A preview of CHQ Makers, an all new CHQ Assembly original series.

CHQ Makers invites you on a journey with host Vanessa Weinert as she travels across Chautauqua County in search of stories of the passionate individuals whose talent and hard work supplies the community with amazing local products...

Originally broadcast at 10:30 a.m. ET Tuesday, August 17, 2021.

Longtime Chautauqua program contributor Norman Ornstein is an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the vice president of the Matthew Harris Ornstein Memorial Foundation, named in memory of his son Matthew, who d...

Deborah Sunya Moore discusses Chautauqua Institution's rich history, including it being the former home of Thomas Edison and his wife, Mina Miller Edison, who was the daughter of one of Chautauqua's founders, Lewis Miller. Voted USA Today's "Best Small Town Cultural Scene," Chautauqua is a very s...

Originally broadcast at 10:30 a.m. ET Wednesday, August 4, 2021.

Jackie Acho founded The Acho Group, a strategy and leadership consulting firm, in 2005. She has worked for technology, industrial, academic, nonprofit, and economic development clients on a variety of issues, with particular focus ...

Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. ET Friday, July 30, 2021.

Chautauqua Janus Prize Winner Ceremony

About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and perfo...

Originally broadcast at 1:30 p.m. ET Thursday, July 22, 2021.

Melissa Murray is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, where she teaches constitutional law, family law, criminal law, and reproductive rights and justice. Her writing has appeared in a range of leg...

Originally broadcast at 8 p.m. EDT Sunday, June 28, 2020.

The Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson and interim organist Joshua Stafford remember Jared Jacobsen.

Jacobsen, Chautauqua’s longtime organist and coordinator of worship and sacred music, died in a car crash in 2019, shortly after completing his 65...

Welcome supporters and lovers of theater and plays! This is the sixth year of Chautauqua’s Young Playwrights Project and it remains the cornerstone of our Arts Education programs, as it truly helps us live out our mission to explore the best in human values with some of the most important humans ...

An informal presentation on the art and science of classical dancing, a lecture/demonstration is a fun and accessible introduction to ballet. Specific exercises that develop jumping, turning, partnering, lifting, and dancing on pointe are demonstrated and explained. Throughout, excerpts from Danc...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Friday, July 10, 2020.

Derek Thompson discusses what life might look like after this moment’s most disruptive unseen force, the novel coronavirus.

Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he writes on economics, technology and the media. He is al...

Originally recorded at 10:45 a.m. ET Tuesday, August 20, 2019.

Sarah Lewis, an award-winning scholar, best-selling author, and professor at Harvard University, distills for the audience the “Vision & Justice” course she teaches at Harvard — a class that the school incorporated into its core curr...

Originally broadcast at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday, October 1, 2020.

Join Grammy Award-winning violinist Nicola Benedetti as she shares insights into the internal and external experiences of life as a performer. From preparation to performance, Ms. Benedetti will take listeners behind the scenes, givin...

Originally recorded on August 14, 2019.

Stan Deaton, Senior historian and Dr. Elaine B. Andrews Distinguished Historian at the Georgia Historical Society, examines the lingering legacy of Confederate Statues in a lecture given at Chautauqua on August 14, 2019.

About Chautauqua Institution: Chau...

Originally broadcast at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday, August 27, 2020.

Join us for a special conversation with writer Sandra Cisneros and composer Derek Bermel as we show selected excerpts recorded during Chautauqua’s 2017 world premiere of Mango Suite, while discussing how this collaboration has continu...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, August 20, 2020.

Emily Bazelon on mass incarceration and how to change the prosecution system.

Bazelon is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. She is the bes...

Originally broadcast at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, July 6, 2020.

Launched in 2012 by Cleveland Orchestra principal clarinet Franklin Cohen and daughter Diana Cohen, ChamberFest Cleveland focuses on creating thematic programming for unique chamber music experiences in a variety of venues.

Diana Cohen ...

Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, July 15, 2019.

Fr. Richard Rohr is a globally recognized ecumenical teacher bearing witness to the universal awakening within Christian mysticism and the Perennial Tradition. He is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province and founder of the Center...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, July 10, 2019.

Rae Wynn-Grant is a conservation scientist, large-carnivore ecologist, nature storyteller, and advocate with expertise in using emerging technology to identify how humans are changing the way carnivores use landscapes.

She is curr...

Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Monday, July 6, 2020.

Author Ruth Marcus speaks on the Supreme Court and the conservative takeover.

Marcus continues the annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture.

Marcus oversees The Washington Post’s signed opinion content and is a highly acclaimed reporter wh...

Interim Organist Joshua Stafford’s rendition of “Largo” from the Handel opera Xerxes, recorded on the venerable Massey Memorial Organ on Sunday, June 28, 2020. The little-known piece, beloved to Chautauquans, has concluded every Sunday evening Sacred Song Service at Chautauqua since the Massey’s ...