Arts

People wearing robes and holding black folders stand around a candle and sing.

Compline

March 13, 2025

Candlelight, darkness, mystical chant, and meditative silence are the hallmarks of Compline, or Night Prayer. The Chapel holds this ancient prayer service on Thursdays during the season of Lent, as ...

Akropolis Reed Quintet

Akropolis Reed Quintet

January 23, 2026

Described by BBC Music Magazine as a ‘sonically daring ensemble’, the Akropolis Reed Quintet has commissioned more than 150 new works by living composers for their distinctive instrumentation: oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon. This program pairs exciting new works with an arrangement of Gershwin's An American in Paris.

Doric String Quartet

Doric String Quartet

Friday, March 27 at 7:30pm

Praised for their 'sumptuous sweetness and laser-like clarity' (BBC Music Magazine), Doric String Quartet has earned international acclaim. Tracing a lineage of musical invention, the quartet’s program spans the work of Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven.

Manhattan Chamber Players

Manhattan Chamber Players

March 8, 2026

Manhattan Chamber Players bring together accomplished soloists and ensemble musicians, combining their talents in a flexible line-up that brings fresh vitality to chamber music. They present a pair of piano quintets by Weinberg and Brahms.

Takács Quartet with Jordan Bak, viola

Takács Quartet with Jordan Bak, viola

September 27, 2025

Recently profiled in The New York Times for 50 years of enduring excellence, Takács Quartet thrives with a sound that remains unmistakably its own. Their program features works by Mozart and Schubert.

Rachel Barton Pine with Gilles Vonsattel, piano

Rachel Barton Pine with Gilles Vonsattel, piano

September 6, 2025

Hailed by The Washington Post for performing with “a power and confidence that puts her in the top echelon,” Barton Pine opens the 80th anniversary season of the Chamber Arts Series with an all-Brahm's program.

Trio con Brio Copenhagen

Trio con Brio Copenhagen

October 11, 2025

Trio con Brio Copenhagen presents piano trios by Weinberg and Schubert alongside a new commission by Louise Alenius in a program offering poignant reflections on life and mortality.

Choir members singing in Duke Chapel

Choral Evensong Worship Service

March 9, 2025

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 ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

March 6, 2025

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 ...

Think Outside the Box

Open Playful Pedagogy Workshops

March 5, 2025

Open workshops adapt and apply purposeful play activities that include improv, creative writing, oral storytelling, movement, and other arts-based activities to a variety of pedagogical challenges and opportunities. This spring ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

March 4, 2025

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 ...

Flyer for reception with title of show and three images of works in the show featuring the heads of males

“Jamaican Mascs” Closing Reception

February 28, 2025

Join us for the closing reception of “Jamaican Mascs,” an exhibition of documentary portraits and mixed-media collages that contest any singular representation of Jamaican masculinity. Curated by Jazmin Maço, this ...

Man in field

“No Other Land” documentary film

February 28, 2025

Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, has been fighting the mass expulsion by Israel’s occupation since childhood. He documents the slow-motion eradication of the ...

Duke in L.A. Spring 2026 - Info Session

Duke in L.A. Study Away Info Session

February 27, 2025

Come learn about Duke in L.A.! The Duke in L.A. experience includes two seminars taught by Duke faculty, a student-selected course at the University of Southern California and a practicum ...

Think Outside the Box

Open Playful Pedagogy Workshops

February 27, 2025

Open workshops adapt and apply purposeful play activities that include improv, creative writing, oral storytelling, movement, and other arts-based activities to a variety of pedagogical challenges and opportunities. This spring ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

February 27, 2025

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 ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

February 26, 2025

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 ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

February 25, 2025

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 ...

Playhouse Shorts

February 23, 2025

Duke Players, the student-run producing arm of the Department of Theater Studies, presents short original scenes. Free admission, general seating.

Doyle's color grading work from White Noise

Film Color Grading

February 23, 2025

This workshop covers the goals, constraints, methods, and tools of color grading and related tasks for motion pictures.

