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Muskoka Chautauqua (muh-SKO-kə / shə-TAW-kwə)  is a not-for-profit organization fostering arts and culture, culminating in a 10-day summer festival in the historic village of Windermere.

Muskoka Chautauqua offers creative, multi-disciplinary arts-based programming for entertainment and life-long learning. It is a vibrant community, encompassing the arts, education and reflection, where visitors come for personal growth, enrichment and renewal. It is a place removed from the day-to-day world, where practitioners and leading thinkers of our time share innovative and creative ideas; a place where the arts blend with the natural beauty of Muskoka and where the human spirit and all its hidden talents may be liberated and soar.

As the only Chautauqua in Canada, Muskoka Chautauqua represents the country on the International Chautauqua Trail, a network that connects the 14 existing Chautauqua communities in North America.

Muskoka Chautauqua has a colourful history, which began with the Muskoka Assembly of the Canadian Chautauqua, established on Tobin’s Island almost 100 years ago. This historic organization was resurrected in 2010, when the organization previously known as Muskoka Lakes Music Festival rebranded as Muskoka Chautauqua and aligned itself with the Chautauqua movement. Muskoka Chautauqua’s year-round programming is exciting and diverse, including concerts, literary events and authors’ talks, culinary celebrations, community forums, art workshops and exhibitions, children’s festivals and more. Events take place across Muskoka.

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History
The Chautauqua Movement

Chautauqua Institution

Canadian Chautauquas

Niagara-on-the-Lake

Reading Circle

In 1931, a statement issued by the Assembly reported that the Reading Circle group, "Encourages the reading of the best books but at the same time stresses the reading of Canadian literature to foster Canadian authors". (page 21, DuVernet)

"...was established in 1922, the intention was "to introduce and to advance works of Canadian authors."

Epworth League Summer School (1916-1920)
"Toronto Conference Epworth League" Summer School (brochure image) July 1-7, 1916

1917 - Epworth League Summer School, Elgin House

winermere house

elgin house

Muskoka Assembly of the Canadian Chautauqua Institution (1921-1932)
Officialy known as the Muskoka Assembly of the Canadian Chautauqua Institution, the Muskoka Assembly was...

Waskada Inn on Tobin Island was purchased by Rev.Charles Applegath, and renamed "Epworth Inn, Muskoka Assembly of the Canadian Chautauqua Institution" (p5, DuVernet)

Epworth Inn was turned into Wigwassan Lodge - end of Chautauqua

Little Theatre in the Woods
The Little

designed and built by the technical staff of the Hart House Theatre, University of Toronto

poetry readings were held on the verandah of the cottage belonging to Dr. Aletta Marty, now 'Windermere Cottage' owned by Windermere House Resort.

Muskoka Lakes Music Festival (1996-2011)
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Muskoka Chautauqua (2012-present)
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Various Venues

Wallace Landing

Windermere

Windermere is a village on Lake Rosseau in Ontario, Canada, located within and governed by the municipality of Muskoka Lakes.

Muskoka Chautauqua

Music

refer to Muskoka Lakes Music Festival

Literary Arts

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