Kansas-Nebraska Chautauqua: Bright Dreams, Hard Times

Chautauqua is an adult education movement in the United States, highly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chautauqua assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s. The Chautauqua brought entertainment and culture for the whole community, with speakers, teachers, musicians, entertainers, preachers and specialists of the day.

For more than 20 years, the Kansas Humanities Council has brought the traditions of the historic Chautauqua to towns and rural communities across the state. From the late 19th century to the first decades of the 20th century, touring Chautauquas combined oratory and lectures about national events with literary readings and musical entertainment that entertained and informed people about political and cultural happenings.

For the official Chautauqua website, please visit http://www.knchautauqua.org

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Schedule of Events

Events in the "Chautauqua Tent" are located in South Park at 12th and Massachusetts St., Lawrence

The Chautauqua Troupe

The Chautauqua Troupe