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Doktor Kaboom! rockets to Smith Wilkes stage

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Local musician Rohm plays College Club

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Amp briefings keep community apprised of plans

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Masked Mayhem: Scenes from CTC’s Friday Late Night Mask Project

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rabab al-sharifStaff Writer

Sasha Janes and Rebec-ca Carmazzi’s perfor-mance on the Amphi-

theater stage tonight could very well be their last.

The couple’s appearance with North Carolina Dance Theatre in residence with Chautauqua Dance and the Chautauqua Symphony Or-chestra at 8:15 p.m. in the Amp will be their farewell performance as dancers, said

NCDT artistic director John-Pierre Bonnefoux.

“The chances of (Carmazzi) and me dancing together on a Chautauqua stage again might be slim,” Janes said. But “never say never, right?”

Janes, who is an associate artistic director of NCDT, and Carmazzi will perform “Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa,” which roughly trans-lates to “leave the thorn, take the rose.” The pas de deux, which was created in 2006, is

the first ballet Janes choreo-graphed.

Carmazzi begins on the ground and gradually blos-soms into a beautiful rose, Janes said. His character, representing death, fol-lows Carmazzi through that journey.

In the end, the rose dies, he said.

“It represents that even beautiful things have to go through that cycle of life,” Janes said.

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NCDT prepares evening of classical ballet as Janes, Carmazzi grace Amp stage together one last time

Cooper returns for thrill of leading CSO, ballet balancing actkelsey burriTTStaff Writer

Conductor Grant Cooper pretended to walk an invis-ible tightrope in the middle of Bestor Plaza, demonstrating a metaphor for the concentra-tion required of conductor, orchestra and dancers alike in realizing a ballet. Now imag-ine walking that same tight-rope strung 100 feet above Niagara Falls, he said.

“There can’t be any pos-

sibility of someone thinking about something else,” Coo-per said, “because it could be potentially fatal.”

Cooper will lead the Chau-tauqua Symphony Orches-tra and the North Carolina Dance Theatre in residence at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Am-phitheater. It marks Cooper’s fifth time conducting ballet at Chautauqua, although he has been conducting at the Insti-tution for more than 20 years.

“There’s an incredible

sense of creativity working with the dance company,” Cooper said. “It’s inspiring, actually, because they are so in the moment, for this mo-ment.”

The joy and challenge of conducting ballet stems from its momentous nature for Coo-per. It’s an art form that can never be re-created, but to cre-ate it in the first place requires intense precision and clarity.

Gertner to examine bell labs as model for innovation

Boyle shares with Tippett efforts to redirect lives of gangsters

kelsey burriTTStaff Writer

Jon Gertner grew up across from AT&T’s Bell Labs in New Jersey. De-cades later, he would write a book historicizing those same labs that forever changed the face of Ameri-can technology and life.

That book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, is one thing Gertner will discuss at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater in his lecture “What it Takes: The Chal-lenge (and Meaning) of True In-novation” as part of Week Three’s theme, “Inspire. Commit. Act.”

The son of a professor and phar-macological scientist, Gertner ini-tially noticed more of the Bell Labs’ mystique than the Nobel Prize-win-ning research performed inside. It would be years later when his at-tention returned to the lab, and this time, with a more penetrating eye.

“I was particularly interested in the line between science and busi-ness and society, how new discov-eries in science get transferred over to business, and developed and de-ployed to society and make an im-pact,” Gertner said. “There’s just no better place to look and understand it than Bell Labs.”

The Idea Factory is a history of the golden age of AT&T’s Bell Labs. The story is a bundle of narratives fol-lowing great minds as they prog-ress toward some of the most im-portant inventions of our time: the transistor, the laser, the silicon solar cell and modern-day information theory, among others.

“It’s hopefully let some insight into how our world came to be,” Gertner said. “The things we take for granted — our smartphones, all our electronic communications, or even the millions of jobs that have been created by these technologies — (it’s) explaining how they hap-pened, and why they happened and why it’s important when breakthroughs and innovations like this occur.”

For Gertner, invention is not an “eureka” moment. Advancements have much more to do with the lon-ger, grinding but more rewarding process of innovation.

Bell Labs’ successes cannot be at-tributed to a singular idea, but as a monopoly on the communications market at the time, they had the ad-vantage of time, freedom and fund-ing to perform basic research.

Basic research is the pursuit of general scientific knowledge or un-derstanding, a process that builds platforms to launch new technolo-gies in the future, as opposed to the kind of research concerned with the immediate payoff of the next best thing.

jessica WhiTeStaff Writer

In a community with some of the highest gang violence rates in the country, many people would seek to arrest, jail and punish gang members.

But Father Greg Boyle, S.J., wanted to give them jobs.

In 1988, Boyle created a program called “Jobs For A Future” (JFF) at Dolores Mis-sion Church and School in Los An-geles in an effort to address esca-lating violence and unmet needs of gang-involved youth. Many teen-age gangsters had been expelled from multiple schools, so Boyle

created a school and tried to find felony-friendly employers to keep the kids off the streets.

As the program grew, employ-ers became scarce, so Boyle found-ed Homeboy Bakery in 1992 to provide work experience and the opportunity for rival gang mem-bers to work side by side. The bak-ery’s success created groundwork for additional businesses, prompt-ing JFF to become an independent nonprofit organization, renamed Homeboy Industries, in 2001.

Today, Homeboy Industries is the largest gang intervention pro-gram in the United States, and its enterprises include Homeboy Bak-ery, Homeboy Diner at Los Ange-les City Hall, Homeboy Farmers Markets, Homeboy Silkscreen & Embroidery, Homeboy/Homegirl Merchandise and Homegirl Cafe & Catering.

“It’s the privilege of my life to show up for work here, to watch folks discover the truth of who they are and have them redirect their lives,” Boyle said.

Boyle will join radio producer and host Krista Tippett for a con-versation based on this week’s lecture theme, “Inspire. Commit. Act.,” at 2 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy.

Tippett, who is interviewing each 2 p.m. speaker this week for her nationally syndicated radio program “On Being,” said she has known about and wanted to talk with Boyle for years.

“I always assumed that I would one day interview him,” Tippett said. “And now this is going to happen at Chautauqua, which is exciting.”

Tippett said she admires Boyle because he is not just a privileged person helping underprivileged others — he lives with compassion that creates real change.

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Melissa Anduiza will perform the “Lilac Fairy” solo as part of the North Carolina Dance Theatre performance with the Chautauqua Symphony orchestra tonight in the Amphitheater.

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BrieflyMusical Theater RevueChautauqua Opera Company Young Artists present a cab-aret/musical theater revue titled “A sondheim Reunion,” directed by Andy Gale and arranged by sterling Price-McKinney, at 10:30 p.m. tonight at elizabeth s. Lenna Hall. Club CarnivalThe annual Boys’ and Girls’ Club Carnival will take place 9:30 a.m. to noon Thursday. Carnival booths and other activities will be operated by counselors and Clubbers. Tickets can be purchased at the Beeson Youth Center that morning. Proceeds benefit the Chautauqua Fund and will be presented at Old First Night.

Chautauqua Women’s Club events• CWC offers duplicate bridge sessions at 1 p.m. in the Club-house. Single players are welcome. Fee is collected at the door. • CWC will host social time with the Young Women’s Group and moms of teenagers at 9:30 a.m. today. SACtivities Moms plan evening and volunteer activities for their teens.• The CWC fundraiser “Open Your Purse & Take Off Your Tie” is July 25. Gently worn purses and ties are accepted as donations through July 23 at the Clubhouse.Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle alumni events• Neuroscientist Barry Bittman will discuss personalized medicine as week Three’s science at Chautauqua presenta-tion at 9 a.m. today in the Hall of Christ.• The CLSC Class of 1990 will hold a covered-dish sup-per at 5:30 p.m. wednesday in Alumni Hall. Attendees are asked to bring a main course, salad or dessert. Contact Larry Davis at 716-357-8255 with questions.• The CLSC Class of 1999 will meet and greet at 10 a.m. Wednesday on the back patio of the Brick Walk Cafe.• The CLSC Class of 2001 will meet for coffee and conver-sation at 9:30 a.m. today on the Alumni Hall porch.• The CLSC Class of 2002 will meet at 9:30 a.m. today in the Alumni Hall Dining Room.• The CLSC Class of 2005 will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday on Alumni Hall porch. Contact Marilyn Marloff at 716-357-4573 with questions.• The CLSC Class of 2012 will meet at 9:30–10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Alumni Hall. Members will make plans for graduation on Aug. 8.• The CLSC Class of 2013 will hold a formation meeting at 9:30–10:30 a.m. today in Alumni Hall. The prospective graduates will make plans for Recognition Day on Aug. 7, 2013, in week seven.Knitting workshopLearn to knit, ask questions, resolve knitting problems or enjoy a quiet hour of knitting and conversation at 4:30–5:30 p.m. today in the Hurlbut Church first-floor parlor. Contact Kate simmons at 303-917-2248.Chautauqua Dialogues sign-upsThe Chautauqua Dialogues program will hold sign-ups im-mediately following the 2 p.m. lecture today and Thursday in the Hall of Philosophy. The program is sponsored by the Department of Religion and is held every Friday from 3:30–5 p.m. to discuss the week’s Interfaith Lecture theme.Book talkAt 2 p.m. today in the smith Memorial Library meeting room, author Gary sirak will discuss his book If Your Mon-ey Talked … What Secrets Would It Tell? BTG House TourA limited number of house tour tickets will be sold before and after the Bird, Tree & Garden Club lecture at 12:15 p.m.

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The third annual Buffalo Day at Chautauqua will bring a number of events to the grounds today, culminating in a screening of the WNED documentary “The War of 1812” at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall of Christ. The screening is part of the Oliver Archives Heritage Lecture series.

sponsored by Chautau-qua Institution, The Buffalo News, Visit Buffalo-Niagara and WNED, Buffalo Day ac-tivities are coordinated with the 10:45 a.m. lecture, a 12:10 p.m. “Chautauqua Field Ses-sion Presentation” by Bonnie

Foit-Albert and a 12:50 p.m. discussion of the War of 1812 by representatives from the niagara 1812 Legacy Council, Old Fort Erie and Visit Buf-falo Niagara — all of which will happen in smith Memo-rial Library.

In addition, Holly Hughes of the Albright-Knox Art Gal-lery and Don Kimes of the Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution will lead a tour and discussion of the exhbi-tion “Abstraction in America, Part II — 1960s and 1970s” at 2 p.m. at the strohl Art Cen-ter.

The wneD screening will be an abridged version of the documentary. First aired on

PBs in October 2011, “The War of 1812” presents four points of view: American, the Native, or First Nation, Canadian and British. David Rotterman, vice president for television production at WNED, said the film tries to represent what was won and what was lost.

“The film tells a story of a war that really impacted north America, perhaps more than any other event in the last 200 years,” Rot-terman said. “A lot of people don’t have an understanding of it, as it gets lost between the Revolutionary war and the Civil war.”

The documentary tracks

the implications of the war and how it influenced the borders of the United States. while the “winner” among the principal actors remains controversial, the First Na-tions lost the war, Rotter-man said. It would be the last chance native people had to determine what happened in their own land.

Since joining WNED Buf-falo/Toronto in January 2000, Rotterman has served as ex-ecutive producer of Elbert Hubbard: An American Origi-nal, Fort Niagara: Struggle for a Continent and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo — all broad-cast nationwide on PBs.

Third annual Buffalo Day activities include War of 1812 discussion, documentary screening

Kate Groninger shares considerations of ethical standards and fiscal trans-parency in the art world at 9:30–10:30 a.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy as part of the Week Three Unitarian Uni-versalist ethics Lecture series.

Groninger holds degrees from Princeton University and New York University,

with a doctorate in muse-um accountability from the University of St Andrews in scotland. she has spoken at international art conferences and is currently on the Gug-genheim Museum staff.

Marjorie Girth, profes-sor emerita at Georgia state University College of Law, is wednesday’s lecturer. GRoninGeR

guggenheim’s groninger to present on ethics in art world for uu series today

Photo Courtesy of WNEDSegments of the WNED documentary “The War of 1812” will be screened at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall of Christ.

Boat Rentals

sailboat rentals are available at the John r. turney sailing Center (716-357-6392). Paddle boats, canoes, kayaks and a rowboat are available to rent at the sports Club (716-357-6281).

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Here’s a quick question that seems simple but that I think is a lot harder than it looks: what does the word “innovation” mean? Is it the same as inven-

tion? Or is it more similar to discovery? we probably know that innovation has something to do with human creativity and usually with new technology. But can innovation just be explained as any kind of creative new thing or idea? Or is it something altogether different?

