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SUMMARY:EPIC
DESCRIPTION:Elvis sings and tells his story like never before in a new cinematic experience from visionary filmmaker Baz Luhrmann featuring new-found footage of his Las Vegas residency. “One of the most thrilling musical experiences you can have at a cinema.” -Barry Levitt\, Empire Magazine “A visual spectacle\, almost a hallucinatory physical experience. The sheer vibrancy of the restored footage is stunning.” -Katie Walsh\, Tribune News Service “It’s as if Luhrmann were conducting a séance\, awakening Elvis from the afterlife with a raw vitality and outsize energy that are rare even among the living.” -David Rooney\, The Hollywood Reporter (PG-13\, 96m)
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/epic-4/
LOCATION:Chautauqua Cinema\, Chautauqua Cinema
CATEGORIES:Movies,Chautauqua Institution Program,Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260830T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260830T190000
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CREATED:20260213T213016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260812T143104Z
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SUMMARY:Hebrew Congregation\, Shirley Lazarus Sunday Evening Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/hebrew-congregation-shirley-lazarus-sunday-evening-lecture-series-19/
LOCATION:Smith Wilkes Hall\, Smith Wilkes Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260830T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260830T200000
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CREATED:20260513T130104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260714T171605Z
UID:99563-1788120000-1788120000@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:Sacred Song Service and Closing Three Taps
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/sacred-song-service-and-closing-three-taps/
LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Faith and Spiritual Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260830T204500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260830T204500
DTSTAMP:20261001T122308
CREATED:20260811T141642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260811T141642Z
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SUMMARY:ELEANOR THE GREAT
DESCRIPTION:June Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein\, who after a devastating loss\, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut is a comically poignant exploration of how the stories we hear become the stories we tell. Co-stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Erin Kellyman. “A moving study of grief\, loneliness and aging.” -G. Allen Johnson\, San Francisco Chronicle “A heartfelt\, emotionally resonant story about the power of our lives and the capacity of our stories lingering on long after we’ve left this world. Take someone you love and see it.” -Kristen Lopez\, The Film Maven (PG-13\, 98m)
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/eleanor-the-great-4/
LOCATION:Chautauqua Cinema\, Chautauqua Cinema
CATEGORIES:Movies,Chautauqua Institution Program,Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260831T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260831T180000
DTSTAMP:20261001T122308
CREATED:20260811T001607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260811T141643Z
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SUMMARY:ELEANOR THE GREAT
DESCRIPTION:June Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein\, who after a devastating loss\, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut is a comically poignant exploration of how the stories we hear become the stories we tell. Co-stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Erin Kellyman. “A moving study of grief\, loneliness and aging.” -G. Allen Johnson\, San Francisco Chronicle “A heartfelt\, emotionally resonant story about the power of our lives and the capacity of our stories lingering on long after we’ve left this world. Take someone you love and see it.” -Kristen Lopez\, The Film Maven (PG-13\, 98m)
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/eleanor-the-great-2/
LOCATION:Chautauqua Cinema\, Chautauqua Cinema
CATEGORIES:Movies,Chautauqua Institution Program,Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260831T204500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260831T204500
DTSTAMP:20261001T122308
CREATED:20260811T001604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260811T141639Z
UID:103238-1788209100-1788209100@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:EPIC
DESCRIPTION:Elvis sings and tells his story like never before in a new cinematic experience from visionary filmmaker Baz Luhrmann featuring new-found footage of his Las Vegas residency. “One of the most thrilling musical experiences you can have at a cinema.” -Barry Levitt\, Empire Magazine “A visual spectacle\, almost a hallucinatory physical experience. The sheer vibrancy of the restored footage is stunning.” -Katie Walsh\, Tribune News Service “It’s as if Luhrmann were conducting a séance\, awakening Elvis from the afterlife with a raw vitality and outsize energy that are rare even among the living.” -David Rooney\, The Hollywood Reporter (PG-13\, 96m)
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/epic-2/
LOCATION:Chautauqua Cinema\, Chautauqua Cinema
CATEGORIES:Movies,Chautauqua Institution Program,Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T190000
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CREATED:20260310T140000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T211559Z
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SUMMARY:Indigo Girls
