CHQ Dialogues
AAHH African American Heritage HouseThe Dialogue is devoted to the AAHH Lecture on Wednesday at 3:30pm
free
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Play CHQ: Get your Game On!
Miller Park Miller ParkPlay 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.
School of Music: Chamber Concert #6
Fletcher Music Hall Fletcher Music Hall
Air Band
Amphitheater AmphitheaterBoys' and Girls' Club Groupers return to the Amphitheater for our annual Air Band competition!
TIANANMEN TONIGHT
Chautauqua Cinema Chautauqua CinemaMeet the Filmmakers! Free Admission! In these perilous times for American journalism comes a story of truth telling in service to democracy. Tiananmen Tonight reveals the powerful human drama of Dan Rather and the CBS Evening News team battling for life and reputation while courageously reporting the extraordinary student uprising in 1989 that brought China...
Free Admission
CHQ Dialogues
Disciples of Christ House Disciples of Christ House
free
A Showcase of One Acts – Drama League Directing Fellow’s Presentation
Bratton Theater Bratton TheaterThe Drama League’s FutureNow Stage Directing Fellows take over Bratton Stage for an evening of one-act plays featuring the talents of our 2025 design fellows and acting conservatory.
$25
I’M STILL HERE
Chautauqua Cinema Chautauqua CinemaAs 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...
$10 – $14
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
Amphitheater AmphitheaterRossen Milanov, conductor Sharon Roffman, violin Experience an evening of passion and virtuosity as the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra's new concertmaster Sharon Roffman takes the stage for Tchaikovsky’s breathtaking Violin Concerto, a dazzling showcase of lyricism and fire. The journey continues with Rachmaninoff’s sweeping Symphony No. 3, a masterpiece of rich harmonies and soaring melodies. Don’t...
$54 – $64
CHQ Mystic Heart: David Gluck
Presbyterian ChapelDavid 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
Chapel of the Good Shepherd Chapel of the Good ShepherdEpiscopal Holy Eucharist
Free
Movement and Meditation with Monte Thompson
Hall of Philosophy GroveMonte 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
Chautauqua Prays for Peace though Compassion
Hall of Philosophy Grove
Free
Rabbi Peter Berg
Amphitheater AmphitheaterPeter 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...
Free
Service of Blessing and Healing
Randell Chapel, UCC Headquarters
Free
Alsu Kurmasheva, Roger Carstens & Almar Latour
Amphitheater AmphitheaterPress freedom advocate and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty editor Alsu Kurmasheva and U.S. hostage negotiator Roger D. Carstens join Almar Latour, the CEO of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal, in conversation for the Chautauqua Lecture Series to close a week on “The Global Rise of Authoritarianism.” Alsu Kurmasheva is a journalist...
$30
Twelve Step Meeting
Hurlbut Marion Lawrance
Free
Summer on the Steps with Chautauqua Literary Arts
Alumni Hall Porch Alumni Hall PorchSummer on the Steps with Chautauqua Literary Arts: A Reading and Open Mic featuring Chautauqua Literary Arts Staff
Introduction to Jumu’ah Muslim Prayer
Hall of Christ: SanctuaryJumu'ah introduction for visitors is at 12:30 PM. Jumu'ah Service is at 1:05 PM
Free
CHQ Dialogues
Lutheran House Lutheran House
free
Opera Conservatory: Sing-Out
Fletcher Music Hall Fletcher Music Hall
Matthew D. Taylor
Hall of Philosophy Hall of PhilosophyMatthew D. Taylor is senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, where he specializes in American Christianity, American Islam, Christian extremism, and religious politics. His new book, The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement that is Threatening Our Democracy (Broadleaf, 2024), tracks how a loose network of...
$19.00
CHQ Dialogues
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
free
CHQ Dialogues
Episcopal Cottage Episcopal Cottage
free
CHQ Dialogues
Alumni Hall Ballroom Alumni Hall Ballroom
Piano Program Play-Out
Sherwood-Marsh 101
Hebrew Congregation Evening Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Miller Park Miller Park
Free
Men’s Softball League
Sharpe Field Sharpe FieldInterested 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.
