Quick Center for the Arts | 2023-24 Season Brochure

UNMATCHED PRICES

MICHAEL POLLAN H DRUM TAO

H TEAC . DAM . SA H CHUCHO

VALDÉS H DIANNE REEVES

H JOE LOVANO H YOUNG

CONCERT ARTISTS ON TOUR

H NORA CHIPAUMIRE H ART

SPIEGELMAN H RANKY TANKY H

LISA FISCHER H FLIP FABRIQUE H

GREGORY MAQOMA H KAITLAN COLLINS H RADHIKA DIRKS

H AGATHE ET ADRIEN H JUJU

CHANG H MASIH ALINEJAD

H ORIN GROSSMAN H GIULIA

CONTALDO H KYLE ABRAHAM

H SUSANNAH HESCHEL H

ZANNY MINTON BEDDOES

UNBELIEVABLE PERFORMANCES

Thank you to our Quick Members for your support!

Being a Quick Member is being a part of a thriving community of like-minded, passionate arts and culture advocates who recognize the incredible impact the live performing arts have on our day-today lives. We are so grateful to all of the Members who joined us over the last year in support of the work we do. 2023–24

YOUR MEMBERSHIP MATTERS

You make the difference as a Quick Member

At its core, the Quick Center for the Arts consists of three vital ingredients: high-caliber artists, thought-provoking speakers, and YOU – curious, thoughtful, engaging, passionate patrons of the arts. Your support and belief in the importance of the performing arts is critical to the Quick and our mission of Arts for All. Your Membership is an investment in arts for our entire community. The high-caliber artistic programs you experience on the Quick stage reflect our remarkable community of arts lovers and YOU.

By renewing your Quick Membership or becoming a Quick Member for the first time, you reap the benefits of “unbeatable performances at unbeatable prices,” first access to season announcements and seat selection, meet-and-greet events with our artists and speakers, and our Quick Member community.

Your Membership Matters. Choose your level of impact using the enclosed form and red envelope or join online at Quickcenter.com.

BECOME A MEMBER TODAY AND ENJOY MORE.

TASTE

MAKER $95-$149

(Fairfield University Alumni $80+/Young Patron 25–40 $50+)

• Invitation to Season Announcement event with the Executive Director (Date to be announced)

• VIP access for ticket sales and program registration

• Members Only ticket prices and special events:

o artist meet and greets/closed rehearsals/ post-performance receptions

• Free access to insightful discussions and collaborative programs with the artists, directors, or faculty

• Guaranteed registration for Missoula Children’s Theatre

• Discounts at local partnered restaurants

SUPPORTER $150–$499

(Faculty/Staff/Fairfield University Retiree $100+)

All Taste Maker benefits plus

• Preferred seating for The Met: Live in HD Series and Open VISIONS Forum

• Waiver of service charges on ticket exchanges

FRIEND $500–$999

All Supporter benefits plus

• Reserved parking for Quick Center events

• VIP access to special events with OVF speakers and artists

DEVOTEE $1,000–$2,499

All Friend benefits plus

• All benefits of membership in the Fairfield University President’s Circle. Visit fairfield.edu/presidentscircle

• Exclusive access to Quick Center Concierge email and phone

PRINCIPAL $2,500+

All Devotee benefits plus

• Sponsor recognition for one Quick Center program

• Name recognition on one seat plaque in the Kelley Theatre

• VIP luncheon for you and two guests with the Executive Director and a selected special guest

Goods and services received in connection with this membership are $125

Join our New Patron Program and deepen your relationship with the Quick!

With a gift of $5,000 or more, enjoy a unique relationship with the Quick and receive benefits that include personalized ticket reservations, exclusive access to artists and rehearsals, pre- and post-event VIP receptions and dinners, and behind-the-scenes events. For more information and to join today, please visit quickcenter.com or email Marie-Laure Kugel, director of development, Fairfield Arts, at mkugel@fairfield.edu.

PARTNERS OF THE QUICK

The Quick Center for the Arts is deeply grateful to the following individuals, corporations, foundations, and government agencies for their generous support of this season’s artistic and arts education programs.

PARTNER ($10,000+)

LEADER ($5,000–$9,999)

PATRON ($3,000–$4,999)

ALLY ($1,000–$2,999)

FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT

PATRON PROGRAM MEMBERS

For more information and to join today, please visit quickcenter.fairfield.edu/support

Joyce Hergenhan

Robert and Jane Jacobs

Norman and Celeste LaCroix

Louise, Sefra, and Jesse Levin

The Lundberg Family Foundation

Deborah Murtaugh

Mary Quick

Thomas C. Quick

Anne-Marie Ziegler

QUICK CENTER ADVISORY BOARD

As part of the strategic vision of the Quick Center, our aim is to develop and recruit an advisory board to further enhance the strategic development of the Quick.

Robyn Drucker

Orin Grossman

Patricia Hammalian

Gail M. Harris

Michael Loeb

Deborah Murtaugh

Suzanne Nemec

Anne-Marie Ziegler

2023-24 WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP SERIES PRESENTING SPONSOR

Howard and Katherine Aibel Foundation

Herman Goldman Foundation

Ilove this image of the Quick Center. To me it feels like it is in motion, about to take off. It is so fitting, as WE are taking off. Fairfield University is moving at an incredible pace. We are gaining new national rankings, have our highest freshman intake in our history, and the campus is alive and pulsing with new buildings, programs, and an excited student and faculty body. In the landscape of the arts, the College of Arts & Sciences is launching The Arts Institute, to be directed by Kathy Schwab, PhD, and our own Dr. Philip Eliasoph has been named as Special Assistant to the President for Arts and Culture. Watch this space as we are taking off.

This season we invite you to share in a world-class program of performances and Open VISIONS Forum events that highlight our national presence as a beacon for the performing arts in our community. The season holds us true to our mission of radical hospitality and inclusive excellence as we provide a space for the exploration of remarkable and inspiring performing arts opportunities for the Fairfield University community at-large.

Great art should change the way you see and think about the world. This season, we invite you to come curious and hungry to share in great art, as we present to you some of the best artists working in their respective fields today. Our programs this year highlight work from around the world, across the disciplines of dance, performance, world music, jazz, classical and circus. Our Open VISIONS Forum is a powerhouse of speakers highlighting topical conversations on racial, social, and economic justice. And yes folks, we have kept our pricing accessible and unmatched with Members able to enjoy tickets to most performances for $25.

President Mark R. Nemec, PhD often refers to our mission to “educate children of God as individuals of purpose in service of the greater good and stewards of a hope-filled future.” It is purpose and the greater good which excites me as director of the Quick. When Lori and I program, we program with purpose, and look to bring incredible performances that honor this mission. We present work that pursues excellence in all things, and through our engagement as audiences we are asked to be stewards of hope and dignity for all.

We invite YOU, our community, to engage with us, enter into conversations with us, journey with us, and even co-create the artistic experience with purpose and stewardship for the greater good.

And of course, have loads of fun, clap, laugh, cry, and holler – as art is amazing, lifechanging, and beautiful.

Sincerely,

Peter Van Heerden Executive Director

nora chipaumire

U.S. PREMIERE NOT waiting ...

