Stefan Bindley-Taylor Named Winner Of 2025 Chautauqua Janus Prize For ‘Bread, Meat, And Water’
...changing all at once and all the time, challenging and reshaping values, and dreams even as the foundational impulses that connect us as humans prevail.” As the 2025 prize recipient, Bindley-Taylor will receive $5,000, plus travel and lodging for a week’s writing residency at Chautauqua Institution this summer. He will give a public lecture and reading at a celebratory event at 5 p.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 8, in the parlor of the Athenaeum Hotel as...
Chautauqua Climate Change Initiative: February 2025
...no longer needed, or temporarily when pronghorn are migrating. Over the past two decades, the pronghorn migration project has helped open hundreds of miles of fence-free habitat. As a result, pronghorn numbers are on the rise. In fact, that project is how I found myself in the Paradise Valley 10 summers ago, working alongside my then 10-year-old daughter and other volunteers to take down fences. After a long, sweaty day of clipping and spooling barbed...
2022 Season
...Week Six: July 30–August 6 After Dark: The World of Nighttime What happens to us and our world after the sun goes down each day? From our homes and cities to flora and fauna, each night brings with it a markedly different landscape than the daylit one that preceded it. Nighttime is full of contradictions: It provides cover for all manner of illicit activity but also for safely creating community; it is the domain of...
Chautauqua President Announces Departure
...years, the Institution has explored some of the most important issues of our day while also seeking to adapt to a changing world. Today, we have a tremendous team of staff that is more dedicated than any I have ever served with, a leadership team whose credentials and commitment are unparalleled in the Institution’s history, a program that has never been a stronger symbol of our mission, and a business trajectory that continues to point...
Chautauqua Climate Change Initiative: June 2025
...Decision-Making in the Age of Plastics, at Chautauqua during Week Nine! In between we have a remarkable line up of lectures, films, forums, and classes exploring a diversity of perspectives on our environment, from global climate change to your backyard garden. We’ve got a day-by-day schedule to help you navigate your busy days at Chautauqua and ensure you don’t miss a thing. There are multiple programs each week of the season, and I’ll highlight just...
Sunrise Paddle – Kayak/SUP
Enjoy the beauty of the lake during our sunrise paddle. This is not a guided tour but an opportunity to rent a kayak, SUP or canoe for an enjoyable hour at sunrise. Reservations accepted one day in advance at the Sports Club. Contact sportsclub@chq.org with questions....
2026 Young Artists
...as an exciting communicator of repertoire spanning the baroque to the present day. Upcoming events include a return to Carnegie Hall for her debut as the Mezzo-Soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and her return to Chautauqua Opera. Recent performances of the 2025 season include debuting at Carnegie Hall with Mid America Productions and the New England Symphonic Ensemble in Notareschi’s Climate Mass as well as in Sunday in the Park with George as Celeste 2 and Elaine at the Glimmerglass Festival. Her 2024 season...
Chautauqua Theater Company Announces the World Premiere of ‘Tell Me You’re Dying’ by C.A. Johnson, a Commissioned Post-Apocalyptic Love Story Like No Other
...professional world. CTC is actively building the future of the American theater. ABOUT CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION Chautauqua Institution is a not-for-profit, 750-acre community on Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State where approximately 7,500 people are in residence on any day during a nine-week summer season. More than 100,000 attend scheduled public events each year and even more engage online via the streaming channel CHQ Assembly. Chautauqua is dedicated to the exploration of the best in...
THE WEDDING BANQUET
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris (Bowen Yang) and running out of time, Min (Han Gi-chan)makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) in exchange for her partner Lee’s (Lily Gladstone) expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min’s grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet. Directed by Andrew Ahn (Fire Island). “A modern-day tale with an old-fashioned spirit, a joyous crowd-pleaser with the most romantic of...
Chautauqua Theater Company Invests In New Play Workshop Development
Olga Sanchez Saltveit to Join as Director of New Work Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, today announced the appointment of Olga Sanchez Saltveit as Director of New Work, an inaugural position for the company. Sanchez Saltveit’s hire is the next step in CTC’s initiative to expand New Play Workshop programming and residencies. It also aligns with the overall efforts of Chautauqua Institution to amplify important and diverse American voices...