Author Will Give Public Reading at Chautauqua Institution on Aug. 5 CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution today proudly announces All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler (Little, Brown and Company) by Rebecca Donner as the 2022 winner of The Chautauqua Prize. Awarded annually since 2012, The Chautauqua Prize celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and to honor the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts. As author of this year’s winning book, Donner receives...

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. —  Chautauqua Institution is pleased to announce 10 exceptional books as the 2022 finalists for The Chautauqua Prize, now in its 11th year:   • Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II, by Daniel James Brown (Viking) • Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief, by Victoria Chang (Milkweed Editions) • Damnation Spring, by Ash Davidson (Scribner) • All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler, by Rebecca Donner (Little, Brown and Company) • The Prophets, by Robert Jones, Jr. (Putnam) •...

Spas to Become Vice President of Religion; Sutton Begins Service as Senior Pastor in September  CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of two nationally recognized leaders to shepherd religious life and programming at the nearly 150-year-old not-for-profit and within its interfaith community. Melissa Spas, currently the acting director of Lake Institute on Faith & Giving at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, has been named the Institution’s new vice president of religion. The Right Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, will become the Institution’s senior pastor.   The appointment of two individuals to...

As the author selected from five finalists by guest judge Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Pitsirilos will receive $5,000 and will give a public lecture and reading at a celebratory event 5 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in the parlor of the Athenaeum Hotel as part of the Chautauqua Institution’s 2022 Summer Assembly.   A prose and comic book writer with work in numerous anthologies and a 2021 Broken Pencil finalist zinester, Pitsirilos has been called a new voice “transforming the genres” of science fiction and fantasy, and “revitalizing the short comic form.” She holds degrees from the University of Michigan and...

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of Laura Savia as Vice President of Performing and Visual Arts following an extensive national search. In this role, Savia will be a critical member of the Institution’s senior management team, overseeing all activities in the performing and visual arts including the popular summer Amphitheater concert series; the resident Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Opera Company & Conservatory, Chautauqua Theater Company and Chautauqua Visual Arts programs; the prestigious Chautauqua Festival Schools of Performing and Visual Arts; and highly regarded series in dance, chamber music and family entertainment. An accomplished artistic leader who...

Celebrated Choreographer Silas Farley to Join Company, Workshop New Work CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution and The Washington Ballet today jointly announced a partnership that will bring the Company to the Institution’s grounds in August 2022 for two weeks of public programs and performances — including with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra — plus workshops with the Chautauqua School of Dance. Celebrated choreographer and teacher Silas Farley, recently retired as a dancer with the New York City Ballet and now serving as dean of dance at The Colburn School in Los Angeles, will join the residency and workshop a new Company...