Contact:Emily MorrisSenior Vice President/Chief Brand Officeremorris@chq.org CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution expresses appreciation to the media organizations who are reaching out currently. We greatly appreciate receiving your requests and are keeping Mr. Rushdie and Mr. Reese in our prayers as they recover from their serious injuries. At this time, our community has entered an important healing phase and is focused on our collective path forward as an organization and as a sacred place that seeks to foster the very best in humanity, independent thinking, and free expression – virtues that Mr. Rushdie and Mr. Reese very much champion and stand...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE10 p.m. EDT Friday, August 12 Contact:Jordan Stevesjsteves@chq.org CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Please find below a link to the New York State Police news conference about the attack on Salman Rushdie at Chautauqua Institution Aug. 12, 2022. Following that is a link to our community vigil at which our president, Michael E. Hill, offered remarks. The vigil was held Friday, Aug. 12, at 7 p.m., in the Chautauqua Institution Hall of Philosophy. New York State Police Statement (8.12.22, updated) https://www.nyspnews.com/state-police-are-investigating-an-attack-on-author-salman-rushdie.htm Community Vigil Remarks by Michael E. Hill, Ed.D., President of Chautauqua InstitutionLink to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqkhfxTwYB8 (Complete Chautauqua Institution Community Vigil (8.12.22))https://assembly.chq.org/featured/videos/chautauqua-community-vigil-2022...
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution proudly announces the program lineup for Week Three of its 2022 Summer Assembly. The week, which begins July 9 and concludes July 16, features concerts and other artistic performances, lectures and classes both on the grounds and livestreamed through the CHQ Assembly platform. Week Three includes acclaimed guests such as Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, former NAACP president and CEO Cornell William Brooks and Harvard Law scholar Noah Feldman, plus a special performance of “Aladdin” live in concert by the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. Chautauqua Institution has returned to a...
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution proudly announces the program lineup for Week Two of its 2022 Summer Assembly. The week, which begins July 3 and concludes July 9, features events, lectures and classes both in person on the grounds and livestreamed through the CHQ Assembly online platform. Week Two includes acclaimed guests such as former U.S. secretary of the interior Sally Jewell, “Humans of New York” creator Brandon Stanton, author and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams and Broadway performer Renée Elise Goldsberry. Chautauqua Institution has returned to a more typical level of activity on its lakeside grounds in 2022, including full...
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution proudly announces the program lineup for Week One of its 2022 Summer Assembly. The week, which begins June 25 and concludes July 2, features events, lectures and classes both in person on the grounds and livestreamed through the CHQ Assembly online platform. Week One includes renowned guests such as CNN host and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria; Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell with internationally acclaimed soprano Larisa Martínez; Episcopal Bishop of Washington the Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde; and National Book Award-winning author George Packer. Chautauqua Institution returns to a more typical level of activity on its lakeside...
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of the celebrated director Jade King Carroll as Producing Artistic Director of its resident Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC) following an extensive national search. In this role, Carroll will program and oversee the company’s robust annual summer season of professional productions, a growing new work development program, and a renowned conservatory that supports early-career artists. Based in New York City, Carroll is currently the resident artist at Dorset Theatre Festival, where she helms the commissioning and fellowship program along with their StageFree audio play series. She is also a part of the...
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...