These days, on the television news or in the business press, we can’t go long before hearing about new, innova-tive companies. In fact, it’s become a steady drumbeat. we hear about innovative products and innovative “apps” for our smartphones. Or we hear about fantastically innovative people, like the late steve Jobs, who have earned themselves the honorific of being called innovators. But it can sometimes be difficult to separate truth from hype. What’s more is there seems little doubt that the term innovation now seems to function much like a buzzword: we hear it so often, and ap-ply it so indiscriminately, that we may have only the haziest sense of its definitions. Meanwhile, as the deeper meanings of innovation have become obscured, I’ve often wondered: Does that mean we have lost a sense of what innovation requires, or why it’s so difficult, or why — when it succeeds — it can be so central to our culture and economy?

Throughout the past decade, working as both a magazine journalist and an author, I’ve spent quite a bit of time explor-ing the meaning and challenges of innovation. sometimes that has involved reporting long feature stories about how global corporations such as Toyota innovate; other times it has entailed spending time in silicon Valley, where I’ve had the opportunity to test fast — and innovative — electric cars like the Tesla on Palo Alto’s back roads — one of the better aspects of my job. Also in California, I’ve had the good for-tune to travel around asking questions about how a variety of entrepreneurs aim to jump-start a clean energy revolution.

Above all, I’ve delved into history. In the 20th century, there was one organization — Bell Labs — that in many respects towered over the competition when it came to in-

novation. For about 35 years, from the mid-1940s until the late ’70s, Bell Labs was the world’s most innovative organi-zation, the place that originated virtually all of our modern electronics and communications technologies. Transistors, lasers, cellphones, communication satellites — it all traces back to that big laboratory in new Jersey that had an almost magical knack for nurturing creativity and building world-changing innovations. Indeed, Bell Labs executives some-times referred to their lab as “an institute of creative technol-ogy.” It’s an interesting choice of words, I think. It suggests quite clearly that Bell Labs’ leaders believed that in pushing forward into new realms of knowledge, its employees drew upon talents related to both art and science.

So how did the leadership at Bell Labs define innovation? It was not simply a discovery or an invention. On the con-trary, innovation defined the lengthy and wholesale trans-formation of an idea into a technological product, or process, meant for widespread practical use. Almost by definition, a single person, or even a single group, could not alone create an innovation. The task was too variegated and involved. The innovation process usually involved frustration and failures. It required time, money and sometimes decades of painstaking work. But in the end, a true innovation had scale and impact. It replaced an existing technology with some-thing that was demonstrably better, or cheaper or both.

Of course, that doesn’t explain precisely how innovation

happened at Bell Labs. Nor, for that matter, does it explain how the companies that we now think of as America’s most innovative — Apple, Google and the like — create new ideas and deploy them to society. At my talk today, I’ll discuss the various meanings of innovation and tell several innovation stories that shed some light on the methods and approaches of successful innovators.

But I’ll talk about something else, too. suppose you’re not an engineer. suppose, even, that you’re an avowed techno-phobe who can barely send an email. why care about Bell Labs or the pursuit of innovation? For me, the answer is fairly straightforward. we devour books about social history, military history and political history. But I’d argue that tech-nological and industrial history are every bit as important and exciting. Technological revolutions change our world as much as cultural and political upheavals; they create new industries, new societies and tens of millions of jobs. In fact, much of our modern economy is rooted in Bell Labs inno-vations from the 1940s and ’50s. without the transistor, for instance, which was first created there in 1947 and is the fun-damental building block of all digital products, we would live in a very different world.

“The history of modernization is in essence a history of scientific and technological progress,” Wen Jiabao, the pre-mier of China, said a few years ago. “Scientific discovery and technological inventions have brought about new civiliza-tions, modern industries and the rise and fall of nations.”

I find it hard to disagree. To think deeply about innova-tion — to ponder the creative, financial and social forces behind it — is to think deeply about the great imaginative challenges it entails and the great accomplishments it signi-fies. Here in the U.S., we owe our present day economy, and our impressive standard of living, to the innovators of our past. Almost certainly we’ll owe our future, and our chil-dren’s futures, to the innovators of today.

Jon Gertner is the author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation.

Guest Column by Jon gertner

From Today’s Lecturer

The meaning of innovation, and why we should care

Jessie CadleStaff Writer

David epley is a real Re-naissance man.

He worked the Renais-sance fair circuit for 20 years with a trio called Theatre in the Ground before he com-bined his love for science, performing and comedy into his new traveling persona: Doktor Kaboom!.

“science is for everybody,” epley said. “not just the per-son in the lab coat or the kid who wins the science fair.”

epley as Doktor Kaboom! brings the show “It’s Just Rocket science” to Chautau-qua at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. today in smith wilkes Hall as part of the Family entertainment series. It’s epley’s third time at Chautauqua as Doktor Ka-boom!, but his first time with the show.

Today’s show focuses on rocket science. A volunteer will shoot across the stage — safely, Epley reassures — and every member of the audi-ence will walk away know-ing how to create their own rocket at home from every-day materials.

To keep the kids enter-tained, he brings many vol-unteers to the stage to aid him in his experiments. He throws in a pinch of math and science lessons, which pleases parents, he said.

“I find demonstrations that fit the theme, and I make them bigger and wrap the character around them,” ep-ley said.

He spent months develop-ing the basis of the show. The character of Doktor Kaboom! is a German scientist who believes he is a superhero or

a rock star — he’s not sure which.

The character is a combi-nation of epley’s love of sci-ence, which he studied at the north Carolina school of sci-ence and Mathematics, and performing, for which he re-ceived his bachelor’s degree.

His goal as Doktor Ka-boom! is to rekindle kids’ love of science.

“It’s easy to get people ex-cited about science in the mo-ment,” epley said. “But what I want is for kids to learn that it’s not just for those who are naturally gifted in that direc-tion. science is an important part of everybody’s life.”

He also hopes to remind

parents that they, too, once loved science.

“A lot of us love it as kids, and then we move away from it,” epley said. “Parents can learn with their kids.”

epley came to Chautau-qua twice before with his show “Look Out! Science is Coming,” but he heard about Chautauqua 20 years ago. He never thought it would be a place he would experience in person.

“I love that I’m taking two of my passions and putting them together and can make my living at it,” he said. “I’ve been totally blessed that this happened and that people are so open to it.”

doktor Kaboom! rockets to smith Wilkes stage

JessiCa WhiteStaff Writer

Chautauqua organist Jared Jacobsen will perform a Tallman Tracker Organ Mini-Concert that paints with music a typical day at Chautauqua at 12:15 p.m. to-day in the Hall of Christ.

The concert is titled “A Fine summer’s Day,” and will feature a piece called “On Chautauqua Lake” that Jacobsen found years ago at a flea market and has played

on Old First night every year since.

Jacobsen will also play “In summer” by Hugo steb-bins, “La Brume (The Mist)” by Harvey Gaul and “Told by the Campfire” by Hugo Goodwin — mimicking a day’s progression.

“ ‘Told by the Campfire’ seemed appropriate to me for the earlier days of Chau-tauqua when people would light fires at dusk and just sit around and tell stories,” Jacobsen said.

“These days, if you walk around the grounds late at night, you see people on their porches checking their email, so the glow of the campfire has been replaced by the glow of the digital screen,” he said. “But it has sort of the same feeling — you know, that you’re in the dark, the place is quieting down, and these people are connecting, except digitally with people all over the world.”

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Boyle’s greatest chal-lenge has been putting a human face on a popula-tion many people want to demonize, he said. He

believes the solution to gang violence is investing in young members rather than police officers tryingto solve the problem by ar-resting them.

Though he is not sure what to expect from today’s conversation, Boyle said he

always has a goal to spread compassion, kinship and in-clusion.

“I hope to get people to stand in awe at what (gang members) have to carry on their shoulders rather than stand in judgment,” he said.

“To some extent, we think of innovation as consumer products, and we live in a wondrous age of consumer products without question, with iPhones and facebook and YouTube and Twitter,” gertner said. “These are really pretty remarkable things.But they’redifferentthan what comes out of basic research.”

mervin Kelly, research director and president of Bell Labs and one of the key figures in Gertner’s book,encouraged an open-door policy in the labs. He wanted a comfortable environment in which scientists and engineers from myriad disciplines could mingle, share ideas and collaborate.

“Some of the greatest breakthroughs were actual-ly done through small teams of people,” gertner said. “They were always think-ing, not in terms of great ideas, but in terms of great problems.”

Those small groups at Bell Labs worked in a cre-ative, nurturing environ-ment, which gertner thinks is essential to their success. failure was always a possi-bility, but never a threat to their career.

“If you failed at some-thing and wanted to do something else, it was not seen as a kind of blight on your record. failure needed to be tolerated, to really push deep into the unknown,” Gertnersaid.“Truescientificinsights are often just a step away from failure.”

The executives at Bell Labs would refer to their laboratory as an institute of creative technology.

“In many ways, it’s about creativity,” gertner said. “I don’t think that creativity for a scientist or for an engi-neer is that much differentfrom the creativity of an art-ist.”

The creativity in Bell Labs was perhaps a luxury that came from the time and freedom available to its re-searchers, but it was also an approach to research involv-

ing the exchange of ideas that often brought about sig-nificantleapsintechnology.

Time and creativity are perhaps the most crucial ingredients for innovation. Indeed, innovation is often mistaken for a formula, but it is far more complex than that, gertner said.

“It’s a kind of structure for human creativity that allows people to exchange ideas or pursue their deep curiosity,” gertner said. “It’s a structure that allows them to transfer those ideas or discoveries to a place where other people sometimes can develop them even further.”

Innovation involves one set of minds ushering in an idea and another that has the technical ability to trans-form what is theoretical or speculative into a functional reality.

“That’s really hard to do. It’s why very, very few com-panies are really good at it,” gertner said. “and that’s all the more reason to appreci-ate when it’s done well.”

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“musicians have musical aural cues that they can use,” Cooper said. “a ballet com-pany doesn’t give you that. You can hear maybe the tap-ping of feet behind you, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything anyway.”

Wit h o ut those aural cues, the e n s e m b l e loses a pow-erful tool in music mak-ing, which makes the conductor’s role even more vital.

“You go to the very essence of the craft of conducting,” Cooper said. “You have to have gestures that don’t express you and what you’re feeling at the moment, but rather commu-nicate particularly in terms of tempo and pacing the interpre-tation that the ballet has been using to prepare.”

Ballets, though, are prede-termined spectacles. When a CD is turned on in a rehears-al space, music happens, Cooper said. In concert, the music is an organic, living thing.

“I can and do respond to the dances, and they respond to me,” Cooper said. “espe-cially beginnings and end-ings, I find, are much moresatisfying when there is that live collaboration.”

The music is only one of numerous aspects that must harmonizeinaballetproduc-tion. Lighting, costuming and choreography also contrib-utetothenarrative,flowandstructure of a performance.

“I think that’s the chal-lenge of whether it’s ballet, or symphonies, opera, or any-thing, isfinding coherence,”Cooper said.

Cooper said conducting ballet differs from conduct-ing symphony because bal-let has an inherent structural narrative. a symphony must be shaped with pacing and sets of arrival points and re-lease points, Cooper said.

“What you have to do in a ballet instead is capture — as perfectly as possible — mo-ments,” Cooper said, “and present them almost like lit-tle self-contained gems.”

Tonight’s program will feature four of those gems, a variety such as classic ballet and gershwin.

The concert opens with excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty,” a tradi-tional ballet but slightly re-cast, Cooper said.

next on the program is a Handel aria “Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa” from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, fol-lowed by Lalo’s “Danses Bril-lante” from Namouna.

“This Handel aria is per-haps one of the least likely pieces you would think of as ballet at all,” Cooper said, “and yet it has yielded to Sa-sha (Janes’) imagination. It’s really wonderful.”

gershwin’s American in Paris, which closes the con-cert, was not written as a ballet at all, yet Cooper also insists that it yields to its own narrative.

“You can really tell there is a story being told on stage,” Cooper said.

“The idea of this program is it’s like a buffet, a smor-gasbord,” he said. “as chefs, you would have said to us: ‘You’re the chef, you know your cooking. Cook some-thing good for us.’ ”

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Janes said he never asked to or wanted to choreograph, but Bonnefoux gave him the opportunity in 2006.

At first, he thought he would do something differ-ent to Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, he said, but then his singing teacher played Handel’s “Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa” for him. As soon as Janes heard it, he knew he would use it.

“It just spoke to me straight away,” he said.

The accompaniment by Handel will be performed by the CSO and soprano Raquel Gonzalez tonight.

The couple are the only to have danced the piece since it was first choreographed, and Janes said the ballet rep-resents a memento of their relationship.

“I think when we first did it, it would have been too hard to give up,” Janes said.

But now, both he and Carmazzi said they want other dancers to experience it the way that they have.

One of the first most chal-lenging things about the bal-let was getting through it, Janes said.

“It’s physically really, re-ally hard,” Janes said. “I’m an idiot for making it that hard.”

