Oklahoma Chautauqua
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Saturday, June 19, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTArchitect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect and writer, an abundantly creative master of American architecture. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called org... -
Saturday, June 19, 2021 · 12:00 PM CDTLearn about the Curies' visionary scientific ethics, how Marie broke the academic glass ceiling in France, and how she opened the doors of science to women in her own laboratory and beyond. Find out about the third, fourth, and fifth Nobel Prize c...
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Saturday, June 19, 2021 · 10:30 AM CDTWagon Train to the Stars: How A Space Cowboy Show Star Trek Transformed American Popular Entertainment.
We will explore the fight to get Star Trek made, its tepid reception, and then its transformation into a cancelled show that would “live long ... -
Friday, June 18, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTScientist Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867 - 1934)
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, and and the first person to win a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her pioneering scientific efforts with her husband Pierre Curie led... -
Friday, June 18, 2021 · 12:00 PM CDTIn 1916, diplomats from France and England made a secret agreement to divide up the Middle East. Promises had been made to the Arab people that they would be allowed to determine their homelands. But this controversial agreement was put into place...
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Friday, June 18, 2021 · 10:30 AM CDTMarshall McLuhan, like his mother Elsie, was a gifted performer, and he enjoyed “putting on” audiences and playing the wise fool. This workshop explores his tricksterish public persona and the ways his punditry on television, in interviews, and as...
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Thursday, June 17, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTPhilosopher Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian communications theorist and educator, whose aphorism “the medium is the message” summarized his view of the influence of television, computers, and other electronic dissemin... -
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Thursday, June 17, 2021 · 10:30 AM CDTArt is a passionate response to what is happening in the world around us. The devastation and impact of the First World War created an outpouring of artistic creation from writers around the world. This interactive workshop will explore the poetr...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTArcheologist Gertrude Bell (1868-1926)
Gertrude Bell defied the expectations of a woman in Victorian England, becoming a world traveler, mountaineer, and archaeologist. Well versed in the lands and cultures of Mesopotamia, she worked for the Brit... -
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 · 12:00 PM CDTFrom his mother, Anna’s insistence she was birthing a great architect, to his early marriage to Kitty, to the scandal with ‘Mamah’ and her tragic murder, and to a final partnership with Olga, women strongly molded the man, Frank Lloyd Wright. We i...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021 · 10:30 AM CDTTo Go Where No Man Has Gone Before: Explore Gene Roddenberry’s utopian societal vision. At a time when racial, gender, and class distinctions brought riots to the streets, Roddenberry offered a universe of harmony with everyone happy and focused...
Series
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021 · 10:30 AM CDTModern-day Chautauqua programs present a variety of historical enactments, workshops, and informal discussions.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2021 · 12:00 PM CDTModern-day Chautauqua programs present a variety of historical enactments, workshops, and informal discussions.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 · 10:00 AM CDTModern-day Chautauqua programs present a variety of historical enactments, workshops, and informal discussions.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021 · 11:00 AM CDTModern-day Chautauqua programs present a variety of historical enactments, workshops, and informal discussions.
Workshop
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Thursday, June 17, 2021 · 10:30 AM CDTArt is a passionate response to what is happening in the world around us. The devastation and impact of the First World War created an outpouring of artistic creation from writers around the world. This interactive workshop will explore the poetr...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021 · 12:00 PM CDTFrom his mother, Anna’s insistence she was birthing a great architect, to his early marriage to Kitty, to the scandal with ‘Mamah’ and her tragic murder, and to a final partnership with Olga, women strongly molded the man, Frank Lloyd Wright. We i...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021 · 10:30 AM CDTTo Go Where No Man Has Gone Before: Explore Gene Roddenberry’s utopian societal vision. At a time when racial, gender, and class distinctions brought riots to the streets, Roddenberry offered a universe of harmony with everyone happy and focused...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021 · 12:00 PM CDTThe Jones family history from Wisconsin to Tulsa as expressed in the family ownership of the Tulsa Tribune and illustrated by Wright’s creation of their Westhope residence in Tulsa, and much later his building of his one skyscraper, the Price Towe...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021 · 10:30 AM CDTThis workshop will explore how McLuhan focused attention on the importance of pop culture and gave rise to scholarly criticism of forms ranging from advertising, radio, television, and comic strips. McLuhan, dubbed “the high priest of pop culture,...
