Screenings of Student Documentary Video Projects From Scotland Neck, North Carolina, May 24
Anytown, USA is a class at the Center for Documentary Studies offered annually through our Continuing Education program, in which students produce and edit videos related to a small town in North Carolina. This year’s class, taught by filmmaker Randolph Benson, focused on the town of Scotland Neck, and each of the eleven students created a [...]
Spring 2013 Certificate in Documentary Arts Students Present Final Projects on Friday, May 17
Eleven continuing education students in the Certificate in Documentary Arts program at the Center for Documentary Studies will present their final projects to the public and receive their certificates. A reception will follow at the Center for Documentary Studies. The students and their projects are described below. Certificate in Documentary Arts Project Presentations Friday, May 17, [...]
Upcoming Continuing Ed Classes Explore Copyright, Animation, and Creative Nonfiction
Check out these three great offerings from our Continuing Education program—one- and two-day workshops and an online class: Copyright Issues for Documentarians Saturday, May 11, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Copyright is an increasingly important—and sometimes treacherous—subject for documentarians, who are both owners and users of copyrighted works. Learn about issues of copyright, fair use, and how the law [...]
Upcoming One-Day Workshops: Wet Plate Processing and Documentary and the Three-Act Structure
We’re pleased to offer these upcoming one-day CDS Continuing Education classes, one of which an online course. Alternative Processing: Wet Plate Workshop Saturday, April 20, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies / 1317 W. Pettigrew St., Durham, North Carolina Wet plate processing is a beautiful, antique photographic process practiced in the nineteenth century by [...]
Register Now for Summer Course: One-Week Doc Filmmaking Boot Camp
This summer CDS will offer its tenth annual Documentary Video Institute, our one-week video boot camp that has turned out over two hundred full-fledged documentarians. From June 15 through June 22, with expert guidance from multiple instructors, students will learn all aspects of video production: pre-production and scouting locations, camera operation, lighting and sound, editing [...]
Register Now for New Workshops: “Writing About Nature” and “Animation in Documentary”
We’re pleased to offer these two new additions to our lineup of CDS Continuing Education classes. Both courses will be held here at the Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew St., Durham, North Carolina. Directions Writing About Nature Thursdays, April 11 to May 16, 7–9 p.m. This six-week workshop led by writer Belle Boggs (fiction and nonfiction in The Paris [...]
Ramble and Write with Duncan Murrell, Collect Community Stories with Barbara Lau: Register Now!
Excited about these two upcoming CDS Continuing Education classes; some spots left, register now. Both courses will be held here at the Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew St., Durham, North Carolina. Directions The Flâneur and the Writer: Documentary Writing and the Psychogeography of Place Saturdays, March 23 to April 20, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. In [...]
Register Now: Multimedia Storytelling Workshop and Short-Doc Class Anytown, USA
There are a few spots left in two upcoming CDS Continuing Education classes: Multimedia Storytelling Workshop Thursday, March 7: 6–9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 8–9: 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday, March 10: 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Instructors Catherine Orr and Elena Rue, founders of the visual storytelling company StoryMineMedia, use a combination of critiques, hands-on learning, [...]
Final Projects by Fall 2012 Certificate in Documentary Arts Graduates
Throughout the year, the Center for Documentary Studies offers Continuing Education courses in the documentary arts. Some students choose to enroll in the Certificate in Documentary Arts program, which offers a more structured sequence of courses culminating in the Final Seminar in Documentary Studies, where students finish and present a substantial documentary work—projects that often move [...]
Register Now for Continuing Ed Classes: Documentary and the Three-Act Structure, Intro to Audio Docs, Online Photo Course
The Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies offers classes in photography, video, audio, narrative writing, multimedia, and other creative media for adults who are interested in learning or continuing to do their own documentary work. Register now for these upcoming courses and workshops. Documentary and the Three-Act Structure Saturday, February 9, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Center for Documentary [...]
Acclaimed Playwright to Teach “Creating Drama from Community Stories and Oral Histories”: Register Now
In a new CDS Continuing Education class, Creating Drama from Community Stories and Oral Histories, students will draw on interesting characters and stories from their research or family histories to create short plays and performance pieces. Poet and playwright Howard L. Craft will offer instruction in writing authentic dialogue, developing complex characters, and creating engaging [...]
Continuing Education Information Night: Wednesday, January 23
Prospective and current students are welcome to this information session on CDS Continuing Education classes in the documentary arts—photography, video, audio, writing, and multimedia. Continuing Ed program director April Walton and other CDS staff will answer questions, provide recommendations and advice, and discuss the Certificate in Documentary Arts program. There will be a brief presentation on documentary tools and [...]