But after doing the bal-let for years, Carmazzi said, they have figured out where to breathe, allowing them to become more emotionally in-volved in their characters.

“Now we’ve worked out a way to get old and get through it,” Janes said.

In six years, the couple haven’t changed a step, Janes said, but the ballet keeps growing and feels different each time.

Janes said when they first created the piece, they had been dating for quite some time, but it has been six years since.

“We’ve got three kids to-gether; everything’s differ-ent,” he said.

Janes and Carmazzi, who have been together for about 10 years, were just married this May in Aruba.

In addition to the couple’s performance, Mark Diamond restaged his 1998 ballet, “An American in Paris,” set to the score of the same title com-posed by George Gershwin.

The movements in the bal-let are very much like those in a musical or a dream ballet in a musical, Diamond said.

Because the ballet requires such a large cast, it features many student dancers from the school, Diamond said.

The American, danced by Pete Walker, is an artist liv-ing in Paris, Diamond said,

who is young and amazed by all the city has to offer. He falls in love with a beautiful French woman, danced by Ja-mie Dee, only to find out she already has an older lover.

The American dances through vignettes of French life, finding himself encircled by feathered and sequined showgirls, causing a scene at dinner performance.

The spectacle carries throughout the ballet with appearances from a maître d’, paparazzi, waiters, a bal-lerina, a beatnik and even French poodles, until it ends

with the American and the French woman together at last.

NCDT will also dance excerpts from the third act of “Sleeping Beauty.” The company performed the full production of “Sleeping Beauty,” choreographed by Artistic Director Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, during its season in Charlotte, N.C.

It was a good experience for everyone, Bonnefoux said, because classical is the base of ballet vocabulary.

“It was a really good for everybody to go back to the roots,” he said. “And for me to remember what I learned dancing in Paris and Russia and New York.”

The excerpts include the “Bluebird” pas de deux, “Puss in Boot,” the “Lilac Fairy” solo and the grand pas de deux of “Aurora and the Prince.”

Bonnefoux said he chose to use “Sleeping Beauty” piece for the show with the CSO because it just makes sense. Usually, he tries to choose ballets with classi-cal music that the musicians will enjoy, so Tchaikovsky’s music for “Sleeping Beauty” seemed perfect.

“If we want to do some-thing really classical, nothing could be better than “Sleep-ing Beauty,’ ” he said.

Bonnefoux also set “Danse Brillante,” a ballet he created in the ’80s, he said. It was first choreographed by the direc-

tor of the Paris Opera Ballet. The piece, which includes students from Chautauqua Dance as well as NCDT mem-bers, is heavily inspired by the music of Édouard Lalo.

“I remember dancing that piece myself when I was in the Paris Opera I think in the ’60s,” Bonnefoux said. “I just loved that music and I wanted to do my own version of it.”

Like “Sleeping Beauty,” the ballet uses classical vo-cabulary. Usually, the works with the symphony are more classically based than other performances in the Chau-tauqua season, Bonnefoux said.

“We show that the com-pany can really excel in clas-sical ballet as well as contem-porary works,” he said.

What makes the perfor-mance with the CSO so spe-cial, Bonnefoux said, is the collaboration between the dancers and the musicians.

Working with recorded music ensures that the mu-sic will always be the same tempo, he said, but it is not as inspiring as live music. And although the dancers only rehearse with the CSO the day of the performance, Bon-nefoux said the live music makes a difference.

“Especially here in Chau-tauqua where the musicians’ talent is such a treat,” he said. “The dancers are inspired by the music, by what they play.”

It also helps, he said, that guest conductor Grant Coo-per understands how to lead a symphony playing for dancers.

“With the symphony, you really rely on the conduc-tor to give the dancers what they need,” Bonnefoux said. “When tempi are too fast or too slow, it just really chang-es the whole dynamic of the evening.”

The choreographers try to pick ballets with exciting and interesting music that the audience will enjoy hearing and the symphony will enjoy playing, Bonnefoux said.

“The idea,” he said, “is that the audience and the symphony and the dancers should have a blast.”

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NCDTFROM PAGE 1 Tuesday, July 10, 2012 • Amphitheater, 8:15 pm

North Carolina Dance Theatrewith the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra

Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Artistic DirectorPatricia McBride, Associate Artistic Director

Sasha Janes, Associate Artistic DirectorMark Diamond, NCDT2 Program Director

Grant Cooper, Guest Conductor

Sleeping BeautyChoreography: Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, after Marius Petipa

Music: Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyLilac Fairy: Melissa Anduiza

Pas de Trois: Sofia Arencibia, Sarah Hayes-Watson, Gregory TaylorPuss in Boots: Laine Habony* and Pete WalkerBluebird: Jamie Dee and Gregory DeArmond

Aurora: Anna GerberichPrince: Addul Manzano

Lascia la Spina, Cogli la RosaChoreography: Sasha JanesMusic: George Frideric HandelMusic arranged by Grant Cooper

Raquel Gonzalez, Soprano

• Brief Pause •

Danse BrillianteAnna Gerberich and Pete Walker

Sarah Hayes-Watson and Gregory Taylor

Melissa Anduiza, Sofia Arencibia, Alexandra Heier*, Isabella LaFreniere*, Lucas Bilbro*, Jacob Casey*,

Gregory DeArmond, Morgan Stillman*

• Brief Pause •

An American in ParisChoreography: Mark Diamond

Music: George GershwinThe American: Pete Walker

French Girl: Jamie Dee Maître d’: Gregory DeArmond

Club Couples: Sarah Hayes-Watson, Chelsea Dumas*, Laine Habony*, Gregory Taylor, Jacob Casey*, Morgan Stillman*

Apache Couple: Melissa Anduiza and Lucas Bilbro*Lovers: Bailey Bergmann*, Grace Choi*, Clara Ruf-Maldonado*,

Ryan Clawson*, James Ferguson*, Benjamin Kay*Parisians: Sophia Arencibia, Rachel Dunn*, Emma Fontenot*,

Justine Gildea*, Kaylee Grippando*, Kelsey Harrison*, Kaledora Kiernan-Linn*, Macy Koppa*, Hannah Maloney*,

Melissa Meng*, Laura Morton*, Rachele Perla*, Hannah Rollins*, Alexandra Waterbury*, Aaron Anker*, Gabriel Berger*, Austin Carter*,

Tyler Haritan*, Errol Kurtz*, Philip Martin-Nielson*Poodles: Annie and Charlie

Production & Artistic StaffJohn P. Woodey, Lighting DesignerEdna Mae Berkey, Stage Manager

A. Christina Giannini, Costume DesignerAnaya Cullen, Assistant to the Designer

Janet Steinmetz, StitcherMary Jane Day, Stitcher

Janice Lovercheck, StitcherJennifer Bentley, Stitcher

Arlene Lyon, Costume MistressLindsey King, Administrative Assistant

Janice Wells, Managing Director

Pianists: Kazuko Adachi, David Morse, Nataliya Pinelis

•

This evening’s performance is funded in part by The Edris & David H. Weis Family Fund and

The Rittman Family Fund for Performing Arts

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rAbAb Al-ShArifStaff Writer

Dancing in the ballet is nothing new for dogs in San-dy Miller’s family.

Miller, who is on the Chautauqua Women’s Club board of directors, saw on the “Grapevine,” a online community bulletin board, that Chautauqua Dance was looking for poodles to ap-pear in Mark Diamond’s bal-let, An American in Paris. She jumped at the opportunity.

After all, it was her poo-dles Molly and Archie who appeared in the 1998 pre-miere of the piece in Chau-tauqua.

Miller contacted the Chautauqua Dance office, re-minding them of Molly and Archie’s participation years ago. It didn’t take long for Diamond to reply. He said it would be great if the dogs could perform.

Annie, a two-year-old

chocolate toy poodle, and Charlie, a seven-month-old black toy poodle, will make their stage debut in the bal-let tonight.

The first time Miller’s dogs appeared in An Ameri-can in Paris was because of a chance encounter. Miller had some friends vis-iting her in Chautauqua, and after escorting them to the gate to leave, she decided to take Molly and Archie for a walk down by the lake. She figured she would pass the ballet studios and loop around by the lake to go home.

“I was walking them, and

this car pulled up, and two men jumped out,” she said. The men, dressed in suits, asked if they could take a look at her toy poodles. “I thought this was a little like Cruella de Vil or some-thing,” Miller said. “They asked if I would be willing to let them use my poodles in the ballet.”

Before they graced the Amphitheater stage, the poodles had to come in for an audition. As a puppy,

Archie had a habit of leap-ing off his back feet as he walked, Miller said.

“So we’re in the dance studio and Archie’s leaping, and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux is saying ‘What energy, what energy,’” she said.

Molly, a former show dog, wasn’t to be upstaged, how-ever.

“She got into the thing right away,” Miller said, “and Archie did anything that Molly told him to do.”

The poodles passed their test and were cast as the French poodles in the ballet. This time around, Annie and Charlie didn’t have to audition, since they are from the same breeder and have a similar temperament. That was enough for Diamond.

“I hope his faith is well-placed,” she said. Poodles seem to know when they are in front of an audi-ence, Diamond said, so they can really put on a show.

The poodles’ part requires them to scurry across stage on their musical cue escorted by dancer Emma Fontenot, a student in the Chautauqua School of Dance.

Annie and Charlie’s re-hearsal schedule allowed them to take a special trip to the spa before their pre-miere.

“I’m almost ashamed of this,” she said, “but (they went) to their own groomer in Pittsburgh on Saturday.”

Performing poodles take the spotlight in ‘An American in Paris’

With the symphony, you really rely on the conductor to give the dancers what they need. When tempi are too fast or too slow, it just really changes the whole dynamic of the evening.

—jeAn-Pierre bonnefouxArtistic Director, Chautauqua Dance

Dance Circle pre-performance lecture

The Chautauqua Dance Circle will host a pre-perfor-mance lecture at 7 p.m. tonight at the Hall of Philoso-phy prior to tonight’s dance performance with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. Choreographers will discuss pieces with the audience.

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Editor’s note: This Q&A has been edited for clarity and length.

Q Especially in your reference to Egyptians,

but it applied to others, you tell this very hopeful story about young people and their motivation to action. What concerns all of us as we look at Egypt is the decline of institutions or the absence of institutions that are really going to be very necessary for that country to acquire any kind of progress going forward. Is there a connection between these young people and institutional reform, and are they in fact, in addition to having very innovative changes, devoting themselves to institutions as well?

A I think that we perhaps underestimate how much

democracy depends upon civil society, and it depends upon nurturing, over the long term, civil society, the nonprofit orga-nizations, the civic discourse, that undergirds the capacity for us to enjoy democracy. My speech was a hopeful one, but I also think we have to make sure that we’re not just participating in what some call “slacktivism,” which is the idea of “liking” something on your Facebook page and thinking that things will change as a result. It takes more than that. And obviously the young people that have sacrificed and been so brave in Egypt and across the Middle East are go-ing to have to take up now the building of those institutions, the building of those organiza-tions, the self-organizing of their voice for ongoing achieve-ment of the democratic goals that they aspire to.

Q Why are cities like Philadelphia making it

illegal to feed the homeless without a license, how do we erase the stigma that sur-rounds hopeless individuals and, indeed, are the poor being demonized?

A I think it’s an important way of thinking about

it. And sometimes we do in fact demonize the poor, and I think that happens in our political discourse, often. In some sense scapegoating, for instance, the poor around our fiscal issues — and really our issues have much more to do with the broader set of genera-tional issues, and defense, and all of the dimensions of health care, etc., than they do the burden of the poor — so I think we have to be super careful about that. It’s hard, because obviously we want to create rules around how people help in order to protect people, but you can come to a point where you think that nobody has any obligations to help unless they are an expert. So unless you’re a social worker, you actually don’t have any obligation to the person that you see on the street. I think that creat-ing a culture of the expert in which we are always waiting for someone else to solve our problems is quite a dangerous

thing for a society.

Q So part of the follow-up question to that

has to do with a political dialogue on, for example, universal health care, but on other things as well, and the question really is, why does empathy either not get men-tioned or is seen as such a weak element of the political discussion?

A I’m a Democrat who works for the legacy

organization of George H. W. Bush, so I like to think that I’m a bridge. I don’t think that the Democrats who traditionally have been responsible for the message of the importance of equality are calling upon our best selves in their arguments. I think that there’s an opportuni-ty there to make that case, and I think it’s hopeful. Whichever side of the opportunity-equality balance you end up on, it’s important for that to be well-represented for our country’s dialogue, for there to be a dia-logue that talks about what it means to have a safety net, and what our obligations are to one another as a country, and what the common good is, and also how do we act upon this im-pulse of empathy. I will say that I think that we’ve had a great presidential legacy around service, over a bipartisan 20-plus years, but I still think that there’s an opportunity for this president, for whoever the next president is, to call upon the American people for more sac-rifice, for more action. I think President Obama has in many ways done a terrific job on the service agenda, but I think his campaign rhetoric was stron-ger than his governing rhetoric in calling the people to be the change.