DESCRIPTION:Released in 1989\, Indigo Girls’ eponymous major label debut sold over two million copies under the power of singles “Closer to Fine” and “Kid Fears” and turned Indigo Girls into one of the most successful folk duos in history. Over a thirty-five-year career that began in clubs around their native Atlanta\, Georgia\, the multi-Grammy-winning duo of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray has recorded sixteen studio albums\, sold over 15 million records\, and built a dedicated\, enduring following across the globe. Rolling Stone describes them as the “ideal duet partners.” Committed and uncompromising activists\, they work on issues like immigration reform (El Refugio)\, LGBTQ advocacy\, education (Imagination Library)\, death penalty reform\, and Native American rights. They are co-founders of Honor the Earth\, a non-profit dedicated to the survival of sustainable Native communities\, Indigenous environmental justice\, and green energy solutions.  \nTheir latest record\, Look Long is a stirring and eclectic collection of songs that finds the duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers reunited in the studio with their strongest backing band to date. “We joke about being old\, but what is old when it comes to music? We’re still a bar band at heart\,” says Saliers. “While our lyrics and writing approach may change\, our passion for music feels the same as it did when we were 25-years-old.” “As time has gone on\, our audience has become more expansive and diverse\, giving me a sense of joy\,” she adds. To hear those collective voices raise into one\, singing along and overpowering the band itself\, one realizes the importance Indigo Girls’ music has in this moment. In our often-terrifying present\, we are all in search of a daily refuge\, a stolen hour or two\, to engage with something that brings us joy\, perspective\, or maybe just calm. As one bar band once put it\, “We go to the doctor\, we go to the mountains…we go to the Bible\, we go through the work out.” For millions\, they go to the Indigo Girls. On Look Long they’ll find a creative partnership certain of its bearings\, forging a way forward.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/indigo-girls/
LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Featured Events,Popular Entertainment & Concerts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260930T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260930T160000
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20260917T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260929T171557Z
UID:103688-1790784000-1790784000@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:GALLIM: Preview Performance
DESCRIPTION: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!\nMark your calendars to witness the dynamic program that includes a first-ever commissioned work by another choreographer\, former company member Sean Howe\, at the Joyce Theater in New York City\, November 11-15\, 2026!\nMiller is a Guggenheim Fellow\, the first Artist in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and part of the first female choreographer/composer team commissioned to create for New York City Ballet. Recent commissions include English National Ballet and Abraham in Motion. \nAbout each work \nstate\nPerformed by a trio of women and scored by indie-pop artist RIVKA\, state examines five distinct dimensions of womanhood\, moving between intimate personal journeys and the communal strength built to uplift one another. Across solos and collective moments\, the piece reflects on lineage\, endurance\, and how women carry shared histories forward. \nDreams\nInspired by the song’s grand scale and singular vocal presence\, Miller brings this atmosphere to the stage\, investigating how a solitary physical presence can resonate across space. \nYEAR\nWhere Miller’s choreography often probes areas of friction to seek understanding and healing\, YEAR turns toward joy\, beauty\, and ecstasy\, exploring the capacity to sustain presence within those states. The work unfolds as a meditation on time\, encompassing life and death\, conflict and peace\, loss and renewal. Driven by an original score by Frédéric Despierre. \nAbout GALLIM\nFounded in 2007 by choreographer Andrea Miller\, GALLIM is a New York City–based contemporary dance company known for its visceral physicality\, boundary-blurring artistry\, and deeply human work. Miller’s choreography merges fierce athleticism with theatrical innovation to create immersive performance experiences that are immediate\, transformative\, and unforgettable.\nGALLIM’s work has been presented at leading venues and festivals worldwide\, including Lincoln Center\, BAM\, The Kennedy Center\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Jacob’s Pillow\, and The Harris Theater\, with additional collaborations spanning film\, fashion\, music\, and visual art.\nAt the core of GALLIM is a dynamic ecosystem of creation\, performance\, and education. Through its School of Movement and expansive educational programming\, the company provides training\, creative development\, and meaningful access points for artists at every stage. Programs include GALLIM Methods\, repertory intensives\, process-based immersions for makers\, interdisciplinary offerings in film and photography\, community classes\, mentorship\, and educational residencies at colleges and universities nationwide.  \nGALLIM’s residency at Chautauqua Institution is supported by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/gallim-preview-performance/
LOCATION:Carnahan-Jackson: McBride/Verdy\, Carnahan-Jackson: McBride/Verdy
CATEGORIES:Artist-in-Residence,Chautauqua Institution Program,Dance,Featured Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270627T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270627T104500
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20260601T161557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T161557Z
UID:100868-1814093100-1814093100@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:Opening Three Taps
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/opening-three-taps/
LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Week One (June 27–July 4),Weekly Themes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270702T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270702T104500
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20261001T140000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261001T140000Z
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SUMMARY:Kate Shaw
