Makayla Santiago-Froebel
Makayla Santiago- Froebel joins as the Arts Marketing Specialist, having just over eight years of experience working in arts and cultural institutions. She previously worked at Chautauqua, with roles in dance and ticketing operations, and was most recently employed as the Communications & Development Coordinator at the Center for Elder Law & Justice in Buffalo, New York, and the Development Associate at Mark Morris Dance Group in Brooklyn, New York. In addition, her tenure includes...
PBS and Chautauqua Institution Announce Production of a Documentary
The New Documentary, Airing in Early 2025, Celebrates One of the Nation’s First Centers of Lifelong Learning and Features Special Performances from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis PASADENA, CA; July 15, 2024 — Today at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, PBS and Chautauqua Institution announced the production of a new one-hour documentary film, CHAUTAUQUA AT 150: WYNTON MARSALIS’ ALL RISE, to air on PBS in early 2025. Produced by...
Your Visit
...as a schoolhouse for the summer program, and accordingly, its original name was “Normal Hall.” In 2000, with the advocacy of the Friends of Chautauqua Theater Company and a successful Institutional capital campaign, a major renovation took place, and the beautiful, 269-seat, newly named Bratton Theater was inaugurated. A significant accomplishment in preservation and renovation, the original laminated beam structure of Normal Hall is still in place today. Under the direction of architect Mitchell Kurtz, the...
Chautauqua Climate Change Initiative Fall Update 2023
...learn about how direct air capture and geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide might someday help meaningfully reduce excess greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. Days after returning from Iceland, we were surprised and delighted to see the facility we had just visited on the cover of the National Geographic November 2023 edition. While the CarbFix technology is still a long way from solving the climate crisis, we were encouraged to learn that early successes have led...
Rami Nashashibi
...Law, legislation which passed in late 2020 to help transform police accountability in Buffalo, New York. He has worked with several leading scholars in the area of globalization, African American studies and urban sociology and has contributed chapters to edited volumes by Manning Marable and Saskia Sassen. Rami has lectured around the world on a range of topics related to American Muslim identity, community organizing and social justice issues and has received many prestigious community...
Howard Teibel
Howard Teibel is the founder and president of Teibel Education, a national consulting firm serving colleges and universities in leadership, financial strategy, and organizational health. With over 35 years of experience, he hosts the Navigating Change podcast and speaks widely on higher education transformation. A lifelong Chautauquan, Howard grew up in Buffalo, NY, and now spends summers on the grounds with his wife, Pam, and their two sons....
Ken Burns and Jeffrey Rosen
...and Jeffrey Rosen back to the Amphitheater stage for a two-day conversation on themes and threads from the pair’s latest projects: for Burns, the November 2025 PBS documentary “The American Revolution,” and for Rosen, his October 2025 book The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton and Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America. Ken Burns has been making documentary films for almost fifty years. Since the Academy Award nominated “Brooklyn Bridge” in 1981, Burns...
Angelo Giuffre (Full Time Officer)
...team, and as an Investigator for a period of time. I then moved to Florida and worked as a dispatcher for the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office. After moving back to the area, I worked with the Sheriff’s Office on the Buffalo Bill’s security detail. In my free time, I sing in the choir at my church with my daughter and am involved in our newly formed youth group at St. James Church in Jamestown. I...
Ken Burns and Jeffrey Rosen
...and Jeffrey Rosen back to the Amphitheater stage for a two-day conversation on themes and threads from the pair’s latest projects: for Burns, the November 2025 PBS documentary “The American Revolution,” and for Rosen, his October 2025 book The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton and Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America. Ken Burns has been making documentary films for almost fifty years. Since the Academy Award nominated “Brooklyn Bridge” in 1981, Burns...
Chautauqua Climate Change Initiative Fall 2021 Update
...use. Ultimately, we will rely on lots of collaborative partnerships to achieve our climate goals. One of the most exciting new partnerships we are developing is with SUNY’s University at Buffalo, which along with other neighboring institutions of higher education (SUNY Fredonia and Jamestown Community College) is a member of the Second Nature Climate Leadership Network. In October, John Shedd, Matt Ewalt, and I met with UB’s Chief Sustainability Officer, director of the School of Architecture and Planning,...