As part of the Duke Arts Trajectories Exhibition, by Maya Ghanem and Nashia Ogbuagu

This workshop will be a playful exploration of touch as a creative mode of care. You will be invited to partake in simple embodiment practices that will support listening with the whole body.

Use running stitches to create accents and all over design to embellish your clothing and textile projects.

Take a much needed break for some deep relaxation. Open to all levels, this 90-minute Restorative Yoga workshop is about deep rest through supported poses, guided breathwork, and stillness.

Turn an object sourced from the Scrap Exchange into a puppet.

Join The Gender Gallery for a night of centering love and care for each other by writing love letters to gender expansiveness, the transgender community, to a specific person or yourself.

In this workshop, participants will explore the beauty of the plants, bugs, and surroundings of the Duke Forest, and learn to document their observations in words and sketches.

Modern fusion for beg/intermediate movers - modern with africanist elements intertwined: polyrhythm, polycentrism, and overall african/jazz influence.

Whether you’re new to a practice of quietude or a long-time practitioner, this workshop will allow us to access simple, effective techniques that expose the truth of our experiences. Here we will sit and chat and practice the ancient ways of settling our minds in their natural state of gentle, peaceful luminosity.

Learn to make paper from recycled materials like junk mail! In this zero-waste workshop, we'll use a blended pulp to create sheets of paper using the dip method with a mold and deckle.

Learn how to fictionalize true crime. Choose from selection of cases in the handout (or bring your own) and begin to craft your original, fictional piece.

Experience an introduction to Capoeira Regional, including ginga, basic kicks, and basic sequências.

Join us for an unforgettable sound-based journey through Durham’s Black Wall Street! This free public event invites you to hear, feel, connect with the echoes of Durham’s past in new and surprising ways.

Self Love and Magic is the way to go! In this workshop we will explore the practice of self love through art and expression. We will discuss the ways to add more Love into our new year with Love Jars.

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.

Whether you’re new to a practice of quietude or a long-time practitioner, this workshop will allow us to access simple, effective techniques that expose the truth of our experiences. Here we will sit and chat and practice the ancient ways of settling our minds in their natural state of gentle, peaceful luminosity.

Heel Workshop is an open-level, choreography-based dance class. Heels are optional.

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.

YSDT Dabke classes blend contemporary dance and theater with traditional Dabke tools (rhythm, footwork, unison movement etc.) to invite improvisation and play within the traditional form.

Join Gowri Savoor for a magical lantern festival, celebrating seeds and light. Participants can bring lanterns and join the parade. Hot apple cider will be served around a bonfire afterwards.

Join visual teaching artist, Gowri Savoor, for a fun and unique workshop to learn how to make a magical star-shaped lantern using bamboo, paper, and LED lights.

We will introduce Butoh materials and use these as the basis to fully develop our imagination. In the imaginative session, we use the body as a vessel to communicate and transmit information, allowing for autonomy and improvisation in each exercise.

Come learn about and paint calaveras and alebrijes for Dia de los Muertos!

This class introduces the traditions of Dia de Muertos. We will construct an ofrenda and learn how to produce paper cempaxochitl (marigolds) and papel picado (cut paper).

In this beginner-level, absolutely for everyone class, we'll learn to breathe with awareness, feel the body's glorious response to the breath, and move through a variety of shapes to explore interesting sensation and the malleability of our boundaries.

In this workshop, participants will explore the beauty of the plants, bugs, and surroundings of the Duke Campus Farm, and learn to document their observations in words and sketches.

A hands-on workshop where you will learn how to screen print a unique, 2-color, voting advocacy poster from start-to-finish.

Modern fusion for beg/intermediate movers - modern with africanist elements intertwined: polyrhythm, polycentrism, and overall african/jazz influence.