Thursday, September 14, 2023 • 8 p.m.

Friday, September 15, 2023 • 8 p.m.

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

What if Samuel Beckett had dreamt up two African women in perpetual conversation?

nora chipaumire’s newest project NOT waiting... brings this concept to reality with Senegalese choreographer, Germaine Acogny; however, not as a re-creation but rather as an original work that focuses on the relationships between two people, two women, and the intimacies realized in everyday life against the backdrop of baobab trees, villagers on their donkey-driven carts, cows, fishermen, farmers, and tourists.

nora chipaumire

Women and Leadership Series

Bank of America is pleased to sponsor this inspirational series, opening minds and celebrating empowering women leaders around the world. #PowerTo

Zanny Minton Beddoes

“Your Kitchen Table Meets Global Disruptions: Economic Challenges Near & Far”

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 • 8 p.m.

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

As Editor-in-Chief of The Economist and named one of the “Most Powerful Women in the World” by Forbes, Zanny Minton Beddoes is a renowned global economics expert, sought-after for her authoritative perspectives on the world economy.

At the nexus of the global economy and policy, Minton Beddoes adeptly positions new developments that impact business and industry into the broader context of world events, from emerging markets and a precarious European Union to corporate America and the latest twists in U.S. politics and the 2024 presidential election on the horizon.

This is the story of two friends who carry each other. Not the same size. Not the same role. But have they really chosen their place?

Agathe et Adrien N. Ormes

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 • 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, October 5, 2023 • 7:30 p.m.

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

Stirring up the gender norms that have decided for them so far, the stage becomes an arena where the archetypes gradually fall into battle, giving way to a quest for friendship, fairness, power, and fluidity. N.Ormes is an hour-long journey where hand-to-hand exploration reveals a duo seeking by all means an equality where it may be impossible.

Recent graduates of the famed Circus School of Québec, Agathe and Adrien have developed a unique, highly physical circus and dance vocabulary. The duo has worked with the renowned Cirque Éloize and y Giners companies on European tours and circus festivals around the world.

Kaitlan Collins

Just In’ – News From the Morning Anchor’s Desk: The Media’s Role in Waking

COMING THIS FALL

$50 Cocktail Reception (includes ticket)

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

The whiplash-inducing news cycle of this year has resulted in Kaitlan Collins working pretty much nonstop while overcoming endless unforeseen challenges. Her meteoric rise was marked when broadcast journalism’s prodigy left her White House beat for a bigger challenge: boosting CNN’s morning show as its confident news anchor. Collins co-anchors CNN This Morning weekday mornings and serves as the chief correspondent for the show.

Collins is included in Mediaite’s list of the 50 most influential people in news media. She was also named among Crain’s NewsPro’s 12 to Watch in TV News in January of 2019, and was one of Forbes magazine’s “30 under 30: Media” in the same year.

“‘This

up America”

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Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history’s most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.”

– Goodreads

ART SPIEGELMAN

“Surviving Maus: Visualizing the Unimaginable”

Tuesday, October 17, 2023 • 7:30 p.m.

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who has almost single-handedly brought comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves with Maus, Maus II, and In the Shadow of No Towers, believes that in our post-literate culture the importance of the comic is on the rise, for “comics echo the way the brain works. People think in iconographic images, not in holograms, and people think in bursts of language, not in paragraphs.”

Spiegelman’s 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning, masterful Holocaust narrative Maus portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. Maus II continued the remarkable story of his parents’ survival of the Nazi regime and their lives later in America.

Presented in conjunction with the Fairfield University Art Museum’s exhibition, In Real Times: Arthur Szyk: Artist and Soldier for Human Rights, Spiegelman will discuss his own work while offering reflections on Szyk’s anti-Nazi political cartooning.

This program is presented in collaboration with the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies, Fairfield University Art Museum, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Fairfield County.

Radhika Dirks

Thursday, October 26, 2023 • 7:30 p.m.

$50 Cocktail Reception (includes ticket)

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

“The Future Is Here: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence”

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I want to ignite a spark in you that will build a future that is truly ambitious for mankind.”

– Radhika Dirks

THIS EVENT IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF PATRICK J. WAIDE ’59 AND THE WAIDE CENTER FOR APPLIED ETHICS.

Stunning advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are changing our world.

AI is being used to discover new drugs, to automate medical and scientific procedures, to change how we think and write.

Radhika Dirks, an acknowledged tech visionary who conveys powerful insights in ways that everyone can understand, and a leading expert in AI, will examine cutting-edge issues that affect us all. She believes in the power of “moonshots” — bold ideas that change everything — and sees AI as the key for making moonshots a reality. At the same time, Radhika understands that innovative technologies can do harm, and her presentation will explain both risks and benefits.

Radhika Dirks is CEO and Co-Founder of XLabs, a company that creates artificial intelligence solutions for huge challenges — like getting closer to the cure for cancer. She co-founded Seldn, an AI start-up that accurately predicted the rise of ISIS two weeks before The New York Times coined the term. Forbes named her one of its 30 Women in AI to Watch, and she has been featured in Fast Company, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

BROKEN CHORD Gregory Maqoma

Wednesday, November 1, 2023 • 8 p.m.

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

South African choreographer Gregory Maqoma is a curatorial visionary who merges movement, theater, dance, visuals, and music with a sense of pulse and breath. Featuring four soloists and an onstage a cappella chorus, Maqoma’s new work tells the story of a South African-based chorus whose tour through North America and England in the late 19th century was marred by the realities of racism. The piece concretizes the burden of the white gaze and what it feels like to move beyond the constricting box it constructs.

Broken Chord moves between concert, dance, and performance. Here, Maqoma collaborates with Musical Director Thuthuka Sibisi, who himself started his career at the world-renowned Drakensberg Boys Choir School. Together they present a unique work about past and present issues concerning borders, migration, and identity.

“

One of South Africa’s leading choreographers, Gregory Maqoma conceives works of breadth and beauty, and keen political awareness.”

– National Arts Centre

The Howard and Katherine Aibel Memorial Concert

Young Concert Artists on Tour

This special program is made possible through the generous support of the Howard and Katherine Aibel Foundation and the Lundberg Family Foundation.

Friday, November 3, 2023 • 8 p.m.

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

Is there anything more moving and delightful than hearing young, virtuosic musicians in an environment in which they are growing and developing — while they present us with the pleasures of their talents?

This is the gift that Young Concert Artists on Tour (YCA) has brought to audiences around the globe for more than 60 years: and now, for the first time, to the Quick. YCA considers their artists the “leaders of the future: stars who combine world-class talent with creative vision to bring new reach and relevance to the art form.” YCA discovers these extraordinary young musicians and then nurtures them. YCA alumni include luminaries such as Emanuel Ax, Jeremy Denk, Dawn Upshaw, and many more.

The Quick is proud to present YCA’s inaugural chamber music ensemble touring program. This first tour offers a special program of chamber music and song, featuring: Chinese violinist Lun Li, Danish cellist Jonathan Swensen, Spanish/Dutch pianist Albert Cano Smit, American tenor Daniel McGrew, and American bass-baritone Joseph Parrish.

