Chautauqua Fall Tree Tour

Chautauqua Fall Tree Tour

by | Sep 16, 2022

Event Time: 3:00 PM

Free

Did you know Chautauqua has varieties of over 500 trees? Chautauqua’s enchantment lies in its setting, but the early settlers did little to cultivate the trees. Only the hardy native vegetation could withstand the summer heat and winter snow. By comparison, today’s Chautauqua hosts an abundant urban forest. Join tree expert Jeff Rump as he guides you through the flowering oasis of native and imported species that have been introduced in the past 120 years. Chautauqua has everything from Eastern White Pines to Kentucky Coffee Trees to Buckeyes, in addition to the familiar Ashes, Oaks, Elms, and Ponderosa Pines. Attend this complimentary one-hour tour to learn about the trees of Chautauqua and their history.

2022 Festival Del Sol

2022 Festival Del Sol

by | Sep 8, 2022

Chautauqua + KGNU present/presentan: Festival Del Sol 2022 Thank You!/Gracias! A huge thank you to everyone who attended yesterday’s Festival Del Sol event including our visitors, vendors, artists, and food trucks! We look forward to hosting this event again...
Bridging Worlds: A Sherpa’s Story – SOLD OUT!

Bridging Worlds: A Sherpa’s Story – SOLD OUT!

by | Aug 30, 2022

A conversation with Pemba Sherpa and James McVey

Doors: 7:00 PM

Showtime: 7:30 PM

Bridging Worlds tells the inspiring story of a Sherpa who bridged two worlds to improve the lives of his people in Nepal. Pemba’s presentation reveals his life’s journey from a poor, remote Nepalese village to his becoming an accomplished mountaineer, expedition leader, and successful US Businessman – and back to Khumbu where his journey began, to build a bridge, a hydroelectric power plant, and bring significant financial relief to his native people. Hear the story of the Sherpa people, the exceptional dangers they face as expedition workers in the Himalayas — and the alarming state of the climbing industry on Mt. Everest today.

Bridging Worlds: A Sherpa’s Story was a 2021 Colorado Book Awards finalist.  Pemba Sherpa’s popular presentations include signing copies of the inspiring book, which will be sold to raise funds in support of his people in Nepal.

 

Pemba Sherpa was born in the remote Khumbu region of Nepal, where he distinguished himself as a mountain guide. At nineteen, he migrated to Colorado and founded Ascent International, a mountaineering adventure company which he operated for twenty years. He has guided more than twenty trips to Nepal for the Colorado Mountain Club. Today, he is the owner of Sherpa Chai Tea Company and Sherpa’s Adventurer Restaurant in Boulder. His success in business allows him to devote his time and energy to helping Sherpa people in Khumbu, where he has built a bridge and hydro-electric facility. In 2015, with the help of the CMC, Pemba raised $110,000 in earthquake relief funds for those villages.

James McVey worked as a professor for thirty years at the University of Colorado and the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in literary journals around the world. He is the author of five books, including:
-Loon Rangers (Saddle Road Press, 2021)
-The Way Home: Essays on the Outside West (University of Utah Press, 2010)
-The Wild Upriver and Other Stories (Arbutus Press, 2005)

For more on his life and work, you may visit: www.jamesmcvey.org

 

 

When Preservation Meets Sustainability

When Preservation Meets Sustainability

by | Aug 30, 2022

Doors: 5:00 PM

Event time: 5:30 PM

In 2008, Colorado Chautauqua launched the initiative to be the most sustainably operated National Landmark in the country. Jeff Medanich, Colorado Chautauqua’s Director of Preservation and Sustainability, leads this effort, and will give a presentation detailing that journey to date. Come to this free event to hear from Jeff, and explore how the worlds of Sustainability and Historic Preservation converge, the challenges posed in integrating these two disciplines, and CCA’s continued efforts to find that common ground.

This event is free with registration at the link below.

Event is in the RMCC, on the lower level of the Chautauqua Community House.

Madaleine Sorkin: Climbing 5.14 On The Diamond

Madaleine Sorkin: Climbing 5.14 On The Diamond

by | Aug 30, 2022

Doors: 7:00 PM

Showtime: 7:30 PM

Madaleine Sorkin is a rock climber living creatively with her wife on an off-grid property near the Black Canyon National Park in Colorado.  Mad is drawn to free climbing long, difficult rock walls from the Rockies to Yosemite, and internationally as far as Kyrgyzstan, Patagonia and Jordan. Mad has climbed up to 5.14 above 13,000 feet on the Diamond of Longs Peak. She has made several first or early free ascents on remote rock walls as well as first female ascents or first female team ascents.

Mad is a certified AMGA Rock Guide and enjoys coaching climbers to engage their performance edge.  In 2018, impacted by climbing-related tragedies in her community, Mad founded The Climbing Grief Fund (CGF) in partnership with the American Alpine Club.  CGF works to evolve the conversation around grief in the climbing community and connect individuals to effective mental health professionals and resources.  For more information, please visit: The Climbing Grief Fund and watch Henna Taylor’s award-winning film A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground.

Photo credit: Henna Taylor (hennataylor.com)

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