Arts

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

May 1, 2024

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 ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

May 2, 2024

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 ...

Choral Evensong Worship Service

Choral Evensong Worship Service

April 28, 2024

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 ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

April 30, 2024

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 ...

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Land and Listen

April 26, 2024

Land & Listen is a monthly gathering at the Duke Campus Farm for reflection and relaxation. Each gathering begins with conversation around a short piece of environmental poetry by Black, ...

María Magdalena Campos-Pons, "De Las Dos Aguas" (Of the Two Waters), 2007.

Polaroid Workshop

April 25, 2024

We welcome UNC professor and photographer Lindsay Metivier for a one-of-a-kind workshop! After reviewing photography composition techniques, learn how to transfer images from a Polaroid picture onto a new surface. ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

April 25, 2024

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 ...

Chamber music group onstage in Baldwin Auditorium

Chamber Music Program Concert: Part 1

April 22, 2024

This event will be livestreamed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-4Z-lkqsI0 Students in the Duke Music Department’s Chamber Music Program perform works from the 18th-21st centuries. Student chamber music groups are coached by members ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

April 23, 2024

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 ...

Chamber music group onstage in Baldwin Auditorium

Chamber Music Program Concert: Part 2

April 23, 2024

This event will be livestreamed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U_GVaf6VqI Students in the Duke Music Department’s Chamber Music Program perform works from the 18th-21st centuries. Student chamber music groups are coached by members ...

Joseph Scarpa

Student Organ Recital: Joseph Scarpa

April 23, 2024

Duke senior Joseph (Joey) Scarpa presents a senior organ recital on the Flentrop organ. The program will include works by Dieterich Buxtehude, François Couperin, J. S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, and ...

Two young men in formal wear standing in front a a human size Oscar statue

Duke Opera Theater: The Opera Oscars – 1786 edition

April 20, 2024

This event will be livestreamed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMB_bGXL0xM Free admission: no tickets or reservations are needed. Featuring excerpts from four operas that premiered in 1786, including “The Marriage of Figaro.” In ...

Duke Chinese Music Ensemble

Duke Chinese Music Ensemble

April 21, 2024

This event will be livestreamed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mfICpEBwic The Duke Chinese Music Ensemble, directed by Jennifer Chang, presents a concert featuring a variety of Chinese musical styles and instruments, as well ...

ChoreoLab

ChoreoLab

April 20, 2024

The Duke University Dance Program presented its spring dance concert, ChoreoLab 2024, featuring choreographic works from our faculty and students. Faculty choreographers: Kristin Duncan, modern; Jingqiu Guan, film; Iyun Ashani ...

colorful street fair scene with Duke Chapel in background

Mezcla 2024

April 20, 2024

Performers, vendors, and food! Organized by Mi Gente, co-sponsored by the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Part of Duke’s Latino/a Student Recruitment Weekend. For more information contact ...

ChoreoLab

ChoreoLab

April 19, 2024

The Duke University Dance Program presented its spring dance concert, ChoreoLab 2024, featuring choreographic works from our faculty and students. Faculty choreographers: Kristin Duncan, modern; Jingqiu Guan, film; Iyun Ashani ...

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The Invention of the Other

April 19, 2024

Please join us for the Amazon Lab Film Series showing of “The Invention of the Other” (Dir. Bruno Jorge, Brazil). This Friday, April 19, 12:30pm – in the Amazon Lab, ...

Londs Reuter

April 19, 2024

Join ADF for a FREE professional dance performance at NCMA! GOOD EFFORT by dancer and choreographer Londs Reuter is an evening-length performance of attunement, calibration, repetition, trying, and trying again. ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

April 18, 2024

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 ...

Natasha Lehner

Natasha Lehner: More of Everything

March 21, 2024

Cassilhaus March 21 – April 23 Reception: April 14, 2:00pm Artist Talk: April 15, 6:00pm More of Everything is an ongoing exploration of the artist’s recently discovered biological grandfather, Harvey ...

Alice Diop photography on an event flyer announcing her visit to Duke

A Conversation with filmmaker Alice Diop

April 18, 2024

Internationally renowned filmmaker Alice Diop will be visiting Duke briefly on April 18. Alice Diop represented France for the 2023 Oscars and was the recipient of the Grand Jury Prize ...

Randy Reed holding guitar

Randy Reed Tribute Recital

April 18, 2024

Classical guitar instructor, Randy Reed, is retiring at the end of this semester. Reed has been at Duke since 1994. Join us for a recital in tribute to his time ...

Duke Arts Presents Announces 2024-25 Season Classical Shows, Fall Highlights & More!

Duke Arts Presents is proud to announce the return of its three classical music series, including the flagship eight-concert Chamber Arts Series from the Chamber Arts Society of Durham, now in its 79th year. Subscriptions are available now for renewing subscribers. In addition, we are thrilled to share fall highlights from our full 2024-25 season. Learn more about each classical series and highlights below.

William Lang

William Lang, solo trombone

April 17, 2024

Critically acclaimed trombonist William Lang will give a solo trombone recital featuring music from the 12th to 21st centuries, including works by the medieval nun and mystic Hildegard von Bingen, ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

April 17, 2024

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 ...

Announcing: Music in the Gardens 2024: The Country Soul Songbook Edition!

Duke Arts is thrilled to announce that this year’s Music in the Gardens, now FREE to all, will be presented in partnership with Country Soul Songbook (CSSB). This year's series will be a five-concert showcase of musicians who fulfill CSSB’s mission to amplify historically marginalized voices (BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists) in American roots music.

