Center for the Study of Art, Architecture, History and Nature
C-SAAHN -  Est. 2009 as a unique digital enterprise and network designed to help link volunteers and lifelong learning communities as part of the

"Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea: Exploring American Legacy"

"Appreciating our Past = Imagining our Future"

Dennis Galucki, Founder & Coordinator
Chuck LaChiusa, Webmaster

Buffalo Day at Chautauqua

Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua Background

What is Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua (CHQ)?
CHQ's stated mission is "to explore the best in human values and the enrichment of life" and has done so for every Summer Season since 1874 as part of the original Chautauqua Idea.
Imagine one city, Buffalo, being infused with CHQ's mission and spirit of lifelong learning and ancient aesthetic values - Beauty, Truth, Goodness, & Justice - all year long.
That's the Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea, celebrated once a year on Buffalo Day @ CHQ since 2010 and created by the Center for the Study of Art & Architecture; History & Nature (C-SAAHN).

What is the Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea?
The BUF-CHQ Idea is exploring American legacy through place-based lifelong learning and imagination.

What is the origin of the Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea?
The Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea was first presented as a CHQ Special Studies class in 2006 & 2007 titled "Imagine Buffalo in the 21st-Century: The Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea."

What is C-SAAHN?
As a docent for school tours at the Darwin Martin House since 1997, I became convinced that the Truth and Beauty of the Martin House Complex was rooted in four pillars; Art, Architecture, History, and Nature.
As CHQ has explored the blend of The Arts, Education, Religion, & Recreation, C-SAAHN was created as a vehicle to explore the BUF-CHQ Idea and is pronounced like the artist, (Paul) Cezanne.
C-SAAHN, created in 2009, is a digital enterprise and network designed to help link volunteers and lifelong learning communities as part of the Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea.

It operates only on imagination and volunteer efforts and has organized the following events in collaboration with other organizations:
* 376 Tuesday Noon-Hour IMAGINE Programs at the downtown Buffalo & Erie County Public Library;
* 10 Imagine Greater Buffalo Awards programs at the B&ECP Library;
* Over 100 Wednesday afternoon "Landmark Cruises" on the Miss Buffalo II;
* Over 100 "Art of Investing" Monday afternoon classroom stock market discussions at CHQ's Smith Memorial library;
* Recorded over 200 CHQ Archives Heritage Lectures uploaded to the San Francisco nonprofit Internet Archives;
* 11 Annual Buffalo Day's @ CHQ;
* Created two websites: https://buffaloah.com/h/center/ & ImagineLifelongLearning.com with over 1040 C-SAAHN Audio recordings from Buffalo & Chautauqua available for free.

Also, since 2010, the C-SAAHN Fund at the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo has supported the B&ECP Library and several local cultural organization's events consistent with its mission in Greater Buffalo and Chautauqua Institution.
The IMAGINE Greater Buffalo (IBG) 4th Grade Cultural Explorer Initiative was created by C-SAAHN as part of the "Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea" in anticipation of the 14th Annual Buffalo Day @ CHQ. 
Speakers at Chautauqua from Buffalo will describe their participation in this new Initiative beginning June 2023 for graduates from 3rd Grade living in Zip Codes 14201 - 14280.

C-SAAHN has created the Annual Buffalo Day @ CHQ since 2010. This year it is scheduled for Tuesday August 8, 2023 during Week Seven at CHQ. Again this year, all Buffalo residents in Zip Codes 14201 - 14280 are admitted FREE for Buffalo Day.
Here are the links to the past two Buffalo Day's @ CHQ.

2022 Olmsted Themed Presentation: https://assembly.chq.org/videos/climate-change-and-landscape-design-what-would-olmsted-do-2022

2021 Empathy Themed Presentation:  https://assembly.chq.org/videos/buffalo-day-2021

The CHQ theme description for Week Seven is https://www.chq.org/schedule/events/weekly-themes/week-seven-2023/. This site shows the 10:45 am and 2:00 pm scheduled CHQ speakers. Buffalo speakers include:
* 3:30 pm, as part of the Chautauqua Archives Program in the Hall of Philosophy, Michelle Urbanczyk, Ex. Dir. Explore & More Children's Museum and Stanton Hudson, Ex. Dir. TR Inaugural Site, 
the only National Park Site in WNY, will speak about the new 4th Grade Cultural Explorer Initiative.
* 5:15 pm, in the Cinema, Greg Stevens, Ex. Dir. Niagara River Greenway Commission will speak along with a screening of the Buffalo-Toronto Public Media video, "If Our Water Could Talk."

