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October 2023 at the Quick
Below, read up on all the events happening this month at the Quick!
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Agathe et Adrien
N.Ormes
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Wednesday, October 4 | 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 5 | 7:30 p.m.
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| Through dance, acrobatics and story-telling, Agathe and Adrien present a truly unique performance that shatters the expectations of a circus and pushes the audience to reconsider their assumptions about our bodies and our roles in society. |
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| OPEN VISIONS FORUM |
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Art Spiegelman
“Surviving Maus: Visualizing the Unimaginable”
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Tuesday, October 17 | 7:30 p.m.
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| Pulitzer Prize-winning artist, illustrator and author Art Spiegelman takes the stage to discuss his work, which almost single-handedly brought the popularity of comic books out from the toy closet to the literature shelves. Spiegelman’s Maus broke boundaries for comic literature, masterfully crafting a Holocaust narrative which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, and was called “the first masterpiece in comic book history” by The New Yorker.
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| OPEN VISIONS FORUM
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Radhika Dirks
“The Future is Here: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence”
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Thursday, October 26 | 7:30 p.m.
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| Named by Forbes as one of its “30 Women in AI to Watch,” Radhika Dirks is a leading expert in AI and an acknowledged tech visionary. Join this conversation to understand both the risks and benefits of this technology, and how AI can be used to make “moonshots”—bold ideas that change everything—a reality.
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| The Met: Live in HD |
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| Dead Man Walking
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Saturday, October 28
1 p.m. (encore) | 12 p.m. pre-screening talk
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| Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of its subject with Jake Heggie’s poignant music and a libretto by Tony and Emmy Award–winner Terrence McNally. A free pre-screening talk with Michael Ciavaglia, PhD will be held at the Dolan School of Business Event Hall.
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| OPEN VISIONS FORUM ESPRESSO |
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Peter Shapiro
“The Music Never Stops: Promoting Rock Shows from Dylan to the Dead” |
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Monday, October 30 | 7:30 p.m.
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| 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, 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.
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Jonathan Soma and Jeannie Joshi
“Alspiration: Reimagining the Humanities and Art With Generative AI”
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Wednesday, October 11
7:30 p.m.
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Free Virtual Event | Registration Required
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| Join Jonathan Soma, faculty member at Columbia Journalism School and the director of the LEDE program, and Jeannie Joshi, a visual designer and faculty member in the Graduate Communication Design program at Pratt Institute, for a virtual panel discussion that aims to provide a deeper understanding of how AI is beginning to shape the humanities and art, and to inspire new ideas for adopting AI ethically in higher education.
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| THEATRE FAIRFIELD |
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DollHouse
A Drama by Theresa Rebeck
Based on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House |
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Tuesday, October 17 - Saturday, October 21
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| 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.
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| THEATRE FAIRFIELD |
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Project X
By Judy Tate
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Wednesday, October 25
Thursday, October 26
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| This is an original piece that investigates race and privilege at Fairfield University, and also reflects America's 21st century struggle with race and social justice. Created from interviews of Fairfield University Alumni, Students, Faculty, and Staff. These are screenings of the recorded live performance.
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Fairfield, CT | 06824 US
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