While many people gravitate toward bright-colored flowers, in her current work, sculptor and installation artist Rain Harris tends to lean toward more neutral tones, exploring
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Many of the short stories in Rion Amilcar Scott’s collection, The World Doesn’t Require You, took years to mature into their current form. “I had
Before The House on Mango Street: The Opera, Sandra Cisneros had never before written a libretto, and considered working with a librettist to pen the
Paul Mullins, the director of Chautauqua Theater Company’s production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is struck by the immensity and the staying power of
A key question John Repp wants to ask his Brown Bag lecture audience is this: How does one find the willingness, and ability, to speak
A note from the photo editor: Bearing witness to tragedy is hard, but it is also deeply important. As the horrible events of Aug. 12
Last Friday morning, Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie was flown to UPMC Hamot, in Erie, Pennsylvania, after being attacked on the Amphitheater stage, where he
Crescendoing into its final performance of the season, the 2022 Music School Festival Orchestra will soon watch the flick of Maestro Timothy Muffitt’s baton for
The world descended onto Chautauqua Institution Friday as an act of violence sent shockwaves through the community within the gates, and across the globe, as
In early 2016, thousands of dead fish littered Vietnam’s beaches. It was believed that Formosa Ha Tinh Steel had spilled enough chemical waste into the
After floating down the stairs and offering a Daily reporter some sparkling water, author and poet Sandra Cisneros needed to do her hair. She had
Stephine Hunt recommended Hala Alyan’s novel The Arsonists’ City to the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle shortly before 2021’s Bryant Day ceremony. “I recommended it
Dance crosses cultures, race, gender and ethnicity. Today, a panel on “Dance and Race” is exploring that idea more deeply, as speakers reflect on how
Thirty-nine years ago, Julie Kent first chasséd across Chautauqua as a student in the School of Dance. Now, she returns with The Washington Ballet as
For stage director Marcus Shields, the most difficult aspect of directing is managing all the moving parts. “The challenge of directing is always the challenge
When it came time to write her award-winning short story, “Jean,” Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos wanted to try something a little different. “This story is a