Q Young people get motivated to take ac-

tion. One questioner asks if one should go about creat-ing their own organization or look for one, and another questioner, building on that, points out, how do you keep proliferation from occur-ring? How do you stop being redundant to each other if there’s all of this individual motivation?

A I think there has been a huge proliferation in the

number of nonprofits, and those on the funding side of the equation often feel like there’s not scale, there’s not enough collective impact, there’s replication, there’s duplica-tion, and so I think it’s super important that we are aware of those issues, that we think about how nonprofits that are really doing great work and that have measurable impact, can go to scale in the same way that a business can go to scale. We’d like some of those levers in the nonprofit community. I also think that certainly you should start out by thinking, “Is the effort that I want to achieve something that can be done in concert or collaboration with another nonprofit?” Because we don’t need replication. On the other hand, I think we need to recognize and support in-novation, and entrepreneurship and new solutions to ideas. I think there’s a balancing act there, but certainly the first stop is to see if somebody’s already doing this and how

you could bring their efforts to scale.

Q You were quoting a phenomenal number

of focus activities that oc-cur every month, so in your observation of all this, how is that process engaged in? How does one sort through a million things that could be done to say the one or two that we’re really going to focus on?

A So part of the work of these civic hubs, these

HandsOn affiliates, is to help translate the needs of com-munities into concrete, tangible actions that volunteers can readily achieve, so there’s liter-ally a bridging action that goes on there. We can’t solve every problem with volunteerism or individual effort. There are systemic issues that need a concert of private sector and governmental intervention and other kinds of systemic policy change. But we can work to-gether and figure out how can we actually make discernible progress against some of the critical issues. One of the things that we’re trying to do, and it’s sort of on the horizon, is how do you demonstrate, for instance, that service can really make a difference in the lives of children in education? Some of my colleagues in City Year, which is a national service program, have focused on the dropout rate, and they are finding that with the presence of volunteer national service members in the schools that they can dramatically increase attendance, which is one of the key levers for the graduation rate. So what are those levers that people, volunteers, can do en masse to actually make a concrete change around some of the critical issues of our time? I think that’s part of the next generation of what we need to be able to demonstrate in the volunteer and service movement.

Q There’s really not a question here, on the

other hand, it’s an interest-ing observation: “My father told us, ‘I never had to teach you to be bad.’ For every kid cleaning the Mississippi River, there are 1,000 people and companies dumping into it. My reality doesn’t jive with your world of help-helpers. Help me.”

A I think ultimately, you have to figure out who’s throw-

ing the trash up at the river, and you have to figure out how to address that. My own world-view is that service and helping others is first of all a part of our own individual spiritual life and journal, and second of all, that no community actually thrives without strong civic participa-tion and neighborliness and the willingness of people to sacrifice for one another and to support one another.

Q Is there a relationship between this rise of vol-

unteerism among youth and the decline of viable paying jobs available to that same population?

A I don’t think one’s directly attributable to another,

but I do think that young people are faced with a tough, difficult challenge in terms of employ-ment right now. There’s an or-

ganization now that’s asking for the equivalent of an FDR-like Conservation Corps to respond to the need for more young people to have jobs, the oppor-tunity to give back, to increase the number of AmeriCorps members, for instance, that are able to serve. If we want jobs, another way of thinking about it is to give people the opportu-nity to serve their nation and to give back.

Q You mentioned Presi-dent Bush’s initiative

that you’re involved in, and now you’ve just mentioned AmeriCorps, so what about government support for volunteerism; what about government support for Vista and the Peace Corps, for example.

A I’m for it. I believe that governmental support

over the last 30-plus years has been a key to building the civic foundation, which we enjoy. If you think about it, when President Kennedy launched the Peace Corps, he said that it would be real and effective if we had a 100,000 Peace Corps members. Well, we have 8,000 now, so we haven’t come close to realizing his vision. But, on the other hand, we have dramatically expanded Ameri-Corps, which was an initiative of President Bill Clinton, but which was incubated under President George H. W. Bush, it was expanded by President Bush, and it was significantly expanded by President Obama. In fact, one of the only and most bipartisan bills that was passed under President Obama was the Kennedy Serve America Act, which was a dramatic federal investment in the extension of AmeriCorps members and the number of Vista members, etc. If you look at the political divide, service has been one of the few issues that has been bipartisan over the last 30 years and which people can agree upon.

Q Speaking of genera-tions, then, what about

the Baby Boomer generation that’s now facing retire-ment? Are they inclined to volunteer? And whether they are or not, are there efforts out there that are trying to engage them?

A There are indeed, and they are growing in the

number of volunteers that are participating that are boomers. There’s an organization called Civic Ventures that’s doing tre-mendous work in this area, and it’s led by a guy named Marc Freedman, and he has basi-cally named something, which I mentioned in my speech, which is called an “encore career.” His theory is that new longevity is giving people a — however you want to say it — a third act from 60 to 90 in which they have the opportunity to take the experience, to take the skills and talents that they have grown over a lifetime and apply those to social change. He’s created something called the Purpose Prizes, which are honoring those that are over, I don’t know if it’s 55 or 60, that are social entrepreneurs that are creating amazing change-making initiatives. I think there’s a movement around this idea of redefining retirement as a way in which people might actually think about living a life in which they are engaged in meaningful ways in contributing to society.

Q So in creating the mes-sages that are sent out

to folks like that, do you dif-ferentiate, and is there a point in differentiating, between inspiring people to the better angels of their nature and hanging a guilt trip on them?

A How shall I answer that question? I tend to think

that inspiration works better than guilt trip, and when I was running HandsOn Atlanta for many years, I would see people in the local community, and I could tell that whenever they saw me they would start to apologize for not volunteer-ing lately. It was obvious that they were feeling guilty for not having done enough or done something, but I think inspira-tion is a much more powerful motivator. When people get engaged, it builds upon itself. I keep on messing up the order of “Inspire. Commit. Act.” — inspire, act, commit; commit, inspire, act — I think there’s a virtuous circle, and when you become engaged it reinforces your engagement and you be-come more inspired to serve.

—Transcribed by Rabab Al-Sharif

Nunn shares ideas about empathetic impulses, desire to cause change

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Michelle Nunn, CEO of the Points of Light Institute, speaks about human empathy as an innate trait in her lecture Monday in the Amp.

Laurence LéveiLLéStaff Writer

By using creativity and technology, people have more powerful tools to drive society toward progress.

“Globalization, technolo-gy, longer lives, the rising tide of democracy are all forces that create what Tom Fried-man calls super-empowered individuals,” said Michelle Nunn, ceO of Points of light Institute, at Monday’s morn-ing lecture.

As the first speaker of Week Three, themed “In-spire. commit. Act.,” Nunn shared three ideas related to people’s desire to help others.

The first idea is that peo-ple are wired to help others, Nunn said. The need to help others is evident every time there is a disaster, such as Sept. 11, Hurricane Katrina or the current Colorado fires.

Though coverage of Hur-ricane Katrina was focused on lawlessness, Nunn said, the real story behind the ca-tastrophe was people’s will-ingness to volunteer and aid those in need.

“These volunteers embody the determination and sacri-fice that’s born of disaster,” Nunn said. “The testament to the great human mystery, the impulse to sacrifice for the sake of others.”

Human desire to help one another is wired into our DNA, Nunn said. According to Michael Tomasello’s Why We Cooperate, infants develop helping behaviors before so-cialization occurs.

Biologists and neurosci-entists also are discovering mirror neurons, or empathy neurons, that allow people to experience different situ-ations as if they were their own situations, Nunn said. And scientists say charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has been misinterpreted.

“It’s true that Darwin be-lieved in survival of the fit-test,” Nunn said, “but he also said humans, not the strongest or the fastest of ani-mals, dominate because we cooperate with one another to survive.”

research shows that those who volunteer have an im-proved quality of life, she said. Volunteers may live longer, recover from illness more quickly and have lower rates of depression.

Nunn’s second idea is that human history is shaped by people who act on their em-pathetic impulses.

“History teaches us that the empathetic instinct is cultivated, and where it’s un-leashed, progress follows,” Nunn said.

every great movement in society has been driven by those who reached out to help others and banded to-gether to cause change, she said. The force that drives in-dividuals to make changes in America is rooted in the idea that people can, should and must live up to the country’s founding ideals.

“The enduring heroes of our nation are the citizens who called upon us to align our reality with our ideals,” Nunn said.

People long to be part of the great movements and progress of our society. When people do not feel like they are part of something larger, Nunn said, they long for purpose and a need to act on their empathy.

Volunteering has become a cultural norm in the united States, both in school and in the workplace, Nunn said. compared to 20 years ago, there are 40 percent more senior citizens and twice as many young people volun-teering.

The last idea is that people today have more power to drive change than ever be-fore, Nunn said. People have the ability to create change locally and globally thanks to technological tools and globalization.

“Individuals, whether they see themselves as super-empowered or not, are em-bracing the full range of their capabilities and their capaci-

ties,” Nunn said.One example Nunn used

was the Joseph Kony video that was released in March 2012 and went viral. The vid-eo aimed to inform people about ugandan war criminal and fugitive Kony.

Four factors that provide people with the power to cause change are time, talent, voice and money, she said.

research shows that giv-ing more time toward vol-unteering can improve one’s lifespan.

“longevity is a product of how engaged we are in the world,” Nunn said, “and that engagement is a more impor-tant predictor of our lifespan than obesity and smoking.”

Talent is a natural resource people should take advan-tage of. Skills are needed to solve problems, and people want to direct their skills and talents toward helping causes they care about.

Voice is also a factor that has influenced change throughout the country’s his-tory, Nunn said.

“Now more than ever, citi-zens have amplified voices,” she said, “and with creativity and technology, individuals can influence and activate millions of people.”

cassandra lin, 13, created Turn Grease Into Fuel when she learned about global warming. She and her team collected cooking oil from 500 restaurants. With the help of refiners and nonprofit companies, the team turned the grease into fuel to give to 100 families in need of emergency heating. Nunn said TGIF has now produced 80,000 gallons of biodiesel.

last, money plays into people’s ability to cause change, Nunn said.

When Neha Gupta’s fam-ily celebrated birthdays, they would bring presents to or-phans in India, her native home. At 9 years old, Gupta founded empower Orphans in order to help them. Since its inception, the organiza-tion has raised more than $500,000. It helped create five libraries, three computer labs and an eye and dental clinic for the orphans in India.

The factors that enable people to cause change have also put pressure on tradi-tional institutions.

“Whether you’re talking about governments, or non-profits or businesses, virtu-ally all of our traditional institutions are facing the challenge of doing more with less,” Nunn said.

Although people are ca-pable of causing change now more than in the past, Nunn said, we also live in a society in which people have to de-liver more than before.

“The arch toward justice does not bend automatically,” Nunn said, “but depends on the imagination and action of individuals, of all of us.”

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T h e a r T s

Jennifer shoreStaff Writer

The Writers’ Center brings poet-in-residence Marjorie Maddox to Chautauqua for Week Three, and in turn, she encourages Chautauquans to bring poetry to everybody else.

Maddox will present a Brown Bag lecture, “The Power to Inspire: Bringing Poetry to the People,” at 12:15 p.m. today on the alumni hall porch, which coincides with the week’s morning lec-ture theme, “Inspire. Com-mit. act.”

“I’m hoping I can give them some ideas about how to implement this love of po-etry and conversation that can stem from it in their own communities,” Maddox said. “I guess that is the link to this idea of inspiring, com-mitting and acting.”

she is the director of cre-ative writing and an eng-lish professor at Lock haven University, and she has pub-lished eight poetry collec-tions along with poems, sto-ries and essays in a variety of anthologies and journals.

Clara silverstein, director

of the Writers’ Center, said Maddox’s range of writing will make her a good fit at Chautauqua, and she is also the first poet-in-residence to collaborate with the Young readers program.

Maddox, the author of two children’s books, wants people to understand the im-portance of bringing poetry into elementary schools and to children.

“There’s a playful and fun side, but there’s also that side that really deals with who we are as individuals and the struggles that we encounter and the joys that we experi-ence,” Maddox said. “It has

everything to do with life.”We are all born with a love

of language, she said, but then it flitters out in grade school because everything is geared toward test taking.

“I just think it’s really im-portant to encourage that love and playfulness with language and also just how it deals with so many impor-tant issues that are impact-ing children today,” Maddox said.

she runs a reading series through Lock haven to con-nect the community with students and gives readings throughout Pennsylvania of Common Wealth: Contem-porary Poets on Pennsylvania, which she co-edited.

some people use poetry and literature as an escape, but Maddox said she believes poetry is a confrontation of life — just like paintings and music.

