The Chautauqua experience is based around one’s engagement in four program areas:
The Arts
Chautauqua as a community celebrates, encourages and studies the arts and treats them as integral to all of learning. With symphony, opera, theater, dance, visual arts and a renowned music school, Chautauqua produces an "ecstatic mix" of programming that can be found nowhere else.
Education
Self-improvement through lifelong learning was at the heart of the impulse that motivated Americans and founded Chautauqua in 1874. That tradition continues today with a morning and afternoon lecture platform, continued education courses, the Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle book club, writers in residence, and a public library.
Religion
At Chautauqua, religious faith is perceived, interpreted and experienced as central to the understanding and expression of our social and cultural values. Chautauqua is a community that is open to all with a wide variety of services of worship and programs that express the Institution’s Christian heritage and its interfaith commitment.
Recreation
From adult to youth programs, Chautauqua has embraced the recreative experience and a healthy lifestyle as essential to the Chautauqua experience. Recreational opportunities include sailing, boating, fishing and swimming on Chautauqua Lake as well as a 36-hole golf course, fast-dry and hard-surface tennis courts, playing fields, playgrounds and fitness centers.
The Chautauqua Challenge
The Chautauqua Challenge defines the mission of the Chautauqua Institution. It was adopted by the Board of Trustees in 1974 and was revised in 2000.
To be a center ...
for the identification and development of the best in human values through a program which
- Encourages the identification and exploration of the value dimensions in the important religious, social and political issues of our times
- Stimulates the provocative, thoughtful involvement of individuals and families in creative response to such issues on a high level of competence and commitment
- Promotes excellence and creativity in the appreciation, performance and teaching of the arts.
To be a community ...
in which religious faith is perceived, interpreted and experienced as central to the understanding and expression of our social and cultural values, a community which is open to all and is distinctly founded upon and expressive of the convictions of the Christian tradition.
To be a resource ...
for the enriched understanding of the opportunities and obligations of community, family and personal life by fostering the sharing of varied cultural, educational, religious and recreational experience in an atmosphere of participation by persons of all ages and backgrounds.
Welcome to Chautauqua, an educational sleepaway camp for grown-ups
June 13, 2013
| NationalPost.com
Chautauqua Doing Its Part To Limit Sediment
June 7, 2013 | Post-Journal.com
Joan Brown Campbell reflects on her time at Chautauqua
May 26, 2013 | BuffaloNews.com
Robert M. Franklin to become Chautauqua religion director
May 26, 2013 | BuffaloNews.com
stay & play at Chautauqua
March 31, 2013 | GoErie.com
Our view: From Zimbabwe to Erie, let's read
August 19, 2012 | GoErie.com
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and SEC Commissioner Mike Slive Address Ethics in Sports
August 8, 2012 | Channel 7 WKBW
Chautauqua Institution: Ethics of Cheating, Shakespeare and Dance
August 5, 2012 | WBFO
Water Matters Lectures Continues at Chautauqua
July 17, 2012 | The Post-Journal
McCreery's Fame Doesn't Control Him
July 12, 2012 | GoErie.com
The Magic of Chautauqua
July 9, 2012 | Forbes
Painted Beauties
Chautauqua Institution Nominated For Prettiest Painted Place
July 6, 2012 | The Post-Journal
Summer Thoughts at Chautauqua Institution
In the welcoming confines of Chautauqua's amphitheater,
some of today's leading voices sit down for a chat
June 23, 2012 | Buffalo News
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