an evening with alice gerrard
April 16, 2009
7–10 p.m.
Alice Gerrard has been documenting music through performance, writing/editing, and film throughout her forty-year career as a traditional musician. She has known, learned from, and performed with many of the old-time and bluegrass greats and in turn has earned worldwide respect for her own important contributions to the music.
Jacobo and his great grandson waiting for the hay to be baled, El Valle, New Mexico 1979
river of traps
william debuys and alex harris
April 15, 2009
7:30 p.m.
interview with william debuys and alex harris on wunc’s the state of things (april 15, 2009)
Writer William deBuys and photographer Alex Harris will talk about their collaboration on River of Traps, a 1991 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction that was recently republished by Trinity University Press. Both deBuys and Harris will show photographs in a special outdoor presentation.
mike seeger musical performance at cds
March 16, 2009
7:30 p.m.
“Mike [Seeger] was unprecedented. He was like a duke, the knight errant. As for being a folk musician, he was the supreme archetype.” —Bob Dylan
Photographs of Mike Seeger at CDS by Nick Pironio.
face up: telling stories of community life
Murals on Permanent Installation in Durham
A documentary/public art project that grows out of local conversations about neighborhood goals in Southwest Central Durham, North Carolina. » Continue Reading…
Editor Roger Hodge (right) is visiting the Duke University campus as a guest speaker in the course Documentary Writing, taught this semester at the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) by Duncan Murrell (left). Tom Rankin (center) is director of the Center for Documentary Studies and associate professor of the practice of art and documentary studies at Duke University. Photograph by Christopher Sims.
documentary writing: a conversation with roger hodge and duncan murrell
March 4, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Please join us for a conversation about documentary writing — what defines the genre, where it’s practiced, why it makes a lasting impact — with the editor of Harper’s Magazine and an accomplished journalist whose mastery of long-form narrative writing has garnered awards and acclaim. Editor Roger Hodge is visiting the Duke University campus as a guest speaker in the course Documentary Writing, taught this semester at the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) by Duncan Murrell.