The 2024-25 season is in full swing! Upcoming highlights include thought-provoking dance-theater with Yaa Samar!, Bill’s 44th, a puppet show for grownups, and 32 Sounds, an immersive documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Green.
A Maritime Haunting is an immersive sound installation that explores loss from Mediterranean border policies through vocal elements and sea sounds. Performers act as a Greek chorus, creating a collective elegy for lives lost during migration. Free and open to the public; no reservations required.
In this beginner-level class, we’ll learn to breathe with awareness, feel the body’s glorious response to the breath, and move through a variety of shapes.
Saxophone faculty Susan Fancher, joined by pianist Ināra Zandmane and the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet, presents an exhilarating concert showcasing four brand new compositions. The program includes music by Mark …
Stefan Engels’ recital at Duke will include works by J. S. Bach, Robert Schumann, and Karg-Elert on the Flentrop and Aeolian organs. Professor of Organ at Southern Methodist University, Engels …
A DOCUMENTARY BY GLADYS MITCHELL-WALTHOUR BLACK LIVES MATTER IN LATIN AMERICA Film screening at Duke University Divinity School, Westbrook Room 0014 November 11, 2024 at 12pm Contact: Magda Silva mbcsilva@duke.edu …
The Prison Engagement Initiative’s Graduate Cohort is excited to invite you to a meaningful evening focused on one of our state’s ugliest practices: the death penalty. 137 individuals currently sit …
“A profound meditation on life and death” —The New York Times, Critics’ Pick
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This two-hour workshop will cover the basics of screen printing: putting images on screens (making a stencil), ink mixing, and how to effectively use a squeegee.
This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations …
Heel Workshop is an open-level, choreography-based dance class. Heels are optional.
Duke English invites you to join us for a “Reading and Q&A Session” featuring author Ange Mlinko. “Reading and Q&A” featuring Ange Mlinko Tuesday, Novtember 12, 2024 6:00 PM Allen …
In partnership with the Duke Experimental Film Society, Screen/Society presents an evening of shorts by experimental filmmaker Charlotte Pryce. CONCERNING FLIGHT: Five Illuminations in Miniature (2004, 8 min, sound, 16mm) …
This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations …
This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations …
This workshop explores playful approaches to collaborative assignments, student writing projects and presentations. Arts-based activities will address peer feedback, the revision process, and promoting equitable collaboration. Please email Nan Mullenneaux …
Gallery talk with artist Mary Berridge at 6:00 pm. Mary Berridge’s award-winning series of photographs is paired with narratives written primarily by the subjects or their parents. The exhibition, “Visible …
In this workshop you’ll learn the basics of wire sculpture, specifically aiming toward observing and forming plant sculptures.
Over the past ten years, Jazz Vespers has become a beloved tradition at Duke Chapel. Sing, rest, pray, and celebrate in these worship services combining the ancient Christian tradition of …
Hosted by Tessa Bolsover and Michael Cavuto. Solarities is a poetry reading series bringing established and emerging visiting writers to Duke. For our fourth event, we welcome poets Will Alexander …
On November 14, the CFFS welcomes artists Gabriel Richard and Jean-Frédéric Neuburger. Thursday, November 14 at 7 p.m. GOODSON CHAPEL 403 CHAPEL DR DURHAM, NC 27708 The CFFS, in partnership …
Film Screening: “LYD” (Rami Younis and Sarah Emma Friedland, 2023, 79 min, Palestine, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles, DCP) LYD (the Arabic name of Lod, a city now in …
Rob Amberg will read and show work from “Little Worlds,” the third volume in his trilogy of books from Madison County, North Carolina. This hybrid book intertwines Amberg’s journal entries …
Mary Berridge’s award-winning series of photographs is paired with narratives written primarily by the subjects or their parents. The exhibition, “Visible Spectrum,” offers an intimate view of life with autism, …
A Duke Health exclusive 60-minute matinee performance of Last Ward that intertwines an abbreviated presentation with a conversation about the artists’ creative process and the role of the arts in healthcare. 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.
LONE STAR (John Sayles, 1996, 135 min, USA, DCP) New 4K Restoration A keen observer of America’s social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small …
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.
This workshop engages students in an exciting, interactive scavenger hunt and rescue mission, using coding and robotics to simulate a real-world challenge. It fosters teamwork, critical thinking, and hands-on learning …
The Duke Chinese Ensemble, conducted by Jennifer Chang, will present a concert that features a variety of Chinese musical genres, including classical, folk, and orchestral pieces, played on a mix …
Five MFA/EIP students will share creative work-in-progress that is in development for their thesis projects. Presentations begin at 4pm. Please come early at 3:00p if you would like to observe …
The cello-piano duo of David Finckel and Wu Han return to Duke Arts with a journey through the great chamber works of Beethoven.