The program will include Felix Mendelssohn’s “Songs (6) for 2 voices & piano, Op. 63,” Richard Strauss’s “Morgen, Op. 27, No. 4,” and Robert Schumann’s “Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63,” among other selections.

Marian Grant, DNP, ACNP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN,

RN

“Resilient Progress for Palliative Care: Mind – Body – Spirit”

Thursday, November 9, 2023 • 5:30 p.m.

$35 | $5 for Fairfield University students

H Quick Member: $25 H

Marian Grant, the daughter of immigrants and refugees, speaks nationally and internationally on palliative care. After a 20-year career in corporate marketing and communications, Grant returned to school for nursing degrees, based on the satisfaction she had gained as an AIDS hospice volunteer. While she maintains a clinical practice as a nurse practitioner at the University of Maryland Medical Center in their Palliative Care program, Dr. Grant, after years of

clinical nursing, is now the senior regulatory advisor for the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care, and a consultant for both the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and the University of Washington’s MessageLab Serious Illness Messaging project. She is adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins schools of nursing. In 2014, Dr. Grant was selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow working on Capitol Hill and at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.

“ [Marian’s] story is worth sharing to illustrate that what begets success often comes from the courage it takes to reinvent one’s self.”

– California State University

Ranky Tanky with Lisa Fischer

Friday, November 10, 2023 • 8 p.m.

$50 Special Event ticket includes Meet & Greet with the artists

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

The Quick is going to jump with the return of South Carolina-based, Grammy Award-winners Ranky Tanky... especially in this very special appearance with the “addictive” vocalist Lisa Fischer! The quintet performs timeless music born from the Gullah culture of the southeastern Sea Islands. You’ll be moved by their playfulness, ecstatic shouts, and heartbreaking spirituals. Lisa Fischer spent four decades singing with icons such as The Rolling Stones, Luther Vandross, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, and Nine Inch Nails, and was featured in the Oscar Award-winning film, Twenty Feet from Stardom. Together, Fischer and Ranky Tanky make for an explosive performance.

– All Things Considered, National Public Radio

“[Ranky Tanky] is soulful honey to the ears.”

Lisa Fischer

and human rights issues. Heschel’s philosophical journey, after being deported from Poland by the Nazis in 1938 and immigrating to the U.S., brought him to the world of social and economic justice, fighting for the rights of oppressed minorities in the United States and beyond.

A current Guggenheim Fellow writing a book on the history of European Jewish scholarship on Islam, Susannah Heschel is chair of the Jewish Studies program at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish and Protestant thought during the 19th and 20th centuries, including the history of biblical scholarship, Jewish scholarship on Islam, and the history of anti-Semitism. The author of more than 100 articles, she has also edited several books, including Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press), which won a National Jewish Book Award.

Funded through generous Anonymous Friends of the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies.

Ms. Heschel, the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, pays tribute to her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the most eminent rabbinical scholars and humanists of our time: a famed rabbi who stood arm-in-arm with Dr. Martin Luther King in 1965 during his voter rights march from Selma to Montgomery, and who often spoke together with King on civil

“Heschel taught us how to ask questions. Heschel taught us how important questions are, how they open us up to new understandings, to another reality. Heschel taught us how important it is to ask the right questions.”

– Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Teac . Dam . sa

MáM Michael Keegan-Dolan

Friday, November 17, 2023 • 8 p.m.

$50 Special Event ticket includes Meet & Greet with the artists

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

MáM brings together the virtuoso, Irish traditional concertina player Cormac Begley with the European classical contemporary collective stargaze and 12 international dancers from his Teac Damsa company. Mám – Gaelic for ‘mountain pass,’ as well as ‘under the yoke of sin,’ or maybe even ‘a handful of sweets!’ – follows the success of KeeganDolan’s acclaimed re-imagining of Swan Lake, becoming a meeting place between classical and traditional, the local and the universal: “another mythic yet timely production that acknowledges how life’s polarities can on occasion come together and find resolution.”

“In Ireland we love telling stories, and whenever I retell a memory, I make it sound much more interesting than it really was…”

“The dancers and players of MáM embody every human emotion during their dazzling 90-minute marathon.”

HHHHH THE FINANCIAL TIMES

– Michael Keegan-Dolan

Michael KeeganDolan

“Like a swiftly brewed, perfectly measured shot of aromatic coffee, the Open VISIONS Forum: Espresso is a smaller, more intimate series of talks and public conversations. Promoting more intimacy between our distinguished speakers and audiences, the style and tone of these programs encourages more participatory dialogue. For thoughtful students of all ages, it demonstrates the value of doing and thinking. Appreciating that citizenship in a thriving democracy demands constant learning, questioning, and analysis, we invite you to attend our enriching ‘Espresso’ evenings.”

Philip Eliasoph, PhD, Founder/Director/Moderator, Open VISIONS Forum

Peter Shapiro

“The Music Never Stops: Promoting Rock Shows From Dylan to the Dead”

Monday, October 30, 2023 • 7:30 p.m.

Dolan School of Business Event Hall

$30 | $5 Fairfield University student

Quick Member: $10

Learn how to “think like a fan” and other secrets of independent music entrepreneur and rock promoter Peter Shapiro, in conversation with special panelist Gary Lambert, a host of the Sirius XM Grateful Dead Channel’s “Tales from the Golden Road.” Shapiro is the chairman of HeadCount, one of the U.S.’s leading youth-voter engagement and participation organizations.

James Campbell

“From Profits to Ponzi: Inside Madoff’s $67 Billion Scam”

Thursday, November 2, 2023 • 7:30 p.m.

Dolan School of Business Event Hall

$30 | $5 Fairfield University student

Quick Member: $10

As featured in his hard hitting 2023 Netflix series Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street, syndicated radio show host Jim Campbell talks about the ways the 70-year-old market maker, investment advisor, and former chairman of the NASDAQ orchestrated the largest Ponzi scheme in world history during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis.

Patrick Bringley

“Guarding the Met’s Masterpieces: Meditating on the Meaning of Art While Discovering My Own Soul”

Tuesday, January 30, 2024 • 7:30 p.m.

Dolan School of Business Event Hall

$30 | $5 Fairfield University student

Quick Member: $10

Presented in collaboration with Fairfield University Art Museum, Art History Program, and the Visual and Performing Arts Department

“How can the guards at the Met’s Italian Renaissance collection stand so still watching over the various paintings about ancient myths and biblical parables without dozing off?”

Patrick Bringley’s personal journey flows within the intersection of guarding the treasures of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, encountering personal loss, and discovering his own pathways through the visual stories of the world’s greatest paintings. With over seven million visitors touring its encyclopedic galleries, the Met is the most visited art institution in the Western Hemisphere.

Wendell Wallach

“Hype v. Reality: Navigating the Future of AI Ethics and Governance”

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 • 7:30 p.m.

Dolan School of Business Event Hall

$30 | $5 Fairfield University student

Quick Member: $10

Presented in collaboration with the Fredrickson Family Innovation Lab

The embedding of AI in nearly every facet of contemporary life offers wide-ranging benefits along with a plethora of risks and undesired societal consequences. Innovative yet flawed technologies such as large language models (e.g., ChatGPT) become integrated into the fabric of daily life long before we can put in place necessary ethical/legal safeguards. To complicate matters, discerning which challenges require immediate attention is often obscured by hype and fearmongering.