Since 2009, C-SAAHN has created almost 500 IMAGINE Greater Buffalo (IGB) weekly Tuesday noon-hour programs hosted by the B&ECPL as part of the "Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea."
The two IGB themes are "IMAGINE Greater Buffalo as a Premier North American Cultural & Nature Center: Imagine Lifelong Learning.com" and "IMAGINE a Healthy, Wealthy and Sustainable Community: Imagine Lifelong Learning.com."
The IGB 4th Grade Explorer Initiative is a design for creating a systematic way for a parent and child to experience lifelong learning together through our treasure chest of cultural organizations collectively located downtown and in the "Buffalo Olmsted Cultural Park."
Both IMAGINE themes are achieved with the IGB 4th Grade Cultural Explorer Initiative as we help create a culture of Cultural Explorers starting every year with 4th Graders and their parents.

Dennis Galucki, Founder

https://www.chq.org/?s=14th+Annual+Buffalo+Day


2023 Chautauqua Lecture Series: Week Seven 

The National Parks: How America’s ‘Best Idea’ is Meeting 21st-Century Challenges

In 1872, two years before the founding of Chautauqua, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into a law a bill creating America’s first-ever national park. Now, 150 years after the creation of Yellowstone National Park, more than 400 sites around the country that honor not just the land, but the stories of America’s myriad peoples, have been added to that illustrious roster. How has what novelist and environmentalist Wallace Stegner once described as America’s “best idea” adapted and grown? What can the parks offer in our present moment, and how did COVID-19 drive America back to the land? From addressing conservation issues to stewarding our cultural and natural histories, how are national parks — and, in turn, we as citizens — modeling how to meet the challenges of our times? Most importantly, how can the national parks rise to the call to make public lands truly accessible to all Americans?

Over the course of more than a year, writer Kevin Fedarko and photographer Pete McBride hiked the entire length of Grand Canyon National Park — not rim to rim, but end to end — over 750 miles; they’ll share their learnings from this journey in their program on Tuesday, Aug. 8, titled “Into the Canyon: Exploring a National Treasure.” On Wednesday, Aug. 9, founder of Outdoor Afro Rue Mapp joins the Chautauqua Lecture Series with a discussion about the imperative of elevating a new narrative of Black people in the outdoors; how Outdoor Afro facilitates this vision through community connections in nature; why such experiences remain critical today; and how public lands can be more successful in meeting the needs of all citizens. And on Friday, Aug. 11, National Parks Conversation Association President Theresa Pierno will share how the NPCA protects and preserves our nation’s most iconic and inspirational places for present and future generations, and how it celebrates, defends, and creates opportunities to experience them.

Interfaith Lecture Series

Nature as Sacred Space

Many experience our wild spaces, including the national parks, as sacred spaces, cathedrals of creation, and sources of divine inspiration. How and why we preserve, approach, and appreciate our natural spaces says everything about what we value. In this week we will broaden our vision to look at the ways that the myriad traditions of religious faith have built identities in and around holy spaces in nature – come with us as we explore together the significance of holy land and sacred space across traditions.

13th Annual Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua scheduled for Tuesday, July 5, 2022. Week Two CHQ Theme: https://chq.org/schedule/events/weekly-themes/

Buffalo residents will be FREE ALL DAY at Chautauqua Institution. More details to follow.

12th Annual Buffalo Day at Chautauqua, Friday Week Six 2021 - “Building a Culture of Empathy: From Franciscan Spirituality to Schweitzer”s ‘Reverence for Life’ Ethic”

https://archive.org/details/171027-0497
11th Annual Buffalo Day
2020 Buffalo Day Theme Overview
Buffalo has been fortunate to be designed in a special way. First, in a hub and spoke fashion by Joseph Ellicott in 1804 and after the Civil War, Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux complemented the original design by connecting all the spokes with parks, parkways, and circles creating the first park system in America. Olmsted would declare Buffalo "the best planned city, as to its streets, public places and grounds, in the United States if not the world."

Olmsted parks were designed to reflect and promote a democtratic vision for America - parks and parkways were for everyone. Eyeing the uniting power and beauty of nature, Olmsted envisioned Buffalo to be a "city within a park." In 1901, Buffalo would host the Pan-American Exposition and the only permanent building was the New York State Pavilion designed by George Cary to become the Buffalo History Museum on the edge of the Olmsted park and lake. Art & Democracy were built into Buffalo's fabric by Cary when he designed the building based on the Parthenon in the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Four years later, Green & Wicks would design the new Albright Art Gallery across the lake from the History Museum. It's design is based on the Erechtheion, also in the Acropolis. Both buildings contrast with the  Romanesque Buffalo State Hospital by H.H.Richardson and completed in 1896 with landscaping by Olmsted. At the other end of the park in the Parkside community the 1906 Martin House Complex is situated with its exploration of the Beauty & Truth of the horizontal line.

Two of our panelists represent both the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The other two panelists represent organizations located in downtown Buffalo, the Shea's Performing Arts Center and The Buffalo News. Downtown Buffalo was being influenced by the City Beautiful Movement at the end of the 19th-century and had attracted Louis Sullivan to create the beautiful and nature inspired Guaranty Building in 1896 and the magnificent Shea's Performing Art Center in 1926.

