Arts

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, ...

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Tango Concert: Holly Nelson, violinist

February 23, 2024

Free admission: no tickets or reservations needed. Violinist Holly Nelson was recently awarded a Fulbright Grant to Argentina ’22-’23 to study the performance practice and pedagogy of the violin in ...

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Artist Talk with Christopher Sperandio

February 22, 2024

Christopher Sperandio’s works map the numerous margins between mass and museum cultures. Since May 2020, he has maintained a daily drawing practice on Instagram as @pinko_joe. These single-panel drawings are ...

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Workshop: Modern Post-Production Film Workflow

February 25, 2024

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 ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

February 27, 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 28, 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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Mapping Jewish Modernism Exhibit Opening

February 28, 2024

A reception, a talk by Yitzhak Lewis, and brief student presentations followed by questions and answers in the exhibit space, all in celebration of the opening of the Mapping Jewish ...

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Screening of “The Utopians”

February 26, 2024

Is it possible to defy the narrow constraints of our personal identities, discover and develop new fields of human relationships, and achieve co-existence on equal, soul-democratic terms? Throughout 2023, Professor ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

March 5, 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

March 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 29, 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 ...

Compline

Compline

February 29, 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, ...

Location Sound Recording

Workshop: Location Sound Recording for Film

March 3, 2024

This workshop covers the unique tasks of recording sound for moving pictures, especially those which separate it from other forms of sound recording. Students learn the implications of microphone pattern ...

National Lutheran Choir

Concert: National Lutheran Choir

March 3, 2024

Under the direction of Dr. Jennaya Robison, the National Lutheran Choir’s artistry is rooted in its mission to celebrate, invigorate, and expand the heritage of sacred choral music through the ...

Location Sound Recording

Workshop: Location Sound Recording for Film

March 4, 2024

This workshop covers the unique tasks of recording sound for moving pictures, especially those which separate it from other forms of sound recording. Students learn the implications of microphone pattern ...

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The Dawn of Freedom: A Calligraphy Performance

March 6, 2024

In this screened multi-media performance the artist Shah Abdullah Alamee merges calligraphy, poetry, painting, raag (in classical Indian music, raag describes a melody that creates a particular mood) and videography. ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

March 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 ...

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Fountain Concerts series: South of the Equator

March 7, 2024

The driving rhythms and sultry melodies of Latin America take center stage in works by Ponce, Lecuona, Alberga, Barbosa, Ginastera, Villa-Lobos and Piazzolla. Free admission: no tickets or reservations needed. ...

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Film: Eami

March 7, 2024

Dir. by Paz Encina. Paraguay. 2022. 83 min. Spanish, Ayoreo, Guaraní with English subtitles. Introduction by Prof. Christine Folch. Eami means “forest” in Ayoreo. It also means “world.” The indigenous ...

Compline

Compline

March 7, 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, ...

Choral Evensong Worship Service

Choral Evensong Worship Service

March 10, 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

March 12, 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

March 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 ...

Author T. Kingfisher visits Duke!

March 20, 2024

T. Kingfisher, renown author of fantasy, horror, and fairy tales, will read excerpts from Swordheart and her upcoming book What Feasts at Night with a Q&A session to follow on ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

March 19, 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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Archives, Exhibits, and Literature Dialogue

March 20, 2024

Two Duke faculty, Annette Joseph-Gabriel and Felwine Sarr, and two visitors, Emma Bond and Max Czollek, will examine the intersections, problems, and productive intersections between archives, exhibits, and literature. Emma ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

March 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 ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

March 14, 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

March 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 ...

Compline

Compline

March 14, 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, ...

Organ Recital Series

Organ Recital Series: Robert Parkins

March 17, 2024

Robert Parkins is the University Organist and a Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke. His solo recordings have appeared on the Calcante, Gothic, Loft, Musical Heritage Society, and ...

Nora Zubizarreta: Near Nowhere

March 22, 2024

The Murthy Agora at the Rubenstein Arts Center March 22 – April 14 Nora Zubizarreta in conversation with Shambhavi Kaul April 1, 5:00pm Moving through invented landscapes, Near Nowhere explores ...

