Aside from daily lectures, Week Four features a variety of artistic offerings across the CHQ Assembly platforms.

¯ 4 p.m. Monday — Chautauqua Chamber Music: Chautauqua partners with the Detroit-based Sphinx Organization to feature two artists who are siblings and former winners of the Sphinx Competition. Violinist Alexandra Switala has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras in the United States, and Robert Switala is principal viola of the SPHINX Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and faculty at the Des Plaines School of Music. Sphinx is dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts.

¯ 5 p.m. Monday — Cocktails, Concerts and Conversations: Chautauqua Opera Company with Steven Osgood and guest host Alan Held provide a musical performance followed by conversation. Featured Young Artists include Zachary Barba and James Eder.

¯ 5 p.m. Tuesday — Cocktails, Concerts and Conversations: Silas Farley, former New York City Ballet dancer and 2007 Chautauqua School of Dance alum, joins Chautauqua Dance Artistic Adviser Sasha Janes for an evening of conversation about family, training, and success as a rising star both on and off stage.

¯ 8:15 p.m. Tuesday — Into the Music with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: Hosted by Sphinx Organization President and Artistic Director Afa S. Dworkin, this conversation will begin with the 2021 Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Diversity Fellows and the principal bassist for both the Chautauqua and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras, Owen Lee. Afa will interview the panel of musicians with the goal of hearing their perspectives and giving them the opportunity to voice ideas on how Chautauqua can experience and drive change in terms of IDEA.

¯ 4 p.m. Wednesday — Afternoon Recital: Chautauqua Piano Program presents An Afternoon Piano Recital with celebrated pianist Alvin Zhu.

¯ 8:15 p.m. Wednesday — Chautauqua Theater Company New Play Workshop No. 2: CTC is thrilled to welcome award-winning playwright and performer Heather Raffo, whose sweeping new drama, Tomorrow Will Be Sunday (working title), explores migration and the global economy on an epic scale. Developed through a McKnight Fellowship at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, the smart and suspenseful thriller follows people on the move from around the world, and the invisible strings that tie us together. Directed by Jenny Koons and followed by live Q-and-A.

10 a.m. Thursday — Weekly Virtual Gallery Tour: Judy Barie, the Susan and John Turben Director of Chautauqua Visual Arts Galleries, takes viewers on a tour of 2020 exhibitions, which can be experienced online at CHQ Visual Arts: art.chq.org.

SPECIAL LECTURES/CONVERSATIONS

¯ 6:30 p.m. Tuesday — Miguel Luciano, a multimedia visual artist, will present the season’s second Chautauqua Visual Arts Lecture. Luciano’s work explores themes of history, popular culture, social justice and migration, through sculpture, painting and socially engaged public art projects.

¯ 3:30 p.m. Wednesday — Carnegie Mellon Professor David Danks builds upon the Chautauqua Lecture Series presentation on Wednesday morning with a separate lecture for the African American Heritage House at Chautauqua.

¯ 3:30 p.m. Thursday — Author and journalist Tim Maughan presents his debut book, Infinite Detail, for the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, discussing his work using both fiction and nonfiction to explore issues around cities, class, culture, technology and the future.

¯ 3:30 p.m. Friday — Rick Swegan, a longtime Chautauquan with family ties to the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, will present on the beginnings of the woman’s suffrage movement as part of the Heritage Lecture Series sponsored by the Chautauqua Institution Archives.