BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Chautauqua Institution - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Chautauqua Institution X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.chq.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Chautauqua Institution REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T124500 DTSTAMP:20260821T140205 CREATED:20250628T191521Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250628T191521Z UID:94637-1755780300-1755780300@www.chq.org SUMMARY:Duplicate Bridge DESCRIPTION:Don’t have a partner? One will be provided. Game managed by Shelley Dahlie. $10/person. URL:https://www.chq.org/event/duplicate-bridge-9/ LOCATION:Sports Club\, Sports Club CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Recreation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/playing-cards-2022-10-31-21-55-09-utc.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T123000 DTSTAMP:20260821T140205 CREATED:20250611T133226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250702T141742Z UID:93817-1755779400-1755779400@www.chq.org SUMMARY:CHQ Dialogue DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.chq.org/event/chq-dialogue-18/ LOCATION:Everett Jewish Life Center\, Everett Jewish Life Center CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CHQDialogues_event.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T123000 DTSTAMP:20260821T140205 CREATED:20250410T223108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T223108Z UID:91938-1755779400-1755779400@www.chq.org SUMMARY:CHQ Mystic Heart: Sharon Wesoky DESCRIPTION:Mahanya Buddhism-Mindfulness Meditation URL:https://www.chq.org/event/chq-mystic-heart-sharon-wesoky-9/ LOCATION:Hall of Missions\, Hall of Missions CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30),Faith and Spiritual Programming ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/morningmeditation3_072015_RW_master.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T121500 DTSTAMP:20260821T140205 CREATED:20250424T181516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250814T160024Z UID:92343-1755778500-1755778500@www.chq.org SUMMARY:Decision Making in the Age of Plastics: A choose-your-own-adventure style guide to purchasing while balancing your health\, the planet and your budget. DESCRIPTION:Did you know that microplastics are in our food\, in our water and in our brains (among other places)?! Have you sat staring at a shopping cart on your screen or at an item in a shop and experienced a moment (or several moments) of a modern sort of existential panic thinking\, “Should I buy this?” \nIn Decision-Making in the Age of Plastics\, Cora Ball Co-inventor\, National Geographic Explorer and Chief Ocean Lover\, Rachael Zoe Miller takes you through an easy-to-use\, interactive process that mixes knowledge with practical considerations about items that present frequent conundrums\, from fleece jackets to take-away food packaging\, laundry detergent\, and more. You will be guided through a 5-question framework that helps you make purchases (or decisions not to purchase) that you will feel good about. \nThe goals of this choose-your-own-adventure style guidebook are to help protect you and your family’s health\, to protect the ocean\, to protect the planet\, to save you money or help you spend it wisely\, to eradicate buyer’s remorse\, and to inject a heap of learning and some fun along the way. \nThis event is the official launch of this high-impact book. Copies will be available at the Chautauqua Bookstore by August 13 and on the day of the event. URL:https://www.chq.org/event/decision-making-in-the-age-of-plastics-and-it-is-a-choose-your-own-adventure-style-guide-to-purchasing-while-balancing-your-and-your-familys-health-the-planet-and-your-budget/ LOCATION:Alumni Hall Ballroom\, Alumni Hall Ballroom CATEGORIES:Climate Change Initiative Program,Chautauqua Institution Program,Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Rachael-Zoe-Miller-CCI.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T121500 DTSTAMP:20260821T140205 CREATED:20250210T231520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T151521Z UID:90109-1755778500-1755778500@www.chq.org SUMMARY:CTC Theater Chats DESCRIPTION:Theater Chats (formerly known as Brown Bags) \n 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. URL:https://www.chq.org/event/ctc-theater-chats-9/ LOCATION:Smith Wilkes Hall\, Smith Wilkes Hall CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30),Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Theater-Chat-Website-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T104500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T104500 DTSTAMP:20260821T140205 CREATED:20250610T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250613T211525Z UID:93953-1755773100-1755773100@www.chq.org SUMMARY:Sabrina Lynn Motley & Jeffrey Rosen DESCRIPTION:Sabrina Lynn Motley\nDirector\, Smithsonian Folklife Festival\nJeffrey Rosen\nPresident and CEO\, National Constitution Center\n10:45 a.m. Thursday\, August 21\, 2025 \nFrequent Chautauqua collaborators Sabrina Lynn Motley and Jeffrey Rosen return to Chautauqua for the penultimate Chautauqua Lecture Series program of 2025. They will contribute to our discussion of “Past Informs Present: How to Harness History” by sharing in conversation their two prominent national institutions’ approaches to considering\, commemorating and celebrating America’s semiquincentennial\, as the birthday year approaches in 2026\, along with their perspectives generally on the curation and presentation of history in physical spaces. \nSabrina Lynn Motley is the director of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Before joining the center in 2013\, she was the senior director of programs and exhibitions at Asia Society Texas Center in Houston. Under Motley’s leadership\, the Texas Center expanded its public offerings and strengthened its collaborative approach to program creation and implementation. Through performances\, lectures\, exhibitions\, and workshops\, its programming reflected Houston’s rapidly changing demographics and its role as a gateway to Asia. While at the Texas Center\, Motley oversaw the mounting of several critically acclaimed exhibitions\, including “Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yusaku\,” organized by the Indianapolis Museum\, and “Weavers’ Stories from Island Southeast Asia\,” organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA. \nMotley’s most recent exhibitions speak to her interest in the creative lives of women and the role of traditional arts in contemporary life. As a world music aficionada\, for more than five years she was a popular host of “The Global Village\,” KPFK 90.7 FM’s flagship music program. As a teacher\, she has taught cultural anthropology at the Art Center College of Design and the Otis Institute for Art and Design. Motley earned her bachelor’s degree from the World Arts & Cultures Program and master’s degree in African studies at UCLA. She is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at UCLA\, where she conducted