Guided by Our Strategic Plan, Chautauqua Institution Confronted 2020’s Parallel Crises with Resolve and Resiliency — Annual Status Report on 150 Forward By Michael E. Hill One morning every summer, I open the front door to my home on the Chautauqua grounds and greet dozens of bouncy 5-year-olds who’ve assembled on the front steps. These are the members of my Children’s School Advisory Board, and they come with a list of “demands”…

Revisiting Pulitzer Prize Winner Nikole Hannah-Jones’ 2019 Chautauqua Lecture — To mark Black History Month, we’ve showcased recent programs from Chautauqua stages and online platforms that have given voice to the Black experience in America. These words and images provide critical context for the important and difficult work — and action — to which this moment calls us, to advance…

Revisiting Social Psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt’s 2019 Interfaith Lecture — Throughout Black History Month, we’re showcasing recent programs from Chautauqua stages and online platforms that have given voice to the Black experience in America. …

Revisiting The Black List Founder Franklin Leonard’s 2020 Chautauqua Lecture — Throughout Black History Month, we’re showcasing recent programs from Chautauqua stages and online platforms that have given voice to the Black experience in America. …

Revisiting Policing Expert Cedric Alexander’s 2020 CHQ Assembly Conversation — Throughout Black History Month, we’re showcasing recent programs from Chautauqua stages and online platforms that have given voice to the Black experience in America. …

The film loosely based on Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder (Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, 2018; Writers’ Center faculty, 2019) will debut on Hulu on Feb. 19 and is included in The New York Times’ list of the best movies and TV shows coming to…

Revisiting Art Historian Sarah Lewis’ 2019 Chautauqua Lecture — Throughout Black History Month, we’re showcasing recent programs from Chautauqua stages and online platforms that have given voice to the Black experience in America. …

Amid a Weeklong Celebration of the Women’s Vote Centennial, Revisiting the Institution’s Role as Platform and Catalyst — By Emálee Krulish On a Saturday afternoon in July 1891, the Chautauqua Assembly at Fair Point held its first women’s suffrage meeting. Susan B. Anthony, the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, Julia Ward Howe, Grace H. Dodge, Zeralda Wallace, and local suffragist Kate Peate attracted “one of the largest audiences of…

As Chautauqua Institution’s Sesquicentennial Approaches, Balancing Heritage and Innovation — By Sara Toth In 1874, a Methodist bishop and an Akron businessman started weaving a tapestry. It was an experiment, this tapestry. Bishop John Heyl Vincent and Lewis Miller founded the Chautauqua Lake Sunday School Assembly to fill a need they both saw for out-of-school, vacation learning. What started as…