Chautauqua Institution

CHQ Dialogues
2025-07-10 15:30 (America/New_York) | Baptist House, Baptist House

CHQ Dialogues
2025-07-10 15:30 | United Methodist House, United Methodist House

Islam 101 Khalid Rehman and Sabeeha Rehman
2025-07-10 15:30 | Hurlbut Church sanctuary, Hurlbut Church sanctuary
Shariah

SING SING
2025-07-10 14:15, 2025-07-09 18:00, 2025-07-08 20:45 | Chautauqua Cinema, Chautauqua Cinema
Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this stirring true story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art, starring an unforgettable ensemble cast of formerly incarcerated actors. “A cinematic work of unique empathy, a slice of hand-turned humanity, hewn from the heart with rigorous attention paid to the process itself.” -Katie Walsh,Tribune News Service “A powerful drama that will stick with you.” -Laura Babiak, Observer (R, 105m)

Rabbi Marc Margolius
2025-07-10 14:00 | Hall of Philosophy, Hall of Philosophy
Rabbi Marc Margolius is Vice President for Faculty and Program for the Institute for Jewish Spirituality (IJS). He directs the faculty and overall programming for IJS; oversees its Kivvun: Mindful Jewish Leadership program and programming for alumni of its Clergy Leadership Program; hosts IJS’s online daily mindfulness meditation sessions and its weekly podcast, “Jewish Meditation for Everyone;” and teaches Awareness in Action: Cultivating Character through Mindfulness and Middot, an online program integrating Jewish mindfulness with attention to core character traits.
Previously, Rabbi Margolius served as rabbi at West End Synagogue in Manhattan and Congregation Beth Am Israel in Penn Valley, PA. He developed and led the Legacy Heritage Innovation Project at the Legacy Heritage Fund in New York from 2005-10, an initiative to promote systemic educational change in Jewish congregations around the globe. He has been a public interest attorney serving low income communities in New Haven and Hartford, CT. A graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Yale Law School, he lives in New York City with his wife, Rabbi Ayelet Cohen, and their children.

Duplicate Bridge
2025-07-10 12:45 | Sports Club, Sports Club
Don’t have a partner? One will be provided. Game managed by Shelley Dahlie. $10/person.

CHQ Dialogue
2025-07-10 12:30 | Everett Jewish Life Center, Everett Jewish Life Center

CHQ Mystic Heart: Julie Newman
2025-07-10 12:30 | Hall of Missions, Hall of Missions
Jewish Mindfulness Meditation

Tallman Tracker Organ Recital
2025-07-10 12:15 | Hall of Christ: Sanctuary

CTC Theater Chats
2025-07-10 12:15 | Smith Wilkes Hall, Smith Wilkes Hall
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.

George Saunders
2025-07-10 10:45 | Amphitheater, Amphitheater
The recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and numerous literary awards, George Saunders is the celebrated author of a novel, four collections of short stories, a novella, a book of essays and a children’s book. His most recent collection, Liberation Day, is a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics and justice, cutting to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. It is this work that will help frame his joint presentation for the Chautauqua Lecture Series and Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, during a week dedicated to “Art in Action: Building Community Through the Arts,” in which he’ll consider the significance of books, stories and the literary arts as cultural touchstones in our increasingly siloed and stratified social and intellectual consciousness.
In 2017, Saunders won the Man Booker Prize for his long-awaited first novel Lincoln in the Bardo. His collection Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award, and winner of the 2014 Story Prize for short fiction and the 2014 Folio Prize, which celebrates the best fiction of our time.
His work appears regularly in The New Yorker, GQ and Harpers Magazine, and has appeared in the O’Henry, Best American Short Story, Best Non-Required Reading and Best American Travel Writing anthologies. Named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2013, Saunders teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.

Service of Blessing and Healing
2025-07-10 10:15, 2025-07-09 10:15 | Randell Chapel, UCC Headquarters

