In the first five minutes of the 2016 season’s first Interfaith Lecture, John Shelby Spong declared that Jesus’s Virgin Birth is most likely fictional, and the question of whether it’s true or not is largely
Chautauqua Institution’s commitment to the arts doesn’t stop at the professional level. On June 20, local students gathered in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall for a
Sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in January, Kirk Kelly was prepared to battle hurricanes, trade winds and equipment failure on a voyage from Europe to Grenada. But not everything he encountered showed up in the
The sounds of Cuba are coming to Chautauqua Institution. Tiempo Libre, a three-time Grammy-nominated seven-man ensemble, will perform at 8:15 p.m. tonight
Theodore Roosevelt once called Chautauqua Institution “the most American thing in America.” As governor of New York, Roosevelt visited the Institution on Aug. 19, 1899, and gave a
In the age of Twitter and WordPress, where anyone with a laptop and a Wi-Fi connection can blast his or her thoughts across the world, Roger Rosenblatt believes there are still titans of literature, and he’s invited them to Chautauqua Institution. Gary Trudeau