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 [...]
Reality Radio Book Launch at Third Coast Filmless Festival
Reality Radio Book Launch at Third Coast Filmless Festival In March, the Third Coast Filmless Festival’s “Words on Sound” book launch event to celebrate the publication of Reality Radio was part of a full day of listening to sound-rich audio features made by some of the most influential producers working today. Held at Chicago’s Museum [...]
Reality Radio at Politics and Prose in Washington, DC
Reality Radio Book Signing and Talk at Politics and Prose, Washington, DC May 15, 2010 “Reality Radio is a fabulous book I wish I could have read when I started at NPR in 1974. It would have shaved 10–15 years off the learning curve in discovering how to make great radio.”—Bob Edwards, host of The [...]
Just Published: Reality Radio
The Reality Radio website features links to all of the audio/radio pieces referenced in the book, as well as links to dozens of audio resources. Reality Radio celebrates today’s best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. In [...]
“Reality Radio” Launches at the Third Coast Filmless Festival
Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound by John Biewen, editor / Alexa Dilworth, coeditor Published by the University of North Carolina Press and CDS Books at the Center for Documentary Studies Launch Event Saturday, March 6, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Words on Sound: Book Launch and Signing With contributors Ira Glass, the Kitchen Sisters, and [...]
Documentary Speaker Series: Roger Hodge, Wells Tower, and Rebecca Skloot
Documentary Narrative Speaker Series: Roger Hodge (March 5), Rebecca Skloot (March 24), and Wells Tower (April 23) Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University DIRECTIONS: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/about/here.html All events held at CDS unless otherwise noted. The Documentary Narrative Speaker Series is presented in conjunction with the CDS course Documentary Writing, taught this spring by Duncan Murrell. [...]
Jazz Loft Project Exhibition At New York Public Library For The Performing Arts At Lincoln Center
Jazz Loft Project Exhibition New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center On view through May 22, 2010 The exhibition, organized by the Center for Documentary Studies as part of a multiyear project, features never-before-displayed vintage black-and-white prints and rarely heard audio recordings by photographer W. Eugene Smith, who spent eight years [...]
Continuing Education: Information Session and Newly-Announced Courses
Continuing Education Information Session With April Walton Monday, February 8, 6–8 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies Prospective and current students welcome! Come and ask questions about courses at CDS, meet instructors, and learn about the Certificate in Documentary Arts. Please register on-line for this free session at www.cdscourses.org. For additional information, contact Continuing Education at [...]
Allan Gurganus On The American South
Allan Gurganus On The American South Recorded on November 15, 2009 at CDS The first ever Listening Institute, a partnership between CDS and the Third Coast International Audio Festival, brought fifty audio/radio producers from across the United States, and several foreign countries, to Durham for three days of intensive listening and discussion. The group [...]
Recent Press Coverage For “The Jazz Loft Project”
David Friend of Vanity Fair on The Jazz Loft Project November 27, 2009 Leonard Lepote Show interview with Sam Stephenson December 8, 2009 Powells.com Interview with Sam Stephenson December 10, 2009 Fred Kaplan on the Jazz Loft Project in New York Magazine December 27, 2009 Communication Arts Webpick of the Day December 29, 2009
“Five Farms”: Web Extras
Five Farms Web Extras Listen to behind-the-scenes interviews with the Five Farms producer and executive producer; view an interactive map of the Five Farms families; listen to Five Farms feature stories from the PRI program “Here and Now” and the BBC program “Outlook;” view additional behind-the-scenes photographs; and listen to the original theme music composed [...]
“The Bathers” Featured In The New Yorker, PDN, And In An Audio Podcast
New Features On The Bathers: Photographs By Jennette Williams New Yorker Review Macy Halford reviews The Bathers: Photographs by Jennette Williams in a blog post on the New Yorker’s website. See Halford’s accompanying slide show of paintings from earlier time periods that Williams’s photographs recall, and read Halford’s thoughts on the work. “Imagine a vector, [...]
Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow Applications Due January 13, 2010
Become A Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow Applications are due January 13, 2010 Learn more about becoming a Hine Fellow. See the work of Hine Fellow Amanda van Scoyoc and other previous Hine Fellows on the website for the Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows Program.
Register Now For Spring/Summer CDS Continuing Education Courses
See A List Of Up Coming CDS Continuing Education Courses On Our Website. Free information session on Monday, February 8, 2010, 6–8 p.m. For additional information, please contact Continuing Education at the Center for Documentary Studies by calling 919-660-3663 or emailing cdscourses@duke.edu.
“Five Farms” Families and Documentary Producers Gather at CDS
Farm family members featured in the national documentary project Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families, along with staff from the production team, gathered at CDS December 4–5 for The Art of Farming public symposium. Visit the Five Farms website to listen to the audio documentaries and to view photographs from each farm.
Certificate In Documentary Arts Final Presentations On December 11
Certificate In Documentary Arts Graduates Final Projects Presentation, Fall 2009 Friday, December 11 7 p.m., CDS Auditorium Students in the Final Seminar in Documentary Studies, taught this fall by Randy Benson, will present their photography, audio, and video projects to a public audience on Friday, December 11, at 7 p.m. in the CDS Auditorium. A [...]
National Public Radio Features The Jazz Loft Project In December
Every Sunday in December, National Public Radio presents highlights from the Jazz Loft Project.
The Art of Farming: A Public Symposium, December 4-5, 2009
The Art of Farming: A Public Symposium December 4–5, 2009 Keynote Speaker: Verlyn Klinkenborg “Farming and the Problem of Complexity” December 4, 7:30 p.m., ETC Auditorium, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham Presented by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University In conjunction with the national documentary project Five Farms: Stories from [...]
The Jazz Loft Project Radio Series
Listen to the Jazz Loft Project radio series on the WNYC website. Episode 1: “Introduction” Episode 2: “Images of the Loft” Episode 3: “The Tapes” Episode 4: “Hall Overton” Episode 5: “Before the Loft” Episode 6: “Ron Free” Episode 7: “Flower District” Episode 8: “Monk Town Hall Concert” Episode 9: “More Tapes” Episode 10: “Times [...]
Undrabörn/Extraordinary Child
Undrabörn/Extraordinary Child Photographs By Mary Ellen Mark November 5—January 10, 2010 Kreps and Lyndhurst Galleries, Center for Documentary Studies In Undrabörn/Extraordinary Child Mary Ellen Mark portrays in intimate detail the lives of Icelandic children coping with a variety of physical and mental challenges as they go about their daily activities. Moving, poignant, sad and joyous, [...]
The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs And Tapes Of W. Eugene Smith From 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs And Tapes Of W. Eugene Smith From 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965 By Sam Stephenson Publication Date: November 2009 In 1957, Eugene Smith, a thirty-eight-year-old magazine photographer, walked out of his comfortable settled world—his longtime well-paying job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four children in [...]
Register Now For Fall Continuing Education Courses At CDS
Fall Continuing Education Courses Register Now Using Our New On-Line System The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) offers a wide range of short courses, institutes, and workshops in the documentary arts. These courses, available through flexible admission with reasonable fees, involve instruction in photography, film and video, audio, and writing. They include special topics and [...]
Five Farms: North Carolina
Five Farms: Stories of American Farm Families Whitakers, North Carolina Photographs by Tom Rankin, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