Rev. Dr. Suzanne Wenonah Duchesne
2025-07-10 09:15, 2025-07-09 09:15 | Amphitheater, Amphitheater
The Rev. Dr. Suzanne Wenonah Duchesne, is a teacher, preacher, scholar, & consultant who delights in & encourages wholeness, justice, and healing with all creation. Her work in Beloved Speech, centers on identity formation, deep listening, and relationship building, particularly within the context of antiracist and decolonized preaching and worship practices.
Suzanne’s passion for social justice is guided by her ongoing relationships with members of various Indigenous Nations, including the Kiowa, Lakota, Cherokee, MVSKOKE (Creek), Choctaw, Chickasaw, Abenaki, Shinnecock, Southern Ute, Lenape, and Yuchi. These connections enrich her understanding and advocacy for Indigenous Peoples within her ministry and scholarship.
In addition to her published works on decolonized and antiracist preaching, she published essays, and articles, developed curricula, designed worship experiences, and crafted liturgies addressing critical topics such as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, the Doctrine of Discovery, Creation Care—including “Water is Life: Mní Wičóni”—the history of Methodist women preachers and activists, John Wesley’s interactions with various nations during his time in Georgia, and the legacy of Methodist involvement with Native American Boarding Schools.
Serving in various academic and ministerial roles, she currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Worship and Preaching and the Director of Mast Chapel at New Brunswick Theological Seminary. She earned her Ph.D. in Liturgical Studies with a concentration in Women’s Studies from Drew University Theological School. An ordained elder in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, Suzanne is also an antiracism trainer, and Communications chairperson for the Northeastern Jurisdiction of the Native American Ministries Committee for The United Methodist Church.
Her work with the diverse faculty, staff, and student body at NBTS is informed by her experiences leading churches of various sizes and settings that included congregations comprised of white settlers as well as arrivants, multi-lingual, multi-cultural, and inter-generational members. Inspired by her training as a fine artist, dancer, and thespian, her congregations engaged in various worship styles such as Blended, sacramental-contemplative, Pentacostal-Charismatic, Maranatha style Contemporary, and Emergent Ancient-Modern.
Woven throughout her life has been a calling to engage in practices and honest conversations that strive to undermine and dismantle systemic racism and colonization and invite people to live more deeply into the kin-dom of God by seeking to honor each other’s differences, and embody a spirituality that recognizes all creation as beloved.

Chautauqua Prays for Peace though Compassion
2025-07-10 08:55, 2025-07-09 08:55 | Hall of Philosophy Grove

Catholic Mass
2025-07-10 08:45, 2025-07-09 08:45 | Chapel of the Good Shepherd, Chapel of the Good Shepherd

Daily Word Meditation
2025-07-10 08:00, 2025-07-09 08:00 | Hall of Missions, Hall of Missions
(Programmed by Unity of Chautauqua)

Episcopal Holy Eucharist
2025-07-10 07:45, 2025-07-09 07:45 | Chapel of the Good Shepherd, Chapel of the Good Shepherd

CHQ Mystic Heart: Cantor Julie Newman
2025-07-10 07:45, 2025-07-09 07:45 | Presbyterian Chapel
Cantor Julie Newman founded and serves as President of the Tiferet Project. Tiferet has been a source for Jewish spiritual practices in Pittsburgh such as twice weekly Jewish mindfulness meditation groups. She has been crafting and leading innovative Jewish worship services in the Pittsburgh area for 25 years. Passionate about heart-opening Jewish contemplative practices, she has been an active participant, worship leader, yoga teacher, and consultant with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality since 2004. She received Cantorial ordination and earned a Master of Jewish Education from Hebrew College in Boston in 2017. She is a member of the New Community Chevra Kadisha of Pittsburgh. Raised in Southern California, Julie originally came to Pittsburgh for graduate school where she received her MBA from the Tepper School of Business in 1982 and met her husband of 37 years, Bill Klingensmith (a 3rd generation Chautauquan.) They raised their kids, Jake (31) and Ben (25) in Pittsburgh where Julie & Bill still live with their rescued greyhound, Yogi.

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
2025-07-09 20:45, 2025-07-09 15:15, 2025-07-08 18:00 | Chautauqua Cinema, Chautauqua Cinema
Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro) appoints his only daughter (Mia Threapleton), a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of tycoons, terrorists and assassins in director Wes Anderson’s (Moonrise Kingdom, The French Dispatch) meticulously staged new production. “A palate cleanser – a lovely lark, a spirits lifter.” -Kimberley Jones,Austin Chronicle “Star-crammed and detailed, The Phoenician Scheme delights!” -Thelma Adams, AARP Movies for Grownups (PG-13, 101m)

Malpaso Dance Company
2025-07-09 20:15 | Amphitheater, Amphitheater
With “technical strength, precision, and passion” (Arts Atlanta), the Havana-based Malpaso Dance Company returns to Chautauqua after residencies in 2022 and 2023. Since its founding in 2012 by Daile Carrazana, Osnel Delgado, and Fernando Sáez, the company remains committed to nurturing new voices in Cuban choreography. Witness a thrilling fusion of modern dance and rich Cuban rhythms, crafted by internationally acclaimed choreographers.