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Land and Listen

March 22, 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, ...

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Screen of “Summer’s End” and Q&A

March 21, 2024

Duke English invites you to the screening of Grant and Adam Conversano’s short film Summer’s End. After the screening, Grant and Adam Conversano will converse with Alex Harris during a ...

Marie Gayeski: elemental

March 22, 2024

Juanita Kreps Gallery Duke University Center for Documentary Studies On View: March 22 – April 13 Gallery Hours: 10:00am – 6:00pm Artist Talk: April 13, 2:00pm elemental addresses the transitioning ...

Compline

Compline

March 21, 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, ...

Trista Weng: Red is the Warmest Color

March 22, 2024

Rubenstein Arts Center Studio 128 On View: March 22 – April 2 Free Pickup: April 1 – 4 A collection of cabinets of curiosities explores the memories and inquiries into ...

Tianming Zhou (Alaric): SEEN

March 22, 2024

Fredric Jameson Gallery Duke University Friedl Building, East Campus On View: March 22 – April 9 Artist Walkthrough: April 8, 3:00pm Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater Screening March 24, 2:00pm ...

Choral Evensong Worship Service

Choral Evensong Worship Service

March 24, 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 ...

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A TASTE OF THE EARTH

March 25, 2024

Join us at Duke Campus Farm to learn how to explore the earth to choose soil suitable for pottery and how to transform that soil into vessels, while learning about ...

Amerindian Language Justice Short Films

March 28, 2024

Light refreshments served. Parking available across Trent Drive in Perkins Family Clinic Lot. [] With presence of Indigenous directors Gunza Villafaña and Ana Hilda Vera. A Nahuatl language mini-lesson by ...

Shiraz Ahmed: This World

March 30, 2024

This World is a short observational documentary film telling the stories of Triangle area Muslims as they navigate difficult questions in response to the Israeli-led and American-funded genocide in Gaza. ...

Thinking Outside the Box

The Writer’s Improv

April 1, 2024

How are you and your writing getting along these days? When writing projects are fraught with academic parameters, deadlines, and readers’ responses, they may inspire less joy and more fear ...

Nora Zubizarreta: Artist Talk

April 1, 2024

The Murthy Agora at the Rubenstein Arts Center March 22 – April 14 Nora Zubizarreta in conversation with Shambhavi Kaul April 1, 5:00pm Moving through invented landscapes, Near Nowhere explores ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

April 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 ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

April 3, 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

April 4, 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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Fountain Concerts series: Lyric Intermezzos

April 4, 2024

A selection of instrumental and vocal duets from the Romantic period presented by “The Art of Performance” course students. Free admission: no tickets or reservations needed. Presented in association with ...

Easter Service

Easter Worship Service with Holy Communion

March 31, 2024

Easter Sunday is the principal feast of the liturgical year-the day when Christians celebrate Jesus’s resurrection from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. The resurrection of Christ ...

Choral Evensong Worship Service

Choral Evensong Worship Service

March 31, 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 9, 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

April 10, 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 ...

Sara Alghesheyan: Artist Talk

April 10, 2024

Ruby Gallery Rubenstein Arts Center On View: March 22 – April 14 Artist Talk: April 10, 6:00pm Between Memories and Dreams is an ongoing exploration that intricately delves into the ...

Harry Davidson conducting the Duke Symphony Orchestra

Duke Symphony Orchestra: Senior Night

April 10, 2024

This event will be livestreamed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYI5-_cHFf0 Program includes Johannes Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op. 81 (1880) and Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 (1880), and features 2023-2024 Student Concerto Competition Winner ...

Organ Demonstration

Organ Demonstration

April 11, 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's St. John Passion

Bach’s St. John Passion

April 7, 2024

First performed 300 years ago on Good Friday, April 7, 1724, J.S. Bach’s “St. John Passion” is renowned for its dramatic choruses, expressive arias, and compelling narrative. It sets text ...