Three Projects Celebrating Duke’s Centennial

In celebration of Duke’s Centennial, Duke Arts is thrilled to share three projects dedicated to highlighting pieces of Duke’s artistic history. We invite our Duke and Durham communities to learn and contribute to these projects that explore Duke’s relationship to the arts. Join us for a public reception on Tuesday, March 19 from 6–7:30 p.m. celebrating the launch of all three projects at the Rubenstein Arts Center!

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

February 1, 2024

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 ...

Fountain Concerts logo

Fountain Concerts series: Celebrating 100!

February 1, 2024

In celebration of Duke University’s centennial, this intriguing program of works either composed in 1924 or marking the composer’s 100th opus includes works for piano by Dvořák, Gershwin, Berlin, Ravel, ...

Rouny-round dolly shot

Workshop: Camera Movement

February 4, 2024

Students are shown the surprisingly rich feature set of a modern tripod, and we quickly move through locked-off shots, fluid head moves, full and portable dolly moves, jib shots, gimbals, ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

January 31, 2024

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 ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

February 6, 2024

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 ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

February 7, 2024

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 ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

February 8, 2024

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 ...

Bach Cantata Series

Bach Cantata Series: Music for Candlemas

February 4, 2024

Johann Sebastian Bach’s church cantatas are often considered the pinnacle of German sacred music, works whose theological depth and emotional resonance touch deep places in the human soul. The Bach ...

Rouny-round dolly shot

Workshop: Camera Movement

February 5, 2024

Students are shown the surprisingly rich feature set of a modern tripod, and we quickly move through locked-off shots, fluid head moves, full and portable dolly moves, jib shots, gimbals, ...

Lighting setup with Hitchcock's hand

Workshop: Cinema Lighting Techique

February 11, 2024

A practical introduction to the manipulation of the characteristics of light, in order to modify, recreate, or invent light of any kind. We consider angle, intensity, color, softness, and falloff ...

Choral Evensong Worship Service

Choral Evensong Worship Service

February 11, 2024

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 ...

Jazz

Valentine’s Day Jazz Festival

February 11, 2024

Featuring Jazz Ensembles From: Duke – Evan Roberson, Associate Director NCCU – Robert Trowers, Director UNC – Rahsaan Barber, Director Sponsored by WNCU FM 90.7

Ballet Hispanico

Ballet Hispanico Scholarship Audition

February 10, 2024

Audition for Ballet Hispánico of New York School of Dance Summer & School Year Programs Ballet Barre, Contemporary Center & BH Repertory Intermediate to Advanced Dancers, Ages 15+ No Fee, ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

February 15, 2024

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 ...

Cabuenha

Capoeira Workshop with Cabuenha

February 15, 2024

Cabuenha (Janguinda Moniz) is an artist and capoeira instructor from Angola. His Yakalakaya Project promotes Angolan music and movement through research, teaching, and performance.

person dancing, text Portal Obscura

portal obscura

February 11, 2024

Sense the impossible and be submerged in the murk of ecological relationality. You are invited to enter into portals of strange sensibilities using imagination as an analog virtual reality to ...

Lighting setup with Hitchcock's hand

Workshop: Cinema Lighting Techique

February 12, 2024

A practical introduction to the manipulation of the characteristics of light, in order to modify, recreate, or invent light of any kind. We consider angle, intensity, color, softness, and falloff ...

person dancing, text Portal Obscura

portal obscura

February 12, 2024

Sense the impossible and be submerged in the murk of ecological relationality. You are invited to enter into portals of strange sensibilities using imagination as an analog virtual reality to ...

person dancing, text Portal Obscura

portal obscura

February 12, 2024

Sense the impossible and be submerged in the murk of ecological relationality. You are invited to enter into portals of strange sensibilities using imagination as an analog virtual reality to ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

February 13, 2024

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 ...

people playing board games

Thursdays at the Nasher: Board Game Night

February 15, 2024

Celebrate the opening of “María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold” with art-inspired board games, puzzles and group fun! Inside the Behold galleries, we’ll play Who Am I? and learn more about the ...

Lighting a scene from Nope.

Workshop: Film Lighting Fixtures and Gripping

February 18, 2024

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: Film Lighting Fixtures and Gripping

February 19, 2024

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, ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

February 20, 2024

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 ...

DEI

DEI: Discovering Everyone’s Issues

February 15, 2024

Join us for a thrilling workshow about the ways institutions and the people within them misinterpret, undermine, and partially implement Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Part DEI workshop, part performance, and ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

February 21, 2024

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 ...

DEI

DEI: Discovering Everyone’s Issues

February 16, 2024

Join us for a thrilling workshow about the ways institutions and the people within them misinterpret, undermine, and partially implement Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Part DEI workshop, part performance, and ...

DEI

DEI: Discovering Everyone’s Issues

February 17, 2024

Join us for a thrilling workshow about the ways institutions and the people within them misinterpret, undermine, and partially implement Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Part DEI workshop, part performance, and ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

February 22, 2024

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 ...

Image of featured poets for 2024 Poetry and Theology

Poetry & Theology Symposium

February 22, 2024

A poetry reading featuring Dante Micheaux, Lisa Russ Spear, & Toby Martinez De Las Rivas will kickoff the Poetry & Theology Symposium. This event is sponsored by the Blackburn Endowment. ...

Compline

Compline

February 22, 2024

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