Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE returns to ADF with Upside Down, a strongly African work about loss and growth out of ...

Take a trip through time and explore works of art with defining characteristics that give us a clue into when they were made. Enjoy looking at and learning about real-life ...

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! Ballet Hispánico, the largest Latinx/Latine/Hispanic cultural organization in the United States, returns to ADF this summer with their recent ...

Join ADF for a one-hour performance specially curated to ignite and inspire children’s imaginations. A FREE Kids’ Party follows each matinee at the Landing of the Bryan Center, complete with ...

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! In 2017, choreographer Lai Hung-Chung founded Hung Dance, with the name Hung symbolizing the spirit of soaring freedom. Born ...

Singers and musicians with the Chorworks early music summer program present this concert of Music for Court, Church, and Theater. Free admission. Paid parking is available on a first-come, first-served ...

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! In 2017, choreographer Lai Hung-Chung founded Hung Dance, with the name Hung symbolizing the spirit of soaring freedom. Born ...

Singers and musicians with the Chorworks early music summer program present this concert of Sacred and Secular Song. Free admission. This concert takes place in Duke Divinity School’s Goodson Chapel. ...

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! Ballet Hispánico, the largest Latinx/Latine/Hispanic cultural organization in the United States, returns to ADF this summer with their recent ...

Do you love art and can’t stop talking about it? Do you love talking and can’t stop talking? Period. Come to Chatty Thursday, then, where you will meet a new ...

Stormie Daie comes back to the Nasher as fabulous as ever! Celebrate National Pride Month learning professional make up tips from experienced drag queens. Makeup supplies will be provided. Space ...

Presented by Caroline Stinson, cello This concert of old, new, and popular French music, with strings, percussion, and song, brings us together around the French Fête des voisins – a ...

This 29-minute film explores the impact of right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) on stroke survivors and their loved ones. This story chronicles the struggles and achievements of survivors, and follows ...

With a filming style akin to the artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Beba (Director Rebeca Huntt, 2022, 79 minutes, Rated R) is a self-portrait of the star, producer and director Rebeca ...

NOW OPEN Call for Proposals Bacca Fellowship for Undergraduate Course Enhancement in Language, Arts and Media 2024-25 Deadline:Applications accepted through May 17, 2024. The Duke University Language, Arts, and Media ...

Honor the dead with a Day of the Dead altar piece, at Duke Chapel that pays homage to the rich cultural heritage and sacred traditions of Día de los Muertos. This event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.

Multinational salsa band Conjunto Breve was founded by percussionist Brevan Hampden in 2012. Members of the band come from all corners of the Americas. This event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.

Acclaimed artists from the Music Maker Foundation's record label take over American Tobacco Campus in this free event. No reservations are required.

Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. leads his father's Grammy Award-winning Ils Sont Parti Band, one of the few zydeco groups to achieve mainstream success. This event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.

This double-bill of two North Carolina-based family Gospel ensembles showcases Gospel as one of the quintessential musical genres of the American South. This event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.

This large-scale installation is a virtual interactive waterfall from Montreal-based digital art studio Iregular. This exhibition is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.

GRAMMY®-winning musician Meshell Ndegeocello performs from her newest album "No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin." The visionary work is at once a musical experience, a church service, a celebration, a testimonial, and a call to action.

Transport yourself into a realm of traditional Japanese art with Kodo, a taiko drumming troupe that blends rhythmic precision with spectacular expression and physicality.

Bill’s 44th is an original comedic puppet show for grown-ups created by puppeteers Dorothy James & Andy Manjuck around one very worried leading man – Bill.

Performer-composers Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane's new work, "Hexagons," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s 1939 short story, “The Library of Babel.”

After a free screening of the documentary film capturing Taylor Mac’s marathon, 24-hour immersive theatrical experience, stay for a discussion with the revered performer. Registration for this free event is now open.