Our four panelists, Stephanie Crockatt, Ex. Dir. Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy; Joe Lin-Hill, PhD, Deputy DirectorAlbright-Knox Art Gallery; Michael G. Murphy, President Shea's Performing Art Center; & Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning are sure to add insights into our Buffalo Day theme: "The Sacred Nature of Art & Democracy: Exploring Life's Aesthetic Values - Beauty, Truth, Goodness, & Justice"

Our moderator, Jen Swan-Kilpatrick, Executive Director of Arts Services Initiative of Western New York (ASI) has a unique perspective to add to Buffalo Day @ CHQ. Since Ms. Swan’s leadership, ASI has demonstrated that it is the center of “Where the Arts Meet Business”. Prior to this position she served as the Associate Director of ASI for 7 years, including managing multiple grant-giving programs awarding over $500,000 to over 300 recipients in the arts and cultural community.  Ms. Swan has been in the field of nonprofit arts management for over 15 years and has been supportive of thriving arts and culturals through her community-minded focus and involvement in grassroots production.

For information on the speakers, see The Buffalo News

The 11th Annual Buffalo Day @ CHQ "Virtual Porch" panel discussion will include the following theme and speakers on July 14, 2020

Chautauqua's Week Three Theme: "Art & Democracy" https://chq.org/season/weekly-themes/week-three-july-11-18
Buffalo Day Theme: "The Sacred Nature of Art & Democracy: Exploring Life's Aesthetic Values - Beauty, Truth, Goodness, & Justice"

The Buffalo News ad will show the following info after the theme:

Join us for an online discussion with our distinguished panel of guests.

9:15 a.m. Fr. Greg Boyle, SJ Founder of Homeboy Industries
10:45 a.m. Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation
8:15 p.m. In to the Music with Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra

12:15 p.m - 1:30 p.m. Buffalo Day "Virtual Porch" Panel Discussion
Welcome: Dennis Galucki, Founder, Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua & "Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea"
Moderator: Jen Swan-Kilpatrick, Executive Director of Arts Services Initiative of Western New York (ASI)
Panelists:
Stephanie Crockatt, Ex. Dir. Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy
Joe Lin-Hill, PhD, Deputy DirectorAlbright-Knox Art Gallery
Michael G. Murphy, President Shea's Performing Art Center
Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

For information on the speakers, see The Buffalo News

Get your free 90-day pass to Chautauqua's 2020 Summer Programs | Online chq.org | 2020-assembly | BuffaloDay.chq.org



ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED 11TH BUFFALO DAY @ CHQ WAS REPLACED BY THE VIRTUAL PORCH PANEL DISCUSSION SHOWN ABOVE DUE TO COVID-19.

11th Annual Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua on Tuesday, July 14, 2020 from Noon-8pm
Noon - 8pm FREE afternoon admission for residents of the Greater Buffalo region

Sponsored by The Buffalo News, Visit Buffalo Niagara, WNED, Chautauqua Institution & C-SAAHN

The theme for Week Three at Chautauqua Institution is "Art & Democracy." https://chq.org/season/weekly-themes/week-three-july-11-18

The theme for Buffalo Day is "The Sacred Nature of Art & Democracy: Exploring Life's Aesthetic Values - Beauty, Truth, Goodness, & Justice"

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Buffalo Day Scheduled Events

Hall of Philosophy

12:15pm - 12:30pm Welcome - Dennis Galucki, Founder, Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua, "The Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea"

12:30pm - 1:30pm  Panel Discussion:

* Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

* David Rotterman, WNED Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer

* Joe Lin-Hill, Deputy Director Albright-Knox Art Gallery - Invited

* Michael G. Murphy, President Shea's Performing Art Center

1:35pm - Walking tour by Ed Evans, Author, "Hidden Treasure: The Chautauqua Commission of Buffalo's E.B. Green"

Smith Memorial Library

2:00pm - 3:15pm Room 1

* Rita Argen Auerbach - "The Chautauqua-Soviet Union Exchange"

* Chuck LaChiusa - "The USA Parthenon: E.B.Green's Albright-Knox Art Gallery"

2:00pm - 3:15pm Room 2

* Stephanie Crockatt - Executive Director, Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy

* Clinton Brown - FAIA, Buffalo Architect and Author with Ramona Whitaker,

"Olmsted’s Elmwood, The Rise, Decline and Renewal of Buffalo’s Parkway Neighborhood, a Model for America’s Cities"

Hall of Christ

3:30pm - 4:45pm Chautauqua Archives Heritage Lecture Series

* David Rotterman, WNED Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer, "Reimagining a Buffalo Landmark"

https://www.wned.org/television/wned-productions/wned-history-productions/reimagining-a-buffalo-landmark/

Enjoy the Chautauqua Experience 5pm - 8pm
Tenth Annual Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua


Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - Tenth Annual Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua - Noon-8pm

