Chautauqua Opera announces the appointment of Daniel Grambow as Managing Director.Daniel will reside in Chautauqua and will join the full-time staff in the Performing and Visual Arts office at Chautauqua Institution. “I am thrilled that Daniel Grambow will be joining us as Managing Director, and that he will be a year-round resident in Chautauqua County,” says General and Artistic Director Steven Osgood. “Daniel’s wide ranging experience as a performer and producer will be a tremendous addition to our company. His passion and devotion to civic engagement will help Chautauqua Opera build its connection to the entire community in and around...
Chautauqua Institution President Michael E. Hill addressed Chautauquans gathered for the season’s final Sacred Song Service with the traditional Three Taps of the Gavel to close the 2018 Chautauqua Assembly. His remarks as prepared for delivery, with light edits, are provided below. Tonight we share an evening surrounding a Pilgrim’s Hymn. As pilgrims, immigrants all to this sacred place, please pray with me: Eternal Friend,grant me an easeto breathe deeply of this moment,this light,this miracle of now. Beneath the din and furyof great movementsand harsh newsand urgent crises,make me attentive stillto good news,to small occasions,and the grace of what is...
Chautauqua Institution is pleased to host the Chautauqua Food & Film Festival from Sunday, Aug. 19, through Friday, Aug. 24, the second consecutive year Chautauqua has paired a weeklong food festival with its final week of summer programming. Film and food lovers will gather with filmmakers for a festival featuring screenings, conversations, and great food and craft beverages throughout the grounds. The Institution’s town square, Bestor Plaza, will once again come alive with a daily roster of food- and drink-themed events, from cooking demonstrations and competitions to interactive experiences and tastings prepared by the best regional restaurants, farms, wineries and...
Performances August 11–17 CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Theater Company under the leadership of Artistic Director Andrew Borba and Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy, is proud to bring award-winning playwright George Brant’s uplifting comedy Into the Breeches! to CTC. Directed by Laura Kepley, Artistic Director of the Cleveland Play House, Into the Breeches! plays from August 11th-17th on the Bratton Stage at the Chautauqua Institution. Tickets are $35-40. A Fringe First and Smith Prize Award Winner, George Brant premiered Into the Breeches! at Trinity Repertory Company and it was declared “a breath of fresh air that will leave one smiling” by...
Chautauqua Institution President Michael E. Hill addressed a gathering of the Bestor Society on Aug. 5, 2018. The President’s Address is traditionally the highest-profile speech the Chautauqua president delivers during the Chautauqua season. His remarks as prepared for delivery, with light edits, are provided below. My heartfelt thanks to each of you for spending your Sunday afternoon here and for representing some of Chautauqua’s truest friends. It is an honor to gather with you in this magical environment with this picturesque view of our beloved lake behind us, in the shelter of this tent to shade us from the sun,...
(Chautauqua, NY) Chautauqua Theater Company under the leadership of Artistic Director Andrew Borba and Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy opens its 36th season with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Obie Award-winning play, An Octoroon. Directed by Giovanna Sardelli, An Octoroon is playing June 29–July 8 in Bratton Theater on the Chautauqua Institution grounds. Tickets are $35–$40. A MacArthur “genius” grant recipient and two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, Jacobs-Jenkins premiered An Octoroon in 2014 at Soho Rep. It was quickly declared “this decade’s most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America” by The New York Times, and in 2018 it was...
Chautauqua Institution President Michael E. Hill addressed a gathering of Chautauquans on July 31, 2018, at the rededication and 10th anniversary celebration of the Everett Jewish Life Center at Chautauqua. His remarks as prepared for delivery, with light edits, are provided below. It’s a joy to be here with this esteemed group of speakers and all of you. A very special thank you today to Rich and the board of the Everett Jewish Life Center, to my friend and predecessor Tom Becker, and with an abundance of gratitude to Edith Everett and your family for bestowing on the Institution this...
Works by celebrated documentary filmmaker and librettist Kimberly Reed take center stage for three days at Chautauqua, starting with As One Community Day, Sunday, Aug. 5. The Aug. 5 half-day program starts at 12:30 p.m. with a free presentation of Reed’s acclaimed autobiographical documentary Prodigal Sons at Chautauqua Cinema, located at 25 Wythe Ave. on Chautauqua’s grounds. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Best Documentary Jury Prize at NewFest, and Special Jury Prizes for Fearless Filmmaking at the Florida Film Festival and Bravery in Storytelling at the Nashville Film Festival, Prodigal Sons is a raw...
Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of Sharon Louden as the artistic director and Sydelle Sonkin and Herb Siegel Chair of its resident visual arts program, VACI (Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution). In this capacity, Louden will oversee a dynamic department composed of the Chautauqua School of Art, Strohl and Fowler-Kellogg Art Centers, an artist lecture series and growing education and community engagement programs. Louden succeeds Don Kimes, who announced in November his intention to step down following the 2018 Chautauqua season. “It is an honor to receive the opportunity to build upon the legacy Don Kimes has left after his...
The Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson to Moderate Amphitheater Conversation Chautauqua Institution is pleased to announce that the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Joan Brown Campbell will appear in a conversation moderated by the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson on Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, at the Chautauqua Amphitheater, closing a week themed “The Forgotten: History and Memory in the 21st Century.” Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of the foremost civil rights, religious and political figures of our time. For nearly 50 years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for peace, civil rights,...