DESCRIPTION: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 out Week One of the Chautauqua Lecture Series.  \nHer scholarly writing has appeared\, among other places\, in the Harvard Law Review\, the Columbia Law Review\, the Cornell Law Review\, the Georgetown Law Journal\, and the Northwestern University Law Review\, and her popular writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Slate\, Time and The Atlantic. Shaw is a contributor with ABC News\, a contributing opinion writer with The New York Times\, co-host of the Supreme Court podcast “Strict Scrutiny\,” and a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.   \nBefore joining the Penn faculty in January 2024\, she spent over a decade on the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law\, where she was also co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. Earlier in her career she served as an associate counsel in the Obama White House Counsel’s Office and served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and the Honorable Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.   \nShaw received her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University\, and her Juris Doctor from Northwestern University.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/kate-shaw/
LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Week One (June 27–July 4),Chautauqua Lecture Series,Weekly Themes,CHQ Assembly
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270705T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270705T104500
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20261001T140000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261001T140000Z
UID:103751-1814784300-1814784300@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:Chris Hayes
DESCRIPTION: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 Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource. In “The AI End Game\,” Hayes sits down with preeminent experts on AI and its effects to discuss the most important questions that often go unasked\, helping listeners make sense of the technology during its exponential rise. Returning to the Chautauqua Lecture Series to discuss this revolutionary time in history\, Hayes opens Week Two dedicated to “Applied Ethics in the Age of AI.”  \nIn addition to The Sirens’ Call\, Hayes is The New York Times bestselling author of A Colony in a Nation and Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy. Previously\, Hayes hosted the weekend program “Up w/ Chris Hayes\,” which premiered in 2011. Prior to joining MS NOW as an anchor\, he had previously served as a frequent substitute host for “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” He became an MS NOW contributor in 2010 and has been with The Nation since 2007.  \nHe is a former fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. From 2008 to 2010\, he was a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation\, and from 2005 to 2006 was a Schumann Center Writing Fellow at In These Times. His essays\, articles\, and reviews have appeared in New York Times Magazine\, TIME\, Nation\, American Prospect\, New Republic\, Washington Monthly\, The Guardian and Chicago Reader.  \nHayes graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/chris-hayes/
LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Chautauqua Lecture Series,Week Two (July 4–11),Weekly Themes,CHQ Assembly
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270707T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270707T104500
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20261001T140000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261001T140000Z
UID:103752-1814957100-1814957100@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:Lisa D. Cook
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nPrior to her appointment to the Board\, Cook was a professor of economics and international relations at Michigan State University. From 2018 to 2021\, she was director of the American Economic Association Summer Training Program. She was also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.  \nPreviously\, Cook was on the faculty of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. During her time at Harvard\, Cook also served as deputy director for Africa Research at the Center for International Development. Before then\, she was a National Fellow at Stanford University.  \nFrom 2011 to 2012\, Cook served as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama. From 2000 to 2001\, she served as a senior adviser on finance and development in the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of International Affairs.  \nCook received a B.A. in philosophy from Spelman College. As a Marshall Scholar\, she received a second B.A. in philosophy\, politics\, and economics from Oxford University. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/lisa-d-cook/
LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Chautauqua Lecture Series,Week Two (July 4–11),Weekly Themes,CHQ Assembly
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270712T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270712T104500
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20261001T140000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261001T140000Z
UID:103753-1815389100-1815389100@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:David French
DESCRIPTION: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 Perry Fellows in Democracy\, serving in the 2024–25 cycle.  \nFrench is a former litigator\, working for both commercial and public interest law firms as well as in constitutional law. In his past role as president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education\, he defended free speech\, religious freedom and due process in courtrooms across the country.   \nHe is The New York Times bestselling author of Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation\, in which he warns of the potential dangers to the country — and the world — if we don’t summon the courage to reconcile our political differences.   \nA former major in the United States Army Reserve\, French was deployed to Iraq and served in Diyala Province as Squadron Judge Advocate for the 2nd Squadron\, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment\, where he was awarded the Bronze Star. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/david-french/
LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Chautauqua Lecture Series,Weekly Themes,Week Three (July 11–18),CHQ Assembly
