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WELCOME TO CHAUTAUQUA -- where historic figures like Thomas Jefferson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr. come
to talk with us -- a Colonial Williamsburg-on-stage. Scholars, costumed as famous people, bring our history and literature
to life. It's authentic humanities education that is lively, interactive and fun!
And it's not a Chautauqua performance unless audience questions are the most dramatic and exhilarating part. In the guise
of entertainment, Chautauqua gathers generations from diverse cultures together to think about and discuss the problems of
the day. We're not about answers; we're about asking questions.
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ANNUAL CHAUTAUQUA EVENTS
PRELUDE TO
MIDNIGHT - New Year's Eve
Our only benefit performance. Dinner and Silent Auction. Monday Dec. 31,
2008
WINTER CHAUTAUQUA
Art Seen: Landscape Art - Jan 24
Reflections
of the American Landscape - Feb 2
TUESDAY LIBRARY DISCUSSIONS - Feb-May Join an audience of avid history and literature
fans who love talking back to History. Led by Scholars, it's the personal experiences of the audience make them so much
fun. SUMMER FESTIVAL - June 19 - 24,
2009 Recalling the entertainment tent shows that traveled across the nation a century ago,
Chautauqua creates an old-fashioned setting where everyone can spend a summer evening listening to lively music and hearing
a great historical speaker debate the issues of the day. Bring your picnics, share our stories and enjoy! Evening performances
outdoors in Falls Park and under the Chautauqua Tent at Greenville Tech. Daytime and indoor performances throughout the community.
BUNCOMBE COUNTY CHAUTAUQUA
IN ASHEVILLE, NC June 22 -25, 2009 For
dates info: (828) 250-4741 laura.gaskin@buncombecounty.org
Asheville NC Chautauqua
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AMERICA: THE LAND
In 2008 we explore our most basic
yet deepest cultural influence: the Land. Solutions to problems of climate change, dwindling fossil fuels, species extinction,
disease epidemics, and hunger lie in an engaged citizenry enabled to think critically about the answers. And so to help us
think about these problems, we've invited to Greenville:
Black Elk, Sioux Holy Man and Nature Mystic;
James Beckwourth, the African American Mountain Man and sub-chief of the
Crow Nation;
Teddy Roosevelt, the President who led the world in preservation of natural wilderness;
Rachel Carson, author
of "Silent Spring" and fountainhead of the modern environmental movement.
John J. Audubon, the artist who taught
us, as the Native Americans did, that "the world is not given to us by our
fathers, but borrowed from our children".
Chautauqua Festival June 13 - 18, 2008
Fri Showdown in Falls Park Joel Poinsett vs the Cherokee Sat - Wed Greenville Technical College Teddy Roosevelt, the Conservation President Black Elk, Sioux Nature Mystic James, Beckwourth, Mountain Man Rachel Carson, Silent Spring John
J. Audubon, Birds of America
Festival Schedule of Events
For more Festival information
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Sponsors & Partners: The Woodlands at Furman, Metropolitan Arts Council, BMW Manufacturing, The Graham Foundation, The
Open Book, Furman University, Greenville Technical College, Greenville County Library System, Greenville County Museum of
Art, Greenville News, Greenville Parks & Recreation
Greenville Chautauqua * 943 Rutherford Rd, * Greenville, SC * (864) 244-1499 * info@greenvillechautauqua.org
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