Theme: “Imagine Communities Working Toward the Common Good: IMAGINE Greater Buffalo”**
Noon - 8pm   FREE afternoon admission for residents of the Greater Buffalo region
Sponsored by The Buffalo News, Visit Buffalo Niagara, WNED, Chautauqua Institution & C-SAAHN

12:15pm-12:30pm - Hall of Philosophy
Dennis Galucki, Founder, Annual Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua, "The Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea” https://archive.org/details/1907020012

12:30pm-1:30pm - Hall of Philosophy
Panel presentations and discussions led by Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, President/CEO Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo with representatives from partner organizations addressing four themes: Education, Environment, Racial Equity,  Arts & Culture. Panelists include Rabbi Jonathan Freirich, Rev. Jonathan Staples and David Rust.  https://archive.org/details/1907020013

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo - Since 1919, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo has been committed to helping individuals, families and organizations make their charitable goals a reality. Today, we work with more than 400 active clients and are carrying on the legacies of an additional 500 clients. In total, we have over $485 million in charitable assets. Its mission is to connect people, ideas and resources to improve lives in Western New York.

1:45pm Front of Smith Memorial Library Scott Lawson CHQ Architecture discussion https://archive.org/details/1907020014 & Ed Evans E.B.Green Walking Tour https://archive.org/details/ws400956

2:00pm - 3:15pm Smith Memorial Library - John Jablonski, Executive Director Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy & Betsy Constantine, Executive Vice President, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, “Buffalo & American Legacy”  https://archive.org/details/1907020016

3:30pm - 4:45pm Hall of Christ - Chautauqua Archives Heritage Lecture Series - “Teleporting into History with TR VR: Taking Community Perspectives & Understandings into Another Dimension” Stanton H. Hudson Jr., Executive Director, Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site & Peter Schiffmacher, Founder, iTours 360VR / Co-Founder, Reality Capture Experts  https://archive.org/details/1907020017
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site - Immigration, the role of the U.S. in global affairs, race relations, big business, the use of our natural resources…these issues dominate today’s headlines, just as they did more than a century ago, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President of the United States on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo.

** 2019 Chautauqua Theme for Week Two: Uncommon Ground: Communities Working Toward Solutions
Tuesday July 3, 2018 -
Ninth Annual 'Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua's' theme: "American Identity: Greater Buffalo's Contribution"
Sponsored by The Buffalo News, Visit Buffalo Niagara, WNED, Chautauqua Institution & C-SAAHN
Noon - 8 pm FREE Afternoon Admission for residents of the Greater Buffalo region
Chautauqua's Theme Week Two :: June 30 - July 7

American Identity

Who are we as Americans? Everyone has their own definition of the American identity, and most agree it’s being lost. A recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 71 percent of Americans feel the United States is losing its national identity — that is, the beliefs and values the country represents. During this week, we reach across the aisles of both politics and faith. We examine how we've defined American identity throughout our history and the stories we’ve told to shape that identity; the political, economic and social factors that shape our contemporary definitions; and what these different national identities — at times in conflict with one another — mean for our democracy and the prosperity of all Americans. We’ll consider whether a new foundation of American identity is necessary — or even possible.


12:15pm - 12:30pm - Hall of Philosophy    ............   AUDIO
* Dennis Galucki, Founder, Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua  "The Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea: Believing in a 21st Century American Ideal"

12:30pm - 1:30pm - Hall of Philosophy    ..........   AUDIO
 * Melissa Brown, Director, The Buffalo History Museum "Erie Canal Terminus"
* Stanton H. Hudson, Jr., Site Superintendent / Executive Director, Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site

2:00pm - 3:15pm Smith Memorial Library      ..........   AUDIO
* Chuck LaChiusa, Board President, Explore Buffalo & Webmaster, BuffaloAH.com,
* Jim Charlier, Garden Walk Buffalo
* Linda Ulrich-Hagner, Roycrofters
* Ed Healy, Visit Buffalo Niagara

3:30pm - 5:00pm Hall of Christ - Chautauqua Archives Heritage Lecture Series    .........   AUDIO
* Mary Jean Jakubowski, Director, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
Tuesday July 11, 2017 - Eighth Annual 'Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua'
Theme: "A Crisis of Faith? - An Opportunity for Reflection"
Sponsored by: The Buffalo News, Visit Buffalo Niagara, WNED, Chautauqua Institution, & C-SAAHN

Noon - 8 pm FREE Afternoon Gate Pass for residents of the Greater Buffalo region

Chautauqua Week Three Theme:  "A Crisis of Faith?"

Chautauqua Institution Theme Week Three : July 8–15, 2017
For decades, Chautauqua Institution has brought people of different faiths – and no faith – together for civil, enlightening dialogue. Building on that work, this week we dive even deeper into questions of identity, religion and community. Major research organizations such as Pew Research Center and PRRI report that religions are undergoing dramatic change: a decline in mainstream Christianity and practicing Judaism, demographic shifts pointing toward a growing Muslim population, and more young people than ever who claim no affiliation with any organized religion. Some detect crisis amidst these changes, but in this week we look to the possibilities. What impacts do shifting religious norms mean for other aspects of public life? How are churches reinventing themselves as moral centers of the communities they serve? Together, we imagine the future of faith and of religion as we have come to know it.

