory is an intensive educational program that seeks to offer the highest caliber of training for the young singer, 18 and older. Under the leadership of Marlena Kleinman Malas*, a select group of 20 singers study, coach and perform in an idyllic setting on the grounds of the Chautauqua Institution.

*The Chautauqua Community joins the world in mourning the passing of Marlena Malas on December 4, 2023. We honor her more than four decades of leadership and service to our Opera Conservatory.

July 16 @ 8:15 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: Grieg Piano Concerto

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July 17 @ 12:15 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

CLSC Young Reader Book Discussion — Big Tree

Alumni Hall Porch

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July 17 @ 2:00 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Daniel Ramírez

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Wednesday, July 17th 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

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Daniel Ramírez

Daniel Ramírez (Ph.D., Duke University; B.A., Yale College) is Associate Professor of American Religions at Claremont Graduate University where he chairs the Religion Department. He has previously taught at the University of Michigan and Arizona State University. His research interests include religious history of the Americas, with a focus on migration, transnationalism, and the borderlands. His award-winning book, Migrating Faith: Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), follows the trajectory of Pentecostalism in the US and Mexico, examining this through the prism of migration, culture, and music. His over 25 publications include a recent co-edited book (with Lloyd Barba and Andrea Johnson), Oneness Pentecostalism: Race, Culture, and Gender (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023). Dr. Ramírez has lectured widely in Latin America and the Caribbean and has served as an Observer of the International Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue. His scholarly associations include the Red de Investigadores del Fenómeno Religioso en México, the American Academy of Religion, and the Society for Pentecostal Studies. From 2019-2022 he served as president of the American Society of Church History, the nation’s oldest religious history guild.

July 17 @ 4:00 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua Theater Company presents Birthday Candles

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Wednesday, July 17th 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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Chautauqua Theater Company presents Birthday Candles

By Noah Haidle

Ernestine Ashworth contemplates her cosmic insignificance on her 17th birthday, a feeling that follows her through the swift passage of time. In the blink of an eye, she reaches her 18th birthday, hurtles toward her 41st, accelerates into her 70th, and glides into her 101st. Birthday Candles is a heartfelt and humorous story that guides the audience through the significant, challenging, and remarkable moments as time inexorably marches on. One ordinary woman’s life is measured by the simple tradition of baking a birthday cake.

Originally developed as a New Play Workshop during the 2017 season and then performed around the country, Chautauqua will finally mount its own full production of Birthday Candles. What a fitting way to open CTC’s mainstage season and celebrate Chautauqua Institution’s 150th birthday!

This production may not be suitable for youth under 8.

July 17 @ 8:15 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Plena Libre

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Wednesday, July 17th 2024 @ 8:15 pm - 9:45 pm

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Plena Libre

The trailblazing Plena Libre has been thrilling international audiences for 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).

July 18 @ 10:45 am Week Four (July 13–20)

C.D. Glin

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Thursday, July 18th 2024 @ 10:45 am - 12:00 pm

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C.D. Glin

C.D. Glin is president of the PepsiCo Foundation and global head of philanthropy for PepsiCo. In this role, Glin leads the organization’s social- and community-driven impact efforts and a portfolio of global employee engagement programs. He oversees the foundation’s strategic direction, leading internal and external engagement around its three core pillars of creating equitable access to nutritious food, safe water, and economic opportunity. These pillars — along with the PepsiCo Foundation’s extensive efforts to anticipate and mitigate the negative downstream economic effects of climate-positive actions — will shape Glin’s remarks as part of the Chautauqua Lecture Series’ weeklong exploration of “Eight Billion and Counting: The Future of Humankind in a Crowded World.”

Prior to joining PepsiCo, Glin began his career as a Peace Corps volunteer in South Africa during the Mandela administration. He also served as president and CEO of the U.S. African Development Foundation, associate director of The Rockefeller Foundation and vice president for business development at PYXERA Global. Further, as an appointee in the Obama Administration, Glin was the first director of intergovernmental affairs and global partnerships for the Peace Corps. In 2011, he was honored as a Champion of Change in Civic Engagement and International Service by the White House.

