Chautauqua Institution is pleased to announce seven exceptional books as the 2018 finalists for The Chautauqua Prize, now in its seventh year: Salt Houses, by Hala Alyan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, by Glenn Frankel (Bloomsbury) The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading, by Anne Gisleson (Little, Brown) The Wanderers, by Meg Howrey (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) The Signal Flame, by Andrew Krivák (Scribner) The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (Flatiron Books) The Worlds We Think We Know, by Dalia Rosenfeld...
Application window open for two festival tuition fellowships CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Literary Arts and the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival announce two new Festival Workshop Tuition Fellowships for the June 2018 workshops. The fellowships are offered in partnership with VIDA, a non-profit feminist organization committed to creating transparency around the lack of gender parity in the literary landscape and to amplifying historically marginalized voices, including people of color; writers with disabilities; and queer, trans and gender nonconforming individuals. The Chautauqua Writers’ Festival, with VIDA, will offer both tuition fellowships (one full $500 fellowship and one partial $250 fellowship) for two women...
There is a new addition to the hallway leading to my office door in the Colonnade, a tribute to all the men — and I look forward to the day we will say “men and women”! — who have been fortunate enough to serve as president of the Institution. As many of you know, I am fond of referring to myself as the 18th president of Chautauqua as a reminder that 17 others came before me, but there is something about this tribute wall to I find particularly moving. As I glance into the faces of my 17 predecessors, I...
Editor’s Note: This is a special preview of an article that appears in the upcoming winter edition of The Chautauquan, Chautauqua Institution’s off-season news and updates publication. This winter, Chautauqua Opera General and Artistic Director Steven Osgood sat down with Sara Noble, company and media manager, to talk all about the 2018 season. This season we’re starting with Mozart’s Don Giovanni in the Amphitheater. Can you tell me more about why you chose that work? I’ve wanted to conduct Mozart at Chautauqua for years, and when I think of Mozart in the Amphitheater, I think Don Giovanni. It is the perfect...
February 2, 2018 Dear Chautauquans, We write to share information about efforts underway to repair the console, the control desk, of the 1907 Massey Memorial Organ. The console was damaged recently due to a leak caused by ice and snowmelt at the Amphitheater. Knowing that many members of the Chautauqua community and, indeed, generations of families cherish the sounds of our iconic organ as a centerpiece of their Chautauqua experience, we share the following information to both inform you of the problem and assure you of our collaborative work plan to address it. While any threat to a resource...
$2,500 Award for Short Fiction or Nonfiction to be Awarded for First Time During 2018 Season Chautauqua Institution today announced the establishment of a new literary prize. The Chautauqua Janus Prize will be awarded for the first time in 2018, celebrating an emerging writer’s single work of short fiction or nonfiction for daring formal and aesthetic innovations that upset and reorder readers’ imaginations, historical narratives, and literary conventions. In addition to receiving a $2,500 award, the winner will give a lecture on the grounds during the summer season and appear in a forthcoming issue of the literary journal Chautauqua....