“Poetry helps you experi-ence another view or situa-tion or memory that someone has on all different levels,” she said. “I also think it deals with what we experience every day, how we see the world, and that’s why I think reading it is so important.”

Joanna hamerStaff Writer

elaine King is an art his-torian, curator and profes-sor at Carnegie Mellon Uni-versity interested in public policy, ethics and Lady Gaga.

Today at 7 p.m. in the hultquist Center, King will give a talk titled “The Union of art and Celeb-rity,” exploring the art of Cindy sherman, Madonna and pop queen Lady Gaga, who she calls “the reigning champion of hyper-modern-ist culture.”

“I feel that they all chal-lenged and addressed sig-nificant issues about the role and representation of wom-en in society, how they’re shown in the media, as well as in the creation of art,” King said.

a seasoned Chautauqua speaker, King has given Visual arts at Chautauqua Institution lectures on spiri-tuality and art, perspectives on the environment and the evolution of the portrait be-ginning with andy Warhol. she also wrote the catalogue essay for the “abstraction in america” show in strohl art Center. This evening, she will talk about fame in contemporary art culture, focusing on those three iconic women.

“as a society, our culture

has become more homog-enous,” King said. “I want to show how each of these women become celebrities in their own right but each stays pretty individual in what they do.”

King teaches history of art and theory and museum studies at Carnegie Mellon, and holds an interdisciplin-ary doctorate degree from Northwestern University in theory and culture and art history.

“Part of the reason that I like coming to a place like Chautauqua is that I am not just a straight academic,” King said. “I really don’t be-lieve in just writing papers for a limited audience. I tend to look at things contextu-ally. There’s a reason, there’s a context, there’s a time. Things are not isolated.”

King is the co-editor of an anthology of essays titled

Ethics and the Visual Arts, which explores the issues of media, technology, global-ization, markets and public policy and how they relate to the creation, curation and sale of fine art.

she is currently working on a new book about the Na-tional endowment for the arts — how it began, what it accomplished and why it has since stopped granting awards to individual artists.

“I’m trying to show how government and its support of the arts in an uncondi-tional way was very impor-tant in nurturing new talent as well as how that talent later becomes influential in changing the canon of mod-ern art,” King said.

King’s lecture will cover the history of the three icon-ic female artists, from sher-man’s “The Complete Un-titled Film stills,” through Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” and to Lady Gaga’s contem-porary fashion, music and performances.

“I want to show each of these artists, who be-come household names in their own area, have raised thought-provoking ques-tions,” King said. “all of these women are icons in their own right.”

Jessie cadleStaff Writer

“I played Clifford the Big red Dog when I was in sec-ond grade, and I never looked back.”

stephen spencer, a conser-vatory actor at Chautauqua Theater Company, knew he would study acting since that fateful year. he still owns the hat topped with big red ears his mom crafted for that first role.

he earned his place at CTC after he recited four different monologues when artistic Di-rector Vivienne Benesch came to audition students in his pro-gram, Case Western reserve University Cleveland Play-house MFa.

Now, members of the Chau-tauqua community can hear one of spencer’s monologues — and the monologues of all 14 conservatory actors that earned them their places in the conservatory — in Friends of Chautauqua Theater Com-pany’s “how I Got the Job.”

available at the door, tickets require a donation of $25, and the event is at 8 p.m. tonight in Fletcher Music hall. all pro-ceeds go to CTC.

“These are tremendously talented actors, and we see them in their roles through-out the season, but the audi-tion pieces that they used at their initial interview could be something completely differ-ent,” said Gwen Tigner, chief executive officer of the Friends.

each conservatory ac-tor will perform at least one monologue, and some will perform two, as time permits. a reception will follow outside where actors and audience can mingle.

Both spencer and his room-mate sathya sridharan, who plays alexander (sandy) Lord in The Philadelphia Story, look forward to sharing their mono-logues with the Chautauqua community.

sathya sridharan

Much like spencer, who de-cided to be an actor in his for-

mative years, sridharan spent his childhood as a clown.

“I wasn’t very tough or physically intimidating, so I always had to use my words and humor to get people to like me,” sridharan said.

he also had a penchant for professional wrestling — not because he enjoyed the vio-lence itself, but because of the storytelling element and the epic fighters, whom he com-pares to shakespearean he-roes.

“Just to see how people respond to that in a huge sta-dium … it’s basically perfor-mance,” sridharan said. “It’s so silly, but it’s a spectacle.”

he studied at Washington University in st. Louis for his undergraduate education and is now entering his second year at New York University’s Graduate acting Program.

During his audition for CTC, sridharan was asked to perform three monologues, and for the first time in his

life, he couldn’t remember the words to his final monologue. Though he assumed it would hurt his chances, he still left the room with a smile from a positive audition led by Ben-esch.

he is enjoying time spent in Chautauqua, a place he said fosters his acting and side pas-sions of writing poetry and fic-tion.

“This is such an idyllic place to work on a craft,” he said. “It’s a great retreat for mental space.”

stephen spencer

spencer, 22, is the youngest conservatory actor at CTC and the first conservatory actor from Case Western. This past year was Benesch’s first trip to Case Western, and spencer performed four monologues for her before he was accepted.

spencer said being sur-rounded by such up-and-com-ing actors is a dream.

“It’s like being with the best of the best,” he said. “I’m hum-bled in that way. I’m in this

conservatory with people who have huge resumes and profes-sional credits, and I don’t have much.”

Though spencer won’t be in the major productions, he performed in last week’s Late Night Mask Project. he will play a role in Mine as part of Di-recting Fellow sash Bischoff’s side project, where he will act and play five songs on the gui-tar. Music is his other love.

“I have a passion for perfor-mance and the stage,” he said. “It makes my blood move cor-rectly … It’s something that’s innate.”

spencer has played guitar and written songs since sixth grade, but he has been acting even longer. For him, theater was his only choice of career, because it was what fulfilled him most.

spencer will present his monologue from Miscommu-nications, and sridharan will perform his monologue from A Behanding in Spokane. For this performance, no Clifford hats are required.

Conservatory actors present monologues that landed CTC jobs

spencer sridharan

Poet-in-residence Maddox to show poetry as ‘confrontation of life’

maddox

King to talk celebrity, women, art and Gaga in VACI lecture

king

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Abrahamic Program for Young Adults

APYA will host a porch chat for Chautauquans ages 16–22 at 8 p.m. tonight on Pastor Paul’s porch across from Hurlbut Church.

“What Time is It? Social Justice Time!” Chautauquan ages 16–22 will experience crafts, videos and letters for a better world at 7 p.m. Wednes-day in Hurlbut Church.

Baptist House

Vocalist Bruce Montgom-ery presents a program of song at the 3:15 p.m. social hour today in Baptist House. Members of Greenfield Bap-tist Church, North East, Pa., will provide refreshments.

Catholic Community

Masses are 8:45 a.m. week-days in the Episcopal Chapel of the Good Shepherd.

Social hour is at 3:15 p.m. today at the Catholic House. Chairpersons Cheri Ander-son and Claire Trubits assist-ed by Sandy Alessi, Jeanne Shepardson, Lynn Smith, Lois McCreary, Sally Grego-ry, Mary Ellen Greico, Ellen Pfadt and Irene Terreberry of St. Mary of Lourdes, Bemus Point, are hostesses.

The annual meeting of the Chautauqua Catholic Com-munity is held at 4:30 p.m. today in the Catholic House.

Chabad Lubavitch

Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin presents “Project Talmud” at 9:15 a.m. today in the Alumni

Hall Library Room.Rabbi Vilenkin conducts a

discussion in the Ethics Series at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday in the Alumni Hall Library Room.

The community Shabbat dinner is 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Everett Jewish Life Cen-ter. For reservations email zevilenkin@aol.com, or call 716-357-3467.

Christian Science House

The afternoon social is 3:15 p.m. today in the Christian Sci-ence House. A testimony meet-ing is at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Christian Science House.

Disciples of Christ

“Plans for 2012: A New Season at Chautauqua with the Abrahamic Student Co-ordinators” is the program at the 3:15 p.m. social hour today at the Disciples House. Come for conversation with the four coordinators who join the Department of Re-ligion this season for the seven-year-old Abrahamic Program for Young Adults. Friends from Cleveland Heights Christian Church (DOC), Cheektowaga, N.Y., led by Diane Serio, host the social hour.

The students will share their educational inter-ests and pursuits and an-swer questions about how they prepare and direct the summer program. Mon-day through Thursday eve-nings throughout the sum-mer, a targeted audience of young adults ages 16–22 are invited to attend a variety

of events featuring sports, games, movie nights, culture nights,and porch talks.

Michael Harvey, the Jew-ish coordinator, begins his third year at Rabbinic School Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Nikhat Dharani, a Muslim coordinator, will graduate from Harvard in 2014. Safi Haider, a Muslim coordina-tor, is a second year student in the Hartford Seminary Is-lamic Chaplaincy Program. Emily Perper, the Christian coordinator, is a recent grad-uate of Grove City College.

Ecumenical Community of Chautauqua

The ECOC provides lem-onade and cookies at 3:15 p.m. today in front of the Shaw House.

Episcopal Chapel of the Good Shepherd

Holy Eucharist is celebrat-ed at 7:45 a.m. weekdays in the Chapel.

Episcopal Cottage

Meet the Rev. Mary Jo and Ken Melberger at the 3:15 p.m. tea today in the Epis-

copal Cottage. Mary Jo will lead a bible study at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Cottage.

Hebrew Congregation

The Hebrew Congregation hosts an hour of conversation and social discourse at 3:15 p.m. today in the Everett Jew-ish Life Center. There will be discussion and light refresh-ments.

Lutheran House

The Lutheran House so-cial hour is at 3:15 p.m. to-day in the Lutheran House. Women from St. John’s Lu-theran Church from Girard, Pa., host the event.

Metropolitan Community Church

The Rev. Stephen Austin speaks at 7 p.m. Wednes-day in the United Church of Christ Chapel next to the Amphitheater. He taught vo-cal music and was conductor of the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus, before pursuing his doctoral studies at San Francisco Theological Semi-nary. Austin serves Church of Christ Congregational of Newington, Conn., as its

intentional interim senior minister.

Presbyterian House

A coffee hour between morning worship and the morning lecture is each weekday at the Presbyterian House.

Service of Blessing and Healing

Sponsored by the Depart-ment of Religion, the Service of Blessing and Healing takes place at 10:15 a.m. weekdays in the Randell Chapel of the United Church of Christ headquarters.

Unitarian Universalist

The UU tea is at 3:15 p.m. today in the Unitarian-Uni-versalist House at 6 Bliss.

United Church of Christ

The Rev. Lise Worthing-ton talks briefly about her project to integrate a concern about the quality and human significance of food with her work in ministry at the 3:15 p.m. Tuesday social hour.

The UCC Society hosts a re-ception to highlight the Show-er of Stoles exhibit from 3:30–5 p.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Ruth Snyder, guest of honor, tells of her experiences in ministry that led to the mak-ing of her stole. Linda Tom-sen, maker of Snyder’s stole, will talk briefly about why she made the stole. Others will be given the chance to comment or share their stories.

The Shower of Stoles Ex-hibit continues this week and

next at the United Church of Christ Randell Chapel. The 50 stoles represent the larg-er collection of more than 1,000 hand-made stoles, each one honoring someone in the LGBT community who serves in ministry, lay or or-dained. Each stole is accom-panied by a brief story of how the church has affirmed or rejected the calling of the honorees to ministry.

United Methodist

There will be coffee be-tween morning worship and the 10:45 a.m. lecture week-days on the porch. The chap-lain’s chat is at 12 p.m. today on the United Methodist House porch. The Rev. Tim Reichard will lead the discus-sion on “Buddha and Jesus: Brothers of Compassion.”

Social hour is at 3:15 p.m. today on the porch. Members of the Cascade Simpson United Methodist Church of Erie, Pa., host.

The Rev. Paul Womack con-tinues a Bible study, sponsored by the Department of Reli-gion, on “The Compassionate Christ: Chapters in the Life of Jesus” at 7 p.m. tonight in the United Methodist House.

Unity of Chautauqua

Unity holds a morning meditation 8–8:30 a.m. week-days in the Hall of Missions.

Women in Ministry

Women in Ministry meets at noon Wednesday in the Hall of Missions.

Compiled by Meg Viehe

Interfaith News

“Matthew has a very dramatic beginning. I call it the ‘smelling salts gospel.’ He says, ‘Breathe this and get into the being who will make you alive. You will be a per-son alive to God, self, neighbor and the suffering in the world,’” said the Rev. Mark A. Labberton, Harold F. Reed Sr. chaplain at the morning devotional service Monday in the Amphitheater. His text was Matthew 3:1-12 and his title was “Smelling Salts.”

