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The Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa's Chautauqua 2001 is Navigating a Changing World: The American 20th Century

Featured Evening Programs to be held in June 2001:

Inventing the 20th Century - Thomas Edison portrayed by Hank Fincken.

Educating Her People - Mary McLeod Bethune portrayed by Dorothy Mains Prince.

Changing the Face of Baseball - Branch Rickey portrayed by Charles Chalberg.

Directing an Entertainment Revolution - Orson Welles portrayed by Michael Hughes

Painting a New World - Georgia O'Keeffe portrayed by Suzan King.

Here is the schedule for the OSU-Tulsa Chautauqua:

Tuesday, June 5

  • 1:00 p.m. - Branch Rickey Workshop
  • 7:00 p.m. - Music by Chips Off the Old Block barbershop quartet
  • 8:00 p.m. - Thomas Edison presented by Hank Fincken

Wednesday, June 6

  • 1:00 p.m. - Thomas Edison Workshop
  • 7:00 p.m. - Music by Gospel Trio
  • 8:00 p.m. - Student Chautauquan Caroline Leithner as Sarah Childress Polk
  • 8:10 p.m. - Mary McLeod Bethune presented by Dorothy Mains Prince

Thursday, June 7

  • 1:00 p.m. - Branch Rickey Workshop
  • 2:30 p.m. - Orson Welles Workshop
  • 7:00 p.m. - Music by Classic Jazz Trio
  • 8:00 p.m. - Branch Rickey presented by Chuck Chalberg
  • 9:30 p.m. - Pub Night with Chautauqua Scholars in the Tulsa Room

Friday, June 8

  • 1:00 p.m. - Mary McLeod Bethune Workshop
  • 2:30 p.m. - Georgia O'Keeffe Tea
  • 7:00 p.m. - Music by Tulsa Community Band
  • 8:00 p.m. - Student Chautauquan Stephanie Ibemeri as Catherine Beecher
  • 8:10 p.m. - Orson Welles presented by Michael Hughes

Saturday, June 8

  • 10:00 a.m. - Thomas Edison Workshop
  • 1:00 p.m. - Orson Welles Workshop
  • 2:30 p.m. - Mary McLeod Bethune Workshop
  • 7:00 p.m. - Music by Lewis Johnson
  • 8:00 p.m. - Student Chautauquan Jana Schubert as Flannery O'Conner
  • 8:10 p.m. - Georgia O'Keeffe presented by Suzan King

Sunday, June 10

  • 2:00 p.m. - Georgia O'Keeffe Workshop

The Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa Chautauqua has a web page at http://www.tulsalibrary.org/chautauqua/.  Please visit there for more information on this year's theme and individual characters.

Here is an article from The Shawnee News-Star Online posted Sunday, May 28, 2000 titled "Watson to perform at Chautauqua 2000" that tells about Tulsa's 2000 Chautauqua event.

The Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa's Chautauqua 2000: The Evolution of the West: Myth and Reality

Featured evening programs held in June 2000:

Tuesday, June 6 - Theodore Roosevelt presented by Jerome Tweton.

Wednesday, June 7 - Owen Wister presented by John Gentile.

Thursday, June 8 - Charles Goodnight presented by Paul Christensen.

Friday, June 9 - Angie Debo presented by Suzan King.

Saturday, June 10 - Will Rogers presented by Doug Watson.

Workshops and extra events presented during the day in June 2000:

Paul Christensen - "Nomads of the Plains" "Old West, New West: The Evolution of a Sense of Region"

John Gentile - "The West of Owen Wister" "Culture under Canvas Comes to the Great Piains"

Suzan King - Tea at Harwelden  "Prairie City - A Novel"

D. Jerome Tweton - "Winning of the West" "Roosevelt and the Native People"

Doug Watson - "The Life of a Cowboy: Who was he and what did he do?" (Childrens Workshop) "Cowboy Philosopher and Poet Lariat"

Student Chautauqua Winning Scholar Evening Presentations:

Wednesday, June 7 - Frederick Douglass presented by Trey Jackson.

Thursday, June 8 - Washington Irving presented by Johnny Fisher.

Friday, June 9 - Sojourner Truth presented by Ashlee Dorsey.

Evening Music Featured in June 2000:

Wednesday, June 7 - Ralph Bendl and Loose Brix.

Thursday, June 8 - Jerome Cambell's Call of the West.

Friday, June 9 - Tulsa Community Band.

Saturday, June 10 - Guy Logsdon.

The Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa Chautauqua has a web page at http://www.tulsalibrary.org/chautauqua/.  Please visit there for more information on this year's theme and individual characters.

 Tulsa Chautauqua 2001 - Navigating a Changing World: The American 20th Century
Presented in Tulsa (June5-9), Ponca City (June 11-15), and Henrietta (May 28-June 1), OK
CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLES AND PHOTOS FROM THE 2001 CHAUTAUQUA

Tulsa Chautauqua 2000 - The Evolution of the American West: Myth and Reality
Presented in Tulsa (June 6-10), Ponca City and Enid, Oklahoma

Tulsa Chautauqua 1999 - Voices of Ragtime: Visions of Our Future Past
Presented in Tulsa, Ponca City, and Enid, Oklahoma
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THE 1999 CHAUTAUQUA

Tulsa Chautauqua 1998 - Early America: The Struggle for Freedom

Tulsa Chautauqua 1997

Tulsa Chautauqua 1996

Tulsa Chautauqua 1995

Tulsa Chautauuqa 1994 - A Crisis of Conscience: Reflections on the Civil War

Tulsa Chautauqua 1993 - Americans Abroad
Presented in Tulsa (June 4-8) and Choctaw (June 11-15), Oklahoma

Tulsa Chautauqua 1992 - The Progressive Era: 1890-1920 
Presented in Tulsa (June 5-9) and Ponca City (June 12-16), Oklahoma

NEW: Learn about the original Tulsa Chautauqua by visiting
The Complete Chautauquan: The Tulsa Chautauqua Assembly.

NEW: Learn more about Chautauqua activities in Oklahoma
as well as Oklahoma and Indian Territories prior to statehood in
The Complete Chautauquan: Chautauqua in Oklahoma.

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