Originally broadcast at 12 p.m. ET Friday, April 16, 2021.

A founding member of Dance Theatre of Harlem, Virginia Johnson was one of its principal ballerinas over a career that spanned nearly 30 years. After retiring in 1997, Ms. Johnson went on to found Pointe Magazine and was editor-in chief f...

Originally broadcast at 7 p.m. ET Wednesday, April 14, 2021.

In a wide-ranging and exclusive CHQ Assembly interview recorded last month, NFL Commissioner and lifelong Chautauquan Roger Goodell discusses the state of the league and the game of football itself, the challenges presented by the pand...

Originally broadcast at 7 pm ET Thursday, April 8, 2021.

A powerful and taut novel about racial tensions in LA, Your House Will Pay follows two families—one Korean-American, one African-American—grappling with the effects of a decades-old crime. In the wake of the police shooting of a black teen...

Originally broadcast at 7 p.m. ET Monday, March 29, 2021.

Victoria Labalme, performance strategist and author of Risk Forward: Embrace the Unknown and Unlock Your Hidden Genius, will give a special presentation for the Chautauqua Lecture Series on CHQ Assembly at 7 p.m. Monday, March 29, 2021. ...

Originally broadcast at 8 p.m. ET Sunday, March 28, 2021.

Premiere of: "Eric Gutman's From Broadway to Obscurity", which was recorded at Marygrove Theatre by Detroit Public TV and Detroit Public Theatre, is a musical love letter to both Broadway and Michigan. At the peak of his career playing s...

Originally broadcast at 8 p.m. ET Thursday, March 18, 2021.

Hosted by Emalee Sanfilippo, Archives Assistant, who will tell the story of Ada Elizabeth Sisson and Lillian Hedrick - two girls from Nebraska whose 300-page journal, preserved in the archives, describes their 1895 Chautauqua experience...

Originally broadcast at 7 pm ET Thursday, March 11, 2021.

In a narrative arching across the centuries, James Shapiro traces the unparalleled role of Shakespeare's 400-year-old tragedies and comedies in making sense of so many of these issues, on which the American identity has turned. Reflecting...

Originally broadcast at 7 pm ET Monday, March 8, 2021.

A Conversation with Elif M. Gökçiğdem, founding president, ONE: Organization of Networks for Empathy

About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that co...

Originally broadcast at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, February 17, 2021.

A Few Black Americans You May Have Thought Came to Chautauqua (But Didn’t) and a Few You May Not Have Known Who Did

Hosted by Emalee Sanfilippo, Archives Assistant

About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a communit...

Originally broadcast at 7 pm ET Tuesday, December 15, 2020.

Joshua Bennett returns to Chautauqua to discuss his new book of poetry, Owed — a collection of odes that seek to celebrate the places and people that have been wronged for too long. Bennett calls them “poems of reparation” for himself. ...

Originally broadcast at 4 p.m. EDT Wednesday, November 11, 2020.

Susan Straight, author of “In the Country of Women,” will discuss her memoir about the societal struggles of the multiracial, multiethnic women in her extended family. “In the Country of Women” examines the reality of oppression ba...