Gail Levin

“Searching for Edward Hopper: Legal and Ethical Issues of a Vanished Legacy”

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 • 7:30 p.m.

Dolan School of Business Event Hall

$30 | $5 Fairfield University student

Quick Member: $10

Presented in collaboration with Fairfield University Art Museum, Art History Program, and the Visual and Performing Arts Department

The popularity of the American realist painter, Edward Hopper (1882-1967) has continued to grow. Professor Gail Levin has singlehandedly – and courageously – brought to the art world’s attention a series of unanswered questions about how the estate of Edward and Josephine Hopper was managed, directed, or even illicitly parceled off in the art market trade. What are the correct methods, practices, and standards needed to watchdog the artistic legacy of one of America’s most beloved artists?

Open MINDS Institute

Open MINDS Institute is an exploratory ‘classroom without walls ’ presenting topical seminars and workshops with master professors. We invite you to enroll in our stimulating, enriching, state of the arts courses.

Combining academic excellence with open-ended lectures and interactive conversations, classes will be held on Fairfield University’s campus and the Pequot Library in Southport, maximizing the resources and facilities of these world-class institutions.

Open MINDS Institute courses are $290 each. Quick Members price per course is $275. Enroll in two or more courses and enjoy a discounted price of just $250 per course.

Philip Eliasoph, PhD

“Jewish Art & Spirituality From Sinai to Szyk: Defying Idols/Inventing Icons”

Tuesdays • October 3, 10, 17, 24

12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.

Fairfield University Art Museum Classroom

In the footsteps of Moses and the Exodus passages [31:3-5], we learn of Judaism’s first visual artist: Bezalel of the tribe of Judah. Re-enacting the Hebrews’ flight to freedom across the Sinai wilderness, this class surveys how Yahweh endows Bezalel with the gifts of “craftsmanship to do mastery weaving, working with gold, silver, wood and stone to create every manner of work.” As a panoramic art historical overview of Judaism’s rich visual heritage, we are inspired by the unity of spirit connecting the story of Jewish art spanning the millennia from the construction of the ancient Temple of Solomon to the resistance in the 20th century witnessing the murder of six million victims of Nazi barbarism.

Presented in conjunction with this fall’s special Fairfield University Art Museum’s exhibition about the Polish Jewish artistic hero Arthur Szyk [1894-1951]. Special attention is given to the Christian masters of the Hebrew Bible.

Orin

Grossman, PhD

“High/Low: Classical Meets Popular Music”

Mondays • October 2, 9, 16, 23

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Pequot Library

Classical and popular music are often seen as opposing one another—classical appealing to the “high brows” and popular to—the others. Yet great composers have always borrowed, or stolen, directly from popular music for many reasons. This class takes a look at some of the ways composers have used popular music over the centuries. Each class will feature music performed by Dr. Grossman to illustrate his presentations.

Trained as both a classical musician and an academic, Dr. Grossman’s continuing focus has been on creating and presenting a wide variety of musical events. From full-blown concerts, with and without accompanying musicians, to tightly focused presentations that combine musical performances with informative descriptions of the composition and the times when the music was created, to more intimate presentations for smaller interest groups, Dr. Grossman constantly amazes and enthralls—and is usually rewarded with a standing ovation.

Brian Q. Torff

“Seize the Beat: A Look Inside American Music”

Mondays • February 1, 8, 15, 22

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Pequot Library

Brian Q. Torff’s new book follows the development of American music from its African roots to the juke joint, club, and concert hall, revealing a culture perpetually reinventing itself to suit the next generation.

The story of American popular music is steeped in social history, race, gender, and class, its evolution driven by ephemeral connection to young audiences. From Benny Goodman to Sinatra to Elvis Presley to the Beatles, pop icons age out of the art form while new musical styles pass from relevance to nostalgia within a few years. At the same time, perennial forms like blues, jazz, and folk are continually rediscovered by new audiences.

Michelle DiMarzo, PhD

“Dürer, Raphael, Rembrandt: Tradition and Innovation in European Prints”

Thursdays • February 26, March 11, 18, 25 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Diffley Board Room

Join Michelle DiMarzo, PhD to discover the rich history of European printmaking from the 15th18th centuries through the lens of some of the greatest masters of the craft.

Beginning with woodcuts and engravings in 15th century Germany, printmaking offered artists exciting possibilities: with this new technology, artists could not only produce work without a patron, they could also reproduce it, reaching a broader public than ever before. Old Masters like Dürer, Raphael, Rembrandt, and Canaletto – as well as some Old Mistresses – embraced the power and fluidity of the printed line as a vehicle for their artistic expression. This course explores the social function of prints alongside their technical innovation, as artists refined existing processes, as in the development of the chiaroscuro woodcut, and invented new ones, such as etching, mezzotint, and aquatint.

Dr. Michelle DiMarzo is curator of education and academic engagement in the Fairfield University Art Museum, and assistant professor of art history & visual culture in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. A specialist in Italian Renaissance art, she has curated a number of exhibitions for the museum, including Prints from the Age of Rodin (2019), Out of the Kress Vaults: Women in Sacred Renaissance Painting (2022), and an upcoming exhibition of Old Master prints on loan from the Wetmore Collection of Connecticut College (2024).

2023-2024 Senior Fellows in Practice

Fairfield University College of Arts and Sciences

The Senior Artist Fellowship in Practice program provides recognition and funding support for artists to pursue new work and advance their artistic careers. It is awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Support for individual artists has been a focus of Senior Fellows in Practice since its inception. Fellowships in practice increase the exploratory opportunity, economic stability, and productive capacity of artists by providing unrestricted support for professional development opportunities. Fellowships provide customized resources and support to advance selected artists’ work with the aim of strengthening connections in their fields, opportunities for artistic collaboration and presentation, access to Fairfield University faculty, and individual professional development. In return, senior fellows help us understand broader issues, reach new audiences, and learn through the power of their art.

nora chipaumire

“I like to think of her as a Michelin-star bedecked chef—when you sit at her table, you just have to trust and surrender: you may never know what she will cook up this time.” – The Brooklyn Rail

Zimbabwe-born nora chipaumire has been challenging and embracing stereotypes of Africa and the Black performing body for more than two decades. Her work fuses the personal and political experience of growing up in Zimbabwe with questioning how status and power are experienced and presented through the body. Her work critiques colonialism and complicated notions of spectatorship and power. The human body for her, and for those born without property, name or class, can be a means of self-invention and self-determination. As a 2023-24 senior fellow, chipaumire will work in residency to present NOT waiting… What if Samuel Beckett had dreamt up two African women in perpetual conversation? nora chipaumire‘s newest project NOT waiting... brings this concept to reality with Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny, however, not as a recreation but rather as an original work that focuses on the relationships of women.