A New York Times Critics’ Pick, Last Ward is a work of dance theatre that follows one man’s journey towards death in a hospital room. This highly visual evening length performance is performed in Arabic with English supertitles.

Ensemble Intercolor is a trailblazing young trio that combines cimbalom, viola, clarinet and voice with their varied cultural backgrounds – the three musicians are from Belarus, Colombia and France

See the play that shaped a theatre landscape in this rare revival. When it opened in 2005, Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree changed the rules of the game: bringing in an actor who has neither seen nor read the play.

The Ciompi Quartet of Duke University has delighted audiences and impressed critics around the world. All its members are professors at Duke University. Reservations are open now for this free event.

Durham-native and former Alvin Ailey dancer Hope Boykin brings "States of Hope," a powerful and honest work of dance-theater that narrates her own journey as a dancer.

The Ciompi Quartet of Duke University has delighted audiences and impressed critics around the world. All its members are professors at Duke University. Reservation is available now for this free event.

32 Sounds is an immersive documentary and profound sensory experience from Oscar-nominated documentarian Sam Green.

Racine Nago's powerfully expressive music features call-and-response vocals and intricate percussion to create crosscurrents of rhythm that move the body and nourish the soul.

A collaboration of Duke Arts and the Department of English, the Blackburn Literary Festival’s keynote and panel bring four celebrated novelists together for a night of reading and conversation. Reservations are now open for this free event.

The Music Maker Foundation Celebrating 30 Years concert features Taj Mahal, Dom Flemons, and Jackson Browne and many more in the American roots music industry.

Five actor-candidates vie for your real-time vote using charm, byzantine rules, audience polls – anything but the issues themselves. The play takes one of over 100 possible outcomes as the audience eliminates candidates one-by-one in this unforgettable theatrical experience.

Catch "top-shelf tap dancer" Ayodele Casel perform "Rooted," a piece exploring shared roots and artistic intersections between tap, movement, spoken word, and jazz.

Singer-songwriter and lead vocalist and guitarist of indie rock band Big Thief is known for her raw intimacy and captivating storytelling. Described as “breathtaking” by NPR Music.

With careers spent covering politics for "The Daily Show," audiences can expect “charismatic crankiness" (Entertainment Weekly) and political satire. This event will be a stand-up good time.

Originally from Hong-Kong, Scotland-based choreographer Pik-Kei Wong explores gender, bodily-autonomy, and women’s desire in the US Premiere of Bird-Watching. Reservations will open this fall for this free event.

Practice drawing from life in the Gardens with Julia Einstein, artist in residence at Raleigh City Farm, as you stand at eye level with a plant to capture its essence ...

6 PM Cash Bar 6:30 PM Lecture Hall doors open 7 PM – Conversation between Shantrelle P. Lewis and Omisade Burney-Scott María Magdalena Campos-Pons has long centered African spirituality in ...

Jerusalem Quartet returns with Mozart’s so-called ‘Dissonance’ Quartet, which features some of the composer’s boldest harmonic writing.

Zodiac Trio are at the forefront of innovative programing, heralded as ‘a breathtaking ensemble of virtuosity and sensitivity’ (Radio France).

Elias String Quartet is one of the UK’s foremost ensembles, celebrated by BBC Music Magazine as a ‘tour de force’ and The Strad as a ‘remarkable ensemble.’

The Goldmund Quartet has garnered a reputation as one of the leading string quartets of the great classical and modern works of the quartet canon, delivering performances of ‘exquisite playing.'

The cello-piano duo of David Finckel and Wu Han return to Duke Arts with a journey through the great chamber works of Beethoven.

The Tesla Quartet is acclaimed for their superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they play, regardless of era, style, or technical demand” (The International Review of Music).

The Modigliani Quartet has been making waves in the chamber music world since they first began playing together in 2003, following their studies at the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris.

For centuries, the church has marked the transition from daytime to evening with psalms, prayer, and song. Duke Chapel’s Choral Evensong follows this historic pattern, using the liturgy of the ...