Glin earned his B.A. from Howard University and a Master’s-level diploma in Strategy and Innovation from the Said Business School at the University of Oxford; he has also completed the Leadership for Senior Executives Program at Harvard Business School.

July 18 @ 2:00 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Audrey Truschke

Hall of Philosophy | CHQ Assembly

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July 18 @ 2:30 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua Theater Company presents Birthday Candles

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Thursday, July 18th 2024 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

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Chautauqua Theater Company presents Birthday Candles

By Noah Haidle

Ernestine Ashworth contemplates her cosmic insignificance on her 17th birthday, a feeling that follows her through the swift passage of time. In the blink of an eye, she reaches her 18th birthday, hurtles toward her 41st, accelerates into her 70th, and glides into her 101st. Birthday Candles is a heartfelt and humorous story that guides the audience through the significant, challenging, and remarkable moments as time inexorably marches on. One ordinary woman’s life is measured by the simple tradition of baking a birthday cake.

Originally developed as a New Play Workshop during the 2017 season and then performed around the country, Chautauqua will finally mount its own full production of Birthday Candles. What a fitting way to open CTC’s mainstage season and celebrate Chautauqua Institution’s 150th birthday!

This production may not be suitable for youth under 8.

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July 18 @ 3:15 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua Opera Company presents an Afternoon of Song

Athenaeum Parlor

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July 18 @ 3:30 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Valeria Luiselli

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Thursday, July 18th 2024 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

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Valeria Luiselli

Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Presentation – Lost Children Archive: A Novel

In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. As the family travels west, the bonds between them begin to fray: a fracture is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet.

Through ephemera such as songs, maps and a Polaroid camera, the children try to make sense of both their family’s crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States but getting detained—or lost in the desert along the way. A breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity, Lost Children Archive is timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious, and formally inventive—a powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in Costa Rica, South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of Sidewalks, Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, and Tell Me How It Ends (An Essay in Forty Questions). Her most recent novel, Lost Children Archive was an international critical and commercial success. It was a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2019, won the Rathbone Folio Prize 2020, the Dublin Award 2021, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Booker Prize 2019 among others. In 2019 she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant for “challenging conventional notions of authorship in fiction, essays, and inventive hybrids of the two that pose profound questions about the various ways we piece together stories and document the lives of others.” Her work is published in more than thirty languages. She is a professor at Bard College.

July 18 @ 5:00 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Inundation District

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July 18 @ 6:30 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Opera Conservatory: Alcina

McKnight Hall

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Thursday, July 18th 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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Opera Conservatory: Alcina

Alcina by G.F. Handel
July 16 & 18, 2024
Marlena Malas, Director*
John Matsumoto Giampietro, Associate Director

Welcome to the island of illusions. Peer beyond the palms to discover the beautiful Alcina, a sorceress skilled in the art of seduction. Her passion burns red hot–until she tires of her conquests and turns them into wild beasts or stone. When dashing knight Ruggiero succumbs to this femme fatale’s dangerous charms, his fiancée Bradamante takes on a daring disguise to free her betrothed and break the curse. But is Alcina finally falling for the man of her dreams?

The Chautauqua Opera Conservatory is an intensive educational program that seeks to offer the highest caliber of training for the young singer, 18 and older. Under the leadership of Marlena Kleinman Malas*, a select group of 20 singers study, coach and perform in an idyllic setting on the grounds of the Chautauqua Institution.

*The Chautauqua Community joins the world in mourning the passing of Marlena Malas on December 4, 2023. We honor her more than four decades of leadership and service to our Opera Conservatory.

