Events for July 21, 2026
CHQ Mystic Heart – Bhante Chipamong Chowdhury, Theravada Buddhism / Mindfulness Meditation
Originally from Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh), Bhante (Chipamong Chowdhury) is a contemplative teacher, researcher, storyteller and monastic activist. He became a monk at the age of 6 and received traditional Buddhist education, monastic training and meditation in Sri Lanka and Myanmar (1998-2006). He also studied at the University of Toronto Canada, Naropa University Colorado, Arizona...
Episcopal Holy Eucharist
Chautauqua Prays for Peace though Compassion
Cantor Olivia Brodsky
Cantor Olivia Brodsky serves as Cantor and Co-Clergy of East End Temple in Manhattan, alongside Rabbi Joshua Stanton. She is a vocalist dedicated to preserving Jewish culture and tradition while making it evermore applicable to daily life and accessible for people of all generations. Brodsky is passionate about engaging a diverse community of people with...
Dr. John Atkinson: “Are Technical Improvements Actually Improving Recycling?”
Chautauqua Science Group Weekly Lecture John D. Atkinson is an environmental engineering professor at the University at Buffalo, where he created the University’s most popular study abroad course and has been recognized as an Early Career Teacher of the Year, Outstanding Director, Experiential Learning Faculty Fellow, and Best Undergraduate Mentor. His work is driven by...
Service of Blessing and Healing
Aja Barber
Aja Barber is a writer and sustainability consultant focusing on the intersections of sustainability, fashion, and the textile industry. Her work explores the traditions of privilege, wealth inequality, racism, feminism, colonialism, and how these systems of power affect our buying habits. Consumed is her debut book, a treatise on the state of fashion, climate change,...
Play CHQ: Juggling with Zach Fish
From Disposability to Ingenuity & Decision-Making in the Age of Plastics: Lecture and Book Launch.
Bird, Tree & Garden Club lunchtime lecture series In this combined presentation and book launch, Rachael will first share stories about the consequences of the Era of Disposability and innovative ways to address them. These will be based on Rachael and her team's own experiences working around the world to address marine debris and are...
CHQ Mystic Heart – Bhante Chipamong Chowdhury, Theravada Buddhism / Mindfulness Meditation
Originally from Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh), Bhante (Chipamong Chowdhury) is a contemplative teacher, researcher, storyteller and monastic activist. He became a monk at the age of 6 and received traditional Buddhist education, monastic training and meditation in Sri Lanka and Myanmar (1998-2006). He also studied at the University of Toronto Canada, Naropa University Colorado, Arizona...
CHQ Dialogues
English Lawn Bowling Tips
Athenaeum Hotel History Lecture – “Past, Present, and Future of the Athenaeum Hotel.”
School of Music: Open Recital
Sonya S. Cronin
Sonya S. Cronin, Ph.D., is a scholar of the New Testament and a public theologian whose work moves between the ancient text and the contemporary prison. She teaches in the Department of Religion at Florida State University, where she earned her doctorate, and leads courses for FSU’s International Programs in London and Florence. She is...
CHQ Dialogues
School of Music Piano Faculty Recital: José Ramón Méndez
Described as "an artist with a polished sound and tremendous constructive power" and hailed by the Hoja del Lunes de Madrid, as "the Spanish pianist of his generation," José Ramón Méndez is one of the most exciting Spanish pianists of today. Recent performances include Chopin's first piano concerto with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra and...
Play CHQ: TP Roll Painting
Chautauqua Opera Conservatory: Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Librettist: Original text by Emanuel Schickaneder, English dialogue translation by Nathan Troup Stage Director: Nathan Troup Conductor: Stephen Hargreaves In Mozart’s comic opera The Magic Flute, Prince Tamino embarks on a journey to rescue Pamina, only to discover that the true battle isn’t between people, but between ignorance and understanding. Guided...
MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD
If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly queer but intensely private, Oliver was America's unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself—and her readers—to...
CHQ Mystic Heart -Labyrinth History and Meditation
Bring gate pass. Adjacent to Turner Community Center
Chautauqua Theater Company Presents Best for Baby
WORLD PREMIERE By Sharyn Rothstein Directed by Oliver Butler Bratton Theater Best for Baby and its devilishly funny emcee takes audiences inside Johnson & Johnson’s decades-long and still evolving baby powder scandal. A Big American Play ripped straight from the headlines, this world premiere is equal parts showbiz spectacle and intimate human storytelling, brought to...
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s “Eroica”
Timothy Muffitt, conductor Under the baton of Timothy Muffitt, the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra opens with Christopher Theofanidis’s Rainbow Body, a luminous work inspired by one of Hildegard von Bingen’s medieval chants. Closing out the night is Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”, an evolutionary masterpiece that ushered in an era of new symphonic music. Equally expansive...
POWER BALLAD
When Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Nick Jonas) during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session. But when Danny turns one of Rick's songs into the hit that reignites his career, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves. Writer-director...