10:15am - 10:30am Radio interview  AUDIO

12:05pm - 1:30pm - Hall of Philosophy

12:05pm - 12:20pm "The Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea: Believing in a 21st-Century Ideal"

* Dennis Galucki, Founder, Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua & Moderator  - AUDIO

12:20pm - 1:30pm "Faith, Spirituality, Wellness, and Community"  AUDIO

* Dr. G. Stanford Bratton, Ex. Dir/CEO, Network of Religious Communities

* Fr. Pat Keleher, Campus Minister University at Buffalo

* Fr. William "Jud" Weiksnar, ofm, Franciscan Friars

* Philip Haberstro, Ex. Dir., Wellness Institute of Greater Buffalo


1:45pm - Ed Evans Author, "Buffalo's E.B.Green at Chautauqua" Walking Tour begins at the Hall of Philosophy
Green & Wickes Hall of Philosophy  AUDIO


2:00pm - 3:15pm  - Hall of Philosophy - Chautauqua Institution Department of Religion

* Bill Moyers, Moderator

* Speaker: Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith


3:30pm - 5:00pm Hall of Christ Chautauqua Archives Heritage Lecture Series

* Mary Holland, Founder, Buffalo Religious Art Center, "Creating a Heritage of Art & Faith - The Buffalo Religious Art Center"  AUDIO


Chautauqua Institution Buffalo Day Announcement
http://mailchi.mp/ciweb/youre-invited-to-buffalo-day-at-chautauqua-institution-tuesday-july-11-2017
"Imagining a lifelong learning land"

The Buffalo News July 9, 2017 - By Carl Francis Penders

Viewpoints: Imagining a lifelong learning land
Seventh Annual "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua Tuesday August 9, 2016

Sponsored by The Buffalo News, Visit Buffalo Niagara, WNED, Chautauqua Institution & C-SAAHN

 Noon - 8 pm FREE Afternoon Gate Pass for residents of the Greater Buffalo region

Chautauqua Institution Week Seven

Chautauqua 2016 Season Theme: "What Does It Mean To Be Human?"
What does it mean to be human? In 2016, we comprehensively explore facets of the human experience, of the human project. When we say we’re dedicated to “the best in human values,” what do we mean? As human beings, we are capable of great good, and capable of being catalysts for destruction. We are stewards, explorers, healers, thinkers, feelers. We have a body, a brain, a fully-functioning computer of the highest caliber. But we are more than our machine. To be human is to love, to laugh, to hurt. It is to be self-aware if not self-actualized, and that grasping for something more, something higher, is perhaps the greatest expression of the human condition. Human beings are flawed, but we hold fierce potential. In this summer as we explore our history, our future, our hearts, bodies, minds and souls, we look at the state of being human today — offering an unflinching look at humanity at its worst, and celebrating what it means to be a people striving for its best.
Week Seven Theme: "Pushing Our Bodies’ Limits"

In this week, we look at the limits of our humanness — our brain and our body — and how we are able to alter, push, or even defeat those limits. We have constantly pushed against our natural state, even our natural lifespan. We modify and enhance, overcome and transcend. Our natural states — our gender, our disabilities, our aging — are up for debate. How do we, and how can we, push our boundaries and transcend our humanity?


2016 Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua Theme
"Imagine Pushing Our Bodies' & Community's Limits:
 Imagine Healthy, Wealthy and Sustainable Communities"



Seventh Annual "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua Tuesday August 9, 2016

10:45am Amphitheater
Fareed Zakaria, Host, “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” CNN

12:10 - 3:25pm C-SAAHN Buffalo Day Program at the Smith Memorial Library

"Imagine Pushing Our Bodies' & Community's Limits:
 Imagine Healthy, Wealthy and Sustainable Communities"

12:10 - 12:30pm - Dennis Galucki, Founder, C-SAAHN & "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua"
"The Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea: Exploring American Legacy through Place-based Lifelong Learning"  .........  AUDIO

12:35 - 1:30pm - Philip Haberstro, Ex. Dir. Wellness Institute of Greater Buffalo
                            Lawrence Brooks, Author, "Buffalo Niagara: Diagnosis & Prescription For Change" .........  AUDIO

1:35 - 2:15pm - Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, President & CEO, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo .........  AUDIO

2:20 - 3:00pm - Sally Cunningham, CNLP, landscape consultant and author, Great Garden Companions .........  AUDIO

3:00 - 3:25pm - Ed Evans Author, "Buffalo's E.B.Green at Chautauqua" Walking Tour .........  AUDIO


