Rates and Sales Schedule
Rates and Fees for Passes, Tickets and Registrations All information and prices subject to change. Ticket Office Monday–Thursday: 10 a.m.–4 p.m. ticketoffice@chq.org 716.357.6250, option 5 Ticket Phones/Contact Center: Monday–Thursday: 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Order online: tickets.chq.org Welcome Center Information Desk Monday–Thursday: 10 a.m.–4 p.m. infooffice@chq.org 716.357.6200 Main Gate Welcome & Business Center Monday–Thursday: 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Visitors Center on Bestor Plaza Post Office Building Closed until the 2026 Season 2026 Summer Assembly Sales Schedule and Rates...
Noah Falck and Sunita Puri
...Review, Literary Hub, Poetry Daily, Poets.org and anthologized in Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion. In 2013, he founded the Silo City Reading Series, an immersive, multimedia poetry event series that takes place inside a 120-foot-high, 100-year-old abandoned grain elevator. He works as Literary Director at Just Buffalo Literary Center and lives in Buffalo, New York. Dr. Sunita Puri is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, where...
Chautauqua Celebrates 150 Years of Seasons and Stories With a Packed Calendar of Events and Special Initiatives
...Hotel historic tours, and weekly tours of the Miller-Edison Cottage and Gardens. The Miller-Edison Cottage was the Chautauqua home of famous inventor Thomas Edison and wife Mina Miller Edison, the daughter of one of Chautauqua’s founders, Lewis Miller. Chautauqua’s Bird, Tree and Garden Club will host free tours each Wednesday of the cottage’s Ellen Biddle Shipman-inspired garden. A member of the Chautauqua Archives staff will lead the Cottage Tours each Tuesday and Thursday of the...
Week Five 2026
...In 2025 the National Head Start Association made Merchant their national artist-in-residence. A few days following her lecture, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, August 2, 2026, Merchant will be joined by the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra for a free family concert, “Cabinet of Wonder Live!” Under the baton of Principal Pops Conductor Stuart Chafetz, the concert will be a joyful reimagining of Mother Goose developed in collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and will also include...
Week Eight 2026
...the table. Confirmed Lectures August 17 @ 10:45 am Week Eight (August 15–22) Danielle Nierenberg Amphitheater | CHQ Assembly $40 View Details Danielle Nierenberg Monday, August 17th 2026 @ 10:45 am Amphitheater & Online How To Access This Event Gate Pass Holder Access to this event is included with the Gate Pass. Single Tickets Price: $40 Purchase Single Tickets Online View this event on Chautauqua Institution’s YouTube paid membership channel. Register/Sign-up Danielle Nierenberg Danielle Nierenberg...
Refund and Cancellation Policies
...own risk. We urge everyone to purchase tickets at the Chautauqua Institution Ticket Office or by visiting tickets.chq.org. We’re here to help Ticket Office Monday–Thursday: 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Ticket Phones/Contact Center: Monday–Thursday: 10 a.m.–4 p.m. ticketoffice@chq.org 716.357.6250 , option 5 Order online: tickets.chq.org Welcome Center Central Information Desk Monday–Thursday: 10 a.m.–4 p.m. infooffice@chq.org 716.357.6200 Main Gate Welcome Center Monday–Thursday: 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Ticket Refund Policies Gate Pass Refund Policy (Gate passes that include an overnight)...
Resident Guest Pass Program
...start as early as*: Can Expire as late as*: Can be coupled with Overnight Gate Pass**? Monday–Friday 11:30 a.m. Midnight Yes, if purchasing 4 p.m.–midnight RGP Saturday 8 a.m. Midnight Yes, if purchasing 4 p.m.–midnight RGP *Up to an eight-hour period **Overnight Gate Pass is $15 and is valid from 10 p.m. to 10 a.m. the next day. How to purchase an RGP: The host brings their gate pass to the Will Call window and...
Group One
...as a transition between Children’s School and Boys’ and Girls’ Club. This special full-day program (9 a.m.–noon and 2–4 p.m.) is held Monday–Friday and uses the Sheldon Hall of Education facilities in the morning and the Boys’ and Girls’ Club facilities in the afternoon. The program includes active play, arts activities, swimming instruction and waterfront activities, nature programs, and special events. Children remain with the same teachers/counselors throughout the day. Chautauqua Institution will communicate with...
Laura Marris and Nishant Batsha
...first book, The Age of Loneliness, was published by Graywolf 2024. She teaches creative writing at the University at Buffalo. Nishant Batsha is the author of the novels A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2025) and Mother Ocean Father Nation (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2022). He holds a doctorate in history from Columbia University, where he was a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. Originally from Northern California, he now lives in Buffalo, NY with his family....
Jason Riley
...documentary film “Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World.” In 2022 he published The Black Boom, an analysis of Black economic progress prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. His most recent book, The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Black Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed, was published in 2025. Riley earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has also worked for USA Today and the Buffalo News....