On Friday, Nov. 22, Page Auditorium welcomed over 1,000 people for singer-songwriter Adrianne Lenker’s “one night only show” — opened by poet and songwriter Suzanne Vallie. While Lenker was indeed there for one night only, she also performed earlier that day in response to the concert selling out all of its tickets.
If you’re looking to change classes, add a fifth – or even sixth – or work towards finishing your T-Reqs, Recess is here to help. Here are six distinctive courses that celebrate creativity and quirkiness in the artistic and cultural landscape classes while helping you graduate on time.
This is the first time Duke Chinese Theater will performs a play not set in a Chinese society, presenting both a major challenge and an experimental highlight. At 7 p.m. Nov. 23 and Nov. 24, Duke Chinese Theater will take its audience to a new dramatic world with complicated understandings of human emotions and behaviors.
On the evening of Oct. 4, Duke academic departments and cultural organizations celebrated the connections between Duke University and Durham’s Hispanic, Latino and Latinx communities in an event at the Friedl Building’s Fredric Jameson Gallery. The celebration consisted of presentations and performances that centered the experiences and work of the students, faculty and community members who have helped build the Duke-Durham relationship.
The Dead have a unique relationship with Duke, which resulted in them performing on campus five times between 1971 and 1982. “The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast,” the official Grateful Dead podcast, explores the music and mythology of the Grateful Dead. Their newest episode explores both past and present factors that shaped the intertwined fates of Duke and the Dead.
Bringing together countless North Carolinians, Hopscotch 2024 was a grand homecoming for many artists who shared their stories of growing up or living in the area.
Arts Editor Tina Qian previews Hopscotch, one of the biggest music festivals of the Fall.
Arts Editor Tina Qian rates four of East Campus's major art venues
Ernaux commented, “Film truly captures life and people, even if film is silent.” This is the power of continuous images that blatantly present the unfiltered reality where decorum is barely utilized: Images become extremely impactful when one views them as a tool of reminiscence, and nothing is more brutally honest than the direct display of time through the lens.
Is the hype over Stanley Cups about aesthetics and empiricism? Part of it might be. However, my own encounters with culture and accommodations have spun a different narrative.
