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SUMMARY:Short Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Reclaim the Flag (2025)
DESCRIPTION:“Reclaim the Flag” explores the queer community’s relationship with the American flag – join us for a screening  + panel discussion!\n\n\nProduced by Alexis Bittar & Bruce Cohen\, this documentary explores the American flag as a symbol of unity for all Americans\, particularly the LGBTQ+ community\, and features interviews with numerous thought leaders and artists. Following the 30-minute screening of Reclaim the Flag\, we will host a panel discussion with:\n\n\n\nAlexis Bittar\, designer\, filmmaker and co-producer of the documentary\nLuchina Fisher\, Visiting Assistant Professor of Film\, Fairfield University Department of Visual and Performing Arts\nShane Vogel\, Professor of English and Black Studies\, and Chair of Theater\, Dance\, and Performance Studies\, Yale University\nAnd moderator\, Sean Edgecomb\, Associate Professor of Theatre and Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, Fairfield University Department of Visual and Performing Arts\n\nFree tickets for this event must be reserved through the Quick Center Box Office (link).\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Fairfield University Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition For Which It Stands… (January 23-July 25\, 2026). For more information on the exhibition\, click here.  \n\n\n\n\n                \n                \n                   \n        \n            \n            \n            \n            \n            \n        \n   \n                \n                \n                    Add as a preferred\n                    source on Google
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LOCATION:Quick Center for the Arts\, Kelley Theater\, 200 Barlow Road\, Fairfield\, CT\, 06824\, United States
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SUMMARY:Opening Lecture: For Which It Stands...
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Q. Weinstein\, PhD\,  Assistant Professor of Politics at Fairfield University\, delivers the opening lecture for our new exhibition.\n\n\nTo mark the opening of the exhibition For Which It Stands…\, Aaron Q. Weinstein\, PhD\, Assistant Professor of Politics\, will deliver a lecture at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday\, January 22\, exploring the complex role of the U.S. flag in America’s “civil religion.” Dr. Weinstein will examine how the flag’s meaning shifts based on context\, political use\, and personal interpretation.\n\n\nHis talk will be introduced by Executive Director and Exhibition Curator Carey Weber\, with remarks by Fairfield University President Mark R. Nemec\, PhD. The lecture will also be livestreamed on Arts & Minds Live (to register for a reminder\, click here).\n\n\nTo register for the reception that will follow the lecture in Bellarmine Hall\, click here. Shuttles will be available between the Quick Center and Bellarmine Hall.\n\n\n \nAbout the exhibition: This exhibition examines depictions of the American flag through 70+ works by a diverse group of artists\, beginning during WWI with Childe Hassam’s Italian Day\, May 1918 and continuing to the present day\, including a textile sculpture commissioned for the show from Maria de Los Angeles. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media by artists including Jasper Johns\, Faith Ringgold\, Robert Rauschenberg\, Shepard Fairey\, and Julie Mehretu\, and challenges viewers to consider who the American flag truly represents and whether justice is available to all.\n\n \n\n\nFor Which It Stands… forms part of America250: The Promise and Paradox\, an initiative through which Fairfield University Explores 250 Years of the American Experiment. \n\n\n\n                \n                \n                   \n        \n            \n            \n            \n            \n            \n        \n   \n                \n                \n                    Add as a preferred\n                    source on Google
URL:https://westportjournal.com/events/opening-lecture-for-which-it-stands/
LOCATION:Quick Center for the Arts\, Kelley Theater\, 200 Barlow Road\, Fairfield\, CT\, 06824\, United States
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