This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations …
The Africa Initiative is delighted to host Mauro Bucci for a screening of his film, “Hotel Splendid,” Tuesday, November 19. A Q&A session will follow the screening. “Hotel Splendid” is …
The Irish poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama is the featured speaker for this public conversation and poetry reading. The host of the popular podcast “Poetry Unbound,” Ó Tuama will …
Israeli Doc Series Presents: It Happened On Our Ground Directed by: Avner Faingulernt (Israel / Germany / Canada 2024, 125 min, Hebrew, English and German, Hebrew & English subtitles) A …
Performer-composers Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane’s new work, “Hexagons,” inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s 1939 short story, “The Library of Babel.”
This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations …
You will be making ornate designs with intricate patterns that will come to life with vibrant colors.
The act of closely examining a photograph to extract factual insights, commonly referred to as “reading” in photography discourse, constitutes an epistemological practice. This lecture explores the practice of reading …
This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations …
Join our experienced Gallery Guides for a quirky tour of the museum! After learning more about our exhibitions, we will sketch back-to-back, go on a scavenger hunt and more. You …
Learn to make a twined basket. Using wetted reed, you will learn a simple basket weaving technique that will make a quick and lovely container.
Under Plessy v. Ferguson, in the days before desegregation, southern states were able to fund the graduate education of Black students by forming separate-but-equal programs at tax-supported HBCU’s or having …
Film Screening: “THE COW” (Dariush Mehrjui, 1969, 104 min, Iran, Farsi with English subtitles, Digital) Introduced by Bahman Maghsoudlou, director of DARIUSH MEHRJUI: MAKING THE COW One of the defining …
Shining Night, O Night of Love A collaboration between the Duke Wind Symphony and the Duke Opera Theater Selections from Carmen, The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Tales of …
New show added! Singer-songwriter and lead vocalist and guitarist of indie rock band Big Thief performs an afternoon set at 3:00pm in Page Auditorium.
Learn how to throw pottery on the wheel! In this introductory class, you will learn the basics of centering and throwing cylinders.
DARIUSH MEHRJUI: MAKING THE COW (Bahman Maghsoudlou, 2022, 85 min, Iran/USA, Farsi and English w/ English subtitles, DCP) — Director Bahman Maghsoudlou in attendance for a Q&A following the screening. …
The Dance Program’s annual fall concert presents guests with an evening of dance performance from faculty, student and guest choreographers. Faculty choreographers include: Iyun Ashani Harrison and Ava LaVonne Vinesett. …
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.
The DNME is back, with the recent, the new and the REALLY new! Featuring music of Boulez, Shulamit Ran, Hannah Kendall, Duke Graduate Composers, and Group Improvisations composed on the …
Violin and cello choir ensembles and soloists will perform the pieces they have been working on in their group classes.
Chamber Music at Duke performs works from the Baroque to the 20th century written for a broad array of instrumentations including string quartets, piano trios and saxophone quartets. Chamber Music …
The Dance Program’s annual fall concert presents guests with an evening of dance performance from faculty, student and guest choreographers. Faculty choreographers include: Iyun Ashani Harrison and Ava LaVonne Vinesett. …
Use running stitches to create accents and all over design to embellish your clothing and textile projects.
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 …
Performances given by the Duke University String School Intermediate String Orchestra, Concert String Orchestra, and Youth Symphony Chamber Orchestra. Featuring Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro, with the DUSS Faculty Quartet. Conductors …
A multimedia presentation, to be followed by a Q&A session and book signing. For fifteen years, Nate DiMeo’s pioneering podcast, The Memory Palace, has turned to the past to make …
This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations …
Demonstrating each step of the neon making process including pattern making, illuminated glass color theory, glass bending, bombarding and install. Weaving demos and showing the weaving and dyeing process in a mini production studio.
The 55-voice Duke Chorale, directed by Allan Friedman, presents holiday music from around the world on themes of life, peace, and light. The Chorale will be joined by choirs from …
Chamber Music at Duke performs works from the Baroque to the 20th century written for a broad array of instrumentations including string quartets, piano trios and saxophone quartets. Chamber Music …
À L’OMBRE DE LA CANAILLE BLEUE (In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal) (Pierre Clementi, 1986, 84 min, France, French with English subtitles, DCP) Introduced by Prof. Benjamin Crais (Fordham …
This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations …
Students will be provided with a mini loom and selection of yarns. Together we will work through some simple weaving stitches and create something decorative.
The Duke Symphony Orchestra, directed by Harry Davidson, numbers some 80-100 players and draws its membership almost entirely from the student body. The Duke Symphony Orchestra, open to all members …