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Saturday, June 12, 2021 · 5:30 PM CDTTo Go Where No Man Has Gone Before: Explore Gene Roddenberry’s utopian societal vision. At a time when racial, gender, and class distinctions brought riots to the streets, Roddenberry offered a universe of harmony with everyone happy and focused...
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Saturday, June 12, 2021 · 12:00 PM CDTExplore the hardships that nearly prevented Marie Curie from making it into the laboratory: a rampant epidemic, a suppressive government’s murder, her father's investment gone bad, the other marriage proposal, and studying in France when it was sa...
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Friday, June 11, 2021 · 5:30 PM CDTThe Jones family history from Wisconsin to Tulsa as expressed in the family ownership of the Tulsa Tribune and illustrated by Wright’s creation of their Westhope residence in Tulsa, and much later his building of his one skyscraper, the Price Towe...
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Friday, June 11, 2021 · 12:00 PM CDTThis workshop will explore how McLuhan focused attention on the importance of pop culture and gave rise to scholarly criticism of forms ranging from advertising, radio, television, and comic strips. McLuhan, dubbed “the high priest of pop culture,...
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Thursday, June 10, 2021 · 5:30 PM CDTLearn about the Curies' visionary scientific ethics, how Marie broke the academic glass ceiling in France, and how she opened the doors of science to women in her own laboratory and beyond. Find out about the third, fourth, and fifth Nobel Prize c...
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Thursday, June 10, 2021 · 12:00 PM CDTArt is a passionate response to what is happening in the world around us. The devastation and impact of the First World War created an outpouring of artistic creation from writers around the world. This interactive workshop will explore the poetr...
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021 · 5:30 PM CDTMarshall McLuhan, like his mother Elsie, was a gifted performer, and he enjoyed “putting on” audiences and playing the wise fool. This workshop explores his tricksterish public persona and the ways his punditry on television, in interviews, and as...
Performance
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Thursday, June 17, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTPhilosopher Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian communications theorist and educator, whose aphorism “the medium is the message” summarized his view of the influence of television, computers, and other electronic dissemin... -
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTArcheologist Gertrude Bell (1868-1926)
Gertrude Bell defied the expectations of a woman in Victorian England, becoming a world traveler, mountaineer, and archaeologist. Well versed in the lands and cultures of Mesopotamia, she worked for the Brit... -
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTScreenwriter Gene Roddenberry (1921-1981)
Gene Roddenberry was an American writer and television and film producer who created and served as executive producer of the popular science-fiction television series Star Trek (1966–69), which spawned ot... -
Saturday, June 12, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTArchitect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect and writer, an abundantly creative master of American architecture. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called org... -
Friday, June 11, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTScientist Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867 - 1934)
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, and and the first person to win a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her pioneering scientific efforts with her husband Pierre Curie led... -
Thursday, June 10, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTPhilosopher Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian communications theorist and educator, whose aphorism “the medium is the message” summarized his view of the influence of television, computers, and other electronic dissemin... -
Wednesday, June 9, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTArcheologist Gertrude Bell (1868-1926)
Gertrude Bell defied the expectations of a woman in Victorian England, becoming a world traveler, mountaineer, and archaeologist. Well versed in the lands and cultures of Mesopotamia, she worked for the Brit... -
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTScreenwriter Gene Roddenberry (1921-1981)
Gene Roddenberry was an American writer and television and film producer who created and served as executive producer of the popular science-fiction television series Star Trek (1966–69), which spawned ot... -
Saturday, June 5, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTArchitect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect and writer, an abundantly creative master of American architecture. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called org... -
Friday, June 4, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTScientist Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867 - 1934)
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, and and the first person to win a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her pioneering scientific efforts with her husband Pierre Curie led... -
Thursday, June 3, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTPhilosopher Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian communications theorist and educator, whose aphorism “the medium is the message” summarized his view of the influence of television, computers, and other electronic dissemin... -
Wednesday, June 2, 2021 · 7:00 PM CDTArcheologist Gertrude Bell (1868-1926)
Gertrude Bell defied the expectations of a woman in Victorian England, becoming a world traveler, mountaineer, and archaeologist. Well versed in the lands and cultures of Mesopotamia, she worked for the Brit...
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