Chautauqua Institution
The Chautauqua Institution is a 750-acre educational center beside Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York, where approximately 7,500 persons are in residence on any day during a nine-week season, and a total of over 100,000 attend events.
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The Chautauqua Institution is a not-for-profit, 750-acre educational center beside Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State, where approximately 7,500 persons are in residence on any day during a nine-week season, and a total of over 100,000 attend scheduled public events. Over 8,000 students enroll annually in the Chautauqua Summer Schools which offer courses in art, music, dance, theater, writing skills and a wide variety of special interests.
The Institution, originally the Chautauqua Lake Sunday School Assembly, was founded in 1874 as an educational experiment in out-of-school, vacation learning. It was successful and broadened almost immediately beyond courses for Sunday school teachers to include academic subjects, music, art and physical education.
While founders Lewis Miller and John Heyl Vincent were Methodists, other Protestant denominations participated from the first year onward, and today Chautauqua continues to be ecumenical in spirit and practice. Chautauqua's Department of Religion presents distinguished religious leaders of many faiths from this country and abroad, both as preachers and teachers.
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Chautauqua Institution
The Chautauqua Institution is a 750-acre educational center beside Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York, where approximately 7,500 persons are in residence on any day during a nine-week season, and a total of over 100,000 attend events.