Chautauqua Arts Education During the 2024 Summer Assembly
...3rd and 4th-grade schools to a summer camp-friendly version and customized to a broader age range. From Monday to Thursday, teaching artists dove into classrooms — playing theater games that taught the elements of a play. Younger students created their plays as a class, and older students wrote class and individual plays. By week’s end, students visited Chautauqua Institution to make props and showcase their learning in a grand performance with participating students from each...
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. ### ...
2026 Season
...of novels by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The workshops will conclude with a public presentation of excerpts from each new work, followed by a conversation with the creators. Lorèn will remain in residence throughout the remainder of the season, and a presentation of 60 minutes of music from Anne of Green Gables will be given. The final ten days of the company’s season will be dedicated to an orchestral workshop of Herschel Garfein’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, based on the play by...
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...