CHQ Virtual Porch On-Demand

Enjoy on-demand content from the CHQ Virtual Porch. Here, you will find recordings of conversations and experiences cultivated to build community and support the achievement of deeper understanding of the most important issues of the day. Kick back, relax, and enjoy the exploration of the very best in human values and the enrichment of life.

Chautauqua Lecture Series

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Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac

Cocktails, Concerts & Conversations

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Cocktails and Conversations with Chautauqua Theater Company and Andrew Borba: Featuring Jonathan Majors.
Cocktails, Concerts & Conversations with Chautauqua Dance featuring: Susan Jaffe
Cocktails, Concerts & Conversation with Chautauqua Opera Company, Featuring Steven Osgood and Guest Host, Wendy Bryn Harmer
Cocktails, Concerts & Conversations with Chautauqua Dance featuring Silas Farley
Cocktails, Concerts & Conversation with Chautauqua Opera Company, Featuring Steven Osgood and Guest Host, Alan Held
Cocktails and Conversations with Chautauqua Theater Company and Andrew Borba: Featuring Joel De La Fuente &Lisa Rothe from the CTC Production “We Hold These Truths.”
Cocktails, Concerts & Conversation with Chautauqua Opera Company, Featuring Steven Osgood and Guest Host, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek
Cocktails, Concerts & Conversations with Chautauqua Dance featuring: Julie Kent
Cocktails, Concerts & Conversations with Chautauqua Opera Company, Featuring Steven Osgood and Guest Host, Raehann Bryce-Davis
Cocktails, Concerts, and Conversations, Week 1, Chautauqua Opera Company
Cocktails and Conversations with Chautauqua Theater Company and Andrew Borba: Featuring Birthday Candles Playwright Noah Haidle and Director Vivienne Benesch
Cocktails, Concerts & Conversations with Chautauqua Dance featuring: Alumni Stars Angelica Generosa & Pete Leo Walker

Recitals and Performing Arts Master Classes

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Virtual Porch Broadcast: Piano Master class with Alexander Kobrin
Student Piano Recital (Public)
Virtual Porch Broadcast: Voice Masterclass with Margo Garrett
Student Instrumental Recital (Public)
Virtual Porch Broadcast: Violin Masterclass with Ilya Kaler
Student Voice Recital (Public)
Week Five Opera Masterclass Part 1, Wendy Bryn Harmer & Samina Aslam
An Afternoon Piano Recital with Alexander Kobrin
Week Five Opera Masterclass Part 4, Wendy Bryn Harmer & Shafali Jalota
Week Five Opera Masterclass Part 3, Wendy Bryn Harmer & Michael Miller
Week Five Opera Masterclass Part 2, Wendy Bryn Harmer & Celeste Godin
Virtual Porch Broadcast: Master class with Natalya Antonova
Virtual Porch Broadcast: Voice Masterclass with Craig Rutenberg
Student Piano Recital (Public)
Student Instrumental Recital (Public)
Virtual Porch Broadcast: Violin Masterclass with Almita Vamos
Virtual Porch Broadcast: Master class with Alexander Gavrylyuk
Student Voice Recital (Public)
An Afternoon Piano Recital with Alvin Zhu
Week Four Opera Masterclass Part 5, Alan Held & Aaren Rivard
Virtual Porch Broadcast: Susan Graham Voice Masterclass
Week Four Opera Masterclass Part 4, Alan Held & James Eder
Week Four Opera Masterclass Part 3, Alan Held & Jake Skipworth
Week Four Opera Masterclass Part 2, Alan Held & Hilary Grace Taylor
Week Four Opera Masterclass Part 1, Alan Held & Zachary Barba
Virtual Porch Broadcast: Master Class with Boris Slutsky
Student Voice Recital
Week Three Opera Masterclass Part 5, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek & Celeste Godin
Week Three Opera Masterclass Part 4, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek & Jared Esguerra
Week Three Opera Masterclass Part 3, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek & Kelly Guerra
Week Three Opera Master Class Part 2, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek & Michael Miller
Week Three Opera Master Class Part 1, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek & Hilary Grace Taylor
Week Two Opera Masterclass Part 5, Raehann Bryce-Davis & Nicole Heinen
Week Two Opera Masterclass Part 4, Raehann Bryce-Davis & Chasiti Lashay
Week Two Opera Masterclass Part 3, Raehann Bryce-Davis & Daniela Magura
Week Two Opera Masterclass Part 2, Raehann Bryce-Davis & Yazid Gray
Week Two Opera Masterclass Part 1, Raehann Bryce-Davis & Max Potter
Week One Opera Masterclass Part 4: Caitlin Lynch & Michael Colman
Week One Opera Masterclass Part 3: Caitlin Lynch & Shafali Jalota
Week One Opera Masterclass Part 2: Caitlin Lynch & Michael Miller
Week One Opera Masterclass Part 1: Caitlin Lynch & Celeste Godin