CHQ Dialogues
2025-07-09 18:30 | Lutheran House, Lutheran House

Opera Conservatory: “Common Threads: The Music of Damien Geter”
2025-07-09 18:30 | Fletcher Music Hall, Fletcher Music Hall
“Common Threads: The Music of Damien Geter”
On July 9th, the Opera Conservatory will present an evening of music and scenes by celebrated composer Damien Geter, followed by a discussion between Geter, stage director Kimille Howard, and Artistic Advisor Denyce Graves. Included on this program will be songs from Cotton and scenes from Loving v. Virginia (whose world premiere was directed by Ms. Graves this spring).
Damien Geter is an acclaimed American composer who infuses classical music with various styles from the Black diaspora to create music that furthers the cause for social justice, as well as a celebrated bass-baritone – “amazing to listen to. Possessed of a rolling, resonant voice even at the lowest register” (Northwest Reverb) – whose varied credits include performances from the operatic stage to the television screen. He is Richmond Symphony’s Composer-in-Residence through 2026 and serves as Interim Music Director & Artistic Advisor at Portland Opera.

Men's Softball League
2025-07-09 17:00 | Sharpe Field, Sharpe Field
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.

CHQ Mystic Heart: Therapeutic Gong Meditation with Kim Hehr
2025-07-09 16:45 | Hurlbut Church sanctuary, Hurlbut Church sanctuary
Kim Hehr is a lifelong Chautauquan and a certified level 2 teacher of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. She has been a yoga and meditation practitioner for 30 years and has been teaching Kundalini Yoga and Meditation for 25 years. A retired hospice nurse, she is presently the coordinator of the CHQ Mystic Heart Meditation Program. Kim specializes in healing addictive patterns through yogic technology. Passionate about teaching meditation, performing Gong Baths, and pranayama (breath work), her objective is to help others with their anxiety and everyday stress. Her goal is to facilitate bringing more peace and self-acceptance into people’s lives.

Masters Series Masterclass: Rumi and the path of Radical Love
2025-07-09 16:30 | Alumni Hall Ballroom, Alumni Hall Ballroom
Hold for Masters Series weekly class for Religion. Guest to be confirmed.

Chautauqua Bird, Tree & Garden Club Master Class: Wild Plants in native American Culture: Talk and Foraging Walk
2025-07-09 16:15 | Alumni Hall Porch, Alumni Hall Porch
Wild Plants Talk and Walk: Learn about wild plants in Native American diet and culture and then take a foraging walk! With native American nature rights advocate Crystal Cavalier-Keck

Play CHQ: STEM by the Water
2025-07-09 16:00 | Miller Park, Miller Park
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.

CHQ Dialogues
2025-07-09 15:30 | Catholic House, Catholic House

Islam 101 Khalid Rehman and Sabeeha Rehman
2025-07-09 15:30 | Hurlbut Church sanctuary, Hurlbut Church sanctuary
Shia-Sunni Divide and Religious Hierarchy

African American Heritage House Lecture: Raymond Arsenault
2025-07-09 15:30 | Hall of Philosophy, Hall of Philosophy
Raymond Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History emeritus at the University of South Florida, where he is also chairman of the Department of History and Politics. Educated at Princeton and Brandeis, he is an esteemed expert in the political, social, environmental and civil rights history of the American South, and the author of several widely acclaimed and prize-winning books, including Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice; The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America; and Arthur Ashe, A Life.
Arsenault’s most recent book, published in January 2024 as a volume in Yale University Press’ new Black Lives series, is John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community. The 2011 PBS American Experience documentary “Freedom Riders,” based on his book, won three Emmys and a George Peabody Award. He has also served as a consultant for numerous civil rights museums and documentary film projects, including the 2022 PBS American Masters documentary “Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands.”

Chenxing Han
2025-07-09 14:00 | Hall of Philosophy, Hall of Philosophy
Chenxing Han’s work delights in the interplay between Buddhism, Asian America, spiritual care, pedagogy, translation, and creative expression. Chenxing is the author of the books Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (2021) and one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care (2023), along with many essays and articles for mainstream and academic audiences. A national speaker and workshop leader, she has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Hemera Foundation, the Lenz Foundation, and the University of Michigan. Trained as a Buddhist chaplain, Chenxing holds a BA from Stanford University and an MA from the Graduate Theological Union and the Institute of Buddhist Studies. She is a founder of Listening to the Buddhists in Our Backyard; May We Gather: A National Buddhist Memorial for Asian American Ancestors; and Roots and Refuge: An Asian American Buddhist Writing Retreat.

