Watch Videos: Final Projects of Fall 2011 Certificate in Documentary Arts Graduates
Throughout the year, CDS offers continuing education courses in the documentary arts to people of all ages and backgrounds. Some 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—photography, [...]
Claire Schoen: Work by Spring 2012 Continuing Education Instructor
Claire Schoen will be a workshop, From Soup to Nuts: Documentary Audio Production, in two locations in the spring 2012 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Claire Schoen has worked as an independent [...]
Podcast Available: CDS Audio Director John Biewen and Radio Diaries Founder Joe Richman on Public Radio Documentaries
Listen to this keynote address given by radio producers John Biewen and Joe Richman at the second annual Harrisburg Book Festival in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on November 12. They share their own stories and lead an interactive discussion on today’s public radio documentaries, drawing from Radio Diaries and Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound. [...]
Podcasts Available: Projects from the 2011 Summer Audio Institute
“Hearing Is Believing” is a one-week continuing-education course offered every summer at the Center for Documentary Studies. Each July, 24 people come from across the country to learn the basics of audio documentary-making and to collaborate with a fellow participant in producing a short piece. This year the stories emerged from a collaboration between CDS [...]
Duke Magazine Website Features “Documenting Duke” Audio Work by CDS Undergraduates
Through a collaboration between the Center for Documentary Studies and Duke Magazine, students in John Biewen’s undergraduate classes “Introduction to Audio Documentary” and “The Short Audio Documentary” have produced audio features to complement stories featured in the magazine. Among the recent audio pieces posted to Duke Magazine’s website is a piece by Elisabeth Michel, who [...]
Continuing Education Certificate Projects Spring 2011
View the final projects of the graduates in the Certificate in Documentary Arts program in spring 2011: John Crane, Paul Deblinger, Eric Douglas, Chelsea Flowers, Conrad Fulkerson, Paige Greason, Jeremy Helton, Eileen Heyes, and Kurney Ramsey, Jr. Videos are available to watch here and on CDS Vimeo. Read more about the spring 2011 Certificate in [...]
“Southern Slices” CDS Audio Projects Being Aired on Radio Stations Nationwide
A collection of student pieces from the summer Audio Institute at CDS have been broadcast on radio stations nationwide. The collection, “Southern Slices,” features student work from 2003–2007, and is hosted by CDS audio program director John Biewen. “Southern Slices” was featured on a summer playlist on the Public Radio Exchange, and has recently aired [...]
Student Audio Documentaries Featured on the Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
Audio documentaries produced by students in the class The Short Audio Documentary, taught by CDS audio program director John Biewen, are now available to listen on the Public Radio Exchange (PRX). PRX is an online marketplace for distribution, review, and licensing of public radio programming, and also serves as a growing social network and community of [...]
Randall Kenan at the 2011 Listening Institute
Randall Kenan at the 2011 Listening Institute Recorded on March 20, 2011 at CDS The 2011 Listening Institute, a partnership between CDS and the Third Coast International Audio Festival, brought about thirty audio/radio producers from across the United States to Durham for three days of intensive listening and discussion. The group listened to audio [...]
“Travels with Mike” CDS Radio Documentary Featured on PRX, Airing Nationwide
A half-century after John Steinbeck drove the country with his dog Charley and wrote his well-known account of the journey, producer and CDS audio program director John Biewen visited some key locations on Steinbeck’s itinerary, traveling not with a dog but with a microphone—mike, that is. In each location, he collaborated with an artist who [...]
Interview with John Biewen about “Travels with Mike” on the Big Read Blog
John Biewen was recently interviewed on the Big Read Blog about John Steinbeck’s classic novel Travels with Charley in Search of America, and the Travels with Mike project. “Driving Cross Country with John Steinbeck.” By Rebecca Gross. “Big Read Blog: Updates on the Big Read Initiative.” March 28, 2011. Read more about the Travels with [...]
Listen to Audio: Susan Shillinglaw Talks about “Travels with Mike”
Two audio pieces with Susan Shillinglaw are now available to listen on the Travels with Mike website. Susan Shillinglaw is professor of English and director of the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University. She spoke with CDS’s John Biewen about John Steinbeck’s iconic nonfiction book, Travels with Charley in Search of America. Shillinglaw [...]
