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Photo of slide lecture "Walker Evans at 100"

North Carolina Folklore Society Special CDS Events

March 30

Held in conjunction with the North Carolina Folklore Society’s annual conference at the Center for Documentary Studies, special CDS events on Friday, March 30, include an afternoon workshop on digital documentary equipment followed by a Docudropby4fun happy hour and two Fresh Docs film presentations.

Documenting Digital: A Workshop for Folklorists and Others
Liz Lindsey, April Walton, and others

What’s the difference between a scratchy, weak recording that is only useful for transcription and a quality audio recording that can be heard on the radio, edited for presentation, or placed on your Web site? In audio recording, as well as video and digital photography, there are small changes you can make in your equipment and technique that will have a huge impact on the quality of your hard work. This workshop is an opportunity to learn about the different kinds of recording equipment available and to understand the trade-offs in different price ranges. Participants will have an opportunity to try out equipment, ask lots of questions, and begin to explore different ways of editing and presenting their material. (For information on other CDS workshops and courses, go to http://cds.aas.duke.edu/courses/conted.html.)

Date: Friday, March 30
2–5 p.m. (3 hours)
Course fee: $45
Enroll by 3/16: $35
Course ID: 10845
To register for this workshop, contact Duke Continuing Studies by calling 919-684-6259 Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. or visit the Web at:
http://www.learnmore.duke.edu/shortcourse/classsearch.asp

Liz Lindsey is the exhibitions coordinator at the Center for Documentary Studies, where she is in charge of the traveling exhibitions program, while also participating in research, programming, and production work of the CDS exhibitions program at large. A native of Spring Hill, Tennessee, Lindsey holds a B.A. in English from Millsaps College and an M.A. in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a board member of the North Carolina Folklore Society. Recently, she has enjoyed recording audio for the CDS Web site, producing audio for a CDS traveling exhibit, and recording and editing personal audio.

A native of western North Carolina, April Walton is the learning outreach coordinator at the Center for Documentary Studies. Her favorite part of the job is connecting people passionate about a project with the resources that will enable them to bring it to life. She is the producer/director of Standing at the Crossroads, a video documentary about sustainable farming in North Carolina. Walton is a freelance video producer and a board member for Student Action with Farmworkers.

Fresh Docs
On a regular basis, the Center for Documentary Studies and the Southern Documentary Fund invite documentary artists to share their work in progress with an enthusiastic and supportive audience. In this way, Fresh Docs is an ongoing conversation about documentary work in its many forms. A happy-hour gathering, Docudropby4fun, starts at 6:30 p.m. Fresh Docs presentations begin at 7:30 p.m., followed by a moderated conversation about the work. (For more info about Fresh Docs, go to http://cds.aas.duke.edu/events/freshdocsoverview.html.)

Friday, March 30, 7:30 p.m.
The Silver Rights Movement by Neil Williams
This Side of the River by Ryan Rowe and Drew Grimes

The Silver Rights Movement explores the legacy of Durham’s Black Wall Street and Hayti district as a backdrop for examining current economic disparities affecting African Americans across the nation. Why has black business ownership lagged? What insight does Durham’s unique business history provide for today’s entrepreneurs? Drawing on original interviews, location filming, scholarly research, and archival records of black entrepreneurship, The Silver Rights Movement is intended to spark debate on the economic history and current conditions of African Americans in this country.

Neil Williams is a 2006 graduate of Duke University, where he majored in public policy with an economics minor and certificate in film. He was a recipient of Duke’s prestigious Benenson Art Award, the Hal Kammerer Video Production Award, and a 2006 Full Frame Fellowship. In 2004 his two-minute film “Super Size Me and Copyright Law” was a finalist in the international Duke Law/Full Frame Moving Image Contest. His production company, CrequeVision Entertainment, has produced shorts for the Black Student Alliance at Duke, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., and Duke’s Cable 13.

This Side of the River: Self-Determination and Survival in the Oldest Black Town in America incorporates interviews with residents and historians to tell the story of Princeville, North Carolina. Settled by freed slaves in 1865, Princeville was the first town in the United States incorporated by African Americans (1885). The story of Princeville’s survival through racial prejudice, economic hardship, and near-permanent destruction by the flood from Hurricane Floyd in 1999 is an important and previously untold piece of American history. This is a story of African people proudly transforming the discarded land of their captors into a safe haven for resistance and self-expression. Within an ever-changing Southern black identity, the people of Princeville demonstrated communal support through religious, political, and economic self-determination.

Drew Grimes is a trained social-linguist, a documentary filmmaker, and a graphic designer who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is currently working on history museum installations. Ryan Rowe is a trained social-linguist, a documentary filmmaker, and a graphic designer who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is currently working in violence prevention and public education reform.

banner image:

Professor Alex Harris during a slide lecture accompanying the fall 2003 exhibition, Walker Evans at 100. Photograph by Christopher Sims.

Center for Documentary Studies
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27705

telephone: (919) 660-3663
fax: (919) 681-7600
email: docstudies@duke.edu

See: directions to the Center for Documentary Studies

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