Weekly Themes & Events
Each of the nine weeks in our summer season has a theme which many events, especially lectures that week will follow.
Visual and Performing Arts
Chautauqua as a community celebrates, encourages and studies the arts and treats them as integral to all of learning. With symphony, opera, theater, dance, visual arts and a renowned music school, Chautauqua produces an "ecstatic mix" of programming that can be found nowhere else.
Entertainment
Through a unique mix of professional and pre-professional programs, Chautauqua celebrates, encourages and studies the fine and performing arts in a community where artists and audiences live together as one.
Lectures
The morning and interfaith lecture platforms are the bedrock of Chautauqua's programming. Many other lecture series also exist and support Chautauqua's weekly themes.
Literary Arts
The literary arts are represented at Chautauqua by a variety of programs, from the CLSC to the Writers’ Center, and include two major national literary prizes.
Faith and Religion Programs
Chautauqua provides a wide variety of services of worship and programs that express the Institution's Christian heritage as well as its interfaith commitment.
Youth Activities
Chautauqua's programs for youth present a diversity of activity, in settings varied and historic.
Recreation
Located on the shores of beautiful Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York, Chautauqua offers a variety of recreational opportunities that further enrich the mind, body and spirit and bring together families and the larger community.
Take A Class
Whatever educational experience you are seeking, Chautauqua's Special Studies program continues to create distinct new learning opportunities for the 10,000 lifelong learners that enroll in courses each summer.