CHQ Dialogue
2025-07-09 12:30 | Catholic House, Catholic House

CHQ Dialogues
2025-07-09 12:30 | Presbyterian House, Presbyterian House

CLSC Young Readers Book Discussion
2025-07-09 12:15 | Alumni Hall Porch, Alumni Hall Porch
Presenters Joanna Fox and Christina Noel, Ph.D., will lead a community discussion on our Week Four CLSC Young Readers selection They Call Me Güero: A Border Kids Poems by David Bowles

Antisemitism and How to Respond to it
2025-07-09 12:15 | Hall of Philosophy, Hall of Philosophy
Scott Richman

Women in Ministry
2025-07-09 12:15 | Hall of Missions, Hall of Missions

Twelve Step Meeting
2025-07-09 12:15 | Hurlbut Marion Lawrance

Organ Recitals
2025-07-09 12:15 | Amphitheater, Amphitheater

Pablo Hernandez Basulto
2025-07-09 10:45 | Amphitheater, Amphitheater
An emerging leader in the theater and community engagement field, Pablo Hernandez Basulto is the director of civic artistic programs at The Public Theater where he oversees the Public Works and the Mobile Unit initiatives. One of the nation’s first nonprofit theaters, The Public has long operated on the principles that theater is an essential cultural force and that art and culture belong to everyone. Hernandez Basulto joins the Chautauqua Lecture Series during a week celebrating “Art in Action: Building Community Through the Arts” for a conversation that will focus on community-engaged theater and the role that cultural institutions play in fostering civic engagement, artistic innovation, and access for all.
Through his work, Hernandez Basulto has consulted community-based theater at institutions including the National Theatre in London, Seattle Rep, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, and the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan. Born and raised in Mexico, he started his career at the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University, working closely with Anna Deavere Smith’s Pipeline Project. Later, Hernandez Basulto worked with People’s Palace Projects and the Augusto Boal Institute in Rio de Janeiro, collaborating with With One Voice, an international network of choirs composed of people experiencing houselessness.
In 2022, he became the inaugural staff board representative of The Public. Hernandez Basulto is an artist ambassador with the New York Civil Liberties Union, an alumnus of Northeastern University, and a member of the board of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC.

Cultural Ethics Series- Rev. Neal Jones
2025-07-09 09:30 | Hall of Philosophy, Hall of Philosophy
“Lighting A Candle Instead of Cursing the Darkness”

Movement and Meditation with Monte Thompson
2025-07-09 08:30 | 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 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 and joy.

Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: Celestial Dances
2025-07-08 20:15 | Amphitheater, Amphitheater
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Immerse yourself in a mesmerizing evening of music that spans the celestial, the mystical, and the playful. Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia for Orbiting Spheres creates an ethereal soundscape, setting the stage for the fiery passion of de Falla’s El Amor Brujo and the whimsical charm of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite. Join the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra for a night where shimmering modern textures, spellbinding Spanish folklore, and Stravinsky’s neoclassical brilliance collide in an unforgettable orchestral experience!
Program:
Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Manuel de Falla: El Amor Brujo
Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite

Labyrinth History and Meditation
2025-07-08 18:30 | Turner (Outside of Building)
Bring gate pass. Adjacent to Turner Community Center

Play CHQ: Crafting by the Water
2025-07-08 16:00 | Miller Park, Miller Park

Heritage Lecture Series - Brian M. Harward
2025-07-08 15:30 | Hall of Philosophy, Hall of Philosophy
As part of the Oliver Archives Center’s 2025 Heritage Lecture Series, Brian Harward will present “Strategic Responsiveness: How Congress confronts Executive Power”.
Brian M. Harward, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Allegheny College (Meadville, PA). He has published several books and articles on a number of themes in American politics, including congressional delegation, oversight, and presidential power. His most recent book, “Strategic Responsiveness: How Congress Confronts Executive Power” (with coauthors Scott Ainsworth and Kenneth Moffett), was published by the University of Michigan Press this spring.

Islam 101 Khalid Rehman and Sabeeha Rehman
2025-07-08 15:30 | Hurlbut Church sanctuary, Hurlbut Church sanctuary
Women and Family Life