Performing and Visual Arts

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Chautauqua Opera, Behind the Scenes, Video and Projections
Chautauqua Opera, Behind the Scenes, Stage Management
Into the Music with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: Lars & Liana!
The Leon and Gloria Plevin Family Museum Director Lecture with Brooke Davis Anderson
Chautauqua Opera, Behind the Scenes, Stage Direction
Chautauqua Opera: Opera Invasion #2
Into the Music with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: Sharing IDEAs: A conversation on inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility with Sphinx Organization
CVA Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Miguel Luciano
Chautauqua Theatre Company Brown Bag: NPW 2 Tomorrow Will Be Sunday (working title) : An epic yet personal look at the global economy with playwright Heather Raffo.
Student Piano Recital
Into the Music with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra featuring Vahn Armstrong and Eva Stern
Student Instrumental Recital
Young Playwrights Project - 2020 Film Festival
An Afternoon Piano Recital with Sara Davis Buechner
CVA Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Kalup Linzy
Chautauqua Opera, Behind-the-Scenes Series (Makeup and Wigs)
Virtual Ballads on Balconies, Tour Package D (Chautauqua Opera 2020)
Virtual Ballads on Balconies, Tour Package C (Chautauqua Opera 2020)
Virtual Ballads on Balconies, Tour Package B (Chautauqua Opera 2020)
Virtual Ballads on Balconies, Tour Package A (Chautauqua Opera 2020)
An Afternoon Piano Recital with Nicola Melville and John Milbauer
Into the Music with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: "Swing into the Season with CSO"
CVA Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Salvador Jiménez-Flores
Chautauqua Theater Company Brown Bag A Homecoming Alumni artists from CTC return for an informal talk about life after Chautauqua
Chautauqua Opera, Behind-the-Scenes Series, Music Preparation
Chautauqua Opera, Behind the Scenes, Props
Chautauqua Opera, Behind the Scenes, Costumes
"Hello Chautauqua" Meet the 2020 Conservatory!
Chautauqua Opera Virtual Sing-In Part 3
Chautauqua Opera Virtual Sing-In Part 2
Chautauqua Opera Virtual Sing-In Part 1
Chautauqua Theater Company Brown Bag: The CTC Young Playwrights Project goes to the movies! Creating a young playwrights film festival.
Chautauqua Visual Arts Lecture Series: Mitra Khorasheh, Owner and Director, Signs and Symbols, New York, NY

