Built in 1898 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, the Auditorium’s lofty, open architecture is from another era and the incredible acoustics keep the music real. In Colorado’s chillier months, you will find concerts, speakers, and panels in the intimate setting of our 1918 Community House.
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Doors: 5:00 PM Show: 5:30 PM Celebration of a Chautauqua Legend and a Tour of Her Historic Cottage Chautauqua’s own historic trailblazer, Theodosia Ammons, will be inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame this spring. Born in 1861, Ammons broke barriers as the first female dean at what is now Colorado State University, president […]
Presented by History Colorado and Colorado Chautauqua Doors: 6:30 PM Event time: 7:00 PM Free event! Click "Get Tickets" to register and secure your spot Democratic government has been an ideal for many nations – at least in theory. But the opening decades of the twentieth century have witnessed some of the fundamental principles of […]
Doors: 5:30 Event time: 6:00 The Maestas Case is the earliest known successful struggle by Mexican-American to end school segregation in the United States. All but forgotten for over a century, the lawsuit was filed in 1913 and took place in southern Colorado, a region of deep historical roots for Hispanics. This three part presentation […]
Presented by: With support from Orthopedic & Spine Center of the Rockies Doors: 7:00 PM Showtime: 8:00 PM Ira Glass is the host and creator of This American Life, heard by more than 5 million listeners each week on more than 500 public radio stations and via podcast. After starting his career as an intern […]
We are currently at capacity for this event. Please check back later to see if seats become available. Navigating the spaces between us As we begin 2024, the Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) and Colorado Chautauqua are hosting a community conversation about how we form opinions, and what happens when we confront opposing […]
Doors: 5:30 PM Show: 6:00 PM For this second in the series, the Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) and Colorado Chautauqua are hosting a community conversation about the first amendment and freedom of speech. Are there boundaries to what speech can and should be shared publicly? Are there costs to free speech? The Center […]
Sponsored by: The Betsy Hitchcock Fund Doors: 5:30 PM Show: 6:00 PM Our third Difficult Dialogue Conversation takes up the topic of how to have difficult conversations with people you care about but may disagree with. Our facilitators, Jennifer Ho and Ami Dayan, believe it is possible to have productive conversations about controversial subjects, […]
In Partnership With: Supported by: The Betsy Hitchcock Fund Doors: 6:30 Show: 7:00 Monuments and place names transmit stories, knowledge, and values from one generation to the next. But what happens when generational values shift about who, or what, deserves to be commemorated? Join Colorado’s State Historian’s Council for a lively discussion about […]
Door time: 5:30 PM Event time: 6:00 PM Registration for this event is full. Supported by the Betsy Hitchcock Foundation A community discussion about the nature and evolution of democracy in the US. Is American democracy broken, as some commenters suggest, or is it deeply imperiled and potentially on the verge of becoming so, as […]
Door time: 5:30 PM Event time: 6:00 PM Supported by the Betsy Hitchcock Foundation What have facts become in our current information rich environment? This event is a conversation to look at how we attempt to gain knowledge and what are the social and environmental features that pose a challenge to do this. We want […]
Door time: 5:30 PM Event time: 6:00 PM Supported by the Betsy Hitchcock Foundation A conversation about race, gender, class, and so much more. Moderator: Pedro Senhorinha Silva has had a varied career, from serving in the U.S. Air Force as a Chinese Linguist to ministry with the United Church of Christ. With a deep […]
