Join celebrated interdisciplinary dance company GALLIM for an intimate glimpse of the culmination of their 3-week residency at Chautauqua. This year’s showing includes two audience favorites, state and YEAR, as well as a new solo premiering this fall to Dreams by The Cranberries! Mark your calendars to witness the dynamic program that includes a first-ever...
Theater Chats (formerly known as Brown Bags) On selected Thursdays at 12:15 p.m., bring lunch to Smith Wilkes Hall and join special guests, including actors, designers, playwrights and more, for a look at our upcoming productions and discussions on the craft of theater-making. Free and open to the public.
Kate Shaw is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. A constitutional law scholar, her academic work and writing focus on executive power, the law of democracy, administrative law and legislation, the Supreme Court, and reproductive rights and justice. Shaw brings her extensive expertise on the American Constitution to close...
Chris Hayes is the Emmy Award–winning anchor of “All In with Chris Hayes” on MS NOW and host of the podcast “Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast” and miniseries "The AI End Game: Power, Profit, and Progress." He is also the editor-at-large of The Nation and the author of The Sirens’ Call: How...
Lisa D. Cook took office as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on May 23, 2022, to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2024. She was reappointed to the Board on September 8, 2023, and sworn in on September 13, 2023, for a term ending January 31, 2038....
Theater Chats (formerly known as Brown Bags) On selected Thursdays at 12:15 p.m., bring lunch to Smith Wilkes Hall and join special guests, including actors, designers, playwrights and more, for a look at our upcoming productions and discussions on the craft of theater-making. Free and open to the public.
David French is an opinion columnist for The New York Times, where he writes about law, culture, religion, and armed conflict. He was previously a senior editor at The Dispatch, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, a columnist at Time and a senior writer at National Review. He and Melody Barnes were the inaugural Chautauqua...
Theater Chats (formerly known as Brown Bags) On selected Thursdays at 12:15 p.m., bring lunch to Smith Wilkes Hall and join special guests, including actors, designers, playwrights and more, for a look at our upcoming productions and discussions on the craft of theater-making. Free and open to the public.
Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle – Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King comes a chilling exploration of one of America’s most haunting wrongful conviction cases. Based on the hit podcast, Bone Valley dives into the dark heart of rural Florida, where...
Opening Week Four, with a morning lecture on how the arts can unite us during moments of change, is Wynton Marsalis, the world-renowned trumpeter, bandleader, composer and a leading advocate of American culture. He will close the week with a rousing performance by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and appear mid-week to premier his...
Theater Chats (formerly known as Brown Bags) On selected Thursdays at 12:15 p.m., bring lunch to Smith Wilkes Hall and join special guests, including actors, designers, playwrights and more, for a look at our upcoming productions and discussions on the craft of theater-making. Free and open to the public.
Brian Skerry is a film producer, director and veteran photojournalist specializing in marine wildlife and underwater realms. Since 1998, Skerry has been a contributing photographer for National Geographic magazine, where he has created and photographed more than 30 feature stories, including seven cover stories. His recent documentary film credits include "Secrets of the Whales" and...
Theater Chats (formerly known as Brown Bags) On selected Thursdays at 12:15 p.m., bring lunch to Smith Wilkes Hall and join special guests, including actors, designers, playwrights and more, for a look at our upcoming productions and discussions on the craft of theater-making. Free and open to the public.
Opening Week Six is multi award-winning journalist, co-host and co-managing editor of "PBS News Hour," Amna Nawaz. Curating a week on "American Storytellers," she will highlight some of the most memorable people she has met throughout her career — weaving together their inspiring individual stories into a collective narrative of America at her best. Nawaz...
Theater Chats (formerly known as Brown Bags) On selected Thursdays at 12:15 p.m., bring lunch to Smith Wilkes Hall and join special guests, including actors, designers, playwrights and more, for a look at our upcoming productions and discussions on the craft of theater-making. Free and open to the public.
For more than a century, The Pulitzer Prizes have recognized the journalists, authors, poets, dramatists, composers and photographers whose work deepens our understanding of the world and each other, and elevates the public conversation. Pulitzer-prize winning author, Jonathan Eig, opens Week Seven, "Celebrating Excellence: A Week in Partnership with the Pulitzer Prizes," celebrating the power...
Theater Chats (formerly known as Brown Bags) On selected Thursdays at 12:15 p.m., bring lunch to Smith Wilkes Hall and join special guests, including actors, designers, playwrights and more, for a look at our upcoming productions and discussions on the craft of theater-making. Free and open to the public.
Theater Chats (formerly known as Brown Bags) On selected Thursdays at 12:15 p.m., bring lunch to Smith Wilkes Hall and join special guests, including actors, designers, playwrights and more, for a look at our upcoming productions and discussions on the craft of theater-making. Free and open to the public.
As a celebrated neurosurgeon, journalist and global health communicator, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has spent his career translating cutting-edge medical science into practical wisdom for living well. Closing a week illuminating leading voices in medicine, neuroscience, psychology and wellness, Gupta explores what it means to pursue a happier, more resilient life and how we can all...
Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle — A Natural History of the Senses AND A Feast in Every Sense: The Mystery, Marvel, and New Science of Our Senses Originally published in 1991, A Natural History of the Senses is a vibrant celebration of our ability to smell, taste, hear, touch, and see. Poet, pilot, naturalist, journalist,...
Theater Chats (formerly known as Brown Bags) On selected Thursdays at 12:15 p.m., bring lunch to Smith Wilkes Hall and join special guests, including actors, designers, playwrights and more, for...