Waste Management
...be collected. Community Clean-up Days Chautauqua Institution holds two Community Clean-up Days for residents. Our Facilities and Grounds team collects household and landscape waste materials once in the spring and fall. A summary of the collection schedule for our Community Clean-Up Days is here. Household Waste Community Clean-up Days: Spring Clean-up Day: First Wednesday of June Fall Clean-up Day: Last Wednesday of August Yard Trimmings and Brush Waste Community Clean-up Days are between April 1 and October...
The Smith Memorial Library
...laptop workstations, and public desktop computers Copy, print, scan & fax service Follow Us on Facebook Contact Information Scott Ekstrom Library Director sekstrom@chq.org 716-357-6296 Closed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Good Friday, Easter, Mother’s Day, Day before Memorial Day, Memorial Day, Father’s Day, Labor Day Weekend, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Thanksgiving, the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Search, Hold, Renew and Download catalog-search & hold...
Maps and Directions
...p.m. Sundays –Shuttle service suspended for 2021 on Sundays only private and share ride available. Buffalo Intl. Airport → CHQ • 1:30 p.m. CHQ → Buffalo Intl. Airport • 6:45–7:30 a.m. & 3–3:30 p.m. Private Service – Available Anytime 7 Days a week all year (Sedans, SUV’s Vans, Buses) Share Private Service – Share the cost of the Private service with another traveler-available anytime 7 Days a week during season. Also servicing airports: Toronto, Ontario,...
President Michael E. Hill’s Keynote Address at the Eradicate Hate Global Summit
...followed the attack on August 12th, and amid what became an international deluge of media reports, an eerie thing started to happen. We went from a long-form narrative to this shorthand: August 12th. Everyone who was there that day or who loves Chautauqua could instantly fill in myriad details from voicing a simple month and day. Many of you have spent the day talking about May 14th, the day that a white supremacist shooter stripped...
Chautauqua Writers’ Center
...Our three-day (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) workshops are taught in a small group setting by a different set of extraordinary writers-in-residence each week of our summer season. All workshops are held on the second floor of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall. (Located on the south end of the grounds on Wythe Ave. across the grove from the Hall of Philosophy.) Weekly prose and poetry workshops have been the core of the Chautauqua Writers’ Center...
Plan Your Day Trip
Plan Your Day Trip! There is a place with picturesque gardens, breathtakingly beautiful architecture, thought-provoking lectures, and powerful performances. Where friends and families are invited to live, learn, and laugh on the shores of Chautauqua Lake. So, take the day to rest, recharge and reconnect. This unforgettable experience can be found in only one place — Chautauqua Institution. Plaza Cam Events Plan Your Visit Maps FAQs Things to Do Discover CHQ Attend a Concert New...
President Michael E. Hill Delivers Remarks at the Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Remembrance Service at Hurlbut Church
...subhuman. We cannot celebrate Dr. King today if we denigrate and objectify women. We cannot celebrate Dr. King today if we reduce our brothers and sisters from Mexico and Central America to a narrative of illegal immigration. We cannot celebrate Dr. King today if we turn our backs on the plight of the refugee seeking the very American dream all our ancestors believed in and yearned for as a cover for terrorism and fear. It...
Margo Price and Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah, Cheryl Strayed, Brian McLaren Headline Week Six of Chautauqua Institutions 2021 Season
...Amphitheater or the Performance Pavilion on Pratt, with some offerings available via livestream and on-demand through the CHQ Assembly platform. 4 p.m. Saturday, July 31, Performance Pavilion on Pratt: Half scripted, half improvisation and playing like a Shakespeare improv with modern day language, Chautauqua Theater Company’s Commedia will delight with familiar yet ridiculous storylines and references ripped from today’s headlines. The production will see addition stagings at the same time on Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday. 8:15 p.m. Saturday, July 31, Amphitheater: Conducted by...
Elizabeth Kolbert, Ted Chiang, Ariel Ekblaw, Alicia Olatuja, Return of Beloved Independence Day Traditions Headline Week Two of Chautauqua Institution’s 2021 Season
...from President Barack Obama’s 2013 inauguration Alicia Olatuja. The week also features the return of two beloved community Independence Day traditions: The students of the Music School Festival Orchestra step in for the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra to perform the popular Independence Day Celebration program on Saturday, and the Chautauqua Community Band entertains the Fourth of July crowd with a Bestor Plaza concert on free-admission Sunday. Chautauqua Institution’s nine-week season features weekday lectures focusing on weekly...
Chautauqua County Day
Explore locally and come to Chautauqua Institution on Chautauqua County Day. Residents of Chautauqua County have free admission and parking* all day. Our Chautauqua County Day includes access to all events in the Amphitheater and Hall of Philosophy that day, beaches, and so much more! Please bring proof of residency for entry. Youth 12 and under are always free at Chautauqua! Events: 9:15 a.m. (Amphitheater) Morning Worship: The Rev. Dr. M. Craig Barnes, President Emeritus,...