The Great American Picnic has become an iconic Chautauqua event — iconic enough that footage from it appears in the Chautauqua Promise Campaign video,
Literary Arts
The Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall will have a full house in Week Four. In addition to the regular poetry and prose workshops, the
When Ann Hood was asked to do a TED Talk a few years ago, she blanked. She spent a lot of time thinking about
From his rural beginning in Alabama, to a march at the side of Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, D.C., John Lewis fought his
Poet Charles Coe grew up in Indianapolis in the late 50s and early 60s, a time when he said the city lived under de
After a move to Bestor Plaza last year, the Authors Among Us book fair will undergo another change in its fourth year on the
Week Three’s workshops at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center are all about people. Ann Hood Writers Ann Hood and Charles Coe will help their students
As a child growing up in Georgia, Kim T. Griswell often felt silenced by the world around her. “I grew up in the South
The people featured in Larissa MacFarquhar’s Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help seem decidedly ordinary in their
In Roddy Doyle’s book Brilliant, children are faced with the difficulties of life, inspiring conversations about depression and overcoming strife. The Abrahamic Program for
Becoming familiar with the frogs that live in Mayville may make one a better poet. Or, at least, a better person — one who is
When Kim Rambacher lost the paper mementos of his wife Marcia on the beach in Florida, he never thought he’d see them again. But
Students in Week Two’s workshops at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center will learn how to use their unique authorial voices and how to look to
When Philip Gerard was a child, he made a list of some of the things he wanted to accomplish in life: he wanted to fall
As a doctor and mom to two boys, Maggie Leffler has a lot on her plate. But she finds time in her busy schedule to
Ann Patchett will be one of the first few guests on the morning lecture platform at Chautauqua Institution this year, but the person who