July 18 @ 7:30 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua Theater Company presents New Play Workshop #2

Bratton Theater

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July 18 @ 8:15 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: Spanish Guitar

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Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: Spanish Guitar

Thursday, July 18th 2024 @ 8:15 pm - 9:30 pm

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Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: Spanish Guitar

Timothy Muffitt, conductor
Bokyung Byun, guitar

Experience an evening of exquisite virtuosity as prize-winning guitarist Bokyung Byun joins forces with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and conductor Timothy Muffitt in a mesmerizing symphony program. Byun’s artistry shines brightly in the haunting beauty of Joaquín Rodrigo’s iconic “Concierto de Aranjuez,” weaving intricate melodies and evocative harmonies. Join the CSO for an unforgettable evening of music that transports you to the heart of Spain, where passion and artistry converge in a symphonic celebration.

Program:
Maurice Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aruanjuez
Manuel de Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No. 2
Emmanuel Chabrier: España

July 19 @ 2:00 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Conrad Hackett

Hall of Philosophy | CHQ Assembly

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Friday, July 19th 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

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Conrad Hackett

Conrad Hackett is associate director of research and senior demographer at Pew Research Center. His expertise is in international religious demography, sociology of religion, and how religion relates to characteristics including gender, fertility, and education. Hackett received his doctorate from Princeton University’s Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the University of Texas at Austin’s Population Research Center. He also earned two graduate degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is an author of “The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050,” “Religion and Education Around the World,” “The Global Religious Landscape,” “The Gender Gap in Religion Around the World,” “Global Christianity,” “The Global Catholic Population” and various other studies of religious demography. Hackett frequently presents demographic research at scholarly conferences in the United States and abroad. He has discussed global religion with numerous media outlets, including BBC, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, The Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

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July 19 @ 2:30 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua Theater Company presents Birthday Candles

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Friday, July 19th 2024 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

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Chautauqua Theater Company presents Birthday Candles

By Noah Haidle

Ernestine Ashworth contemplates her cosmic insignificance on her 17th birthday, a feeling that follows her through the swift passage of time. In the blink of an eye, she reaches her 18th birthday, hurtles toward her 41st, accelerates into her 70th, and glides into her 101st. Birthday Candles is a heartfelt and humorous story that guides the audience through the significant, challenging, and remarkable moments as time inexorably marches on. One ordinary woman’s life is measured by the simple tradition of baking a birthday cake.

Originally developed as a New Play Workshop during the 2017 season and then performed around the country, Chautauqua will finally mount its own full production of Birthday Candles. What a fitting way to open CTC’s mainstage season and celebrate Chautauqua Institution’s 150th birthday!

This production may not be suitable for youth under 8.

July 19 @ 7:30 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua Theater Company presents New Play Workshop #2

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July 19 @ 8:15 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons

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Friday, July 19th 2024 @ 8:15 pm - 9:45 pm

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Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons

The original Jersey boy himself, Frankie Valli is a true American legend. His incredible career with the Four Seasons, as well as his solo success, has spawned countless hit singles. With unforgettable tunes like “Sherry,” “Walk Like A Man,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Rag Doll,” “December ‘63 – Oh What A Night,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,” and of course, “Grease.” His songs have been omnipresent in other iconic movies such as The Deer Hunter, Dirty Dancing, Mrs. Doubtfire, Conspiracy Theory and The Wanderers. As many as 200 artists have done cover versions of Frankie’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” from Nancy Wilson’s jazz treatment to Lauryn Hill’s hip-hop makeover.

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons have sold over 100 million records worldwide. They continue to tour throughout the U.S. and abroad to packed houses receiving nightly standing ovations from thrilled fans of multiple generations.

July 20 @ 2:30 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua Theater Company presents Birthday Candles

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Saturday, July 20th 2024 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

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Chautauqua Theater Company presents Birthday Candles

By Noah Haidle

Ernestine Ashworth contemplates her cosmic insignificance on her 17th birthday, a feeling that follows her through the swift passage of time. In the blink of an eye, she reaches her 18th birthday, hurtles toward her 41st, accelerates into her 70th, and glides into her 101st. Birthday Candles is a heartfelt and humorous story that guides the audience through the significant, challenging, and remarkable moments as time inexorably marches on. One ordinary woman’s life is measured by the simple tradition of baking a birthday cake.