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270716T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270716T140000
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20260914T171559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260914T171559Z
UID:103685-1815746400-1815746400@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:Gilbert King
DESCRIPTION:Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle – Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida \nFrom 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 a young man’s life was upended by a tragic miscarriage of justice.  \nIn 1987\, Leo Schofield was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife\, Michelle. Always insistent on his innocence\, he was poorly served by his legal defense: the investigation was sloppy\, the case flimsy\, and numerous pieces of evidence were ignored. He was sentenced to life in prison.  \nOver thirty years later\, Gilbert King is tipped off to Leo’s case and is astonished by what he found: layers of corruption\, flawed evidence\, and deep-seated errors. He can’t shake the story and starts to get to know Leo and his family. Leo shows an incomprehensible amount of grace and love about his situation\, which spurs Gilbert even more to tell his story.  \nBone Valley is at once a revelatory investigation into a murder\, a chilling portrait of the criminal justice system\, and a uniquely powerful story of grace and redemption. Gilbert King has written a new classic of narrative nonfiction.  \nGilbert King is the author of Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida. He is also the host and producer of Bone Valley\, a multi-part narrative podcast about the wrongful conviction of Leo Schofield. King is the author of Devil in the Grove\, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2013. A New York Times bestseller\, the book was also named runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. King has written about race\, civil rights\, and the death penalty for the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and The Atlantic\, and he was a 2019-2020 fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. King’s earlier books include The Execution of Willie Francis (2008)\, and Beneath a Ruthless Sun (2018). He lives in Brooklyn\, N.Y.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/gilbert-king/
LOCATION:Hall of Philosophy\, Hall of Philosophy
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Week Three (July 11–18),Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC),Weekly Themes,Featured Events,Literary Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270719T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270719T104500
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20261001T140000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261001T140000Z
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SUMMARY:Wynton Marsalis
DESCRIPTION: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 newest orchestral composition\, Liberty Symphony\, performed by the JLCO in collaboration with Chautauqua’s Music School Festival Orchestra.  \nMarsalis presently serves as managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center\, the director of jazz studies at The Juilliard School\, and president of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation.  \nHe has been called the “Pied Piper” of jazz and the “Doctor of Swing.” Since his recording debut in 1982\, he has released 136 jazz\, classical and alternative recordings and won numerous awards. He regularly performs in the most prestigious concert halls and has been known to play until all hours of the morning in the most inconspicuous local clubs. From the very beginning of his career\, education has been vital to his mission. He has taught and mentored a voluminous number of musicians who have gone on to play\, teach and advocate in their own brilliant ways. Through these relationships Marsalis has ensured that the legacy of jazz music will continue to propagate for generations to come.  \nOver the past four and half decades\, Marsalis has rekindled and animated widespread international interest in jazz through performances\, educational activities\, books\, curricula and relentless advocacy on public platforms. Today\, Marsalis continues the renaissance that he sparked in the early 1980s\, attracting new generations of young talent to jazz and illuminating the mythic meanings of jazz fundamentals.  \nMarsalis performs and composes across the entire spectrum of jazz and has written jazz-influenced chamber music and symphonic works for revered classical ensembles across the US and abroad. He is inspired to experiment in an ever-widening palette of forms and concepts that constitute some of the most advanced thinking in modern jazz and in American music on the broad scale.  \nMarsalis’ core beliefs are based on jazz fundamentals: freedom and individual creativity (improvisation)\, collective action and good manners (swing)\, as well as acceptance\, gratitude and resilience (the blues). Marsalis believes that music has the power to elevate our quality of life and lead us to both higher and lower levels of consciousness. He maintains that music can elevate the quality of human engagement for individuals\, social networks and cultural institutions throughout the world.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/wynton-marsalis/
LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Chautauqua Lecture Series,Weekly Themes,Week Four (July 18–25),CHQ Assembly
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270719T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270719T153000
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20260723T151605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260723T153106Z
UID:102807-1816011000-1816011000@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:Islam 101: Khalid and Sabeeha Rehman
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/islam-101-khalid-and-sabeeha-rehman-21/
LOCATION:Hall of Christ: Sanctuary
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Faith and Spiritual Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270726T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270726T153000