This program is made possible through the support of Deborah Murtaugh, Louise Levin, The Humanities Institute, and Irish Studies Program

Michael Keegan-Dolan

Supported by the Humanities Institute and Irish Studies

Teaċ Daṁsa was founded by Michael Keegan-Dolan (Micháel MacAodhagáin-Ó Dobhailen) in 2016. Its first production, Swan Lake / Loch na hEala, continued a tradition of ground-breaking productions winning the Irish Times Theatre Award in 2017 for Best New Production and the UK Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for Best Production in 2018. MáM, created in 2019, was the first show entirely conceived, rehearsed, and produced in the West Kerry Gaeltacht. It was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Production in 2020 and two UK Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards in 2022. As senior fellow, Keegan-Dolan and members of the company will be in residence to stage MáM, as well as work with faculty through the Humanities Institute and Irish Studies to develop new work.

Michael Keegan-Dolan rose to acclaim as the artistic director of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre (1997-2015), creating three Olivier Award-nominated productions, including Giselle (2004) which won an Irish Times Theatre Award. His work, The Bull, received a UK Critic’s Circle National Dance Award in 2008 and Rian, created in 2011, won a Bessie Award (New York Dance). He also has extensive experience teaching and has led workshops for different dance and theatre companies around the world. KeeganDolan was an associate artist at the Barbican Centre, London and is now an associate at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London.

Melanie Hoopes

Melanie Hoopes is a writer/director/performer whose credits include Kindness Committee, Six Feet: A Play About What’s Between Us (RiverArts), Murder Birds! (or Suspending Tati Copeland) (Rivertowns LAB), Lethal Lit (IHeartRadio, EEP), One Giant Leap: The Apollo Moon Landing 50 Years On (New York Times), and Bloodline (Netflix). She is the creator of the long-running New York-based episodic stage show, Laurie Stanton’s Sound Diet, a dark, modern twist on Prairie Home Companion. She is a producer and host of Yesteryear: Stories from Home, a podcast about the history of living in a small village on the Hudson River. Her public radio credits include work for WNYC, KCRW and WBUR, including This American Life and Studio 360. Melanie has written and performed four solo shows on subjects ranging from obesity to aging.

A.I.M World Premiere Kyle Abraham

Friday, January 26, 2024 • 7:30 p.m.

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

Led by MacArthur Genius Kyle Abraham, contemporary dance company A.I.M by Kyle Abraham is celebrated as “one of the most consistently excellent troupes working today” (The New York Times). Grounded in choreographer Abraham’s artistic vision, A.I.M’s work is informed by and made with artists across disciplines, entwining a sensual movement vocabulary with music, text, video, and visual art.

A.I.M offers a unique blend of modern dance styles ranging from ballet to hip hop, seasoned with human stories and social commentary, fueling a new movement in the dance world. The program features If We Were a Love Song, a stunning dance exploration of love set to a soul-stirring Nina Simone soundtrack and the world premiere of a new work.

This is dance at its best – powerful, graceful, moving, and meaningful.

“ What Abraham brings is an avant-garde aesthetic, an original and politically minded downtown sensibility that doesn’t distinguish between genres but freely draws on a vocabulary that is as much Merce [Cunningham] and Martha [Graham] as it is Eadweard Muybridge and Michael Jackson.”

– REBECCA BENGAL, VOGUE

Drum Tao

Sunday, February 4, 2024 • 4 p.m.

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

Drum Tao performances feature “Wadaiko,” or Taiko for short: large, unique-sounding Japanese drums, as well as Japanese flutes and harps. This is high energy performance art that combines music, dance, martial arts, and culture with power, speed, and synchronicity — resulting in heartpounding, dynamic group drumming. Based in Oita, Japan, Drum Tao has toured the world for more than 30 years, and prides itself on creating “Japanese entertainment” for a new generation.

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Extraordinarily talented percussion artists, and seductive, alluring performers.”

– CHICAGO TRIBUNE

The Spring 2024 Writers Colloquium: Writing Soul Into a Broken World

Hosted by Phil Klay

Presented by the Inspired Writers Series of the Fairfield University MFA Program and College of Arts & Sciences in collaboration with the Quick Center for the Arts and the Media Institute

Saturday, February 10, 2024 • 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

This event is free. Registration is required.

What is the role of the writer today in a world shaped by vast, impersonal forces—from climate change to modern warfare—and a culture riven by partisanship and discord where the nuances and beauties of a well-wrought line command less attention than sloganeering?

Join award-winning authors for a day of generative workshops, panels, and readings in which writers committed both to beauty and to speaking honestly in the public square discuss ways of engaging with the broader culture and preserving space for the full expression of human life. All genres and levels welcome.

Phil Klay

Author Phil Klay is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps whose short story collection, Redeployment, won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics’ Circle John Leonard Prize for best debut work in any genre. His most recent novel, Missionaries, was named one of The Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2020.

VIRTUAL PR OGRAMMING

Jonathan Soma and Jeannie Joshi

AIspiration: Reimagining the Humanities and Art with Generative AI

Thursday, September 7, 2023 • 7:30 p.m.

Free Virtual Event | Registration is required.

Cynthia Nourse Thompson

Health Humanities Catalysts: Processing Grief and Loss Through Meaningful Collaborations

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 • 7:30 p.m.

Free Virtual Event | Registration is required.

Tom Boellstorff

Toward an Anthropology of the Metaverse

Wednesday, March 27, 2024 • 7:30 p.m.

Free Virtual Event | Registration is required.

INSPIRED WRITERS SERIES

Emily Bernard

The Art of the Personal Essay

Thursday, September 21, 2023 • 7:30 p.m.

Free Virtual Event | Registration is required.

Ryan Ruby & Becca Rothfeld

The Art of Literary Criticism

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 • 7:30 p.m.

Free Virtual Event | Registration is required.

Nathan Englander

The acclaimed author talks novels, short stories, and adapting his work for the stage.

Thursday, February 29, 2024 • 7:30 p.m.

Free Virtual Event | Registration is required.

Tom Sleigh

Poetry, Journalism, and Conflict

Thursday, April 11, 2024 • 7:30 p.m.

Free Virtual Event | Registration is required.

FREDRICKSON FAMILY INNOVATION LAB

Going Viral with Juju Chang and Masih Alinejad

“Empowering Asian Women’s Voices in the US Media Today”

Thursday, February 15, 2024 • 7:30 p.m.

$35 | Free for Fairfield University students with Stag ID

H Quick Member: $25 H

Join us for a powerfully engaging evening presented in affiliation with Fairfield’s newly established Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. With “no holds barred,” Juju Chang and Masih Alinejad welcome a wide-ranging conversation about the ongoing challenges of women of color, offering positive strategies in advancing feminist agendas with global impact today.

Emmy Award-winning Juju Chang is one of the most prominent Asian Americans in broadcast news, serving as co-anchor of ABC News Nightline and a regular contributor to Good Morning America and 20/20. With the rise of hate crimes against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, Chang leveraged her platform to become a much-admired champion of social change.

Masih Alinejad is an Iranian-American journalist and women’s rights activist who gained worldwide attention when she removed her veil, or hijab, and posted a photo on her Facebook page standing proudly with her hair blowing in the wind. From that, My Stealthy Freedom was born—her viral social media campaign against compulsory hijab that became the biggest civil disobedience movement in the history of the Islamic Republic. Today, it has almost 11 million followers.

