The Chautauqua Institution and the World Monument Fund brings together an afternoon of programs focusing on religion, culture, history and architecture to Governors Island. The event features four renowned lecturers who will explore these themes in talks that are open to the public. This is the first time Chautauqua has held a program on Governors Island. Trinity Wall Street is hosts the event at St. Cornelius Chapel.
Full Schedule:
1pm: Bonnie Burnham, President & CEO, World Monuments Fund, "Preserving Sacred Spaces in a Secular World"
2pm: Ori Z. Soltes, Professor, Georgetown University, "Jerusalem as a Sacred Space"
3pm: Amy Freitag, Program Director, U.S. World Monuments Fund; Exec. Dir., New York Restoration Project "Preserving Sacred Landscapes"
4pm: Jeffrey Simpson, Historian; author of American Elegy: A Family Memoir and Chautauqua: An American Utopia, "Chautauqua and the Architecture of Community"