Chautauqua Community Programs

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The Mirror Project: A Conversation about Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility at Chautauqua Institution
Weekly Conversation with Chautauqua's Board Chair, Candy Maxwell, and President Michael E. Hill: Week Five -- CHQ Assembly Feedback Session No. 2
Book Discussion. Kimberly Hamlin, author, Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
Coffee & Conversation with CHQ: Join us for a review of the week and a quick look ahead with CHQ Assembly program vice presidents Matt Ewalt, Deborah Sunya Moore and Bishop Gene Robinson
Weekly Conversation with Chautauqua's Board Chair, Candy Maxwell, and President Michael E. Hill: Week Four: Strategic Plan Deep Dive No. 1: Cross-Cutting Imperatives
Coffee & Conversation with CHQ: Join us for a review of the week and a quick look ahead with CHQ Assembly program vice presidents Matt Ewalt, Deborah Sunya Moore and Bishop Gene Robinson
Weekly Conversation with Chautauqua's Board Chair, Candy Maxwell, and President Michael E. Hill: Week Three -- CHQ Assembly Feedback Session No. 1
Coffee & Conversation with CHQ: Join us for a review of the week and a quick look ahead with CHQ Assembly program vice presidents Matt Ewalt, Deborah Sunya Moore and Bishop Gene Robinson
Weekly Conversation with Chautauqua's Board Chair, Candy Maxwell, and President Michael E. Hill: Week Two -- Strategic Plan Update
Coffee & Conversation with CHQ: Join us for a review of the week and a quick look ahead with CHQ Assembly program vice presidents Matt Ewalt, Deborah Sunya Moore and Bishop Gene Robinson
Weekly Conversation with Chautauqua's Board Chair, Candy Maxwell, and President Michael E. Hill: Week One -- Objective One of the Strategic Plan 150 Forward

Religion and Spirituality

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Mystic Heart Meditation: Rebecca Cole Turner, Christain Meditation #1
Mystic Heart Meditation: Michael O'Sullivan, Korean Zen Meditation #1
Mystic Heart Meditation: Larry Terkel, Judaism/Kabbalah Class #1
Mystic Heart Meditation: Carol McKiernan, Centering Prayer Meditation #1
Mystic Heart Meditation: Kainat Felicia Norton, Sufi Meditation #1
Mystic Heart Meditation: Wayman Kubicka, Japanese Zen Meditation #1
Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Mystic Heart Meditation: Subagh Khalsa, Sikh Dharma Meditation #1
Mystic Heart Meditation: KIm Hehr, Kundalini Yoga Meditation #5
Mystic Heart Meditation: David Gluck, Hindu Based, Kosha Meditation #3
Mystic Heart Meditation: Michael O'Sullivan, Korean Zen Meditation #5
Mystic Heart Meditation: Wayman Kubicka, Japanese Zen Meditation #4
Mystic Heart Meditation: Subagh Khalsa, Sikh Dharma Meditation #5
Mystic Heart Meditation: Larry Terkel, Judaism/Kabbalah, Class #5
Mystic Heart Meditation: Carol McKiernan, Centering Prayer #4
Mystic Heart Meditation: Michael O'Sullivan, Korean Zen Meditation #4
Mystic Heart Meditation: Rebecca Cole Turner, Christian Meditation #3
Mystic Heart Meditation: Kim Hehr, Kundalini Yoga Meditation for Protection #4
Mystic Heart Meditation: Muinuddin Charles Smith, Sufi Meditation on The Breath #4
Mystic Heart Meditation: Subagh Khalsa, Sikh Dharma Meditation #4
Mystic Heart Meditation: Wayman Kubicka, Japanese Zen Meditation #3
Mystic Heart Meditation: Bob Moore - Zuiryu, Soto Zen, Class #4
Mystic Heart Meditation: Larry Terkel, Judaism/Kabbalah, Class #4
Kabbalat Shabbat Service (07/17/2020)
Mystic Heart Meditation: David Gluck, Hindu Based, Body of Light Meditation #2
Mystic Heart Meditation: Wayman Kubicka, Japanese Zen Meditation #2
Mystic Heart Meditation: Carol McKiernan, Centering Prayer #3
Mystic Heart Meditation: Kainat-Felicia Norton, Sufi Mediation #3
Mystic Heart Meditation: James Leff, Introduction to Sufi Meditation and Breath, #2
Mystic Heart Meditation: Kim Hehr, Kundalini Yoga Meditation - Invoking a Meditative State #3
Mystic Heart Meditation: Larry Terkel, Judaism/Kabbalah, Class #3
Mystic Heart Meditation: Subagh Khalsa, Sikh Dharma Meditation #3
Mystic Heart Meditation: Practice and Discussion Week 3
Mystic Heart Meditation: Bob Moore-Zuiryu, Soto Zen Meditation #3
Mystic Heart Meditation: Michael O'Sullivan, Korena Zen, Meditation #3
Mystic Heart Meditation: Carol McKiernan, Centering Prayer Meditation #2
Mystic Heart Meditation: Muinuddin Charles Smith, Sufi Meditation #2, Purification with Elements
Mystic Heart Meditation: Kim Hehr, Kundalini Yoga Meditation for Surrender #2
Mystic Heart Meditation: Eryl Kubicka, Japanese Zen
Mystic Heart Meditation: Subagh Khalsa, Sikh Dharma Meditation #2
Mystic Heart Meditation: Carol McKiernan Centering Pray Meditation #1
Mystic Heart Meditation: Bob Moore-Zuiryu, Soto Zen Meditation #2
Mystic Heart Meditation: Michael O'Sullivan, Korean Zen Meditation #2
Mystic Heart Meditation: David Gluck, Hindu Inspired Meditation #1, Breath Count
Mystic Heart Meditation: Kim Hehr, Kundalini Yoga Meditation for Balance #1
Mystic Heart Meditation: James Leff, Introduction to Sufi Meditation and Breath, #1
Mystic Heart Meditation: Bob Moore-Zuiryu, Soto Zen Meditation #1
Mystic Heart Meditation: Rebecca Cole-Turner, Christian Meditation #1
Mystic Heart Meditation: Michael O'Sullivan Korean Zen, Meditation #1
Mystic Heart Meditation Program: Larry Terkel Judasim/Kabbalah, Class #1
Mystic Heart Meditation: Carol McKiernan Centering Pray Meditation #1
Mystic Heart Meditation Program: Kainat-Felicia Norton, Sufi Meditation #1
Mystic Heart Meditation: Wayman Kubicka, Japanese Zen Meditation #1
Mystic Heart Meditation Program: Subagh Khalsa, Sikh Dharma