Iranian authorities responded violently, arresting protesters and violating their rights while in custody. Alinejad continues to oppose the compulsory hijab and to speak out in defense of her fellow activists. Alinejad wrote the widely acclaimed, bestselling memoir, The Wind in My Hair, sharing her extraordinary story about living in exile, leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking change.

THE ANNUAL STUDENT FORUM PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION “CELEBRATION OF UNITY SERIES”

Orin Grossman, PhD and Giulia Contaldo

An Afternoon in P RIS

Sunday, March 10, 2024 • 3 p.m.

$50 Special Event ticket includes Meet & Greet with the artists

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

Join pianists Dr. Orin Grossman and Giulia Contaldo as they play some of the greatest music for one piano four-hands, and two pianos, featuring music by Debussy, Ravel, and Milhaud. Italian pianist Giulia Contaldo has won numerous European competitions and has played with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, amongst many others. She is a rising star in the piano firmament and delights audiences with her inspiring performances. Dr. Grossman is wellknown to our audiences, having performed many times on the Quick Center stage. He is thrilled to welcome his cousin Giulia to the United States and introduce her to Quick audiences.

Dr. Timothy Snyder

“On Tyranny: Propaganda, Politics, Persuasion”

Thursday, March 14, 2024 • 7:30 p.m.

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

“... a public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between the past and present.”

– The New York Times

Snyder’s unique ability to distill practical guidance for action from the darkest chapters of history made his 2017 book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century, a #1 New York Times bestseller for more than two years after its publication. The book has been used around the world in defense of democracy. His newest book, Our Malady, is a short, urgent examination of healthcare as a human right, which begins with Snyder’s recent and nearly fatal illness. From his hospital bed, he rethinks the connections between the health we lack and the freedom we need. In a time of authoritarianism and pandemic, the timeliness of this book cannot be overstated. Both a cri de coeur and a data-driven argument, it shows the way towards an America that is both healthy and free.

This program is presented in collaboration with the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies and the Department of History.

A masterful presenter, Yale University historian of the Holocaust Timothy Snyder draws a direct line between big ideas of the past and our lives today.

Michael Pollan

“How to Change Your Mind: From Your Garden to Interplanetary Organics”

Thursday, March 21, 2024 • 7:30 p.m.

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

Still wondering if there’s really “magic in those mushrooms,” or if “psychedelics can help to save the world?”

For more than 30 years, transformative scientist Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. He has been named one of the top 10 “New Thought Leaders” by Newsweek magazine, was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and has been awarded the Lennon-Ono Grant for Peace.

Pollan is the author of nine books, seven of which have been New York Times bestsellers; four of which (including his latest, This is Your Mind on Plants) were immediate #1 New York Times bestsellers. How to Change Your Mind (2019) was named one of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2018, and in 2022 was adapted into a critically successful four-part docuseries for Netflix. Previous books include Cooked (2013), Food Rules (2009), In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (2008), and The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006), which was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2006 by both The New York Times and The Washington Post. His most recent book, This is Your Mind on Plants, an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants and the taboos we place on them, was a New York Times bestseller and one of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021.

“Gripping and surprising . . . Makes losing your mind sound like the sanest thing a person could do.”

– The New York Times Book Review

FLIP Fabrique

Sunday, April 14, 2024 • 4 p.m.

Monday, April 15, 2024 • 7 p.m.

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

Do you love the feeling of shaking a snow globe and watching as everything goes from chaos to falling perfectly in place? With Blizzard, which celebrated its 200th performance in 2023, FLIP Fabrique takes you on a crazy, poetic, and gentle winter journey, and invites you to lose yourself in a moment of complete wonder. With performers at the peak of their art forms, Blizzard asks: is having everything obliterated in a white-out a catastrophe, or is it a chance to start over and fix our mistakes? This FLIP Fabrique performance is a new blank page in the shape of a blizzard that promises to blow away everything in its path.

With some of the most exciting circus performers of the moment, all-original music performed live, and breathtaking visual poetry, this internationally renowned Canadian troupe is taking the stage by storm!

“... Turtleneck and scarves are not essential, as this BLIZZARD warms the heart.”

– Valérie Buchet – Madame Figaro

Frontlines Stories From the Edge

The date and time will be announced at Quickcenter.com

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

The world has changed.

A 2018-2020 survey revealed 60 percent of Americans struggle with loneliness, and the numbers increase to 75 percent for younger people. There is little solace to be found. Screens are ever present, social media is in play, and the pandemic changed us, some would argue, forever. We are more isolated, more defensive, more mistrusting. Our Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has sounded the alarm on “the loneliness epidemic.” Murthy states that loneliness poses real threats to both mental and physical health, among them higher risks of depression, anxiety, cardiovascular illness, dementia, and sleep disturbances.

And those are the quieter, more personal effects of a society in a crisis. There are other heartbreaking catastrophic outcomes of isolation and lack of connection to others: rampant gun violence, sky-rocketing drug overdoses, and soaring deaths by suicide. There is no end in sight to this escalation.

So many are angry, in pain, and out of control.

- We are a nation of people emotionally and physically stressed out.

- We are isolated, depressed and alienated.

- We are politically, socially, and culturally divided.

Global Theatre: Performance Series

Created by Cheryl Wiesenfeld and Melanie Hoopes

Written and Directed by Melanie Hoopes

Where do we go from here? What are the signs of hope? How do we get there?

We’ll share stories from real people – students, parents, and elders in our community who’ve learned how to connect to others and themselves to forge a path to lead meaningful lives. We will hear from spiritual leaders, teachers, law enforcement personnel, guidance counselors, psychological advisors, and social science professors along with those who’ve found their footing into the new uncertain, chaotic landscape of our times. Through their stories, we can find a way back home together.

CHERYL WIESENFELD is a Broadway and off-Broadway producer with many plays and musicals to her credit. She has won numerous awards for her productions including the Drama League, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, NY Drama Critics awards, as well as four Tony Awards. Her prime interest is plays that deal with the social condition.

MELANIE HOOPES is a writer/director/performer whose credits include Kindness Committee, Six Feet: A Play About What’s Between Us (RiverArts), Murder Birds! (or Suspending Tati Copeland) (Rivertowns LAB), Lethal Lit (IHeartRadio, EEP), One Giant Leap: The Apollo Moon Landing 50 Years On (New York Times), and Bloodline (Netflix). She is the creator of the long-running New York-based episodic stage show, Laurie Stanton’s Sound Diet, a dark, modern twist on Prairie Home Companion. She is a producer and host of Yesteryear: Stories from Home, a podcast about the history of living in a small village on the Hudson River. Her public radio credits include work for WNYC, KCRW and WBUR, including This American Life and Studio 360. Melanie has written and performed four solo shows on subjects ranging from obesity to aging.

Melanie Hoopes

DUETS

Chucho Valdés

Dianne Reeves

Joe Lovano

Friday, May 3, 2024 • 8 p.m.

