28 events found.
Events for August 7, 2026
Ongoing
Sunrise Paddle – Kayak/SUP
Enjoy the beauty of the lake during our sunrise paddle. This is not a guided tour but an opportunity to rent a kayak, SUP or canoe for an enjoyable hour at sunrise. Reservations accepted one day in advance at the Sports Club. Contact sportsclub@chq.org with questions.
CHQ Mystic Heart – Dhara Kowal, Zen Buddhism Meditation Practice
Sensei Dhara Kowal- Kowal is Dharma Successor to Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede, who sanctioned her as a Zen teacher in 2022 and gave her Dharma Transmission in 2025. As a resident teacher and priest (ordained in 2023), she serves as Co-Director of the Rochester Zen Center, in partnership with Sensei John Pulleyn. In the preceding years,...
free
Episcopal Holy Eucharist
Free Sunday Event
Movement and Meditation with Monte Thompson
Monte Thompson was a professional dancer, and also spent years as a restauranteur. His life was spent on his feet. Now retired, he is interested in continuing to be able to move easily and gracefully while using breathing and stretching techniques to help quiet his mind and prepare him to face each day with purpose...
free
Robert P. George
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Currently, he also chairs the New Jersey Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. George is general editor of New Forum Books, a Princeton University Press series of interdisciplinary works...
$40
Colonial Williamsburg Historic Trades & Skills Demonstrations: Milliner & Journeyman Founder
The Colonial Williamsburg Historic Trades and Skills community uses 18th-century tools and techniques to apprentice in and eventually master more than 20 historic trades and skills. These world-renowned experts not only make goods and provide services to the Historic Area, they also consult and produce for other cultural institutions around the world. Milliners design, make,...
Twelve Step Meeting
free
CHQ Dialogues
free
Introduction to Jumu’ah Muslim Prayer
Jumu'ah introduction for visitors is at 12:30 PM. Jumu'ah Service is at 1:05 PM
free
The Age of the Imaginals: A Musical Performance
Following last year’s lecture presentation, Just the Right Climate for Metaphors, Caitlyn Kamminga returns to premiere The Age of the Imaginals. With music by Adam Walters, and poetry by Kamminga, this chamber work blends music and spoken word to explore transformation on a metamorphosing planet. This performance offers an accessible entry point for audiences of...
Laurie Halse Anderson and Adrian Matejka
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle – Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson and Be Easy: New & Selected Poems by Adrian Matejka Laurie Halse Anderson and Adrian Matejka will join us in conversation in a joint CLSC Author Presentation on Friday, August 7, 2026, in the Hall of Philosophy. Reading Be Easy: New & Selected...
$20
Chautauqua Opera Company Orchestral Workshop: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Grammy award-winning composer and librettist Herschel Garfein has created the first ever operatic adaptation of a play by Tom Stoppard. Chautauqua Opera Company’s young artists will be joined by internationally heralded baritone Keith Phares and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra for a ten-day workshop of the complete opera, which concludes...
$30
CHQ Dialogues
free
CHQ Dialogues
free
CHQ Dialogues
free
Chautauqua Theater Company Presents How I Learned What I Learned
By August Wilson Directed by Jade King Carroll Bratton Theater August Wilson’s celebrated classic solo piece is an autobiographical tour de force that follows Wilson’s journey through the streets of Pittsburgh’s Hill District — through artistic awakenings, odd jobs and heartbreaks — capturing the moments that forged his identity. From the hustle of his early...
$55 – $65
MINIONS & MONSTERS
The Minions bring their penchant for mayhem to Hollywood history in this affectionate and charming sendup of moviemaking magic. "Very funny and often insightful as it zooms through what amounts to a crash course in the early days of Hollywood moviemaking." -Soren Andersen, Seattle Times "A pure throwback to the early days of cinema." -Kristen...
$11 – $15
Flame of Revolution: A Colonial Williamsburg 250th Commemoration
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a handful of visionary minds gathered in Williamsburg, Virginia to do something few had ever dared – they declared their independence, and in doing so, changed the course of human history. Flame of Revolution is an immersive, multimedia journey into the birth of the Declaration of Independence – the...
$55 – $65
CAROLINA CAROLINE
Desperate to escape her small West Texas town, Caroline Daniels runs away with a charismatic con man who takes her on a romantic crime spree through the American South in Director Adam Carter Rehmeier's gothic thriller. "Samara Weaving and Kyle Gallner, two fine actors rarely granted the glow that comes with a proper star vehicle,...
$11 – $15