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20260723T153106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260723T153106Z
UID:102809-1816615800-1816615800@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:Islam 101: Khalid and Sabeeha Rehman
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/islam-101-khalid-and-sabeeha-rehman-22/
LOCATION:Hall of Christ: Sanctuary
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Faith and Spiritual Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270728T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270728T104500
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20260929T140000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260930T151559Z
UID:103755-1816771500-1816771500@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:Brian Skerry
DESCRIPTION: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 “Return of the White Shark\,” both streaming on Disney+. In 2021\, Skerry received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary as a producer of “Secrets of the Whales.”   \nSkerry is the author of 12 books including the acclaimed monographs “Ocean Soul\,” “SHARK” and “Secrets of the Whales.” His work has also been featured in publications such as The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Paris Match\, Esquire\, and Audubon. In 2014 he was named as a National Geographic Society Photography Fellow and then named a National Geographic Society Storytelling Fellow in 2017 – the same year he was awarded the title of Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year. In 2016\, he received the National Geographic magazine’s Photographer’s Photographer Award\, a recognition bestowed by his colleagues\, other National Geographic magazine photographers. Skerry was named the 2025 Nature Photographer of the Year by the North American Nature Photographers Association.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/brian-skerry/
LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Chautauqua Lecture Series,Weekly Themes,Week Five (July 25–August 1),CHQ Assembly
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270802T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270802T104500
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20260929T140000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260930T161556Z
UID:103756-1817203500-1817203500@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:Amna Nawaz
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nNawaz has earned Emmy\, Peabody and Cronkite awards for her work in journalism. In addition to anchoring PBS News’ flagship national news broadcast\, Nawaz co-hosts the podcast “Settle In\,” featuring thought leaders from all walks of life. She has also hosted a primetime arts show and documentaries on everything from America’s childcare crisis to global plastic pollution to life after incarceration.   \nNawaz’s reporting ranges from politics and foreign affairs\, to immigration and education\, to culture and sports. She has anchored the show from the U.S. Southern border\, Israel after the Oct. 7 attacks and Kyiv\, Ukraine\, during its war with Russia. Nawaz has interviewed presidents and heads of state\, White House officials and lawmakers\, professional athletes and musicians\, and citizens around the world in the communities they call home.   \nPrior to joining PBS\, Nawaz was anchor and correspondent at ABC News\, anchoring breaking news coverage and leading the network’s livestream coverage of the 2016 presidential election. She also hosted the “Uncomfortable” podcast and reported a documentary on the Texas county with the highest rate of support for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Before ABC\, Nawaz was a foreign correspondent and Islamabad Bureau Chief for NBC News\, where she regularly reported on the war in Afghanistan and the broader region.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/amna-nawaz/
LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Chautauqua Lecture Series,Weekly Themes,Week Six (August 1–8),CHQ Assembly
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270802T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270802T153000
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20260723T153107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260723T153107Z
UID:102810-1817220600-1817220600@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:Islam 101: Khalid and Sabeeha Rehman
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/islam-101-khalid-and-sabeeha-rehman-23/
LOCATION:Hall of Christ: Sanctuary
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Faith and Spiritual Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270809T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270809T104500
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20260929T140000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260930T151600Z
UID:103758-1817808300-1817808300@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:Jonathan Eig
DESCRIPTION: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 of exceptional storytelling.  \nEig is an award-winning journalist and best-selling biographer whose work explores the lives of influential figures in American history and culture. He received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his book King: A Life\, which was also featured at Chautauqua as a 2025 CLSC selection.  \nDrawing on extensive archival research and narrative storytelling\, he has produced acclaimed biographies that illuminate the intersections of race\, politics\, sports\, social change and American identity. His books are widely recognized for combining rigorous historical scholarship with accessible narrative writing. His work is particularly noted for recovering overlooked historical details and presenting complex historical figures within their broader social and political contexts. Through his writing\, Eig examines leadership\, social transformation\, civil rights and the making of modern America.  \nEig is also the author of Ali: A Life\, a biography of Muhammad Ali\, which won the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award and was named one of the 25 greatest biographies of all time by Esquire magazine. The book inspired a Ken Burns documentary on Ali\, for which Eig served as a producer.  \nEig’s first book\, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig\, reached No. 10 on The New York Times bestseller list and won the Casey Award. The Birth of the Pill\, his fourth book\, is staged as a theatrical production by TimeLine Theatre in Chicago.  \nHe began his professional writing career at age 16\, working for his hometown newspaper\, The Rockland County (N.Y.) Journal News\, studied journalism at Northwestern University\, and went on to work as a reporter for The New Orleans Times-Picayune\, The Dallas Morning News\, Chicago Magazine\, and The Wall Street Journal. He has appeared on the Today Show\, NPR’s Fresh Air\, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/jonathan-eig/
LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Chautauqua Lecture Series,Weekly Themes,Week Seven (August 8–15),CHQ Assembly
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270809T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270809T153000
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20260723T153108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260723T153108Z
UID:102811-1817825400-1817825400@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:Islam 101: Khalid and Sabeeha Rehman
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/islam-101-khalid-and-sabeeha-rehman-24/
LOCATION:Hall of Christ: Sanctuary
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Faith and Spiritual Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270820T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270820T140000
DTSTAMP:20261001T122309
CREATED:20260914T171602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260914T171602Z
UID:103686-1818770400-1818770400@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:Diane Ackerman
DESCRIPTION: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 \nOriginally 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\, essayist\, explorer\, Diane Ackerman weaves together scientific fact with lore\, history\, and voluptuous description. The resulting work is a startling and enchanting account of how human beings experience and savor the world.  \nIt asks and answers such questions as: How do perfumers know which scents allure? Why does music move us? How did kissing on the mouth begin? What is our craving for chocolate? It illuminates the phenomenon of pheromones and looks into the question of whether they control us. Incorporated in its superb reporting and splendid prose are fascinating facts: Humans have about 10\,000 taste buds\, cows 25\,000. What are they tasting\, and what are we missing? It probes such everyday mysteries as why leaves turn color in the fall and why we see them in color; and what it is that causes lovers to feel delight when they touch. A Natural History of the Senses is at once an ingenious exploration of the physical processes underlying our perceptions and an eloquent ode to life.  \nA companion work to A Natural History of the Senses and forthcoming in January 2027\, A Feast in Every Sense is Diane Ackerman’s luscious and tender journey into the mystery of our modern sensory lives\, a grand tour that captures the heady feelings of being alive. She introduces us to receptors that create the creamy sensation of a perfectly ripe avocado\, sound waves that allow us to identify hot versus cold water by sound alone\, skin sensors that lower pain and change brain chemistry at a lover’s touch.  \nThe sensory universe colors every morsel of human existence. Why does sitting in a hard chair make you a harder bargainer? Why does Tylenol decrease empathy? Why does sipping a bitter drink invite harsher moral judgments? How does the time of day you receive a flu vaccine or an organ transplant affect its success? Is airplane food really that dull\, or do our cravings and sense of taste warp at altitude? What sensory rebels have lived at the frontiers of perception? So many mysteries\, good and bad\, can only be understood through our senses.  \nAckerman also uses new scientific discoveries\, like our host of Secret Senses—ever-vigilant scouts—to explain life’s intricacies and understand how the world’s endless stimuli combine with our inner lives to form our deepest thoughts\, feelings\, hardships and joys.  \nBlending history\, science\, personal experience\, and a poet’s eye\, A Feast in Every Sense is both an ambrosial display of how we process the beauty around us and a call to rediscover what it means to be fully embodied and alive in a world brimming with wonders.  \nPoet\, essayist\, and naturalist\, Diane Ackerman is the author of over two dozen highly acclaimed works of nonfiction and poetry\, including The New York Times bestsellers The Zookeeper’s Wife\, A Natural History of the Senses\, and The Human Age. Ms. Ackerman has received the Stephen Hawking Medal for Communicating Science\, P.E.N. Henry David Thoreau Award for Nature Writing\, Orion Book Award\, John O’Donohue Poetry Award\, John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing\, Guggenheim Fellowship\, Lavan Poetry Prize\, an honorary doctorate from Kenyon College\, among many others\, as well as being celebrated as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. Several of her books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Circle Critics Award finalists. In 2016\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She also has the distinction of having a molecule named after her —dianeackerone— a sex pheromone in pygmy crocodiles. Ms. Ackerman has an M.F.A. and PhD from Cornell\, and has taught at a number of universities\, including Columbia and Cornell. Her essays about nature and human nature have been appearing for decades in the New York Times\, New Yorker\, American Scholar\, Smithsonian\, Nautilus\, National Geographic and many other journals. She hosted a five-hour PBS television series inspired by A Natural History of the Senses. In 2017\, The Zookeeper’s Wife was made into a feature film starring Jessica Chastain.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/diane-ackerman/
LOCATION:Hall of Philosophy\, Hall of Philosophy
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC),Weekly Themes,Week Eight (August 15–22),Featured Events,Literary Arts
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