Eisenstein post-production charts

Workshop: Modern Post-Production Film Workflow

February 23, 2025

This workshop provides a maximalist, comprehensive overview of the post-production process. It identifies the tasks to be completed and the skills required from wrap to delivery, and suggests practices aimed ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

February 20, 2025

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 ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

February 19, 2025

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 ...

Portrait of Marie T. Cochran

Welcome Marie T. Cochran

February 18, 2025

Join us for a party to welcome renowned artist Marie T. Cochran and kick off her 2025 Visiting Artist Residency at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies (CDS). Cochran is an ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

February 18, 2025

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 ...

Ensemble Intercolor

Ensemble Intercolor Concert

February 20, 2025

Ensemble Intercolor is a trailblazing young trio whose wholly original approach to music ensures a vibrant and dynamic program at every concert. Their singular instrumental combination of cimbalom, viola, clarinet, ...

Photo of organ pipes. Text: Organ Recital Series, James Kibbie, Organist

Organ Recital Series: James Kibbie

February 16, 2025

James Kibbie’s program, performed on the Flentrop organ, includes music by Bach, Mozart, Price, Ropek, Sowande, and others. Dr. Kibbie is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, where ...

Location Sound Recording

Workshop: Film Sound Design

February 16, 2025

This workshop steps through the tasks and skills of sound design for moving pictures, including dialog editing, foleying, and mixing.

Rebecca Wahls and poster for Good with seven women holding a thumbs up

Artist-in-Residence Rebecca Wahls “GOOD”

February 15, 2025

“GOOD” Adapted from “The Good Person of Szechuan” by Bertolt Brecht by Theater Studies Artist-in-Residence Rebecca Wahls Reception immediately following at The Landing, Bryan Center A Woman is visited by ...

three dancers reflected in mirror with text "THERE IS A LADDER"

There is a ladder: Dance MFA thesis event

February 15, 2025

Dance MFA candidate Chania Wilson presents THERE IS A LADDER, a curated installation in the Rubenstein Arts Center in conjunction with a performance in von der Heyden Theater. Wilson has ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

February 13, 2025

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 ...

Valentine’s Day Card Making

February 13, 2025

Celebrate the season of love with our Valentine’s Day Card Making event on February 13th from 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM in the Fitzpatrick Atrium, ground floor. We’ll provide all ...

text: the master of fine arts in dance: embodied interdisciplinary praxis

And you ghosts rise blue: Dance MFA thesis event

February 12, 2025

Dance MFA candidate Indigo Cook presents AND YOU GHOSTS RISE BLUE, an evening-length interdisciplinary performance with a thematic/poetic orientation towards ghosts – a paranormal opera of sorts that involves elements ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

February 12, 2025

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 ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

February 11, 2025

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 ...

Choir members singing in Duke Chapel

Choral Evensong Worship Service

February 9, 2025

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 ...

Lighting a scene from Nope.

Workshop: Cinema Lighting II

February 9, 2025

Students are taught the deployment and manipulation of C stands, baby stands, combo stands, apple boxes, sandbags, rags, flags, bounce, black foil, gels, scrims, pacmen, C47’s, grip clips, Cardellinis, lollipops, ...

Lighting a scene from Nope.

Workshop: Cinema Lighting II

February 9, 2025

Students are taught the deployment and manipulation of C stands, baby stands, combo stands, apple boxes, sandbags, rags, flags, bounce, black foil, gels, scrims, pacmen, C47’s, grip clips, Cardellinis, lollipops, ...

Soldiers stand of front of a barrier marked Hollywoodgate

Full Frame Winter Road Show: HOLLYWOODGATE

February 6, 2025

Full Frame partners with The Cary Theater in Cary, N.C. to host a screening of the Oscar®-shortlisted documentary HOLLYWOODGATE. This screening is free and open to the public, though attendees ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

February 6, 2025

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 ...