Chautauqua Literary Arts

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CLSC Book Discussion: The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger led by Fred Zirm and Stephine Hunt
Writers-in-Residence Sunday Readings: Allison Joseph and Hilary Plum
Chautauqua Writers' Center Brown Bag with Prose Writer-in-Residence Charlotte Matthews
Chautauqua Writers' Center Brown Bag with Poet-in-Residence Philip Metres (VirtPorch)
CLSC Book Discussion: In the Country of Women by Susan Straight led by Sherra Babcock
Writers-in-Residence Sunday Readings: Charlotte Matthews and Philip Metres
Chautauqua Writers' Center Brown Bag with Prose Writer-in-Residence Janice Eidus (VirtPorch)
CLSC Book Discussion: Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan led by Stephine Hunt and Vanessa Weinert
Writers-in-Residence Sunday Reading: Janice Eidus
Chatuauqua Writers' Center Brown Bag with Prose Writer-in-Residence Eleanor Henderson
Chautauqua Writers' Center Brown Bag with Poet-in-Residence Gabrielle Calvocoressi
CLSC Book Discussion: The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
Writers-in-Residence Sunday Readings: Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Eleanor Henderson
Chatuauqua Writers' Center Brown Bag with Prose Writer-in-Residence Jacob White
Chautauqua Writers' Center Brown Bag conversation with Week Two poet-in-residence Mary Biddinger
CLSC Book Discussion: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok
Writers in Residence Sunday Readings: Jacob White and Mary Biddinger
Chautauqua Writers' Center Brown Bag with Prose Writer-in-Residence David Giffels
Chautauqua Writers' Center Brown Bag with Poet-in-Residence Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Writers-in-Residence Sunday Readings: David Giffels and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
CLSC Book Discussion: 'The End of Ice' by Dahr Jamail

Continuing the Conversation

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Post-Lecture Community Conversation. Moderated by Kimberly Hamlin, associate prof, history and American studies, Miami University of Ohio
Post-Lecture Community Conversation. Moderated by Kimberly Hamlin, associate prof, history and American studies, Miami University of Ohio
PBS American Portrait Virtual Porch Event
Post-Lecture Community Conversation - Climate Change: Prioritizing Our Global and Local Response
Deeper Dive into Ocean Conservancy with Chief Scientist George Leonard
Post-Lecture Community Conversation - Climate Change: Prioritizing Our Global and Local Response