“The people Matthew is writing to are somnambulating — sleepwalking — and he wants the people to understand the framework that leads to Jesus’ public ministry,” Labber-ton said. “John is the forerunner of Jesus — the end of the Old Testament prophets who talked about the consequenc-es of the way people lived. They were overwhelmed by life and not making decisions and acts that matter.”

John told the people “prepare yourself for the God who takes your life more seriously than you do,” he said. “I see John as a Berkeley character, a bit raw and rough, edgy, not looking for easy comfort. Yet John spoke to crowds who were hungry for his message. Even the religious leaders of the day went for baptism.”

He continued, “‘You brood of vipers’ has never been my call to worship. It is not a way to make friends and influ-ence people.”

Labberton told a story about a renowned preacher and teacher who was asked how he wanted to be introduced to a group of students. He told his host, “Tell them I am a sin-ner. Tell them I am a dirty, no-good sinner. Tell them if they looked into my heart, they would spit into my face.” And the host introduced him that way. The preacher thought it was a joke, but the host took him seriously.

“John was not joking. This was not a metaphor, or a ste-reotype or an overstatement,” Labberton said. “Something was really wrong. There was rot at the core of the human condition, and the way to prepare was not denial but to intensify the need. Your bloodline won’t protect you; God can make children out of these stones. We don’t like this kind of searchlight. We like to turn the volume down, a gentler, kinder word. John was too edgy, he was overstating the problem, he should get a grip.

“You see how the somnambulance sets in. We want it both ways. Something was wrong — Israel was under Ro-man oppression. But there was also something wrong in Israel at the core. We want to be made right, but we have to admit real wrong. We want a softer gospel, but John offers

accountability not grace.”John told the people that he baptized them with water

for repentance but that he was getting them ready for the one who would come, the one whose sandals he was not worthy to untie.

“He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. According to John, we would have Jesus baptize us with the Holy Spirit and sugar,” Labberton said. “But it is a gospel of fire; it is a gospel not just of healing, but cleans-ing and purification. We want to leave harshness behind, but we need a deep process of admitting something is truly wrong.”

“The art of wakefulness is not clinging to the cultural message that all is OK when we live in systems and struc-tures of injustice,” he said. “If I am willing to live in an unjust world, if I am willing to tolerate displays of injustice to others then I have missed the point. John and Jesus are trying to reorder all that.”

Labberton said that on a family vacation in Hawaii, his family was using a canoe to enjoy the water with a fam-ily friend. There were five of them, and only four at a time could use the canoe. Toward the end of the afternoon, the canoe slammed against some coral and threw them into the water. As they struggled in the water, his youngest son started to swim out toward them. Once everyone was safe, Labberton turned to his son and commended him on his bravery on deciding to try to help.

“I didn’t decide,” the son said, “my heart just made me.”“I wish in a world of staggering need that more people

would say, ‘My heart just made me.’ Sometimes I can do it for people I love, or people I like or even those I tolerate,

but for people outside my sociological types or worldview, I wish I could say, ‘My heart made me do it,’” Labberton said.

When Jesus was baptized, he was identifying with us, Labberton said. Then the heavens opened and God said, “This is my son.” In Matthew, the whole gospel is about an-swering the question, “Who is this? Who is he? What does his identity mean?” In the temptation, in the wilderness, he was not just reenacting the 40 years in the wilderness. He takes the reality of the temptation seriously and asserts God’s authority over the issues of what is enough, excep-tionalism and power. Jesus says that we should repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven has come near.

“We experience the Kingdom of God by following him. Who will come? Those in need,” Labberton said.

“I was groomed in a world that says, ‘You are just fine,’ and Matthew says, ‘You are not just fine, and the world is not either.’ God is doing a new thing. To admit you are not fine is not self-flagellation, it is the honest admission of the truth. Come all who really bum me out, and I will give you rest. We have to acknowledge our deep need for the one who calls us into honesty and deep faith. May we wake to that good news,” he concluded.

The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell presided. The Rev. Nanette Banks read the scripture. She is one of the co-directors of the New Clergy Conference and works on the staff of McCormick Theological Seminary. Jared Jacobsen, organist and worship and sacred music coordinator, led the Motet Choir in “Be Still and Know That I am God” by David Lantz.

Column by MARY Lee TALBOT

Morning Worship

Eric ShEa | Staff Photographer

The Rev. Mark Labberton, chaplain-in-residence for

Week Three, gives the sermon at Sunday’s morning worship service in the Amphitheater.

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y o u T h / C o m m u n i T y

kelsey burrittStaff Writer

For anyone who has tuned in to 106.9 KiSS-Fm in the Jamestown area lately, the name Jackson Rohm may ring a bell. For anyone who lives in Chautauqua, Rohm has become a local music-scene staple.

Rohm will perform at 9 p.m. tonight in the College Club. he has been making appearances at the College Club in Chautauqua for the past 15 years.

Rohm has wandered the grounds for longer than the years he has performed. he grew up swimming in Chautauqua Lake and biking around the institution, mem-ories that add a tinge of nos-talgia to his performances.

“Chautauqua’s changed so much, in so many ways for the better,” Rohm said. “Chautauqua’s been a part of my life since i was a little toddler, so it’s great to see the way it’s flourishing even now still.”

Rohm released his seventh studio album, Blindsided, this past march. A solo profes-sional musician for the past 20 years, Rohm has explored pop, rock, country and roots. his latest album was record-ed in nashville. he considers it one of the more rock-heavy albums he has produced.

“i still got a pretty di-verse selection of songs,” Rohm said. “As a whole, i think people liken it more to pop rock.”

Rohm’s sound can be

accredited to every artist and no artist in particular. Though he cannot pinpoint a single, overriding musical in-fluence in his career, he said

he feels everyone he listens to affects the music he creates.

“on a subconscious level, i’m sure more artists have influenced me than I even

know,” Rohm said.At the moment, Rohm is

listening to a variety of art-ists, including The Beatles, Cat Stevens, John mayer and mumford & Sons.

“it’s hard to say who has influenced me, because they all have on some level,” Rohm said.

Rohm first started in mu-sic around seventh grade when several classmates picked him out of the school choir to sing in their band.

“Back then, i think it was a heavy-metal thing we were doing, about the polar oppo-site of what i’m doing now,” Rohm said. “it was still fun back then, and that’s kinda what draws you to it.”

he realized as college ap-proached that music was his

greatest passion and decided to pursue it as a career. After playing for free around his fair share of campfires, Rohm started to score paid gigs, working up to the success he has achieved today.

“Acoustic guitar gives me the flexibility to play a huge, diverse range of music,” Rohm said.

Such a range is key in a place such as Chautauqua, where people anywhere from age 9 to 75 walk by the College Club.

Rohm says he usually tries to balance his concerts between cover songs, for those who may not be fa-miliar with his songs, and his own originals, some of which tonight will come from his latest release.

joanna hamerStaff Writer

“it’s the only time during the year you can collect $200 when you go through main Gate,” said Donna Dominick, speaking of the new Chau-tauqua-opoly board game.

Chautauquans who are familiar with the feeling of a lighter wallet when they enter the grounds can com-memorate the institution by

playing the game, and have a chance to win back some cash while they’re at it.

in celebration of the re-lease of the board game, Chautauqua Bookstore is hosting a Chautauqua-opoly tournament starting today at 3:30 p.m. in Author’s Al-cove. up to three tables of six will play, and eager tycoons can sign up on the clipboard across from the elevator in the bookstore.

The game was master-minded by bookstore em-ployees Dominick and Caro-lyn Snider. They wanted to incorporate all the things Chautauquans love about Chautauqua, but knowing that the institution is unique for each visitor, Dominick wants to hear what players think.

“Chautauqua is different for everybody. if anyone has any recommendations for the

opportunity Cards, or the Chautauqua Fund cards, they can go ahead and submit them to me or Carolyn,” she said.

They might add another set of cards not included in the original game for ideas suggested by players.

The tournament will con-tinue until the end of the season, with games every Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30–5 p.m. At the end of each tournament, scores will

be tallied and the winner of each table will walk away with the game board on which he or she played.

in Week nine, there will be a two-tiered champion’s round for previous winners, with prizes of either a $25 gift certificate to the bookstore or a second Chautauqua-opoly game. The first tier of win-ners will compete later that week for another game set or for the grand prize of a $50

bookstore gift certificate.“We’re hoping that it’s

multigenerational,” Domi-nick said.

With histories on the back of the property cards, four pillars in the place of the rail-roads and the infamous jail space changed to “Go Jump in The Lake,” Chautauqua-opoly is set to dominate the market of board game fun.

Chautauqua-Opoly tournament offers opportunity to put tycoon skills to the test

local musician rohm brings his usual variety in return visit to College Club

Daily file photoJackson Rohm performs at Chautauqua in 2011.

the Village green

In scenes from the season’s first two weeks, Bestor Plaza serves as an idyllic town square, especially as a place for young Chautauquans to congregate and recreate.

aboVe and aboVe right: Ben Rosen attempts slacklining, a balance sport that uses nylon rope stretched out between two anchor points (in this case, trees).

right: A group of girls use the Bestor Plaza fountain to cool off from the high heat and humidity of Week Two.

LAUREN ROCK | Staff Photograper

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P H I L A N T H R O P Y

sydney malteseStaff Writer

Almost everyone strug-gles to fit all that is Chau-tauqua into one simple sen-tence. But that didn’t stop Megan Smith from trying during Friday’s NOW Gen-eration Reception.

“It’s the TED conference, only if it was founded in the 1800s. And lasted all sum-mer,” Smith said.

Smith’s description pro-vides a poignant example of a younger Chautauquan’s search for relevance. NOW Generation seeks to connect those ages 21–50 and to pro-vide the resources to allow them to make Chautauqua pertinent to young people well into the future.

The reception, which took place at 5 p.m. at the President’s Cottage, boasted 150 attendees. The first half-hour of the event was social — a time for people to meet, reunite and chat on the go-ings-on of Chautauqua.

Tina Downey, director of the Chautauqua Fund, was the first of the evening’s speakers.

“Welcome home,” Downey said. “It’s an amaz-ing summer.”

Downey introduced Me-gan Sorenson, assistant direc-tor of the fund and the prima-ry staff member responsible for working with members of NOW Generation.

Sorenson emphasized that Chautauqua is more than just a place — it’s a liv-ing, breathing idea that per-meates every aspect of life.

“The stories and relation-ships we build here help keep us connected,” Sorenson said.

Sorenson touched on some of the initiatives that the Institution and the Foundation have undertak-en to utilize 21st-century technology.

“The Institution is striv-ing to adapt to that ever-changing landscape,” So-renson said. “We really want your input. Let us know your ideas.”

Sorenson stressed that time, talent and philanthro-py are also important to contribute to the Institution.

“I’m excited to learn what your passions are,” she said.

Matt Ewalt, editor of The Chautauquan Daily, spoke on his appreciation of all the ideas NOW Genera-tion members can generate. The age demographic is so

important, Ewalt said, that they are the inspiration for an entire week’s theme next season — Week Two’s “The Next Greatest Generation.”

“We’re trying to do some things online to engage people,” Ewalt said.

One of the new engage-ment initiatives that Ewalt referred to is the “Tell Your CHQ Story” initiative. Peo-ple may share their connec-tions with Chautauqua on-line via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Storify.

“These stories are told by people in the community, not by us,” Ewalt said.

Leslie Mathis, digital communications manager, further explained the CHQ Stories project.

“We view our social me-dia here as an extension of the Chautauqua communi-ty,” Mathis said.

She and Marketing and Communications staff-ers video-record Chautau-quans telling their stories on the porch of the St. Elmo

and then post the videos online to share with others.

Smith, an employee at Google, explained that Chautauqua is also expand-ing its online presence by hosting Street View cam-eras from Google.

Special cars and tricy-cles with cameras facing every angle will roam the streets this week, capturing images of the Institution that will be available on Google’s map feature.

“It’s an important place to bring forward,” Smith said. “We want to bring Chautauqua out into the world.”

George Snyder, chair of the Institution’s board of trustees, said NOW Generation is the perfect venue for introducing new ideas to move Chautau-qua into the future.

“There’s such a wonder-ful energy from within this group,” Snyder said.

He updated those pres-ent on some of the current issues facing the Institution,

including the process for se-lecting his successor to serve as chair of trustees and the major renovations planned for the Amphitheater.

Institution President Thomas M. Becker closed the evening with a few words on the singularity of Chautauqua.

“We create a community here that is different from any other community on the face of the Earth,” Becker said. “And it speaks to an idyllic sense of what it is to be free, of an environment in which creativity is the cur-rency of the community and in which values matter.”

The Time iSnOW

The Arthur and Helen Reycroft Memorial Reli-gious Lectureship Fund of the Chautauqua Founda-tion provides funding for today’s Interfaith Lecture by Krista Tippett with Fa-ther Greg Boyle.

