Panelists Explore Democracy a Year From 2020
On Thursday, Oct. 17, the Open Visions Forum “American Democracy a Year from 2020: Reeling or Resilient” took place at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts as part of the Common Ground Lecture...
The Power of Ambassador Samantha Power
“It seems the right time to ask, what are each of us normally not that these times suddenly require us to be?” That was how Ambassador Samantha Power closed her talk as part of the Open Visions Forum...
Film and Change: A Spike Lee Joint
Wearing a fluorescent orange jacket and matching glasses, Spike Lee made a statement when he walked onto the stage of the Regina A. Quick Center. His hat simply had “1619” on it, referring to the year...
Rodin’s Sculpture Stop By the Quick
Before his death in 1917, Auguste Rodin was already widely considered the greatest European sculptor since Michelangelo. Such high praise is what makes the Fairfield University Art Museum's new exhibition...
Radicals in Miniature is a Moving Performance
It’s a running joke of the mainstream, the inability for Starbucks employees to correctly spell and write out a name across one of their coffee cups. Especially, as actor, director and writer Ain Gordon...
‘A Simple Space’ is Full of Exciting Acrobats
What happens when you leave a bunch of acrobats alone in an empty room? They make their own playground. After their show on Thursday, Jan. 3 in the Leslie C. Quick, Jr. Recreation Complex, entitled “A...
‘Ghosts: French Holocaust Children’ Presented at Quick Center
It’s their eyes you see first. They stare into you, at you. Brimming with dreams and hopes for the future, of wishes to be nurses, teachers, parents, to grow into whoever they were meant to be in the future....
Gravity and Other Myths to Perform ‘A Simple Space’ at the Quick Center
Coming all the way from Australia to campus, Gravity and Other Myths, a circus company, will be performing in a high-flying acrobatic show called “A Simple Space” on Jan. 31. The show is guaranteed to be...
‘Minefield’ Sheds Light on Lives of Veterans
Walking into the Aloysius P. Kelley Theatre on Jan. 28 was an odd sight. The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts had set up a large screen on the stage with a makeup desk on the left and a desk with a...
Dr. Barry Barnes Speaks at Quick Center
When introducing Dr. Barry Barnes at the Regina A. Quick Center for the arts on Oct. 30, Dr. Phillip Elisasoph, Ph.D., art history professor at Fairfield University and founder of the Open VISIONS Forum,...