DSLR Video and Art of the Interview: One-Day Continuing Education Workshops on December 1
Register now for these two upcoming one-day workshops offered by the CDS Continuing Education program; classes are held at the Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew St., Durham, North Carolina. Email cdscourses@duke.edu with questions. Click on the class links below to register, and for full course and instructor information. DSLR Video: New Tools for Filmmaking and Media Instructor: Alex Manness Saturday, [...]
Register Now For CDS Summer Classes and Institutes
The Center for Documentary Studies is offering seven summer learning opportunities in 2013 through our Continuing Education program; registration is now open for: Intensive Introduction to Documentary Studies, Documentary Video Institute, Digging In: An Artists’ Retreat with Big Shed, Literacy Through Photography Workshop, Master Class in Nonfiction Writing, Hearing is Believing I: An Audio Documentary Institute, and Hearing is Believing II: Making It Sing. These [...]
Introductory Seminar in Documentary Studies: Register Now for This Continuing Education Class
Due to strong demand the CDS Continuing Education program will offer an additional section of the Introductory Seminar in Documentary Studies. Led by folklorist Joy Salyers, the class is designed for students in the Certificate in Documentary Arts program or those who plan to enroll. The documentary arts encompass many genres and numerous means of interacting with the world, [...]
Register Now for “The Narrative Imagination: A Documentary Writing Boot Camp”
Writer Rosecrans Baldwin will lead this two-day workshop in which participants will learn narrative techniques to add dimension and persuasive power to their documentary writing (such as creative nonfiction, memoir, or personal essays). Topics will include fieldwork, outlining, establishing voice, and structural editing. Through collaborative discussion, students will study examples of the best contemporary creative nonfiction, [...]
CDS Courses Focus on the Craft of Storytelling in Any Medium: Register Now
The CDS Continuing Education program is offering several classes specifically designed to help aspiring storytellers craft their work from the moments they’ve captured in various media. All classes are held at the Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew St., Durham, North Carolina. Email cdscourses.org with questions. NOTE: Duke students, faculty, and staff receive a [...]
Focus is on the Blogosphere in “Documentary Writing for the Web” Course: Register Now
A new CDS Continuing Education course, Documentary Writing for the Web, is designed to explore a system of writing from a documentary foundation, especially crafted for students who wish to disseminate information through the blogosphere and develop a written body of work. Instructor Carl W. Kenney II will focus on the local community for material: “I’m sending forth folks [...]
Workshop Almost Full: Register Now for “Beginning Multimedia Storytelling”
In the Beginning Multimedia Storytelling Workshop (a four-day class taught over the course of two consecutive weekends) students will gain an understanding of what multimedia is, where it is going, and how it can be used for powerful storytelling. Students will be exposed to cutting-edge work and engage in critical discussions about what elements make for effective [...]
“Coney Island 40 Years”: Artist’s Talk and Book Signing with Photographer Harvey Stein, Thursday, September 20
Join us for an evening with renowned documentary photographer Harvey Stein, who will discuss the work in his most recent book, Coney Island 40 Years, and an exhibit of the same name (click link for slideshow) currently on view in the Kreps Gallery through October 27. A reception will precede the talk and book signing; the event is [...]
Register Now for “Documenting Trauma,” a New Continuing Ed Course with Distinguished Scholar Sharon Raynor
A unique new CDS Continuing Education course, Documenting Trauma, “will ignite conversations about survival after a trauma,” says instructor Sharon Raynor. “Students will become witnesses to events that drastically affect individual and collective lives and learn how those experiences become stories of redemption, renewal, and healing.” The class will focus on the evolution of “narratives of struggle,” [...]
CDS Continuing Education Information Night: Monday, September 17, 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Prospective and current students are welcome to this information session on CDS Continuing Education classes in the documentary arts—photography, video, audio, writing, and multimedia. Continuing Ed program director April Walton and other CDS staff will answer questions, provide recommendations and advice, and discuss the Certificate in Documentary Arts program. There will be a brief presentation on documentary tools and [...]
Watch/Listen: Audio Slideshow from the 4th & 1 Football Camp
This audio slideshow was produced by The Recollective, a group of independent radio producers who spent part of their summer at Michigan State University with more than fifty high school football players at the 4th & 1 Football Camp, a free camp for students from under-served communities held in Texas and Michigan. The project was inspired by Recollective cofounder Jeremy Helton’s experience [...]
Harvey Stein to Teach Documentary Street Photography Course at CDS
The Center for Documentary Studies is pleased to offer a three-day Continuing Education workshop with photographer Harvey Stein: Documentary Street Photography, September 21–23, 2012. The class will consist of lectures, demonstrations, slide presentations, critiques, and photographic field trips for participants to document their Durham environments and the people who populate them. Topics will include photographing strangers, strategies [...]