Podcast Available: “Radio Diaries: 15 Years of Stories,” Joe Richman in the Duke Innovation Program Series
For fifteen years, Radio Diaries has been giving people tape recorders and working with them to report on their own lives and histories for NPR. With this approach, Radio Diaries has helped pioneer a new form of citizen journalism and has produced some of the most acclaimed and innovative documentaries ever heard on public radio: Teenage Diaries, Prison [...]
Listen to Episodes from “Travels with Mike” Audio Series
All six episodes from the audio series Travels with Mike are now available to listen at the Travels with Mike website. Read more about the project here
“Radio Diaries: 15 Years of Stories,” Joe Richman in the Duke Innovation Program Series
For fifteen years, Radio Diaries has been giving people tape recorders and working with them to report on their own lives and histories for NPR. With this approach, Radio Diaries has helped pioneer a new form of citizen journalism and has produced some of the most acclaimed and innovative documentaries ever heard on public radio: [...]
“Documenting Duke”: CDS Students Make Audio Features for Duke Magazine
Under a collaboration with Duke Magazine, students in John Biewen’s undergraduate class The Short Audio Documentary have produced audio features to complement the stories featured in the magazine. Listen to these audio features at dukemagazine.duke.edu/documentingduke
Travels with Mike
In the fall of 1960, the writer John Steinbeck climbed into a pickup truck with a makeshift camper on top, and started driving. He and his Standard Poodle, Charley, roamed for three months and ten thousand miles, completing a circuit from one coast to the other and back again. Steinbeck’s account of the journey, Travels [...]
Listen to Audio from The Art of Farming: A Public Symposium
Audio from The Art of Farming: A Public Symposium is now available to listen online. The Art of Farming symposium builds on the national documentary project Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families, which followed the lives of five farming families (from Massachusetts, North Carolina, Iowa, Arizona, and California) during the course of one year. Their [...]
Podcast Available: “Diagnosis: A Photographer’s Guide,” A Talk by Alex Harris
In this talk photographer Alex Harris shows his photographs taken at the Samaritan House Clinic in San Mateo California and discusses how his work as a documentary photographer in the field resonates with the work of physicians in the clinic. Pediatrician/photographer and former student, John Moses, introduces Harris. Alex Harris is a founder of the [...]
The Art of Farming
The Art of Farming Photographs and Audio by Undergraduates at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Farming is among the oldest expressions of human culture. For a documentary artist or student, the farmer and his/her land present potent ground on which to create original artwork that explores and reflects central issues of our day. [...]
“Coming Home: Stories of Homelessness and Finding Home Again,” Presentation of Student Documentary Projects December 6
Ten Duke undergraduates spent the fall semester documenting the people and programs of Housing for New Hope (HNH), an organization that has been working for almost twenty years to prevent and end homelessness in Durham County and Orange County, North Carolina. As part of the course Documentary Engagement, the students were required to spend more than [...]
“Five Farms” Interview with John Biewen by Stephen Smith of American RadioWorks
John Biewen was recently interviewed by Stephen Smith of American RadioWorks about the documentary project Five Farms: Stories of American Farm Families. Biewen was the series producer for Five Farms and is the Audio Program Director at the Center for Documentary Studies. Listen to the interview with Biewen here. Recent blog posts about Five Farms [...]
Photographs from the 2010 Summer Audio Institute
In this weeklong, morning-till-night immersion in audio documentary work, students learn hands-on skills in recording and digital audio mixing, discuss issues such as the ethics of documentary work, explore varied uses for audio documentaries, and hear accomplished producers play and talk about their work in evening presentations. Final projects can be found on the CDS [...]
Reality Radio Performance & Book Signing with the Kitchen Sisters
Reality Radio Performance & Book Signing with the Kitchen Sisters A public event in conjunction with CDS summer audio institute, Hearing Is Believing Monday, July 26, 7 p.m. Bay 7, American Tobacco Complex, Durham, North Carolina Award winning National Public Radio producers, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva of The Kitchen Sisters, began their collaboration within [...]