$100 Spring Soirée (includes ticket to concert)

$50 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $30 H

Calling all jazz lovers to a once-in-a-lifetime evening with three masters of jazz.

Since 2021, these three legends have been creating rare and magical evenings filled with their original takes on jazz standards. Winner of seven Grammys and three Latin Grammy Awards, the Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Chucho Valdés is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz. Five-time Grammy Award-winner Dianne Reeves is the pre-eminent jazz vocalist in the world today — her arsenal of talents is richly on display in each and every song of her limitless repertoire. Hailed by The New York Times as “one of the greatest musicians in jazz history,” Grammy Award-winning saxophone titan Joe Lovano has distinguished himself as a prescient and pathfinding force in the arena of creative music.

“ In a duet with Valdés, Lovano serves as the voice of reason. The juxtaposition of Valdés’ ornate, extravagant comping and Lovano’s declarative urgency made tunes like Charlie Parker’s ‘Confirmation’ sound both familiar and fresh.”

– Thomas Conrad, Jazz Times

All museum galleries are open to the public, and admission is free. For more information on our current and upcoming exhibitions, events, and programs, please visit fairfield.edu/museum

FALL 2023

In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Artist and Soldier for Human Rights

September 29 – December 16, 2023

Featuring more than 50 works by the acclaimed Polish Jewish miniaturist and political cartoonist Arthur Szyk (18941951), this exhibition honors the power and importance of democratic ideals. Organized around the theme of human rights, the works presented helped raise awareness of the plight of European Jews, and advocated for religious tolerance, racial equality, and human dignity. This exhibition was organized by University of California, Berkeley, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.

Faculty Liaison: Philip Eliasoph, PhD, Professor of Art History & Visual Culture and Exhibition Coordinator

Thursday, September 28 • 5 p.m.

Opening Night Lecture: “Arthur Szyk: Art – Propaganda – Memory,”

Philip Eliasoph, PhD

Bellarmine Hall: Diffley Board Room + streaming on Vimeo (registration required)

Exhibition Opening Night Reception • 6-8 p.m.

Bellarmine Hall Galleries and Great Hall

Wednesday, October 4 • 5 p.m.

Szyk Symposium Keynote Address: “Depicting Evil: Arthur Szyk’s Anti-Nazi Caricatures,” Steven Luckert, PhD, Senior Program Curator, Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Szyk Symposium continues all day on October 5th!)

Kelley Center Presentation Room + streaming on thequicklive.com

Thursday, October 12 • 5 p.m.

Artist’s Talk: “Elephants, Donkeys & Twitter Birds: How Cartoon Symbols Have Shaped Politics,” Award-winning illustrator Sean Kelly

Bellarmine Hall: Diffley Board Room + streaming on thequicklive.com

Thursday, October 19 • 5 p.m.

Lecture: “How Arthur Szyk’s Cover Art for Collier’s Magazine Helped Americans Visualize the Evil of Fascism,” Deborah Varat, PhD, Professor of Art History, Southern New Hampshire University*

Bellarmine Hall: Diffley Board Room + streaming on thequicklive.com

Caption: Arthur Szyk, Madness, 1941, watercolor, gouache, ink and graphite on paper

SPRING 2024

Helen Glazer: Walking in Antarctica

February 2 – March 16, 2024

This interdisciplinary exhibition includes photography and sculpture made from 3D scans of ice and rock formations, inspired and informed by the artist Helen Glazer’s experiences as a grantee of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. An audio tour takes the visitor on a series of “walks” through the Antarctic landscape, narrated by the artist.

Faculty Liaison: Brian Walker, PhD, Professor of Biology

Thursday, February 1 • 5 p.m.

Opening Night Lecture: “The Cultural Dimensions of Landscape,” Artist Helen Glazer

Bellarmine Hall: Diffley Board Room + streaming on the quicklive.com

Exhibition Opening Night Reception • 6-8 p.m.

Bellarmine Hall Galleries and Great Hall

Date to be determined.

Lecture: “Long Ago and Far Away: Three ‘Summers’ on a Remote Antarctic Island,” Brian Walker, PhD, Professor of Biology Diffley Board Room: Bellarmine Hall + streaming on the quicklive.com

Suzanne Chamlin: Studies in Color

April 5 – July 27, 2024

In this exhibition of recent work, Chamlin explores ideas about color theory and light through a series of landscape and interior stills. For each of her paintings, Chamlin sets a highly specific palette; experimentation within this limited range then guides her decisions about process and pictorial space.

Suzanne Chamlin is associate professor of studio art in the Department of Visual & Performing Arts at Fairfield University. Her drawings are in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Nelson Atkins Museum.

Thursday, April 4 • 5 p.m.

Opening Night Lecture: Artist Suzanne Chamlin

Bellarmine Hall: Diffley Board Room, + streaming on Vimeo

Exhibition Opening Night Reception • 6-8 p.m.

Bellarmine Hall Galleries and Great Hall

Captions:

*This event is part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation

Helen Glazer, Fractal Arch, Erebus Ice Tongue Cave, archival pigment print. ©Helen Glazer Suzanne Chamlin, Rose Bush Painting, oil on wood panel, 2019. Photo credit: Malcolm Varon, NYC ©Suzanne Chamlin

FALL 2023

Szyk: The Interactive Experience

September 29 – December 16, 2023

This experience is designed to complement the Arthur Szyk exhibition on view in the Museum’s Bellarmine Hall Galleries. It offers additional resources and hands-on materials for deeper engagement with the exhibition’s content. The space will provide visitors with two digital workstations, one of which will allow visitors to create their own Arthur Szyk-inspired cartoons, and one which will allow visitors to enlarge the small-scale works in the exhibition to wall-size images, so that they can be fully enjoyed and analyzed. Visitors can pause the slideshow and zoom in on any image to reveal unexpected details and extraordinary craftsmanship. The gallery will feature areas devoted to film screenings, hands-on art making, reflection on the exhibition and the art of Arthur Szyk and how it relates to today’s times, and the remix experience described above. The ambient sound track playing in the gallery (which will also be available as a Spotify playlist) is curated to include music from Szyk’s lifetime, focusing on the 1930s and ’40s.

Faculty Liaison: Philip Eliasoph, PhD, Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, Exhibition Coordinator

Caption: Arthur Szyk, Through a Digital Lens and Remixed, installation shot. Magnes Center for Jewish Art and Culture, UC Berkeley. ©The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley

SPRING 2024

Streaming: Sculpture and Works

on Paper by Christy Rupp

January 19 – April 27, 2024

One of the early pioneers in the field of ecological art activism, Christy Rupp’s intricate collages, wall installations, and free-standing sculptures chronicle the ongoing tension between natural systems and the environment in transition, and call our attention to our interconnectedness with non-humans and habitat. Transmuting detritus gathered from the waste stream through collage and sculpture and informed by science and the historical representation of natural history, the artwork in this exhibition examines the way we frame our opinions of nature, using irony and wit to represent the human impact on our natural habitat.

Faculty Liaison: Brian Walker, PhD, Professor of Biology

Thursday, January 18

Opening Night Lecture: Christy Rupp • 5 p.m.

Quick Center for the Arts: Kelley Theatre + streaming on thequicklive.com

Opening Night Reception • 6-8 p.m.

