Shifts: New Expressions 2026

Shift your perspective.

Join the Duke Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) for our annual celebration of student documentary work and new creative visions!

->| Explore exhibitions featuring work from CDS undergraduate courses.

-->| Meet students graduating from our Undergraduate Education and from our Continuing Education programs.

--->| Enjoy live music by Little Chair (an all-Duke student band) and free food from the Boricua Soul food truck.

---->| Enter a raffle for a bundle of CDS photo books (must be present at drawing at 6:00 p.m. to win).

"Shifts: New Expressions 2026" is an ongoing exhibit - student work installed in April will be on view into the summer, so you can keep coming back to take it all in.

Free and open to all - students, faculty, staff, and community members.

PROGRAM

5:00 p.m. | Doors open, exhibitions on view, raffle & free food tickets available (while supplies last)
5:15 p.m. | Live music starts
6:00 p.m. | Welcome, raffle drawing, & presentation of Undergraduate Certificates
6:15 p.m. | Remarks & presentation of Continuing Education Certificates
6:30 p.m. | Presentation & film screening (Elizabeth M. Webb, 2024-2026 Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor)

Image: Dhruv Rungta