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CHASING LIONS

Chautauqua Cinema Chautauqua Cinema

Meet the Filmmakers! Free Admission with Gate Pass! In the rugged heart of the American Southwest, where mountain lions move like ghosts through the wilderness, a team of devoted trackers works to understand and protect them. (NR, 23m Discussion to follow with filmmakers Dr. Cameron Mellin, Eric Braker and Stephen Catalano.)

Free Admission

Drop-in Softball

Sharpe Field Sharpe Field

Interested in playing slow pitch softball? Contact co-commissioner Carrie Zachry at carriezachry@gmail.com

Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2025 Sing-In

Norton Hall Norton Hall

Meet the 2025 Chautauqua Opera Company Young Artists in Norton Hall! Join us and hear their voices here first! This event is free and open to the public.

CHQ Dialogues

Disciples of Christ House Disciples of Christ House
free

Lewis Black’s The Deal

Bratton Theater Bratton Theater

During our week on “Comedy Now!” join us at Bratton Theater for a special reading of The Deal by playwright and comedian Lewis Black. This one-act play will feature a cast of longtime collaborators of Black’s and will be followed by a panel discussion with the artists. This savagely dark comedy satirizes the gleeful madness...

$25

BAD SHABBOS

Chautauqua Cinema Chautauqua Cinema

An engaged interfaith couple are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner when an accidental death gets in the way, in director Daniel Robbins situational comedy. "A strong ensemble cast nails the tasty dialogue and increasingly frantic action without falling into shtick." -Alissa Simon, Variety "Neither too “oy...

$10 – $14

Roy Wood Jr. with opener Jeff Stilson

Amphitheater Amphitheater

Roy Wood Jr. is a comedian, an Emmy-nominated documentary producer, and WGA nominated writer. He served for 8 years as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s Emmy-winning The Daily Show (2015-2023). In 2023, Wood Jr. guest hosted The Daily Show and headlined the White House Correspondents' Dinner to its highest ratings since 2017.  Roy’s fourth stand-up...

$59 – $99

CHQ Mystic Heart: John Pulleyn

Presbyterian Chapel

John Pulleyn has been practicing Zen for more than 40 years, working with the late Roshi Philip Kapleau, the founder of the Rochester Zen Center and author of Three Pillars of Zen, and Roshi Kapleau's successor, Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. After graduating from Oberlin College with a BA in history, John joined the Zen Center's staff...

Movement and Meditation with Monte Thompson

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...

free

Catholic Mass

Chapel of the Good Shepherd Chapel of the Good Shepherd

Catholic Mass

Free

Rev. Dr. Jacqueline J. Lewis

Amphitheater Amphitheater

The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis uses her gifts as author, activist, preacher, and public theologian toward creating an antiracist, just, gun violence free, fully welcoming, gender affirming society in which everyone has enough. Jacqui is the Senior Minister at Middle Collegiate Church. A womanist theologian, Jacqui has preached at the Festival of Homiletics, the Wild...

Free

Brooke Adams, Tony Shalhoub & Kelly Carlin

Amphitheater Amphitheater

Actors Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub, who have appeared on screen together a number of times since their 1992 marriage, help close Chautauqua’s exploration of “Comedy Now: A Week Curated with Lewis Black — In Partnership with the National Comedy Center” in conversation with longtime Chautauqua and NCC collaborator Kelly Carlin on the relevance and...

$30