research on the interplay between religious faith\, doubt and social activism. \nJeffrey Rosen is president and chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center\, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate the public about the U.S. Constitution. His latest book\, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America\, was the basis for his most recent Amphitheater appearance in 2024; he also appeared as part of the 2025 Chautauqua Forum on Democracy in June\, where he was publicly announced and recognized for the first time as the newly appointed 2025–26 Chautauqua Perry Fellow in Democracy. \nIn addition to his roles of president and CEO of the National Constitution Center\, which he has held since 2013\, Rosen is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic. He was previously the legal affairs editor of The New Republic and a staff writer for The New Yorker. At the National Constitution Center\, he is the host of “We the People\,” a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. \nRosen’s forthcoming book The Pursuit of Liberty How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America\, to be published in October. He is the author of seven other books\, including the New York Times bestseller Conversations with RBG: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life\, Love\, Liberty\, and Law\, as well as biographies of Louis Brandeis and William Howard Taft. He is a graduate of Harvard College; Oxford University\, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School. URL:https://www.chq.org/event/sabrina-lynn-motley-jeffrey-rosen/ LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Chautauqua Lecture Series,Weekly Themes,CHQ Assembly,Week Nine (August 22–30) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Motley-Rosen_CLS_082125.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T101500 DTSTAMP:20260821T140205 CREATED:20250611T131617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250611T131617Z UID:93762-1755771300-1755771300@www.chq.org SUMMARY:Service of Blessing and Healing DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.chq.org/event/service-of-blessing-and-healing-89/ LOCATION:Randell Chapel\, UCC Headquarters CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30),Faith and Spiritual Programming ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20170816_gf_00736.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T091500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T091500 DTSTAMP:20260821T140205 CREATED:20250115T161700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250806T181511Z UID:89632-1755767700-1755767700@www.chq.org SUMMARY:Brian McLaren DESCRIPTION:Brian D. McLaren is an author\, speaker\, activist\, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor\, he is a passionate advocate for “a new kind of Christianity” – just\, generous\, and working with people of all faiths for the common good. \nBrian is Dean of Faculty for the Center for Action and Contemplation. and a podcaster with Learning How to See. He is a co-host of Southern Lights. His newest books are Faith After Doubt (January 2021)\, Do I Stay Christian? (May 2022)\, and Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart (2024). His co-authored children’s book Cory and the Seventh Story was released in 2023. The first book of a new science fiction trilogy\, The Last Voyage\, will be published in summer\, 2025. He is an Auburn Senior Fellow\, a contributor to We Stand With Love\, and a leader in the Convergence Network\, through which he is developing an innovative training/mentoring program for pastors and church planters. \nHe is an active and popular blogger\, a musician\, and a songwriter\, offering a variety of resources through his website\, www.brianmclaren.net. URL:https://www.chq.org/event/brian-mclaren-5/ LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Weekly Themes,CHQ Assembly,Week Nine (August 22–30),Faith and Spiritual Programming,Weekly Chaplains ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/McLaren_Brian_Chaplain_photo_wk9_2025.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T085500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T085500 DTSTAMP:20260821T140205 CREATED:20250410T223051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250701T160911Z UID:91912-1755766500-1755766500@www.chq.org SUMMARY:Chautauqua Prays for Peace though Compassion DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.chq.org/event/chautauqua-prays-for-peace-though-compassion-78/ LOCATION:Hall of Philosophy Grove CATEGORIES:Community Group Event,Community Group Program,Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/PeacePrayers2_072115_RW_master-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T084500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T084500 DTSTAMP:20260821T140205 CREATED:20250611T131558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250611T131558Z UID:93750-1755765900-1755765900@www.chq.org SUMMARY:Catholic Mass DESCRIPTION:Catholic Mass URL:https://www.chq.org/event/catholic-mass-61/ LOCATION:Chapel of the Good Shepherd\, Chapel of the Good Shepherd CATEGORIES:Community Group Event,Community Group Program,Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/070216_ChapelGoodShepherd_EA_03.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T080000 DTSTAMP:20260821T140205 CREATED:20250611T131542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250611T131542Z UID:93740-1755763200-1755763200@www.chq.org SUMMARY:Daily Word Meditation DESCRIPTION:(Programmed by Unity of Chautauqua) URL:https://www.chq.org/event/daily-word-meditation-44/ LOCATION:Hall of Missions\, Hall of Missions CATEGORIES:Community Group Event,Community Group Program,Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20170802_rd_03270.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T074500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T074500 DTSTAMP:20260821T140205 CREATED:20250611T131527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250611T131527Z UID:93730-1755762300-1755762300@www.chq.org SUMMARY:Episcopal Holy Eucharist DESCRIPTION:Episcopal Holy Eucharist URL:https://www.chq.org/event/episcopal-holy-eucharist-109/ LOCATION:Chapel of the Good Shepherd\, Chapel of the Good Shepherd CATEGORIES:Community Group Event,Community Group Program,Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/061922_AnthaneaumLawn_DT_01.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T074500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T074500 DTSTAMP:20260821T140205 CREATED:20250410T221529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T221529Z UID:91815-1755762300-1755762300@www.chq.org SUMMARY:CHQ Mystic Heart: Sharon Wesoky DESCRIPTION:Mahanaya Buddhism-Mindfulness Meditation URL:https://www.chq.org/event/chq-mystic-heart-sharon-wesoky-6/ LOCATION:Presbyterian Chapel CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30),Faith and Spiritual Programming ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/hall_philosophy2-1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR