MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Stand-up comedian and writer Leighann lord gives a morning lecture Tuesday July 27, 2021 in the Amphitheater. KRISTEN TRIPLETT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER All bets were off when Leighann Lord took the Amphitheater
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Lovitt Although confined to Zoom last year like most other people, comedian Benji Lovitt is used to going out and about all around the world. Born in Dallas, Lovitt, who
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Michael Krasny, retired host of KQED’s “Forum” and author of Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means, delivers his lecture “Jewish Humor:
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Apollo's Fire Apollo’s Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, will be bringing Baroque back to Chautauqua at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, July 27 in the Amphitheater. Tonight’s performance, titled “Apollo’s Fire: Love
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Lord Leighann Lord had not one, but two first loves: writing and theater. For the last couple of decades, she’s pursued both loves as a stand-up comedian. “I love writing,”
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Krasny Michael Krasny is an educator through and through, in the classroom and beyond. Starting in 1970, Krasny became a professor of literature at San Francisco State University. From there,
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Rabbi Gary Zola, executive director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, delivers his lecture “American Exceptionalism vs. American Jewish Exceptionalism: Actualizing Religious Freedom in U.S.
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Michael Martin, executive director of Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara Counties, delivers his lecture Tuesday in the Amphitheater. KRISTEN TRIPLETT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER He doesn’t claim to be a
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Eboo Patel, founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core, delivers his lecture “Interfaith America” Monday, July 19, 2021 in the Amphitheater. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO EDITOR When the pilgrims arrived at
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Zola Perhaps few other people could best describe American Jewish history than Rabbi Gary Phillip Zola. As the executive director of the largest free-standing research center dedicated to American Jewish
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Martin Every day is an adventure for Michael Martin. As the executive director for Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara Counties, which he said is a growing, multifaceted
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER French The United States is starkly divided, and commentator David French said that division goes beyond politics. “There is no single, truly important social, cultural, political or religious trend that
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Eboo Patel is perhaps one of the most respected people in America’s interfaith community in the present day. Having served on President Barack Obama’s inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-Based and
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Cherie Harder, president of the Trinity Forum, delivers her lecture “Reading for Justice” Wednesday, July 14, 2021 in the Amphitheater. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO EDITOR Deep reading and storytelling are more than
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER New York Times best-selling author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Heather McGhee delivers her Interfaith Lecture Tuesday in the Amphitheater. KRISTEN
MAX ZAMBRANO - STAFF WRITER Roy Social media, as we know it, is a bit of an illusion, said Director of the Center for Constructive Communication at MIT Deb Roy. “Social media has created this illusion