3:30 - 5:00pm Chautauqua Archives Heritage Lecture at the Hall of Christ:
"Frank Lloyd Wright's Buffalo"
Screening & discussion:
Jon Schmitz, Chautauqua Archivist
Mary Roberts, Ex. Dir. Martin House Complex
David Rotterman, Vice President, Television Production, WNED TV  .........  AUDIO
Sixth Annual "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua" Friday, August 7, 2015

Sponsored by The Buffalo News, Visit Buffalo Niagara, WNED, Chautauqua Institution & C-SAAHN

Noon - 8 pm FREE Chautauqua Institution Admission for Greater Buffalo region residents


Chautauqua Institution Week Six theme: "Vanishing"

12:10 - 3:00 P.M. Smith Library - C-SAAHN Program "Vanishing: Appreciation of Nature"

Speakers representing groups trying to "Enhance Appreciation of Nature"

12:10 - 12:30 pm - Dennis Galucki, Founder, C-SAAHN & ImagineLifelongLearning.com
"The Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea: Exploring American Legacy through Place-based Lifelong Learning"
12:30 - 1:00 pm - Jill Spisiak Jedlicka, Ex. Dir., Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper
AUDIO 

1:00 - 1:30 pm - Jajean Rose, Development Director, WNY Land Conservancy
AUDIO 

1:30 - 2:00 pm - Twan Leenders, President, Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History, Jamestown, NY
AUDIO

2:00 - 2:30 pm - Mary Laumer, Director, Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy Jamestown, NY
AUDIO

2:30 - 3:00 pm - Philip Haberstro, Ex. Dir. Wellness Institute of Greater Buffalo
AUDIO

3:00 - 3:20 pm - Ed Evans Author, "Buffalo's E.B.Green at Chautauqua" Walking Tour
AUDIO


3:30 - 5:00 pm - "If Our Water Could Talk" WNED Screening, Hall of Christ
Chautauqua Archives Heritage Lecture Series
David Rotterman, Vice President, Television Production, WNED-TV
Jill Spisiak Jedlicka, Ex. Dir., Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper*
*2015 North American Riverprize Winner
AUDIO

                                                                                           
is scheduled for Friday, August 5, 2016 and will feature the screening of WNED's "Frank Lloyd Wright's Buffalo"

Center for the Study of Art, Architecture, History & Nature

 C-SAAHN Recipient AIA Buffalo/WNY "Friends of Architecture" 2013 Community Service Award

Chautauqua Media Release - Free Afternoon Gate Pass Coupon

Fifth Annual "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua"

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Sponsored by: WNED, Visit Buffalo Niagara, C-SAAHN, & Chautauqua Institution

2014 Week Eight Theme: "Chautauqua's Global Public Square"

C-SAAHN created the annual "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua" as an afternoon at CHQ to focus on
Buffalo's cultural treasurers, heritage, and legacy as part of the "Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea: Exploring American Legacy"
"Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua" Lectures:

10:45 AM - Noon
Amphitheater - "Buffalo Day" Welcome
Annie Griffiths, National Geographic Photographer

12:10 - 12:20 PM
Smith Memorial Libraryvvvv
Dennis Galucki, "The Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea"
Founder:
Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua;
Center for the Study of Art, Architecture, History, & Nature (C-SAAHN);
ImagineLifelongLearning.com
August 12, 2014 Week Eight: "The Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea" by Dennis Galucki and part of the 5th Annual "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua"


12:20 - 1:00 PM
Smith Memorial Library
Thomas Herrera-Mishler, President & CEO, Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy
"Olmsted's Buffalo Park System and Its Stewards"
August 12, 2014 "Olmsted's Buffalo Park System and Its Stewards" by Thomas Herrera-Mishler, President and CEO, Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy

1:15 - 1:30 PM
1:30 - 1:45 PM
1:45 - 2:00 PM
(Three 15 minute tours)
Strohl Arts Center, Gallo Family Gallery
"The Writings and Paintings of Charles E. Burchfield" (1893-1967).
August 12, 2014 Mary Kozub, Burchfiel Penney, Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution (VACI) Tour of VACI exhibit in collaboration with Burchfield Penney Art Center
https://archive.org/details/WS400671
The Writings and Paintings of Charles E.  Burchfield (1893-1967), curated by Tullis Johnson, will be on display in the Gallo Family Gallery at the Strohl Arts Center. Chautauqua Institution Artistic Director Don Kimes has partnered with Anthony Bannon, PhD, Executive Director at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State to organize this exhibition of Burchfield’s works. Throughout his career, Burchfield’s moods, ideas and personal critiques were recorded on thousands of pieces of paper, in studies for paintings and in his journals. In this exhibition Burchfield speaks for himself through these insightful epigrams and developmental sketches with related masterworks from the Burchfield Penney’s collection.

