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This month on YouTube: insights from Linda Chavez, Nikolas Gvosdev, Thomas Friedman and Vali R. Nasr.

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Young voices...big stories. 🎭🎨

Grateful to The Post-Journal for featuring our Young Playwrights Program earlier this spring. Through Chautauqua Arts Education, students across the county write, hear, and see their own plays come to life.

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Does gathering together matter now more than ever?

Week Nine, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, welcomes speakers like Priya Parker, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Lara Downes and John McWhorter and more...

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This month on our YouTube channel: insights from Kai Bird, Bill Kristol, Setti Warren and Amanda Ripley on polarization, trust in government, the role of debate in science and Oppenheimer’s legacy.

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What will it take to feed the future?
Week Eight of #CHQ2026 explores “The Future of Food: Climate, Technology and the Next Agricultural Revolution,” featuring speakers Danielle Nierenberg, Brian Frank and Weekly Chaplain Rev. Natalie Hanson.

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As global power shifts, what happens?
Week Seven of #CHQ2026 explores “Global Power and Our Evolving International Order,” featuring lectures by Nancy Youssef and Jeremy Ben-Ami, with Rev. Frank A. Thomas as Weekly Chaplain.

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At 250, how should America measure its promise — and its progress?

Week Six of #CHQ2026 explores “America at 250” in partnership with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, featuring a special two-day Ken Burns and Jeffrey Rosen lecture.

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Chautauqua is partnering with the Chautauqua County Department of Mental Hygiene to strengthen mental health awareness and support across campus.

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What does it take to keep creating against the odds?

Week Five of #CHQ2026 explores “Art and Artists Against the Odds,” welcoming Chaplain Rev. Zina Jacque and lecturers Fredrik Backman & Michael Dreeben.

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When did everything become disposable — and what is it really costing us?

Week Four of #CHQ2026 explores “Wasted: Our Era of Disposability” with David Wallace-Wells, Aja Barber, Ron Gonen, Rainn Wilson & more.

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This month on our YouTube channel: insights from like Celina Stewart, Feryal Özel, Emily Esfahani Smith and Carla Hall on women’s leadership, science, ethics, and the search for meaning.

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Week Three of #CHQ2026 explores “The 2026 Election: What’s at Stake?” in partnership with @AEI & @BrookingsInst — bringing diverse perspectives together in the Chautauqua tradition of good-faith dialogue.

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This Women’s History Month, revisit powerful conversations with women who have shaped policy, culture, journalism, science and more.

▶️ Explore our curated Women’s History Month lecture playlist on YouTube, all month long:
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Can a healthy press survive in a fractured, fast-moving digital world?

Week Two of #CHQ2026 explores “Breaking the News: Charting a New Media Landscape” with Chuck Todd, Jason Riley, Neil deGrasse Tyson & more.

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What drives real societal transformation — and how have women shaped it across generations?

Week One of #CHQ2026 explores this and more with Alyse Nelson, Sutton Foster, Kelli O’Hara, Sylvia Earle & more.

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Thank you @NYSCArts for your investment in the arts across NYS. Chautauqua has received four 2026 grants:

🌟 Support for Organizations — Chautauqua Institution
🌟 Support for Artists — Theresa Rebeck, Jeremy Gill & Kerri Ammirata
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The Chautauqua community joins the nation in honoring the life and legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson. 🙏🙏

A former CLS speaker, he challenged us to build a more just, inclusive society — his words continue to inspire at Chautauqua and beyond.
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This month on our YouTube channel: insights from Kathryn E. Stoner, Michael O’Hanlon & Kori Schake, Constanze Stelzenmüller and Fareed Zakaria on global security, Ukraine, U.S. defense strategy, and the future of world order.

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🎉 Exciting news for Chautauqua! 🎉 Our Director of Communications & Special Projects, Jill McCormick, sits down with CCS-TV to announce our new partnership — a collaboration designed to give local students hands-on media experience.

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When truth is under attack, how do we protect it?

Surveillance, self-censorship, and AI-driven disinformation are reshaping the information landscape and challenging what we accept as fact.

🎥 Watch Almar Latour's lecture & more on YouTube
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