2025 Chautauqua Institution Lake Conference
2025-06-21 08:30 (America/New_York) | Chautauqua Golf Club
The 2025 Chautauqua Lake Conference will highlight the latest research, solutions and community efforts to improve Chautauqua Lake’s health. The morning will feature key presentations from Dr. Kevin Rose of The Jefferson Project at Chautauqua Lake and Dr. Courtney Wigdahl-Perry of SUNY Fredonia, who both will share updates on their research and plans for the summer.
The agenda also includes focused sessions on drinking water source protection, potential new wetlands protections, and ongoing restoration efforts around the lake. Attendees will hear from the Chautauqua Lake & Watershed Management Alliance, the New York State Department of Health, and the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy, with a special look at Chautauqua Institution’s model approach to stormwater management. The day will conclude with a guided walking tour showcasing these initiatives.
THIS EVENT IS FREE – PLEASE USE THE “PURCHASE TICKETS” LINK TO REGISTER FOR THIS FREE EVENT.

Catholic Mass
2025-06-21 17:00 | Hall of Philosophy, Hall of Philosophy

A NICE INDIAN BOY
2025-06-21 18:00 | Chautauqua Cinema, Chautauqua Cinema
When Naveen (Karan Soni) brings his fiancé Jay (Jonathan Groff) home to meet his traditional Indian family, they must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist boyfriend while helping them plan the Indian wedding of their dreams. ” Director Roshan Sethi delivers a big-hearted rom-com that will make you smile, sniffle, and, best of all, feel better about the world.” -Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News “It’s pure joy watching Naveen grow and learn to experience what Jay calls “the bigness of love.”” -Odie Henderson, Boston Globe (NR, 99m)

Counting Crows: The Complete Sweets! Tour
2025-06-21 20:15 | Amphitheater, Amphitheater
For more than two decades, the GRAMMY and Academy Award-nominated rock band Counting Crows have enchanted listeners worldwide with their intensely soulful and intricate take on timeless rock & roll. Exploding onto the music scene in 1993 with their multi-platinum breakout album, August and Everything After, the band has gone on to release seven studio albums, selling more than 20 million records worldwide, and is revered as one of the world’s most pre-eminent live touring rock bands.
In October 1996, the band’s double-platinum sophomore studio album, Recovering the Satellites, debuted at number one and further solidified their growing reputation as one of the leading American alternative rock bands in the world. A follow-up to their early success, Counting Crows went on to release This Desert Life (1999), Hard Candy (2002), Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings (2008), Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation) (2012), Echoes of the Outlaw Roadshow (2013) and Somewhere Under Wonderland (2014.) In 2004, Counting Crows recorded the chart-topping “Accidentally in Love” for the animated motion picture Shrek 2. The instant success of the track earned them an Academy Award nomination for “Best Original Song” at the 2005 Academy Awards, a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Original Song” and a GRAMMY Award nomination for “Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.”
In September 2014, Counting Crows released their critically acclaimed seventh studio album, Somewhere Under Wonderland, which debuted at No. 10 on the charts and was heralded by The Daily Telegraph as “… the best collection of songs since their debut.” The album consisted of nine sprawling tracks around rich sonic tapestries, which yielded some of the most grandiose yet intimate songs Counting Crows had recorded to date. 2018 marked 25 years since the band’s inception and sent Adam Duritz, Jim Bogios, David Bryson, Charlie Gillingham, David Immergluck, Millard Powers, and Dan Vickrey back on the road for the “25 YEARS AND COUNTING” tour. In 2021, Counting Crows ranked #8 on Billboard’s “Greatest of All Time: Adult Alternative Artists” 25th-anniversary chart.
After seven years, Adam Duritz and Counting Crows released Butter Miracle: Suite One in May 2021 to rave reviews. The band also kicked off their first tour since 2018, “The Butter Miracle Tour,” from 2021 through 2023, with sell-out performances across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

THE FRIEND
2025-06-21 20:40 | Chautauqua Cinema, Chautauqua Cinema
When solitary writer Iris’s (Naomi Watts) closest friend and mentor (Bill Murray) dies suddenly and bequeaths her his beloved Great Dane, she finds herself facing profound practical and existential crises, eventually coming to terms with her past, her lost friend, and her own creative inner life. “Watts finds another rich vein of emotion to dramatize with delicacy, humor and intelligent vulnerability.” -Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times “A lovely drama with light comic touches and many more insights about life, grief, writerly ambition and friendship.” -Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News ‘Rich and emotionally complex.” -Adam Graham, Detroit News (R, 123m)