2:00 - 3:15 PM
Hall of Philosophy
Karen Armstrong - "The Global Religious Public Square"

3:30 - 5:00 PM
Hall of Christ
Archives Heritage Lecture Series
"Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America" - David C. Rotterman, Vice President, Television Production, WNED-TV
and Jon Schmitz, Historian and Archivist, Chautauqua Institution
August 12, 2014 Week Eight: "Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America" - Chautauqua Institution Archives Heritage Lecture Series
https://archive.org/details/WS400672


C-SAAHN was established in 2009 as a unique digital enterprise and network designed to help link volunteers and
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Fourth Annual Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua scheduled for Tuesday July 23, 2013 during WEEK FIVE: "The Pursuit of Happiness"

The sponsors again this year will be C-SAAHN, The Buffalo News, Visit Buffalo Niagara, and WNED.

Other activities will be announced but the "Chautauqua" video by WNED will be screened at the Hall of Christ at 3:30 P.M. as part of the Chautauqua Archives Heritage Lecture Series.


!0:45 A.M. - Noon - Amphitheater - Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University

and author of "Bowling Alone"

1:00 P.M. - 1:30 P.M. - VACI Tour led by Don Kimes, Artistic Director - "Abstract Expressionism - Part III"

Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution collaboration with Albright--Knox Art Gallery 

1:45 P.M. - 2:00 P.M. - Smith Library - Dennis Galucki, Founder, C-SAAHN and "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua"

"In Pursuit of Happiness: The Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea"

2:00 P.M. - 2:35 P.M. - Smith Library - Ed Healy, Visit Buffalo Niagara & Co-coordinator 2011 National Trust Conference

"Buffalo Niagara's Art, Architecture, History, & Nature"

2:40 P.M. - 3:15 P.M. - Smith Library - Twan Leenders, President, Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History - "The Watershed Project"

3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. - Hall of Christ - David Rotterman, VP, WNED-TV - "Chautauqua: An American Narrative"

Chautauqua Archives Heritage Lecture Series



3rd Annual "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua"
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at Chautauqua Institution

Sponsored by:
The Center for the Study of Art & Architecture; History & Nature (C-SAAHN)
Chautauqua Institution
The Buffalo News
WNED
Visit Buffalo Niagara

Chautauqua Institution July 8 - July 14, 2012 Week Three: "Inspire. Commit. Act."

Schedule of Events for the 3rd Annual "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua" Tuesday, July 10, 2012:

9:30 A.M. - 10:45 A.M. Welcome - Niagara 1812 Legacy Council, Old Fort Erie, & Visit Buffalo Niagara - Main Gate Entrance - Uniformed 1812 Historical Interpreters

10:45 A.M. - Noon - Opening Announcement followed by Jon Gertner, Author, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - Amphitheater

12:10 P.M. - 12:45 P.M. National Trust for Historic Preservation 2011 Annual Conference - Chautauqua Field Session Presentation by Bonnie Foit-Albert, Architect - Smith Library

12:50 P.M. - 1:30 P.M. "The War of 1812" - Niagara 1812 Legacy Council, Old Fort Erie, & Visit Buffalo Niagara - Smith Library

2:00 P.M. - 2:45 P.M. "Abstraction in America" Tour & Discussion led by Holly Hughes, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Don Kimes, VACI - Strohl Art Center

3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. "War of 1812" WNED Screening, Chautauqua Archives Heritage Lecture - Hall of Christ
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These recordings are part of the C-SAAHN "Chautauqua Stories" & "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua"  AUDIO Series created by The Center for the Study of Art, Architecture, History & Nature (C-SAAHN).

---By Dennis Galucki, Founder & Coordinator, C-SAAHN.

Second Annual "Buffalo Day at Chautauqua," Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Sponsored by:
The Buffalo News, Visit Buffalo Niagara, WNED, Chautauqua Institution & C-SAAHN

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AUDIO SERIES AND OTHER RELATED LINKS


10:45 A.M. Opening Announcements including Proclamation of 2nd Annual "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua" - August 16, 2011
Sherra Babcock, Director of Education, made the morning announcements, (prior to the 10:45 A.M. speaker at the Amphitheater audience of about 5000), which included a welcome to the 2nd Annual "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua" sponsored by The Buffalo News, Visit Buffalo Niagara, WNED, Chautauqua, and The Center for the Study of Art, Architecture, History & Nature (C-SAAHN).

11 A.M. Rita Argen Auerbach tour of her exhibit at Chautauqua Institution - August 16, 2011
Rita Argen Auerbach led a tour and Q&A of her donated exhibit at the Hulquist Center in Chautauqua Institution which celebrated the 25th anniversary of the 1986 Chautauqua Institution/Eisenhower Institute Conference on U.S./Soviet Relations in Rega, Latvia. This presentation was also part of the 2nd Annual "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua" sponsored by C-SAAHN, The Buffalo News, Visit Buffalo Niagara, WNED and Chautauqua Institution.

