Marie Arana
...from domestic workers and day laborers to successful artists, corporate CEOs, and US senators. Formerly solidly Democratic, they now vote Republican in growing numbers. They are as culturally varied as any immigrants from Europe or Asia. Marie Arana draws on her own experience as the daughter of an American mother and Peruvian father who came to the US at age nine, straddling two worlds, as many Latinos do. “Thorough, accessible, and necessary” (Ms. magazine), LatinoLand...
Sigrid Jakob: “Fruiting Bodies and Big Ideas: a Citizen Science Adventure”
Bird, Tree & Garden Club lunchtime lecture series Sigrid Jakob is a freelance marketing strategist during the day and mycophile in her spare time. She’s an avid member and president of the New York Mycological Society, a mushroom club that goes out and observes fungi in New York City’s parks 52 weeks a year. She extracts fungal DNA in her home lab, incubates dung fungi, writes and lectures....
Four Leaders Join Institution Board
...Pennsylvania. When they are not at their Chautauqua home, Dave and his wife, Cindy (Warman), a multigenerational Chautauquan, reside in Wayne, Pennsylvania. They have three adult children who frequently join them at Chautauqua in the summer. 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...
‘Epic Collaboration’
Bush 3rd Graders’ Imagination Takes Center Stage Through CHQ Young Playwrights Project Applause, cheers, and excitement filled the auditorium of Bush Elementary School as the special guests bowed. “Did you enjoy that play?” asks Emily Olcott, one of four teaching artists visiting the school that day from Chautauqua Institution. “YES!” the children replied in unison following the short performance. “Well, great! Because we’re going to perform another play for you except… This one hasn’t been...
Chautauqua Adopts 2050 Net Zero Carbon Goal
...our community members.” Board Resolution (Appendix D, page 11): https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024.05.04-Draft-Minutes-Board-of-Trustees.pdf Leadership Letter Below 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...
Chautauqua Travels
...Vienna’s Musical & Holiday Splendor with David Levy November 28–December 4, 2026 Learn More Bohemian Rhapsody: Prague’s Music and Culture with Rossen Milanov April 12–19, 2027 Learn More Colonial Williamsburg: Ideas that Shaped a Nation with Jordan Steves May 3–7, 2027 Learn More England in Bloom with Betsy Burgeson May 14–21, 2027 Learn More Cannes Film Festival with Marta Lamperova and Laura Savia May 17–23, 2027 Learn More Clean Energy and a Changing Climate in...
Only at Chautauqua: Lectures
...breadth and depth of the work we do together each summer. Thank you for your engagement each weekday morning, and for continuing the conversations over lunch and on porches through the rest of the day — and for taking the words and lessons you hear from our lecturers and putting them into action in your lives and home communities. That’s where the rubber meets the road in terms of Chautauqua’s true impact. In 2026, wow, do...
CSO Announces Music Director Rossen Milanov four-year contract extension
Chautauqua, N.Y.- Chautauqua Institution today announced a four-year extension for Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra (CSO) Music Director and Principal Symphonic Conductor Rossen Milanov. The extension follows 10 successful seasons of CSO programming on Chautauqua Institution’s renowned Amphitheater stage. “I am overjoyed that Chautauqua Institution will continue to be blessed with Maestro Milanov’s leadership in the coming years,” said Vice President of Performing and Visual Arts Laura Savia. “Rossen is a consummate musician, a discerning leader and...
Chautauqua Theater Company ‘The Crossover:’ New Musical Announces Acclaimed Creative Team
...of its major achievements includes Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles, which was originally developed at CTC and later had a celebrated run on Broadway. CTC has entered a new era of artistic excellence under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll, commissioning plays by Kate Hamill (The Light and The Dark, 2024 CTC World Premiere), C.A. Johnson (The Witnesses, 2025 CTC World Premiere), and Sharyn Rothstein, and developing new works by Chisa Hutchinson, Mike...
Weddings & Conferences
...many options for your reception including inside our grand hotel dining room or ballroom, outside on the front lawn, or again by the bell tower on the lake. Lodging is also available for all of your guests. Hosting a destination wedding at our beautiful hotel provides endless possibilities to make your special day as perfect as you can imagine. Chautauqua Institution looks forward to hosting your wedding celebration. All couples are welcome. Download our complete...