The rain didn’t dampen the moods of young Chautauquans as they attended their annual Teddy Bear Picnic Wednesday, Aug. 22, at Children’s School. The kids brought elephants, scorpions, dogs and cats to the picnic. The
With few “Endless Summer Nights” left, Chautauquans can find comfort in the fact that the grounds will be “Right Here Waiting” for them next summer. Singer-songwriter Richard Marx will give the penultimate popular entertainment evening
As a documentary filmmaker, Grace Lee often talks about who should get to tell what stories. White men make up the largest demographic of filmmakers, but documentary films are usually about communities of color, Lee
Though Rebecca Cammisa’s documentary film “Atomic Homefront” was filmed in St. Louis, she said the story is universal, and it’s “symbolic” that she is bringing the film to Chautauqua. “The reality is the same problem
Lisa Klein There is a stigmatized, misunderstood word that starts with the letter “s”: suicide. Some people are apprehensive to discuss it; but in her documentary “The S Word,” filmmaker Lisa Klein does just that.
In September 1219, two men met on a bloodied battlefield of the Fifth Crusade. Egyptian sultan Malik al-Kamil and St. Francis of Assisi were from two different worlds, said Michael Calabria, OFM. The sultan was
In northern New Mexico, there is a city called Taos. It is home to less than 6,000 people, but it was lifted to national recognition when Buffalo-born Mabel Dodge Luhan moved to the city in
In 2017, the top-grossing documentaries were Disney’s “Born in China” and Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro,” earning more than $13 million and $7 million in the United States, respectively, according to The Numbers.
According to Daniel Karslake, he won “the birth lottery.” Karslake is part of the sixth generation of an eight-generation Chautauqua family. He spent his summers on Merrill, just down the hill from the Hall of
Chautauqua’s second annual Food Festival will expand to include another F-word: film. The Food & Film Festival will take place all of Week Nine to coincide with the week’s theme, “Documentary Film as Facilitator: Storytelling,
So far in the 2018 season, Nick and Sandi Stupiansky have taught an average of 56 kids a week at Children’s School about gardening. The Stupianskys, who are master gardeners in the Bird, Tree &
When Abby Smith Rumsey started working at the Library of Congress, she was worried about the amount of information being produced digitally. “I was very aware that inside the library, people who knew about the
On May 4, 1970, Thomas Grace was attending classes at Kent State University. Anti-war protests were scheduled to continue on the campus for the fourth day in response to the United States’ invasion of Cambodia.
More than 12 hours after Chautauqua Opera Company’s production of As One, Joey Reyes was still processing the material. It was the first time Reyes had seen a transgender person as a main character in
Usually plungers are found near a toilet and not in a bucket of paint. Children’s School celebrated Week Seven’s theme, “The Arts and Global Understanding,” with different art practices, including using plungers to paint the
Chautauqua Opera Company performed three productions during the 2018 season. The operas were spread out over seven weeks, and none of them happened within a week of each other. That will change for Chautauqua Opera’s