Elizabeth O’Connor’s ‘Whale Fall: A Novel’ Wins 2025 Chautauqua Prize
...year’s winning book, O’Connor receives $7,500 and will be presented with the Prize during a celebratory event and public reading at 3:30 p.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 15, in Chautauqua’s Hall of Philosophy. O’Connor said she was deeply grateful and thrilled to accept the Prize this summer at the Institution. “I am profoundly honoured (and still in shock!) to have Whale Fall recognised by The Chautauqua Prize,” O’Connor continued. “It is especially meaningful from an organisation...
Chautauqua Climate Change Initiative: December 2024
...as my siblings, cousins and I tore through present after present, barely pausing to appreciate any individual gift. Americans spend over half a billion dollars on holiday shopping, with the average shopper spending about $1,638 on gifts, travel , and entertainment. Surveys show that many holiday gifts are unwanted, either going unused or in the trash, with one study finding that this annual holiday shopping spree causes 23% more household waste than in other months. ...
Chautauqua Institution Welcomes Gamelan Dharma Swara and Returning Yue Yin Dance Company for Spring Residencies
Chautauqua Institution today announced spring residencies, including Yue Yin Dance Company (YYDC) and Gamelan Dharma Swara. YYDC is set to return to Chautauqua to perform a special preview performance of SOMEWHERE, choreographed by Artistic Director Yue Yin, at the Chautauqua Amphitheater on Thursday, May 23 at 4 p.m. In Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall on Tuesday, May 21 at 4 p.m., Gamelan Dharma Swara will unveil an exclusive preview world premiere of a new Dharma Swara...
Chautauqua Opera Company workshops: Ida by Lamplight and Sitcom
IDA BY LAMPLIGHT IDA BY LAMPLIGHT is the third chamber opera to be realized from Jerre Dye’s anthology libretto THE SUMMER PLACE, commissioned by the Chautauqua Opera Guild, which captures Chautauqua Institution’s history from its founding through today. Jeremy Gill, Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2016 composer-in-residence, will set the 20-minute score. IDA BY LAMPLIGHT invites the audience into the office of THE CHAUTAUQUAN, late one night in 1886. Ida Tarbell, managing editor of THE CHAUTAUQUAN, and...
E.J. Dionne, Jr.
...Journal and among the capital city’s top 50 journalists by the Washingtonian magazine. He was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dionne grew up in Fall River, Mass. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Harvard University and received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He will also be speaking at the 10:45 a.m. Chautauqua Lecture Series platform earlier the same day....