Helen McMillan Rey-croft, a Presbyterian, was born in Bridgeville, Pa., and came to Chautauqua dur-ing World War I to work as a chambermaid at the Ath-enaeum Hotel while a col-lege student. She married Arthur Reycroft, a Cam-bridge, Mass., Unitarian and they settled in Mones-sen, Pa., a steel mill town south of Pittsburgh.

In 1932, Helen convinced her husband to stop at Chautauqua for a brief visit on a family trip to Boston, and their four daughters immediately begged to stay another week, which turned into the whole summer. From then on, they spent every subsequent summer at Chautauqua.

After her husband’s

death in 1954, Helen Rey-croft became a permanent resident of the Institution until her death in 1976. Their four daughters, Jean Summerville and the late Dr. Dorothy (Bill) Holling-sworth, Mary Ellen (Arch) Moran, and Barbara Sell-ers continued to maintain strong ties to Chautauqua, as have dozens of their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The Reycrofts’ grand-son, Chautauquan Jay Summerville, said: “My grandparents were not people of extraordinary means, and it must have required many sacrific-es to give their girls the gift of Chautauqua ev-ery summer during those hard years of the Depres-sion. That gift has trans-formed dozens of lives. Chautauqua was central to my grandparents’ spiri-tual lives, and their gift of Chautauqua to their descendants has trans-formed our lives in count-less ways. This lectureship is a very small ‘thank you’ for my grandparents’ won-derful gift.”

Funding from the Carnah-an-Jackson Foundation Fund for Chautauqua supports to-night’s performance of the North Carolina Dance Theatre accompanied by the Chautau-qua Symphony Orchestra.

Mrs. Alvin C. Jackson was the first member of her family to come to Chautau-qua. She initially came to the Institution at the age of 18 to study Sunday School teaching methods. She later returned with her husband and daughter Katharine on a regular basis. When Katha-

rine married Clyde L. Carna-han of Jamestown, the Jack-sons purchased a home at 41 Palestine and continued to spend summers here.

The Carnahans lived in Jamestown but also became devoted Chautauquans. Mrs. Carnahan served as an Insti-tution trustee and on board committees for the library and the Department of Religion. She and Mr. Carnahan partici-pated actively in the Chautau-qua Presbyterian Association.

In 1969, Mrs. Carnahan created the Japanese Garden

beside the United Presbyte-rian headquarters in memory of her parents and her hus-band. When making the gift, Mrs. Carnahan remarked that Chautauqua was very impor-tant to her parents and that she believed Chautauqua’s Christian faith and program were its great inner strength and distinguishing factor.

David Carnahan is the son of Katharine and Clyde Carnahan. Now the chair-man of the board of the Carnahan-Jackson Foun-dation Inc. of Jamestown, Mr. Carnahan continued his parents’ long record of commitment and service to the Institution. A former director of the Chautauqua Foundation and a former trustee of the Institution,

Mr. Carnahan is active in many civic and educa-tional organizations. The Carnahan-Jackson Founda-tion Fund is one of several endowments established by the family and Foundation to support a diverse range of Chautauqua’s programs.

Mr. Carnahan met his wife, the former Martha Popp, at Chautauqua. For many years, they resided on the grounds of the Institution before moving to their home outside Mayville, N.Y.

If you would be interested in discussing the possibility of estab-lishing an endowment to support the performing arts or supporting another aspect of Chautauqua’s program, please contact Karen Blozie at 357-6244, or email her at kblozie@ciweb.org.

Carnahan-Jackson Foundation supports NCDT, CSO performance Reycroft Lectureship supports Tippett-Boyle Interfaith program

We create a community here that is different from any other community on the face of the Earth. And it speaks to an idyllic sense of what it is to be free, of an environment in which creativity is the currency of the community and in which values matter.

— tOm BeCKeRPresident, Chautauqua Institution

AdAm BirkAn | Staff Photographer

Megan Sorenson, assistant director of the annual fund, speaks to members of the NOW Generation at the President’s Cottage Friday.

NOW Generation takes the stage

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c o m m u n i T y

John FordStaff Writer

it’s going to be Thursdays with charlie this summer.

Every Thursday afternoon this season at 4:30 p.m. in the Amphitheater, charlie Heinz, chautauqua’s former vice president for communi-ty planning and design, will conduct a briefing and tour for chautauquans interested in progress on the institu-tion’s ambitious plan to reha-bilitate and modernize one of its most iconic and functional public buildings.

Heinz initiated the se-ries of weekly sessions last Thursday, with a crowd of more than 100 chautauquans in attendance. As Heinz led the group from the Amp’s west plaza to the orchestra and then to the rear of the house and back porch, he explained the process of the rehabilitation project to date and highlighted some mile-stones ahead.

Heinz first reminded the group that information on the rehabilitation project is available on the institu-tion’s website. The “on the Grounds” tab at www.ciweb.org/on-the-grounds includes a history of the Amphitheater, a copy of the Amphitheater Study Group’s report to the board of trustees, and a time-line for the project.

Last year, chautauqua in-stitution assembled a group of experts in theater archi-tecture, historic preservation and community planning, along with eight chautau-qua community members, to examine issues of historic preservation, functionality, size, sustainability, safety, audience experience, envi-ronmental impact and con-nectivity to the community.

Heinz said that the Am-phitheater Study Group pre-sented its report to the chau-tauqua institution Board of Trustees in november 2011 and architect and study group chairman marty Ser-ena presented in further detail in February. At the February meeting, the board approved the implementa-tion of the schematic design phase, after funding had been secured. Serena Sturm Architects of chicago was also named the architect of record for the project.

During Thursday’s session, Heinz led the group through

the next steps of the process, cautioning that funding must be secured for each phase before the project can pro-ceed. The schematic design was recently completed and presented to the boards of chautauqua institution and the chautauqua Foundation earlier this season.

“in a perfect world,” Heinz said, “the project could ad-vance over the next nine months to design develop-ment and construction draw-ings, leading to a potential request for bids in may 2013. Again, in a perfect world, we could go to construction after the 2013 Season and be ready with the renovated Amp in time for the 2014 Season.”

During the earliest con-ceptual planning stage, the project estimate for the build-ing itself was $21 million. Heinz said that subsequent design phases will more ful-ly encompass the entire proj-ect and redefine goals. He stressed again that no work will proceed until the money has been secured.

Heinz said the prelimi-nary plans include the bowl in which the Amp sits to be dug out 15 feet and seating

increased by more than 10 percent from the current ca-pacity of 4,036 to 4,458. The seating capacity, Heinz said, depends on the average size of an audience member’s backside. Between 18 and 20 inches is a common measure.

Also, the current plans call for the bleachers to be removed, and the “flower”

columns which support the lateral roof extension pieces will be moved out to the current perimeter fence line so the increased seat-ing and handicapped seat-ing will be covered.

it is possible that some of the view-inhibiting, interior vertical steel columns may be removed as adjacent columns

are reinforced and length-ened. The columns date from the 1893 Amp renovation and were reinforced in 1907 and 1978. They do not currently sit on bedrock, which is 22 feet below grade.

According to the cur-rent plan, the entry ramps would be more gradual and have steps, and there will

be more gates from the west plaza. Benches in the histor-ic style will be retained, but it is undecided as to whether the current benches will be modified or new benches will be constructed.

There will be some chang-es and adjustment of the roof-hanging light trusses to improve acoustics, which Heinz described as presently good for the spoken word but not as much for the orchestra.

Various options are be-ing considered for the ceil-ing, such as a return to the original 1879 design featur-ing open truss work supple-mented by modern acoustic tiles as a possibility. The or-gan and choir loft will stay where they are, and the stage will remain at its height rela-tive to the orchestra seating.

mechanical lifts installed at the front areas of the stage and nearby orchestra seating will streamline and facilitate unloading issues for instru-ments and other equipment from the rear of the house to the stage area. in the down position, the lift will create a pit for the orchestra; in the up position, the lift extends the Amphitheater stage.

Storm water management, a consistent institution prior-ity, will be significantly im-proved with the installation of large underground cisterns under the west plaza and rain gardens from the rear of the Amp to chautauqua Lake.

numerous improvements are envisioned for the Amp’s rear area, ranging from bet-ter storage to increased locker and office space and warm-up and staging areas for the per-formers. A new choir rehears-al space is also possible.

Because of the massive scope of the work the insti-tution envisions, Heinz was served dozens of questions about issues such as handi-capped seating, sight lines, acoustics and replacing the benches. He and staff mem-bers in attendance took note of the concerns and urged more chautauquans to join the dialogue.

“our beloved Amp is central to what we do and who we are at chautauqua,” Heinz said. “The board of trustees knows this. They see these necessary changes as our generation’s legacy to all those who follow in the next 100 years.”

MICHELLE KANAAR | Staff Photographer

More than 100 Chautauquans attended the first Amphitheater rehabilitation information session on Thursday. The briefings, held at 4:30 p.m. Thursdays all season and led by Charlie Heinz, below, the Institution’s former vice president for community planning and design, are meant to inform community members about the proposed Amphitheater rehabilitation and answer any questions.

Amp briefings keep community apprised of plans

beverly hazenStaff Writer

Looking ahead to the House Tour on July 17, Chautauqua Institution Archivist Jon Schmitz will conduct the Bird, Tree & Garden Club’s Brown Bag lecture at 12:15 p.m. today in Smith Wilkes Hall.

“We thought we’d try something different; not the same kind of review as we’ve done for years,” BTG Presi-dent Norman Karp said. “It is an exciting change to have Jon looking at Chautauqua in a different way.”

Schmitz’s topic, “Planning for Continuity: Chautauqua Past, Present and Future,” will give an overview of the planning that takes place with respect to the buildings and grounds in an effort to in-corporate change in continu-ity. The talk will try to dem-onstrate how the buildings and grounds have helped preserve the community and the programs at Chautauqua.

“As a place, Chautauqua is recognized by understanding its identity, which can only be understood by understand-ing something about its his-tory,” Schmitz said.

He said the buildings and grounds do more than record changes to the programs and the look of Chautauqua while reflecting what is happening on the grounds.

“They also have introduced new elements which are in-corporated permanently into the identity of Chautauqua,” he said. He will answer ques-tions following his talk.

Schmitz is an archivist and historian, and a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists and the New York State Archives Regional Ad-visory Committee.

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Archivist Schmitz leads BTG Brown Bag on the aesthetics of Chautauqua

schmitz

The Reginald and eliza-beth Lenna Lectureship in Business and economics sponsors today’s 10:45 a.m. lecture featuring Jon Gertner.

Reginald and elizabeth Lenna of Lakewood, N.Y., established this endow-ment fund for lectures in 1983 through their gift to the Chautauqua Foundation. The fund is intended to attract prominent and authoritative individuals with established reputations in business, fi-nance or economics to the Chautauqua platform.

Before his retirement, Reginald Lenna served as president, CeO and treasurer of Blackstone Corporation of Jamestown, N.Y. He also was a director of Blackstone, Swe-den, A.B., and president of Blackstone Industrial Prod-ucts Ltd., Stratford, Ontario, and of Blackstone Ultrasonics Inc., Sheffield, Pa. He served as a director of the Business Council of New York State, Unigard Insurance of Seat-tle, Wash., and Key Bank of Western New York, James-town, N.Y.

In 1976, he was knighted by the King of Sweden, Royal Order of the North Star and received an honorary doctor-ate in 1981 from St. Bonaven-

ture University. He received a 1975 Brotherhood Award from the National Confer-ence of Christians and Jews. He was active in several lo-cal organizations, including the United Way of Southern Chautauqua County, the United Jewish Appeal and the Jamestown YMCA. He was a trustee of St. Bonaven-ture University and a direc-tor of the Lenna Foundation. He died in February 2000.

elizabeth “Betty” Lenna was a member of the Chau-tauqua Institution Board of Trustees. As a trustee, she was chairperson of the nomi-nating and finance commit-tees and a member of the planning and executive com-mittees and the extended programming task force. Af-ter her service on the board ended, Betty Lenna contin-ued to serve Chautauqua as a community member of the development Council. She was a director of the Lenna Foundation and of the Chau-tauqua Region Community Foundation and trustee of the T. James and Hazel C. Clarke Trust. She was a di-rector of Blackstone Corpo-ration and a member of the advisory board for Marine Midland Bank.

Betty Lenna was a presi-dent of The Creche Inc. of Jamestown and a member of the WCA Hospital Board of directors in Jamestown. She was on the board and a major benefactor of the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown. elizabeth S. Lenna Hall, Chautauqua’s renowned re-cital and rehearsal hall, was

a gift from the Lennas, who provided sole funding for the facility and its ongoing main-tenance needs. The hall was completed in 1993 and dedi-cated in July of that year. The Lennas also provided a gen-erous donation in 1988 to cre-ate the Main Gate Welcome Center. Betty died last year.

