High Plains Chautauqua, an annual week-long exploration of history and theater, returns to the area next week for discussions and conversations about America.
The theme of this year’s event is “America in the 20th Century,” and the festival will run Monday, Aug. 4 through Friday, Aug. 8 primarily at Aims Community College’s Welcome Center, 4901 W. 20th St., Greeley. Other events will be held at the LINC Library Innovation Center in Greeley with youth programs at the Centennial Park Library in Greeley and at the Fort Lupton Public and School Library.
All events are free, including a pre-event showing of the movie “Saving Mr. Banks” from 6:30-9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2 at the LINC Library Innovation Center, 501 8th Ave., Greeley.
The festival schedule features coffee and conversation programs with the Chautauqua performers each morning from Tuesday through Friday. These conversations will be held in different locations inside Aims’ Welcome Center. The LINC Library Innovation Center will host the event-ending conversation Friday morning.
Gatherings with music and food trucks will held at Aims from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, before the evening programs in the college’s Welcome Center. The evening performances begin at 6:45 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium. Aims has a clear bag policy for the Welcome Center.
Greeley-Evans School District 6 student Elias Mireles will portray American labor leader and activist Cesar Chavez during the annual High Plains Chautauqua festival Aug. 4-8 primarily at Aims Community College in Greeley. Other events will be held at the LINC Library Innovation Center and Centennial Park Library, both in Greeley. Mireles will appear as Chavez from 6:45-7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7 in the Aims Welcome Center Auditorium. (High Plains Chautauqua).“The whole event is family friendly and we encourage everyone to come out for the music and the programs,” High Plains Chautauqua coordinator Barbara Broderius said. “It’s a fascinating time in history, America in the 20th century. There was so much happening to transform America.”
Chautauqua began in the early 20th century as educational and entertainment programs at Lake Chautauqua in Upstate New York. The concept flourished and spread through the U.S. as traveling shows, lectures, dramas and theatrical presentations, Broderius said.
Today, Chautauqua means portraying a historical character. This form of the art has evolved since the invention of radio and television and the growth of those mediums.
Greeley-Evans School District 6 student Scarlette Howell will portray swimmer and actress Esther Williams during the annual High Plains Chautauqua festival Aug. 4-8. The festival will primarily be held at Aims Community College in Greeley. Howell will appear as Williams from 6:45-7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5 in the Aims Welcome Center Auditorium. Coinciding events will be held at the LINC Library Innovation Center in Greeley with youth programs at the Centennial Library on 23rd Avenue in Greeley and at the Fort Lupton Public and School Library on S. Rollie Avenue in Fort Lupton. (High Plains Chatauqua)From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, the first full day of programming, the Young Chautauqua performers from Greeley-Evans School District 6 will take over the stage at the Aims Welcome Center Auditorium.
Additional student performers during the week are: Jackson Chadwick (as Rod Serling), Audrey Green (Sonora Webster Carver), Delanie Hooten (Trudy Ederly), Scarlette Howell (Esther Williams), Idan Humphrey (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Jonathan Isley (Theodore Roosevelt), Margaret Lemons (Ruth Handler), Elias Mireles (Cesar Chavez), Lily Paul (Alice Paul) and Ellyana Sanchez (Selena Quintanilla Pérez).
Greeley-Evans School District 6 student Jackson Chadwick will play television writer and producer Rod Serling during the annual High Plains Chautauqua festival Aug. 4-8, primarily at Aims Community College in Greeley. Chadwick will perform as Serling from 6:45-7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6 at Aims' Welcome Center Auditorium. (High Plains Chautauqua).Professional scholars will perform in the evenings at Aims, in addition to hosting adult programs throughout the week.
Judith Black will portray Lucy Stone during a Monday evening performance at Aims. Stone was an anti-slavery and women’s rights advocate in the 19th century. Black will also be part of an adult program from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday on “Meet Rosie the Riveter” in Aims’ Welcome Center Ballroom A. Black will tell a story of women during World War II in “From Her Arms to His” scheduled for Wednesday evening in the Aims Welcome Center Auditorium.
Jeremy Meier will portray Charlie Chaplin as part of the Monday evening performances at Aims’ Welcome Center Auditorium. He’ll discuss Chaplin in “Finding His Voice” from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Tuesday in one of the adult programs at Aims. The event is scheduled to be held in the Welcome Center Ballroom A. Meier will also play John F. Kennedy in a Thursday evening performance in the auditorium.
Larry Bounds will bring to life Walt Disney, businessman, pioneer, animator, producer and founder of Disneyland and Walt Disney World, during the High Plains Chautauqua festival running Aug. 4-8 primarily at Aims Community College in Greeley. Bounds will play Disney during an evening performance Tuesday, Aug. 5 at the Aims Community College Welcome Center. (High Plains Chautauqua).Larry Bounds will play Walt Disney as part of the Tuesday evening performances at Aims. He’ll participate in a youth program on “How to Draw Like Disney” from 11 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the Fort Lupton Public & School Library. Bounds will also be in a discussion on “Disney the Soldier and Diplomat” from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at Aims’ Welcome Center.
Doug Mishler will play Henry Ford, who made the automobile affordable and founded the Ford Motor Company, during a Tuesday evening performance in the Welcome Center Auditorium. Mishler will also speak from 11 a.m. to noon Wednesday on Ford as “The Dr. Frankenstein of the American Century” in the Welcome Center Ballroom A. Mishler will discuss “The Good, Bad & the Ugly of the American Century” from 1:15-2:15 p.m. Thursday. This event is scheduled for Ballroom A in the Welcome Center.
Lenneal Henderson will be featured as Thurgood Marshall, the first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice, from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the LINC Library Innovation Center. Henderson will also portray Marshall during the Wednesday evening performance, from 7-9 p.m. at the Aims Welcome Center Auditorium. Henderson will discuss Marshall’s most significant cases from 11 a.m. to noon Thursday in Aims’ Welcome Center Skybox on the second floor.
Becky Stone will discuss the poet Maya Angelou from 1:15-2:15 p.m. Wednesday in Ballroom A, and she’ll portray Angelou on Thursday evening at the Welcome Center Auditorium.
Becky Stone will portray poet Maya Angelou during the annual High Plains Chautauqua festival Aug. 4-8 in Greeley. The event will be held primarily at Aims Community College with other events at the LINC Library Innovation in Greeley and youth programs both at the Centennial Library on 23rd Avenue in Greeley and at the Fort Lupton Public and School Library on S. Rollie Avenue in Fort Lupton. (Courtesy/Amelia Caristo).Other programming during the festival includes University of Northern Colorado history professor Joan Clinefelter speaking on the U.S., the Holocaust and the consequences of inaction from 1:15-2:15 p.m. Tuesday at Aims’ Welcome Center, Ballroom A.
A full schedule of events is available at coloradohumanities.org.
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