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  • Kyle Keogh

    Conversations with Kyle

    Smith Wilkes Hall Smith Wilkes Hall

    Join us for “Conversations with Kyle”, an open, drop in conversation for members of the entire community. These informal gatherings offer the opportunity to ask questions and engage directly with Interim President Kyle Keogh. All are welcome.

  • Diana Butler Bass

    Diana Butler Bass

    Hall of Philosophy Hall of Philosophy

    Diana Butler Bass, Ph.D., is an award-winning author, popular speaker, inspiring preacher, and commentator on religion and contemporary spirituality. Her latest book, A Beautiful Year, won the 2026 Wilbur Prize, her unprecedented third. Diana’s passion is sharing great ideas to change lives and the world—from informing the public about spiritual trends, challenging conventional narratives about...

    $20

  • BLUE MOON

    Chautauqua Cinema Chautauqua Cinema

    This is the story of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) bravely facing the future as his professional and private life both unravel at the opening night party for his former partner Richard Rodgers' hit show Oklahoma! "As elegantly witty and luxuriantly melancholic as one of Rogers and Hart’s toe-tapping, heart-swelling compositions." -Wendy Ide, Observer...

    $11 – $15
  • ChamberFest Cleveland

    Chautauqua Chamber Music: ChamberFest Cleveland

    Amphitheater Amphitheater

    Launched in 2012 by Cleveland Orchestra principal clarinet emeritus Franklin Cohen and daughter Diana Cohen, concertmaster of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, ChamberFest Cleveland burst onto the scene with a Big Bang! Steeped in a lifetime of participation in music festivals, the Cohens dreamt of bringing a world-class chamber music festival to the Cleveland community. ChamberFest...

    $55 – $65

  • TRAIN DREAMS

    Chautauqua Cinema Chautauqua Cinema

    Clint Bentley's superb adaptation of Denis Johnson's beloved novella is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, (Joel Edgerton) a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 1900s. "The story of a country that's forever marching toward the future, rebuilding and redefining itself,...

    $11 – $15
  • Mike Thornton

    Mike Thornton & The Midnight Quartet

    Roe Green Theater Center

    Mike Thornton, jazz vocalist of grit and sophistication, takes center stage with The Midnight Quartet in a performance charged with high-octane energy and deep blues soul. Blending hard-swinging standards with electrifying improvisation, Thornton’s commanding voice rides effortlessly over the band’s tight, driving rhythms. Each tune ignites with hot, explosive solos, delivering a night where smoky...

    $25
  • Venerable Jissai Prince-Cherry

    CHQ Mystic Heart – Sensei Ven. Jissai Prince-Cherry, Zen Buddhism

    Presbyterian House Presbyterian House

    Venerable Jissai Prince-Cherry began practicing Zen in 1994. Since then, she has maintained a daily personal practice and regularly participates in group sittings, intensive Zen meditation retreats, and periods of residential training including at a Zen monastery in Japan. She works closely with her teacher, Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede, successor to Roshi Philip Kapleau, the founder...

    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
    free
  • The Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde

    The Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde

    Amphitheater Amphitheater

    The Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde serves as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. In this role, she serves as spiritual leader for the congregations and Episcopal schools in the District of Columbia and four Maryland counties that comprise the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. The first woman elected to this position, she also serves...

    free
  • Terry Gordon

    Terry Gordon on Synthetic Polymers: Are we becoming plastic people?

    Hurlbut Church sanctuary Hurlbut Church sanctuary

    Chautauqua Science Group weekly lecture. Terry Gordon, PhD, is Research Professor, Department of Medicine, at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where his research program employs both human and animal models to study susceptibility factors—including genetics, age, and gender—underlying the adverse pulmonary and cardiac effects of environmental and occupational air pollutants.

  • Alyse Nelson with Vital Voices Fellows

    Amphitheater Amphitheater

    Continuing a week celebrating “Icons and Instigators: Women Who Change the World,” Chautauqua proudly welcome Alyse Nelson, CEO of Vital Voices, a non-profit founded on the simple idea that nations and communities cannot move forward without women’s voices in leadership positions. In addition to her solo remarks, Nelson will be joined onstage by several women...

