Decision Making in the Age of Plastics: A choose-your-own-adventure style guide to purchasing while balancing your health, the planet and your budget.
...choose-your-own-adventure style guidebook are to help protect you and your family’s health, to protect the ocean, to protect the planet, to save you money or help you spend it wisely, to eradicate buyer’s remorse, and to inject a heap of learning and some fun along the way. This event is the official launch of this high-impact book. Copies will be available at the Chautauqua Bookstore by August 13 and on the day of the event....
Seven Finalists Named for 2025 Chautauqua Prize
...Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer — and year-round through the CHQ Assembly online platform — with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. ### ...
2025 Season
Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2025 Season For its 2025 season, Chautauqua Opera continues its 95-year history of producing opera at Chautauqua Institution while also strengthening its commitment to developing new opera. Alongside a production of Puccini’s La bohème in Chautauqua’s Amphitheater, the company will conduct workshops of three new operas. Ranging from chamber operas to large-scale pieces, these workshops will feature Chautauqua Opera Company’s 16 Young Artists collaborating with celebrated composers and librettists. Chautauqua audiences will...
Deborah F. Rutter
...the Arts, and established the Hip Hop Culture Council to create new pathways and deepen public knowledge of hip-hop. Notably, she led the planning, design, construction and celebrated 16-day opening festival of the Kennedy Center’s first physical expansion — The REACH — encompassing 72,000 sq. ft. of indoor space and 130,000 sq. ft. outdoor green space to accommodate an increased number of festivals, exhibitions and community impact initiatives. Rutter began her career at the Los...
Deanna Nikaido and Sally Wen Mao
Chautauqua Writers’ Center Faculty Reading — Week One — Featuring Deanna Nikaido (Poetry) and Sally Wen Mao (Fiction) Deanna Nikaido is the author of two collections of poetry, Voice Like Water and Vibrating with Silence and holds a degree in Illustration from Art Center College of Design. She was the literacy coach for Book-in-a-Day, teaching poetry and book publication to students and was a Regional Coordinator in Maryland for the national recitation program, Poetry Out...