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Week Eight: Reimagined Food Festival

Savor a week of elevated culinary experiences with our reimagined Food Festival. With only 80 packages per week, enjoy intimate moments across the grounds, from two Masters Series classes and...

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Sunrise kayaking

Sunrise Paddle – Kayak/SUP

Sports Club, Waterfront

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...

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CHQ Mystic Heart – Larry Terkel, Judaism/ Kabbalah Meditation

Presbyterian House Presbyterian House

Larry Terkel, along with his wife Susan, founded The Spiritual Life Society, an inter-denominational center for spiritual and holistic studies, where he teaches yoga and meditation and gives weekly talks....

free

Boats docked near the Miller Bell Tower

Daily Word Meditation

Hall of Missions Hall of Missions

(Programmed by Unity of Chautauqua)

free
Hurlbut Memorial Community United Methodist Church

Catholic Mass

Hurlbut Church sanctuary Hurlbut Church sanctuary

People gathered for a meditation class

Movement and Meditation with Monte Thompson

Hall of Philosophy Grove

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...

free

Anna Lappe

Anna Lappé

Amphitheater Amphitheater

Anna Lappé is the executive director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, a strategic alliance of philanthropic foundations working for food system transformation around the world. Before...

$40

People in line at food trucks

Taste Caravan

Bestor Plaza Bestor Plaza

A moving feast of regional flavor. Taste Caravan transforms Bestor Plaza into a rotating showcase of the area’s most exciting restaurants and food trucks, offering guests the opportunity to sample...

A man doing a cooking demonstration

Bestor Plaza Demo/Talk

Bestor Plaza Bestor Plaza

Big flavor meets big ideas in Bestor Plaza. Enjoy a dynamic lineup of live culinary demonstrations and discussions featuring chefs, artisans, and community partners from across the region and beyond....

Aimee Nezhukumatathil's headshot and the Bite by Bite book cover

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Hall of Philosophy Hall of Philosophy

Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle — Bite by Bite: Nourishments & Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of...

$20

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CHQ Dialogues

Episcopal Cottage Episcopal Cottage
free

People in line at food trucks

Taste Caravan

Bestor Plaza Bestor Plaza

A moving feast of regional flavor. Taste Caravan transforms Bestor Plaza into a rotating showcase of the area’s most exciting restaurants and food trucks, offering guests the opportunity to sample...

Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck

Renée Fleming with Béla Fleck The Fiddle and the Drum

Amphitheater Amphitheater

This collaboration brings together 5x Grammy winning soprano Renée Fleming and 19x Grammy-winning banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck for a celebration of Appalachian folk music. For our country’s 250th anniversary, the program...

$65 – $125