The Marlena Magic: Beloved Opera Conservatory Director Malas honored at...
Former and current students, lifetime Chautauquans, and people from all generations gathered last Friday evening in McKnight Hall to celebrate Marlena Kleinman Malas with a dinner and celebration to...
View ArticleWith Josh Stafford as guide, Nicholas Stigall spends summer as 1st organ scholar
Balancing on a beam, a pair of hands were steady and ready for the next move. These hands would go on to rhythmically press down on keys, feet pushing down on pedals. Slow, precise movements can make...
View ArticleCISM team responds to Chautauqua community following Salman Rushdie attack
In coordination with Chautauqua County Executive P.J. Wendel, in the aftermath of the Friday morning attack and subsequent evacuation of the Amphitheater and lockdown of the grounds, Chautauqua...
View ArticleThe African American Heritage Corner Week Eight
The year was 1885 and the United States temperance movement — a sociopolitical push to limit the use of alcohol across the country — was alive and well. Religious activists, citing moral stain as a...
View ArticleSheila Schroeder’s Women’s Club talk to focus on financial empowerment
There are all sorts of reasons why people are reluctant to talk to family, friends and even professionals, about money. Among the most prevalent and enduring reasons is that from a very young age, many...
View ArticleEzelle Sanford, discussing racial politics in health care, to give AAHH...
Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are renowned the world over for their prestige, but their histories include hard truths only recently being faced. The fall of 2020 saw...
View ArticleWeek Nine Letter From the President
Chautauqua is often compared to a masterful weaving, a vibrant cloth of many colors that in its entirety is beautiful to behold. But the true beauty of a woven work of art is not the finished product,...
View ArticleA fond farewell: Outgoing CTC artistic director, colleagues reflect on Andrew...
Outgoing Artistic Director Andrew Borba’s tenure with Chautauqua Theater Company is old enough to vote. Over the span of the last 18 years, Borba has played many roles within the company. He’s been an...
View ArticleFor Contemporary Issues Forum, Doyle Stevick to talk movement from...
Try to imagine what it may have been like for a master’s student in classical studies — one who has excavated Mediterranean archaeological sites in Israel, Greece and Sicily and is on the classical...
View ArticleThrough ongoing partnership with Jefferson Project, Chautauqua officials...
Last Thursday, Aug. 11, Chautauquans gathered for a boat tour of The Jefferson Project’s sensors on Chautauqua Lake, followed by a reception featuring a Q-and-A with The Jefferson Project...
View ArticleGlenstone’s Paul Tukey to discuss work on environmental revitalization in...
Over its nearly 150-year existence, Chautauqua has celebrated the environment and is working to become a leading model in sustainability. With the recent addition of the Climate Change Initiative,...
View ArticleKomacek to discuss Earth-like exoplanets, scientific challenges for CWC
Launched a mere eight months ago, on Christmas 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope is the largest optical telescope in space. Its primary mirror consists of 18 hexagonal mirror segments that together...
View ArticleRev. Dwight D. Andrews returns to Chautauqua for Week 9 AAHH talk
The first time the Rev. Dwight D. Andrews served as chaplain-in-residence at Chautauqua, in 2015, he told the congregation that he’d find ways to play his saxophone in church more, and that he would...
View ArticleSara Ponkow Falvo elected to trustee seat following postponed vote, meetings
Following a vote by Chautauqua Corporation members last week, Sara Ponkow Falvo was elected as the newest Class B trustee on the Chautauqua Institution Board of Trustees. The vote took place during...
View ArticleThe African American Heritage Corner Week Nine
The beauty of Chautauqua rests in its otherworldliness. From the rustling of the oak trees as you sit within the Hall of Philosophy, to the quiet peace of a walk along the lake before the sun has...
View ArticleClimate Change Initiative to host cycling event, fundraiser
During the weekend of Sept. 16, Chautauqua Institution will become a hub of two-wheeled activity, as the Chautauqua Climate Change Initiative hosts its first-ever Green Fondo Climate Ride for cyclists...
View ArticleCHQ Women’s Club president Himebaugh looks to past, future legacy
Since its inception in 1889, presidents and members of the Chautauqua Women’s Club have been influential in state, regional, national and even global policymaking — not only as leaders in the growth of...
View ArticleOur Stories & Our Friendships
One of the things that many Chautauquans like to do is to tell their “Chautauqua Origin Story.” For some, you and your family members have been coming here for generations. For many others, it is often...
View ArticleFor Women’s Club, Sandy Hook mother Lewis to put forth courageous solutions...
Lewis Deborah TreftsStaff Writer When Forbes chose Scarlett Lewis as one of its inaugural 2021 class of “50 Over 50,” she had by then already accrued more than 20 meaningful awards in a very short...
View ArticleBTG’s weekly walks provide educational lake opportunities
Chautauqua Utility District Superintendent Mike Starks gives Chautauquans a tour of CUD’s Water Filtration Plant last Monday. HG Biggs/Staff Photographer Mariia NovoseliaStaff writer Even without the...
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