Lenna Lectureship supports Gertner morning lecture

Boating

Boat owners must register their boats at the Central Dock office, located on the lake in front of the Athenaeum Hotel. You may moor your boat at a private or Institution dock, ramp or buoy, but not on shore. Use of Institution-operated moorage may be reserved on a space-available basis at the Central Dock office. If you are arriving at Chautauqua by boat, please utilize the Central Dock (716-357-6288).

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Please come enjoy our friendly, non-intimidating games.1:10 p.m. Thursdays and 6:50 p.m. Sundays at the Sports Club. You

are welcome with or without a partner.

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T h e a T e r

Bike Safety Tips

In accord with New York law, bicyclists shall observe all traffic signs and signals, including stop signs and one-way streets.

MASKed MAYHeM

LeFT: Audience members shoot party poppers.

Chautauqua Theater Company conservatory actors perform their Late Night Mask Project Friday night in Hurlbut Church as part of clowning training under CTC faculty member Aole Miller.

AdAm BirkAn | Staff Photographer

BeLow LeFT: Masks ready to be used adorn a table.

BeLow: Conservatory actor Leicester Landon performs.

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P R O G R A M

TuTUESDAYJULY 10

7:00 (7 – 11) Farmers Market.

7:15 (7:15–8) Mystic Heart Meditation: Spiritual Practices of World Religions. Leader: John Pulleyn (Zen Buddhist Meditation). Bring gate pass. Main Gate Welcome Center Conference Room

7:30 Bird Walk & Talk. (Programmed by the Chautauqua Bird, Tree & Garden Club.) Tina Nelson. Rain or shine. Bring binoculars. Meet at Smith Wilkes Hall entrance

7:45 Episcopal Holy Eucharist. Chapel of the Good Shepherd

8:00 Morning Meditation. (Sponsored by Unity of Chautauqua.) Hall of Missions

8:45 Catholic Mass. Chapel of the Good Shepherd

8:55 (8:55–9) Chautauqua Prays For Peace Through Compassion. Hall of Missions Grove

9:15 DEVOTIONAL HOUR. “Inverted Living.” The Rev. Mark Labberton, professor, Fuller Theological Seminary. Amphitheater

9:15 Project Talmud. (Programmed by Chabad Lubavitch of Chautauqua.) Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin. Alumni Hall Library

9:30 (9:30-10:30) Unitarian Universalist Ethics Series. Kate Groninger, PhD. Hall of Philosophy

9:30 Young Women’s Group. (Programmed by the Chautauqua Women’s Club) Women’s Clubhouse Porch

10:15 Service of Blessing and Healing. UCC Chapel

10:45 LECTURE. “What it Takes: The Challenge (and Meaning) of True Innovation.” Jon Gertner, author, The Idea Factory. Amphitheater

10:45 Story Time. (Stories planned for 3 to 4-year-olds.) Smith Memorial Library

12:00 (12-2) Tell Your CHQ Story. Video Interview Booth. St. Elmo porch

12:15 Brown Bag Lecture. (Programmed by the Everett Jewish Life Center.) “Why Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu Don’t Get Along.” Peter Beinart. Everett Jewish Life Center

12:15 Brown Bag Lecture. (Programmed by the Writers’ Center.) “The Power to Inspire: Bringing Poetry to the People.” Marjorie Maddox, poet-in-residence. Alumni Hall Porch

12:15 Tallman Tracker Organ Mini-Concert. “A Fine Summer’s Day.” Jared Jacobsen, organist. Hall of Christ

12:15 Brown Bag Lecture. (Programmed by the Chautauqua Bird, Tree & Garden Club.) “Planning for Continuity: Chautauqua Past, Present and Future.” Jon Schmitz, archivist, Chautauqua Institution. Smith Wilkes Hall

12:15 (12:15-1:15) Brown Bag. “Meet and Greet Social.” (Sponsored by Metropolitan Community Church.) Chautauqua Gay and Lesbian Community. Alumni Hall Garden Room

12:30 (12:30–1:55) Mystic Heart Meditation: Meditation Seminar. “Doing Nothing and Leaving Nothing Undone: Zen Meditation in Action” John Pulleyn (Zen Buddhism). Donation. Hall of Missions

1:00 Duplicate Bridge. For men and women. (Programmed by the Chautauqua Women’s Club.) Fee. Women’s Club House

1:15 Mah Jongg. (Programmed by the Sports Club.) Sports Club

2:00 INTERFAITH LECTURE SERIES. Father Greg Boyle, exec. dir. and founder, Homeboy Industries; Krista Tippett. Hall of Philosophy

2:00 Docent Tours. Meet at Fowler-Kellogg Art Center

2:00 Public Shuttle Tours of Grounds. Fee. (Purchase tickets at Main Gate Welcome Center.) Leave from Main Gate Welcome Center

2:00 Author Presentation/Discussion. “If Your Money Talked, What Secrets Would It Tell?” Gary Sirak, author. Library Meeting Room

2:30 (2:30-4:30) Piano Mind/Body Tune-up. (School of Music.) Fee. Sherwood-Marsh Studios

3:15 Social Hour Denominational Houses

3:15 Hebrew Congregation Conversation & Refreshments. Everett Jewish Life Center

3:30 (3:30–4:45) Heritage Lecture Series. “The War of 1812: The WNED Documentary.” with WNED. Hall of Christ

4:00 Public Shuttle Tours of Grounds. Fee. (Purchase tickets at Main Gate Welcome Center.) Leave from Main Gate Welcome Center

4:15 Garden Walk. (Programmed by the Chautauqua Bird, Tree & Garden

Club.) Joe McMaster. Meet under green awning at lake side of Smith Wilkes Hall.

4:30 Knitting4Workshop. (Sponsored by the Dept. of Religion.) Kate Simmons. Hurlbut Church

4:30 Annual Meeting. Chautauqua Catholic Community. Catholic House

5:00 FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT SERIES. “It’s Just Rocket Science.” Dr. Kaboom. Smith Wilkes Hall

7:00 FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT SERIES. “It’s Just Rocket Science.” Dr. Kaboom. Smith Wilkes Hall

7:00 Pre-Performance Lecture. (Programmed by the Chautauqua Dance Circle.) Dance Faculty. Hall of Philosophy

7:00 PROGRAM CORRECTION Visual Arts Lecture Series. Elaine King, art history and critical theory faculty, Carnegie Mellon University. Hultquist Center

7:00 Bible Study. (Sponsored by the Dept. of Religion.) “The Compassionate Christ.” The Rev. Dr. J. Paul Womack, leader. United Methodist House

8:00 Chautauqua Theater. (Sponsored by Friends of the Theater.) “How I Got the Job.” Monologues by the Chautauqua Theater Company. Reservations suggested. Fletcher Music Hall

8:15 NORTH CAROLINA DANCE THEATRE IN RESIDENCE. Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, director. CHAUTAUQUA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Grant Cooper, guest conductor. Amphitheater

9:00 (9-11) College Club Concert. (Bring gate pass and ID) Jackson Rohm, local musician. Pier Building

10:30 Musical Theater Revue #1. “A Sondheim Reunion.” Cabaret/Musical Theater Revue. Andy Gale, director; Sterling Price-McKinney, music director/arranger. Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall

WWednesday

JULY 11

7:00 (7 – 11) Farmers Market.

7:15 (7:15–8) Mystic Heart Meditation: Spiritual Practices of World Religions. Leader: John Pulleyn (Zen Buddhist Meditation). Bring gate pass. Main Gate Welcome Center Conference Room

7:45 Episcopal Holy Eucharist. Chapel of the Good Shepherd

8:00 Morning Meditation. (Sponsored by Unity of Chautauqua.) Hall of Missions

8:45 Catholic Mass. Chapel of the Good Shepherd

8:55 (8:55–9) Chautauqua Prays For Peace Through Compassion. Hall

of Missions Grove

9:00 (9-10:30) CLSC Scientific Circle. (Programmed by the CLSC Alumni Association.) “Personalized Medicine.” Barry Bittman, neuroscientist. Hall of Christ

9:15 DEVOTIONAL HOUR. “Shocking Righteousness.” The Rev. Mark Labberton, professor, Fuller Theological Seminary. Amphitheater

9:15 Ethics Series. (Programmed by Chabad Lubavitch of Chautauqua.) Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin. Alumni Hall Library

9:30 Chautauqua Institution Trustees Porch Discussion. “Marketing Chautauqua: Viral Marketing.” George Murphy. Hultquist Center Porch

9:30 (9:30-10:30) Unitarian Universalist Ethics Series. “Lawyers’ Ethics: An Oxymoron?” Marjorie Girth, professor emerita, Georgia State University School of Law. Hall of Philosophy

10:00 Voice Master Class. (School of Music.) Marlena Malas. McKnight Hall

10:15 Service of Blessing and Healing. UCC Chapel

10:45 LECTURE. Jeff Nesbit, exec. dir., Climate Nexus; “A Relentless, Positive Storm - Optimism and Action Amidst Global Challenges.” Josh Nesbit, CEO, Medic Mobile. Amphitheater

12:00 Women in Ministry. Hall of Missions

12:15 Massey Organ Mini-Concert. “Fanfares and Antiphons. Jared Jacobsen, organist. Amphitheater

12:15 Brown Bag Book Review. (Programmed by the CLSC Alumni Association.) Barbara Flynn, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John

Matteson. Alumni Hall Porch

12:15 Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Mini-Reviews and Book Discussions. Midnight Rising by Tony Horwitz. Reviewed by Joe Prezio. Alumni Hall Ballroom

1:00 (1-4) CWC Artists at the Market. Farmers Market

1:15 Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Alumni Association Docent Tours of Alumni Hall and Pioneer Hall.

1:15 Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Book Discussion. Midnight Rising by Tony Horwitz. Jeffrey Miller, CLSC coordinator, moderator. Alumni Hall Garden Room

1:15 Language Hour: French, Spanish. (Programmed by the Chautauqua Women’s Club.) Women’s Club House

2:00 INTERFAITH LECTURE SERIES. Joan Halifax Roshi, Buddhist teacher, author, anthropologist; Krista Tippett. Hall of Philosophy

2:00 Public Shuttle Tours of Grounds. Leave from Main Gate Welcome Center. Fee. (Purchase tickets at Main Gate Welcome Center.)

2:30 (2:30-4) Piano Master Class. (School of Music.) Fee. Sherwood-Marsh Studios

3:30 (3:30-5:30) Jewish Film Festival. (Programmed by the Everett Jewish Life Center.) “Four Seasons Lodge.” Everett Jewish Life Center

3:30 Contemporary Issues Dialogue. (Programmed by the Chautauqua Women’s Club.) Jeff and Josh Nesbit. (Today’s dialogue is an opportunity to be a part of a conversation with one of the morning lecturers. Doors open

at 3 p.m. Admittance is free but limited to the first 50 people.) Women’s Clubhouse

4:00 Public Shuttle Tours of Grounds. Fee. (Purchase tickets at Main Gate Welcome Center.) Leave from Main Gate Welcome Center

4:00 (4-6) Lecture. (sponsored by the Dept. of Religion.) “Communities: Planning and Collaborating for a Sustainable Future – NEO.” The Hon. William A. Currin, mayor, Hudson, Ohio; Jason Segedy, chairman, NEOSCC. Hall of Christ

4:15 (4:15-5:15) Bat Chat. (Programmed by the Chautauqua Bird, Tree & Garden Club.) Caroline Van Kirk Bissell. Smith Wilkes Hall

4:15 CLSC Young Readers. Reflections of a Peacemaker by Mattie J.T. Stepanek. Alumni Hall Garden Room

6:45 Eventide Travelogue. (Programmed by the CLSC Alumni Association.) “On the Maya Trail.” Laura and Tony Bushman. Donation. Hall of Christ

7:00 Christian Science Service. Christian Science Chapel

7:00 (7-7:45) Metropolitan Community Church Vespers Service. UCC Chapel

7:30 (7:30-9:30) Voice Department Performance with Ricky Ian Gordon. School of Music. (Benefits the Chautauqua Women’s Club Scholarship Fund.) McKnight Hall

8:15 SPECIAL. An Evening with The Raleigh Ringers. (Community Appreciation Night.) Amphitheater

9:00 (9-12) Open Mic Night. Must be 17 or older. Pier Building

The Marx Brothers — (from left) Groucho, Chico, and Harpo — in the famous cabin scene from “A Night at the Opera” (1935). One hilarious scene follows another as the boys turn the world of opera upside down. Many consider it the trio’s best movie. Film historian David Zinman, author of 50 Classic Motion Pictures, will lecture before the movie and lead a discussion afterward. It all starts at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Chautauqua Cinema, Hurst and Wythe. Brown bags are welcome.

‘A NIGHT AT THE OPERA’