Originally developed as a New Play Workshop during the 2017 season and then performed around the country, Chautauqua will finally mount its own full production of Birthday Candles. What a fitting way to open CTC’s mainstage season and celebrate Chautauqua Institution’s 150th birthday!

This production may not be suitable for youth under 8

July 20 @ 3:00 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Contemporary Issues Forum: Sarah Gamble

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Saturday, July 20th 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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Contemporary Issues Forum: Sarah Gamble

Sarah Gamble is a registered architect and educator with a passion for the public realm and community projects. An assistant professor in the University of Florida School of Architecture, Gamble will discuss how architects are engaging the climate crisis through their work and present a call to action for her profession and the broader public. Environmental education will be a focus, including the opportunities it creates for architects and the public to engage with each other and the environmental challenges present in their communities. A series of architectural projects along the Texas Gulf Coast designed and built by University of Texas at Austin students will provide tangible examples of activism at work. Her talk is titled “Environmental Activism: Opportunities for Architects and the Public to Engage in the Climate Crisis.”

Gamble teaches architectural design for graduate and undergraduate students at the UF School of Architecture, following teaching at the University of Texas at Austin from 2011 to 2018. Gamble’s academic research focuses on context and how design is catalyzed by the surrounding environment and our understanding of it, including physical, cultural, social, and ephemeral facets. This focus feeds her architectural practice, residing in public interest design, a field incorporating elements of urban planning, architectural design, the arts, social work, community engagement, and education.

In 2018, Gamble served as the State Architect for the Texas Historical Commission’s Main Street Program. From 2011 to 2017, Gamble co-founded and co-led GO collaborative (Gamble Osgood Collaborative), a design and planning firm connecting people with place with clients and grantors including the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), City of Calgary, and ArtPlace America. From 2009 – 2011, Gamble served as architect of the Austin Community Design and Development Center, a nonprofit community design center focused on affordable housing. From 2007 – 2009, Gamble was a designer at Specht Architects (formerly Specht Harpman Architects) in Austin working on projects at St. Edward’s University. There, her focus was the award-winning Doyle Hall, a renovation and addition to a 1950’s mid-century dormitory to the home of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The project received a AIA Austin Design Award and was featured in Metropolis and Architect magazines. From 2006 – 2007, Gamble co-founded and served as coordinator of the CITYbuild Consortium of Schools, based at the Tulane University School of Architecture. The organization served more than 17 national universities to assist in New Orleans’ rebuilding following Hurricane Katrina. In 2008, Gamble received a ACSA Collaborative Practice award for this work.

The recipient of a Young Alumni Award from the University of Florida School of Architecture, Gamble was featured by Austin(its) Magazine as one of 21 Austinites making a difference. In 2013, she was featured in Texas Architect magazine as one of “4 Under 40” architects and named one of Austin’s “10 to Watch” in 2011 by Tribeza Magazine for her positive impact on the city.

The Contemporary Issues Forum is programmed by the Chautauqua Women’s Club.

July 20 @ 4:15 pm Week Four (July 13–20)

Chautauqua Chamber Music: Adam Nielsen, piano with Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Fellows

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Chautauqua Chamber Music: Adam Nielsen, piano with Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Fellows

Saturday, July 20th 2024 @ 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm

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Chautauqua Chamber Music: Adam Nielsen, piano with Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Fellows

Pianist and Opera Conservatory Guest Faculty Adam Nielsen’s versatile career spans collaborative pianism, coaching, and artistic administration, garnering acclaim for his emotionally resonant performances. Notable recent engagements include coaching at the Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and collaborations with acclaimed singers such as Davone Tines and Ryan Speedo Green at venues like Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera. He is joined by a cohort of the 2024 Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Fellows for a concert of piano and string works.

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