Laraine Newman knows play is an art. The original “Saturday Night Live” cast member spoke to “basically how improv and humor can save the world” (and she was not kidding) at the 10:45 a.m. morning
Malak and Romy were drastically divided — Romy is Israeli and Malak is Palestinian. Their backgrounds left them bitterly opposed to each other, but basketball and PeacePlayers International brought the girls together, bridging their differences
During his lecture, psychologist Peter Gray promised it would be “the least happy talk about play you’ve ever heard” — and he delivered. Gray spoke to the inherent need for, and the decline of, play
The future lies wherever people are having the most fun, author Steven Johnson said at the 10:45 a.m. morning lecture Tuesday, July 10, in the Amphitheater, playing on Week Three’s theme, “The Art of Play.”
Playworks founder and CEO Jill Vialet turned the Amphitheater into a playground at the 10:45 a.m. morning lecture Monday, July 9, when she kicked off Week Three’s theme “The Art of Play” with a game.
A month after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, Amy Chua read a passage from her first book World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability to an international
For David Brooks, rekindling love and community is at the heart of American identity. “We are driven by this heart and soul to bond with each other,” Brooks said. “It’s our natural inclination. So you
American identity is “becoming,” Deborah and James Fallows said at the 10:45 a.m. morning lecture Wednesday, July 4 in the Amphitheater as part of Week Two’s discussion on “American Identity.” “The story of this nation
Who are the “we” in “we the people?” Jelani Cobb, staff writer for The New Yorker, took a hard look at what “we the people” has meant throughout history at the 10:45 a.m. morning lecture
The American identity is changing, according to James and Deborah Fallows. The Fallowses will discuss how cities are redefining American ideals and their new book, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America,
For Taína Caragol, American identity is visual. Caragol, curator of painting and sculpture and Latino art and history at the National Portrait Gallery, framed identity through portraits at the 10:45 a.m. morning lecture Monday, July
In the finale of “The Life of the Written Word,” playwrights stepped out of the wings to discuss taking their scripts to the stage. More than 30 years after leaving his mark on Chautauqua Institution, Michael
American Legion Band of the Tonawandas’ rich history is coming back to Chautauqua Institution. The group will perform 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 1 in the Amphitheater. Formed in 1929 by World War I veterans and
As Chautauqua Institution gets ready to close the curtain on “The Life of the Written Word,” Kory Stamper pulled that curtain back to reveal the secret life of language. The lexicographer delivered the morning
Lisa Lucas, the executive director of the National Book Foundation, delivers the 10:45 a.m. lecture at the Amphitheater on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. ABIGAIL DOLLINS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Lisa Lucas wants reading to be “cake, not spinach.”
Chautauquans are in store for a tech-savvy upgrade. A new tech service center opened Monday in the basement of the Colonnade. Chq Tech Squad is an effort to address an increasing need for tech support