presented by duke performances and the center for documentary studies at duke university
February 26–27, 2009

This fiftieth anniversary celebration of Thelonious Monk’s historic Town Hall concert grew out of a six-week, 18-event series in 2007, “Following Monk,” based at Duke University, just 60 miles from Monk’s hometown, honoring what would have been Monk’s ninetieth birthday (October 10, 2007). The focus was on the Carolina roots of the man and his music, with such musicians as Hank Jones, Charlie Haden, Randy Weston, Barry Harris, Jessica Williams, Henry Butler, and the Kronos Quartet, along with Charles Tolliver and Jason Moran. The Town Hall celebration also grew out of the ongoing Jazz Loft Project at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

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Jamestown Island, Virginia, 1996. This is near the place where the first African indentured laborers landed in the English North American Colonies in 1619. Later this site became a Civil War fort built by enslaved Africans for the defense of the Confederate states. Photograph by William Earle Williams.

unsung heroes: african american soldiers in the civil war
On Exhibit at CDS January 19–April 19, 2009

Unsung Heroes features sixty-one powerful black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams of places where black soldiers trained, fought, and lost their lives.

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Girls in straw fort, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2006. Photograph by Taj Forer.

doc u arts: young photographers
February 5–8, 2009

This intensive weekend institute, Thursday to Sunday, February 5–8, will feature lectures (including a keynote address by renowned photographer Sylvia Plachy), discussions, and small group portfolio review sessions.

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Reception: February 12, 2009. Reception photographs by Nick Pironio.

we’re one house: large format photography
On Exhibit at CDS January 25–March 22, 2009

We’re One House: Large Format Photography is an exhibition of large format photographs made by undergraduate students in a Fall 2008 class at the Center for Documentary Studies taught by Lisa Satterwhite. For more information about this exhibition, please see the “Past Exhibits” section of the CDS Web site.

Photographs by Nick Pironio.

UPDATE: “We’re One House” will now run through March 22nd.

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