2 P.M. Don Kimes, Director, Visual Arts at Chautuaqua Institution (VACI), Part 7 (of 7), August 16, 2011, Tour of new exhibit in collaboration with Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG)
Don Kimes provides a personal view of Abstract Expressionism as one of two great American contributions to world cultural - the other being jazz - in the 20th Century. This tour of the exhibit "Abstraction in America: The 1940s to the 1960s" at the Strohl Art Center encouraged questions and observations by the audience. This is Part 7 of a seven part series during July and August of the 2011 season. This event was also part of the 2nd Annual "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua," sponsored by C-SAAHN, The Buffalo News, Visit Buffalo Niagara and Chautauqua Institution, and included a well known Buffalo artist, Rita Argen Auerbach.

2 P.M. "How And Why Buffalo Was Selected to Host the 2011 National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference (October 19 - 22, 2011)" - Not Recorded.
Cindy Kincaide and Mike Even from Visit Buffalo Niagara made this educational presentation at the Smith Library.

3:30 P.M. SCREENING OF PBS DOCUMENTARY "ELBERT HUBBARD - AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL" - Chautauqua Archives Heritage Lecture Series, August 16, 2011
Presented by the writer and director Paul Lamont, with an Introduction on Hubbard and Chautauqua by Jon Schmitz, Chautauqua Institution Archivist and Historian, during Week Eight of the 2011 Chautauqua Institution Nine Week Summer Season. The Chautauqua Institution Archives Heritage Lecture Series is held at the Hall of Christ every Tuesday and Friday at 3:30 PM. during the summer season.

This presentation was also part of the 2nd Annual "Buffalo Day @ Chautauqua" and includes a Welcome by Dennis Galucki, Founder & Coordinator of C-SAAHN, sponsor of the Day along with The Buffalo News, Visit Buffalo Niagara, WNED and Chautauqua Institution. The Q&A at the conclusion of the screening included Paul Lamont, Doug Swift, President, Roycroft Campus Corporation and Christne A. Peters, Executive Director, Roycroft Campus Corporation.

These recordings are part of the C-SAAHN "Chautauqua Stories" AUDIO Series, an activity of The Center for the Study of Art, Architecture, History & Nature
--- by Dennis Galucki

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OTHER LINKS FOR THE 2ND ANNUAL "BUFFALO DAY @ CHAUTAUQUA:"

Tuesday August 16, 2011 - The Chautauquan Daily
"Buffalo Day celebrated with visual arts and educational programs" and "PBS documents controversial Roycroft founder Hubbard."
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1.1&thid=1320789e9b2f3b00&mt=application/pdf&url=https://mail.google

Roycroft Campus Corp - Roycroft @ Chautauqua's 2nd Annual Buffalo Day  


First Annual "Buffalo Day at Chautauqua," August 9, 2010

The First Annual "Buffalo Day at Chautauqua" was held Monday, August 9, 2010.

Signage from The Buffalo News along with the president of Chautauqua Institution, Thomas Becker, proclaimed the event and welcomed over 5000 in attendance during announcements in the Amphitheater, before introducing Ken Burns as the 10:45 AM featured speaker for the day.

Later, at 4 PM, Mike Sullivan, representing Chautauqua Institution, welcomed a standing room only crowd of over 200 at the Hall of Christ. Mary Roberts, Ex. Dir. of the Martin House Restoration Corp. gave a 20 minute presentation bringing the audience up to date with the project. Paul Lamont, the producer of the PBS presentation, "Frank Lloyd Wright's Buffalo," provided insights into the making of the nationally aired production by WNED. A lively Q&A session followed the one hour video. WNED gave permission to record the audio portion of this video. Thank you to all who participated and made this day possible.

Sponsors of the event included The Center for the Study of Art, Architecture, History & Nature (C-SAAHN), TMartin House Restoration Corporation, WNED, The Buffalo News and Chautauqua Institution.
-- By Dennis Galucki
AUDIO

"CHAUTAUQUA: AN AMERICAN NARRATIVE" - Comments by Don Boswell, John Grant & Thomas Becker - 09/30/10

The first public screening in Buffalo of "CHAUTAUQUA: AN AMERICAN NARRATIVE" was held at the studios of WNED. Following the viewing, Donald K. Boswell, President & CEO of WNED introduced Thomas Becker, President of Chautauqua Institution and John Grant, Producer of the show soon to be released nationally on PBS, for a Q&A session with the audience. This recording,(made from audience level),gives insight into the producers dilemma of having so much information and footage about Chautauqua, with only a limited amount of time available in an hour program. The story of Chautauqua itself, seems to defy description because it is rooted more in the experience of over 150,000 people who attend every year, usually for a week at a time. Overall, the audience expressed great satisfaction with the show and believed it captured the spirit, program, and lifelong learning experience that is "Chautauqua."

Tom Becker gives an inspirational view of the need and role of Chautauqua in the 21st Century for America and the world.

It is anticipated that this video will be part of next year's 2nd Annual "BUFFALO DAY AT CHAUTAUQUA," probably during Week 4, during the 2011 Season. The day will be sponsored, in part, by WNED and C-SAAHN. 
-- By Dennis Galucki

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