June 2017

Difficult farce ‘Noises Off’ to open CTC season

by Dara McBride on June 29, 2017

If Chautauqua Theater Company members do their jobs right, Noises Off will be a disaster. The 1982 play from English playwright Michael Frayn opens the 2017 CTC season at 8 p.m. Friday and will run

Alec Ryrie tells story of Protestantism through individuals

by Delaney Van Wey on June 29, 2017

Alec Ryrie Nearly 500 years after Martin Luther jump-started the Protestant Reformation, Alec Ryrie will talk to Chautauquans about how

Pagan Kennedy calls for openness and diversity in innovation

by Philip de Oliveira on June 29, 2017

Pagan Kennedy Pagan Kennedy lives at the cutting edge of discovery. She has written about the first gender-confirmation surgery for

Stanford’s Kembel Discusses Design Thinking, Emergent Behavior and Teaching Creativity

by Brian Contreras on June 29, 2017

George Kembel started coming to Chautauqua eight years ago, but it was another two years before his kids came along,

$103.5 million Promise Campaign concludes successful run

by Neville Hardman on June 29, 2017

Board leadership, campaign volunteers and guests gathered last Friday to celebrate the successful conclusion of the Promise Campaign for the

Prose writer-in-residence Laura Maylene Walter to discuss beauty of rejection with Brown Bag lecture

by Ryan Pait on June 29, 2017

Rejection is a part of any writer’s life, and Laura Maylene Walter believes there’s something to be learned from it. Walter is the prose writer-in-residence for Week One at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center, and she’ll

Gity Razaz premieres song at Afternoon Recital

by Nathan Healy on June 29, 2017

Gity Razaz As recently as five days ago, Gity Razaz hadn’t met the woman who penned the poem to which

Gerard pulls double duty as Writer’s Center program director and co-editor of ‘Chautauqua’ literary journal

by Ryan Pait on June 29, 2017

In 2007, on the day of her wedding, Jill Gerard got a husband — and a job offer. Right before

Morning Worship: Reinvention of metaphors leads to conversion

by Mary Lee Talbot on June 29, 2017

“There is no getting away from stories. There is a movie going on in our heads and we don’t understand

Professor Laurie Patton discusses the religion that makes her face glow

by Kelly Powell on June 29, 2017

Make sure not to cling to anything or anyone too tightly. Laurie Patton, president of Middlebury College, discussed releasing the

Edward Work leads a reshuffled Athenaeum Hotel kitchen

by John Ford on June 29, 2017

The departure of the Athenaeum Hotel’s executive chef during the off-season triggered a number of changes in the hotel’s kitchen staff, with promotions and realignments of duties hinting at some menu innovations. It all starts

Artist Gideon Bok to lecture on perceptual work, emerging ideas in art

by Adrianna Jereb on June 29, 2017

Gideon Bok believes a painting should get more interesting the longer the viewer examines it. “I often think of paintings

Conservation and community lead annual ‘Save the Lake’ Pro-Am

by Josh Svetz on June 29, 2017

Threats of inclement weather didn’t stop club professionals and amateur golfers from playing at the 31st Annual Charity Pro-Am Golf

Archivist Jon Schmitz to recount and debunk Chautauqua stories in Oliver Archives Heritage Lecture Series

by David Geary on June 29, 2017

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion famously observed in her essay “The White Album.” Chautauqua Institution

Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk opens the CSO season with Tchaikovsky

by Philip de Oliveira on June 28, 2017

Anyone lucky enough to wander into Alexander Gavrylyuk’s studio while he’s practicing might be surprised to find Tolstoy instead of

Rabbi Ed Feinstein believes the ‘chutzpah’ within us gives purpose

by Delaney Van Wey on June 28, 2017

Rabbi Ed Feinstein wants people to see God in the hearts of those around them, not as an otherworldly figure far removed from mankind. At 2 p.m. Thursday in the Hall of Philosophy, Feinstein will

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