Chautauqua Art Lab: Footsteps making waves. St. Louis, MO 10.19.12 Chautauqua Art Lab or CQAL is a grassroots city-wide DIT (do it together) experimental visual and sound festival, think tank, and autonomous university. CQAL gives both local doers and self-starters from elsewhere a pleatera of opportunities to interact and explore over an extended weekend. Centered around potlucks and BBQ’s this years CQAL will activate artist-run-spaces, collectives, unlikely venues, and pubic spaces throughout the city of St Louis.