Eleanor Reissa is a multi-hyphenate — singer, actor, director, writer — but she never expected her resume to include “dialect coach.” And yet, that’s exactly
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In her nonfiction children’s book We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths that Everyone Should Know, award-winning Cherokee author Traci Sorell tells history exactly how
Charlotte Matthews wants participants in her week-long workshop for the Chautauqua Writers’ Center to look — and write — carefully. “Each day will have a
Apricot Irving’s Brown Bag lecture will focus on two things: point of view and memoir. “Typically, most writers reach for first-person point of view to
Indecent’s music director Lisa Gutkin has a million different ideas for projects ping-ponging around her mind at any given moment, an embarrassment of riches. The
As one of the people who recommended Robin Wall Kimmerer’s 2013 nonfiction book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants for
Perched on a rocking chair on the shady porch of Bratton Theater, Adin Walker’s feet don’t touch the ground. The choreographer for Chautauqua Theater Company’s
In an annual tradition, Chautauqua School of Dance welcomes back alumni from multiple companies to reunite on the stage where they previously trained. “That’s what’s
Where there is struggle, hope is often not far behind. This is the theme behind the music chosen for the first Opera Conservatory recital of
Golf carts and opera singers are an unusual combination, but that did not deter the Chautauqua Opera Company from combining them to create Opera on
Since Thumbprint’s premiere in 2014, Chautauqua Opera Company Guest Artist Samina Aslam is the first Pakistani woman to portray Mukhtar Mai, Pakistani human rights activist
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the Carnahan-Jackson Dance Studio, Chautauquans line the barres for ballet courses offered through Special Studies. Led by School of
Neil Shepard is very glad he’s here for Chautauqua’s Week Two theme, “The Wild: Reconnecting with Our Natural World.” “This is something I’ve written about,
When Paula Vogel, writer of the play Indecent, was a Cornell Ph.D. candidate in the 1970s, she struggled. Sara Warner, the current director of Cornell’s
The Chautauqua Chamber Music Resident Artist Series emerges from its winter cocoon at 4 p.m. Saturday, July 2, in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall with the
Our experiences shape who we are as individuals, and artists often draw upon their life experiences. Art transcends these different experiences to connect us. Chautauqua