Chautauqua Theater Company presents All the Little Boxes
Bratton Theater Bratton Theaterby Vichet Chum, Directed by Mei Ann Teo, Bratton Theater Chan finds an unexpected way to care for the strangers around him: He organizes their closets and unpacks their skeletons, but all the decluttering in the world won’t relieve Chan of his own baggage. All the Little Boxes is a moving and surprisingly hilarious new...
$30
FLOW
Chautauqua Cinema Chautauqua CinemaThis Latvian Oscar Winner for Best Animated Feature follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog they must rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. "A film full of wonders...
$10 – $14
A Service of Compline
Episcopal Chapel
The Avett Brothers
Amphitheater AmphitheaterFour-time GRAMMY Award nominees The Avett Brothers made mainstream waves with their critically acclaimed 2009 major label debut, I and Love and You. In 2012, The Carpenter hit #4 on the Billboard 200, followed by Magpie and the Dandelion in 2013, which debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200. The 2017 documentary May It Last:...
$84 – $174
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT
Chautauqua Cinema Chautauqua CinemaUnited Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department sends Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from a CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez's magnificent essay film captures the moment when African politics...
$10 – $14
CHQ Mystic Heart Meditation: Carol McKiernan
Hall of Philosophy Hall of PhilosophyCarol McKiernan grew up at Chautauqua and says that her love of mystical practices began here on the grounds. She was formally introduced to meditation many years ago at an off-season yoga and meditation retreat led by Subagh Singh Khalsa and has been practicing Centering Prayer daily ever since. She has attended many seminars, workshops, and retreats...
free
Old First Night Race
Sports Club Sports ClubThe Sports Club is hosting the popular 49th Annual Old First Night Run/Walk Race and Kids Fun Runs. The OFN 2.75 mile chip-timed race follows the perimeter of Chautauqua's beautiful grounds. This year we will also host two kids races - a 1 mile non-chip timed race and little kids short fun run. Kids hats...
Chabad Jewish House, Community Shabbat Service, Rabbi Zalman Vilenken
Chabad Jewish House
Free
Sabbath Morning Worship, Hebrew Congregation
Hurlbut Church sanctuary Hurlbut Church sanctuary
Free
Kiddish Luncheon
Hurlbut Truesdale
Contemporary Issues Forum: Arthur S. Levine, M.D.
Hall of Philosophy Hall of PhilosophyArthur S. Levine is a Distinguished University Professor; a professor of medicine, molecular genetics, and neurobiology; senior vice chancellor emeritus of health sciences; and dean emeritus of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The executive director of Pitt’s Brain Institute, in 2020, he stepped down from his role as Pitt's dean of medicine and...
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT
Chautauqua Cinema Chautauqua CinemaUnited Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department sends Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from a CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez's magnificent essay film captures the moment when African politics...
$10 – $14
Chautauqua Theater Company presents All the Little Boxes
Bratton Theater Bratton Theaterby Vichet Chum, Directed by Mei Ann Teo, Bratton Theater Chan finds an unexpected way to care for the strangers around him: He organizes their closets and unpacks their skeletons, but all the decluttering in the world won’t relieve Chan of his own baggage. All the Little Boxes is a moving and surprisingly hilarious new...
$30
FLOW
Chautauqua Cinema Chautauqua CinemaThis Latvian Oscar Winner for Best Animated Feature follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog they must rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. "A film full of wonders...
$10 – $14
Laufey: A Night at the Symphony with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
Amphitheater Amphitheater"As a musician, my goal is to bring jazz and classical music to my generation through a more accessible road," declares the composer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Laufey (pronounced lay-vay). The LA-based, Icelandic-Chinese artist's trailblazing approach paid off, as she is now the top streaming jazz artist in the world with an audience of over...
$84 – $224