Celina Stewart is the chief executive officer of the League of Women Voters of the United States. In this role, she is charged with executing the mission to empower voters and defend democracy and managing the century-strong voting rights organization's operations and resources. She joins the Chautauqua Lecture Series to discuss the League’s work to...
Micah Loewinger is co-host of WNYC’s On the Media, a nationally-syndicated public radio show that can be heard on over 400 stations across the country. His investigation into Zello, a walkie-talkie app used for recruitment and organizing by far-right militia groups in the lead up to January 6th, won the John M. Higgins Award for...
Presenters Vanessa Weinert and Susan Allen will lead a community discussion on our Week Six CLSC selection Chain-Gang All-Stars: A Novel by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Susan Hayward is a specialist on religion, peace, and human rights and a senior research fellow at the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. From 2007 to 2021, she worked with the Religion and Inclusive Societies team at the U.S. Institute of Peace, partnering with religious actors worldwide to transform violence...
With Geoffrey Kemp unable to join us, Chautauqua in 2025 pivots from its celebrated annual Middle East Update to an interfaith conversation between two esteemed leaders in that space. Jeremy Ben-Ami is the president of J Street, bringing to the role both deep experience in American politics and government and a passionate commitment to the...
Grammy and Emmy-winning ensemble Time For Three (TF3) defies convention and boundaries by showcasing excellence across different genres, including classical music, Americana, and singer-songwriter. Their unique sound captivates audiences, immersing them in a musical experience that merges various eras, styles, and traditions of Western music. TF3, consisting of Charles Yang (violin, vocals), Nicolas "Nick" Kendall...
Celebrate the sesquicentennial of our iconic institution, while exploring the ever-evolving definition of democracy through powerful stories and performances that have unfolded here, with a stirring performance of Wynton Marsalis' All Rise and appearances by Kathryn Hahn, Kwame Alexander, Misty Copeland and more. (NR, 55m)
Play CHQ invites families to discover, create, and play together all season long! Enjoy a variety of engaging activities including games, crafts, STEM experiments, and more at pop-up locations throughout the Chautauqua grounds. In case of inclement weather, all Play CHQ events will be relocated to Sheldon Hall of Education, Room 202.
Suzanne Watters is a Pratt Institute MFA graduate with a concentration in painting/drawing. Her art practice centers around woven pieces made with found textiles painted with pigments and/or dyed with food waste and other organic matter. She has attended training in New York City and received a certification in sound meditation from the Sound Healing Academy....
Interested in playing slow pitch softball? Contact co-commissioner Wes Delancey at markernalt21@gmail.com to be added to a team roster. Fee per team for league play.
Crafted with loving fidelity to the 2010 animated classic by original co-director Dean DeBlois, this live-action adaptation starring Mason Thames and Nico Parker reaches enchanting heights of its own. "Those who adored it the first time around will be satisfied with the care with which it's handled, those unfamiliar with its magic will be charmed...
CVA Lecture Series: School of Art faculty Matt Bollinger Matt Bollinger received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been exhibited in solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, Dublin, London, and elsewhere. Recent museum exhibitions have been at the Akron...
La Vida Breve, with music by Manuel de Falla and a libretto by Carlos Fernández Shaw, is considered one of the greatest operas written in Spanish. Written in 1905, it's a kind of “tragic zarzuela”, a hothouse verismo opera that mixes Andalusian folk songs into a score shimmering with French Impressionism. This vivid and engrossing...
Interviews, performances and never-before-seen footage provide insight into the origins of Led Zeppelin and their meteoric rise to musical stardom. "The master-musicianship that the press initially overlooked, and which the tales of bad behaviour obscure, is front and centre here." -Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times "A hagiographic look at the group’s beginnings, the movie is as...
David Gluck began his study of meditation and yoga in 2001, with Jivamukti Yoga. He received accreditation as a certified yoga teacher in 2003, directly from Jivamukti founders, Sharon Gannon and David Life. Shortly thereafter, he began formal studies in the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, primarily under the tutelage of Douglas Veenhof, current Resident...
Episcopal Holy Eucharist
Peter Berg became the fifth senior rabbi of The Temple since 1895 in July of 2008. Rabbi Berg is passionate about Jewish learning and meaningful worship, and he is an advocate for social change. Prior to coming to The Temple, he served as rabbi of Temple Beth Or in Washington Township, New Jersey and as...
The Dwight W. Morrow 1895 Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, Javier Corrales’ research focuses on democratization, presidential powers, ruling parties, democratic backsliding, populism, political economy of development, oil and energy, the incumbent's advantage, foreign policies, and sexuality. He has published extensively on Latin America and the Caribbean, and his latest book — Autocracy...
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens is a world leader in sustainable practices among gardens, zoos and aquariums. Its Center for Sustainable Landscapes (CSL) hosts one of the world’s greenest buildings, which generates all of its own energy and treats all storm and sanitary water captured on-site. It is the first and only building to meet...
David Gluck began his study of meditation and yoga in 2001, with Jivamukti Yoga. He received accreditation as a certified yoga teacher in 2003, directly from Jivamukti founders, Sharon Gannon and David Life. Shortly thereafter, he began formal studies in the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, primarily under the tutelage of Douglas Veenhof, current Resident...
Rabbi Justus Baird is Senior Vice President at the Shalom Hartman Institute, a pluralistic Jewish think tank and educational institute. He directs the North American Kogod Research Center, oversees the Institute’s interfaith and intergroup work, and is publisher of Sources: a Journal of Jewish Ideas. Prior to joining Hartman in 2019, he was Dean of...
Join us for an afternoon of song, featuring our 2025 Young Artists.
Social hour at the Baptist House, Catholic House, Christian Church, Everett Jewish Life Center, Episcopal Cottage, Lutheran House, Unitarian House and United Methodist House
As part of the Oliver Archives Center's Heritage Lecture Series, Chautauqua Institution Archives and Historian, Jonathan D. Schmitz will present "Science and Religion (and Art) at Chautauqua".
Pianist HaeSun Paik has been hailed as a “sensitive and thinking musician first and an awesome technician second” (Los Angeles Times) with a “big and individual personality” (New York Times), whose performances are “a wonder — elastic, mercurial, charged with meaning, surprising” (Boston Globe) and “a rare example of technique actually serving both idea and...
Play CHQ invites families to discover, create, and play together all season long! Enjoy a variety of engaging activities including games, crafts, STEM experiments, and more at pop-up locations throughout the Chautauqua grounds. In case of inclement weather, all Play CHQ events will be relocated to Sheldon Hall of Education, Room 202.
Biophelia
As Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship, Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), a mother of five, must reinvent herself and her family when authorities abduct her husband. "Director Walter Salles returns to the political filmmaking he employed in The Motorcycle Diaries. Like that film, this one follows a protagonist who becomes an activist...
Bring gate pass. Adjacent to Turner Community Center
Teddy Abrams, conductor Alexander Kobrin, piano Musical America’s 2022 Conductor of the Year and Louisville Orchestra music director Teddy Abrams returns to the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra for an all-Beethoven evening featuring his bold and exuberant Symphony No. 7. The concert opens with Alexander Kobrin in Beethoven’s elegant and lyrical Piano Concerto No. 3. Praised for...
Author and rehabber Terry Masear wants to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. Over the course of Sally Aitken's intimate and moving documentary, we become invested in Terry's hummingbird patients -- including Cactus, Jimmy, Wasabi, Raisin, and Mikhail. "These are small, scary steps for hummingbirds, seeding faith in giant leaps for humankind." -Robert Abele,...