    $40
  • Gretchen Goldman

    Gretchen Goldman CEO Union of Concerned Scientists: On Stepping Up and Being Bold: Defending Science and Making Progress in the Current Climate

    Smith Wilkes Hall Smith Wilkes Hall

    Chautauqua Bird, Tree & Garden Club lunchtime lecture series Gretchen Goldman is an American environmental scientist, policy advocate, and the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists. In 2024 she was the climate change research and technology director at the U.S. Department of Transportation and served between July 2021 and 2023 as the assistant director...

  • Venerable Jissai Prince-Cherry

    CHQ Mystic Heart- Sensei Ven. Jissai Prince-Cherry, Zen Buddhism

    Hall of Missions Hall of Missions

    Venerable Jissai Prince-Cherry began practicing Zen in 1994. Since then, she has maintained a daily personal practice and regularly participates in group sittings, intensive Zen meditation retreats, and periods of residential training including at a Zen monastery in Japan. She works closely with her teacher, Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede, successor to Roshi Philip Kapleau, the founder...

    free
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    CHQ Dialogues

    Presbyterian House Presbyterian House
    Free
  • Diana Butler Bass and Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

    Diana Butler Bass and Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

    Hall of Philosophy Hall of Philosophy

    Diana Butler Bass kicks off the 2026 Interfaith Lecture Series, beginning the Summer Assembly season with a solo lecture on Monday, June 29, 2026. The following day, on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, Bass will return to the Hall of Philosophy for a conversation with Bishop Miriann Edgar Budde, the Chaplain during Week One, "Women of...

    $20
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    CHQ Dialogues

    Everett Jewish Life Center Everett Jewish Life Center
    free
  • Jon Nakamatsu

    School of Music Piano Faculty Recital: Jon Nakamatsu

    Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall

    Now in his third decade of touring worldwide, American pianist Jon Nakamatsu continues to draw critical and public acclaim for his intensity, elegance and electrifying solo, concerto and chamber music performances. Catapulted to international attention in 1997 as the Gold Medalist of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition—the only American to achieve this distinction since...

  • Masters Series Masterclass: Hope is a Strategy – Women’s Leadership in a Time of Uncertainty and Backlash

    Hultquist 101 Hultquist 101

    Following the morning Vital Voices panel in the Amphitheater, Dr. Kakenya Ntaiya speaks about hard-won gains for women and girls who are facing growing resistance, while many leaders grapple with rising polarization, uncertainty, and questions about how to sustain progress. Yet history shows that transformative change often emerges during moments of profound challenge. Drawing on...

  • H IS FOR HAWK

    Chautauqua Cinema Chautauqua Cinema

    After the sudden death of her father (Brendan Gleeson), Helen (Claire Foy) turns to the ancient art of falconry to navigate her profound loss. As she teaches her goshawk Mabel to hunt and fly free, Helen discovers how deeply she has neglected her own emotions and life. What begins as an act of endurance transforms...

    $11 – $15
  • Alicia Olatuja

    Alicia Olatuja: “Dear Lisa”

    Amphitheater Amphitheater

    When St. Louis native vocalist, composer, educator Alicia Olatuja sings, the world listens. Her aural artistry is a wondrous weave of jazz, blues, gospel, classical, pop and Afropop musical genres. Olatuja’s embrace of those sonic stylings have enabled her to work with a wide variety of musicians - from jazz superstars Chris Botti, Christian McBride...

    $55 – $65

  • NO OTHER CHOICE

    Chautauqua Cinema Chautauqua Cinema

    When a man (Lee Byung-Hun) is abruptly laid off by the paper company where he has worked tirelessly for many years, he devises a strategy to secure a new job: he must eliminate his competition. Director Park Chan-wook's deliciously dark comedy is "a zany, all-out crowd-pleaser...exhibits a rare genius with the camera throughout, devising breathtaking...

    $11 – $15