Quick Center for the Arts: Lobby and Walsh Gallery

Peter Anton: Just Desserts

May 10 – July 27, 2024

This whimsical exhibition of Peter Anton’s outsized, hyper-realistic sculptures of sweets will include ice cream cones, cakes, and confections. Anton has experimented with various methods, including wood, metal, plaster, resin, and oil and acrylic paints to achieve the physicality of his monumental desserts. He chooses subjects that encourage people to think about their own relationship to food, and the memories and nostalgia that these childhood favorites conjure.

Faculty Liaison: Scott Lacy, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology

Date to be determined

Lecture: “The Anthropology of Sweets”

Scott Lacy, PhD, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology

Location to be determined + streaming on thequicklive.com

Date to be determined • 3-5 p.m.

Ice Cream Social and Candy Party

Quick Center for the Arts: Lobby and Walsh Gallery

Captions:

Christy Rupp, Pangolin, 2015, mixed media. Peter Anton, Dark Bar Chaos, 2022. © Peter Anton

*This event is part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation

2023-24 SEASON

DollHouse

a drama by Theresa Rebeck

based on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

Directed by Jan Mason

October 17–October 21, 2023

This contemporary adaptation sheds a fresh new light on Nora’s struggle to reclaim herself. In the tony suburbs of Connecticut, Nora’s children are cared for by a nanny, her husband’s best friend is in love with her, and her stifling marriage is crumbling. Nora also has a secret, the revelation of which irrevocably sets her life on a new course.

Project X

by Judy Tate

Created from Interviews of Fairfield University Alumni, Students, Faculty, and Staff.

Directed by Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.

October 25 & 26, 2023

February 14 & 15, 2024 in conjunction with MLK & Black History Month celebrations.

This is an original piece that investigates race and privilege at Fairfield University, but also reflects America’s 21st century struggle with race and social justice. These are screenings of the recorded live performance.

Theatre in the Raw

The Lucille Lortel Festival of New Plays

Directed by Jackob Hofmann

November 30, December 2 & 3, 2023

This is Theatre Fairfield’s biennial original work, commissioned just for us. Previous Raw pieces include Project X, Authenticity, and One State/Two State/ Red State/Blue State

Independent Play Project

our annual student-produced piece. Sponsored by the Jamie Hulley Arts Foundation.

January 26-28, 2024

What play will they do? That’s up to our students. Previous Indy Projects have included: Woman & Scarecrow, Rabbit Hole, Proof, Constellations, Doubt: a Parable, A Kid Like Jake, The Shape of Things, Gruesome Playground Injuries, How I Learned to Drive, and Speech & Debate

The Lightning Thief

The Percy

Jackson

Musical

Book by Joe Tracz, Music & Lyrics

by Rob Rokicki

Adapted from the book The Lightning Thief by

Rick Riordan

Directed by Dr. Sean Edgecomb

April 16-20, 2024

As the half-blood son of a Greek god, Percy Jackson has newly-discovered powers he can’t control, a destiny he doesn’t want, and a mythology textbook’s worth of monsters on his trail. When Zeus’s lightning bolt is stolen and Percy becomes the prime suspect, he has to find and return the bolt to prove his innocence and prevent a war between the gods. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the thief. He must travel to the Underworld and back; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and come to terms with the father who abandoned him.

For more information, visit Theatre-Fairfield.org

Fairfield University Glee Club

Founded in 1947, The Fairfield University Glee Club is the oldest club on Fairfield University’s campus. This mixed chorus of more than 100 undergraduate and graduate singers has performed in churches, schools, and recital and concert halls throughout Europe, singing from Galway to Rome, and Florence to London. The choir has performed at Carnegie Hall, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Westminster Cathedral in London, the Aula Paolo VI at the Vatican, and the U.S. military academies at West Point and Annapolis.

The Glee Club has long been under the direction of Carole Ann Maxwell, DSM, P’02, one of America’s preeminent conductors of collegiate, community and professional choral ensembles.

Join us for the many stellar concerts taking place at the Quick this season.

Sunday, October 22, 2023 • 12:30 p.m. Alumni & Family Weekend Concert

Friday, December 1, 2023 • 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, December 2, 2023 • 2 p.m. Sing We Now of Christmas

Saturday, February 10, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. Music Man in Concert with the Norwalk Symphony Norwalk Concert Hall

Saturday, April 6, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. Spring Concert

Monday, April 29, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. Pops Concert

Carole Ann Maxwell, D.S.M., P’02 Conductor

OFFICE FOR MISSION AND MINISTRY’S Faith Leaders for Racial Justice Series:

Br. Guy J. Consolmagno, S.J.

Director of the Vatican Observatory

President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. This event is free. Registration is required.

Brother Consolmagno’s research explores the connections between meteorites and asteroids, and the origin and evolution of small bodies in the solar system. In 1996, he spent six weeks collecting meteorites with an NSF-sponsored team on the blue ice of Antarctica, and in 2000 he was honored by the IAU for his contributions to the study of meteorites and asteroids with the naming of asteroid 4597 Consolmagno.

He has coauthored two astronomy books: Turn Left at Orion and Worlds Apart. He is the author or co-author of four books exploring faith and science issues, including The Way to the Dwelling of Light, Brother Astronomer, God’s Mechanics, and Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?

Br. Consolmagno received an honorary degree in 2018 from Fairfield University for his contributions to science.

SALE DATES:

Thursday, July 20:

The Met: Live in HD Members –Subscriptions on sale

Monday, July 24:

Quick Members – Subscriptions and Single Tickets on sale

Monday, July 31:

General Public – Subscriptions and Single Tickets on sale

Quick Members: $25/ticket

Single Tickets: $35 | $30 seniors $5 children/students (including Fairfield University students)

SAVE WITH THE MET: LIVE IN HD SUBSCRIPTION!

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Learn more! Join us before select broadcasts for discussions led by Fairfield University professors as well as distinguished community members. Prescreening talks will take place at 12 p.m. in the Dolan School of Business Event Hall, located adjacent to the Quick. Advanced registration is required.

The Met: Live in HD subscriber discounts and privileges may not be interchanged with Open VISIONS Forum, Quick Center performances, and National Theatre Live events. Programs subject to change.

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Dead Man Walking (Jake Heggie)

1 p.m. (encore)

Saturday, November 18, 2023

X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (Anthony Davis)

1 p.m. (live)

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Florencia en el Amazonas (Daniel Catán)

1 p.m. (encore) *no pre-talk

Saturday, January 6, 2024

Nabucco (Verdi)

1 p.m. (live)

Saturday, January 27, 2024

Carmen (Bizet)

1 p.m. (live)

Saturday, March 9, 2024

La Forza del Destino (Verdi)

12 p.m. (live)

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Saturday, March 23, 2024

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1 p.m. (live)

Saturday, April 20, 2024

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1 p.m. (live)

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

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GOOD

By C.P. Taylor

Directed by Dominic Cooke

Sunday, July 16, 2023 • 3 p.m.

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David Tennant (Doctor Who) makes a much-anticipated return to the West End in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful, political plays.

As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.

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