These pieces were produced in response to the Third Coast Audio Festival’s annual ShortDocs Challenge. This year, in teaming up with EveryBlock, the Third Coasters issued this challenge:
Produce a short audio story (2 -3 minutes) that features at least two of your neighbors, includes a color in the title, and contains three consecutive seconds of narrative silence. Stories of all styles are welcome – from documentary to drama – and everything in between. [Note that not all the pieces here are under 3 minutes, but they will be before we ship them off to Third Coast.]
Baby Blues, by Josh Stillman
Nostalgia’s overrated.
Dead Red Bricks, by Brian Contratto
Durham’s rich tobacco history has left a graveyard of forgotten neighbors: repurposed warehouse spaces whose upkeep varies wildly from corner to corner. Take a look at the ghost of a Ligget & Myers tobacco building.
Millhouse Yellow, by Nick Andersen
In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, gentrification advances with a cautionary yellow light as a local property manger paints the town his own special hue.
Black and White and Blue All Over, by Aziza Sullivan
Forty years later, current Duke students recall the words of old neighbors involved in an event that rocked the campus.
Black and White and Blue All Over
White Noise, by Julia Schönheit
We cannot be in silence: A view into the heads of the audience at the recital of John Cage’s 4’33”.
That Banana is Yellow, by Aleis Murphy
But what is yellow?
Out of the Blue, by Catey Appel
Everybody has a quirk or two, an odd habit or aptitude, the sort of thing that only those close to us will come to know.
Green and Red Excel Sheets, by Natalie Robles
A job is much more than color-coding excel sheets. For Natalie, a job at the Duke Career Center more about connecting with Jeverra, Ronise, and Arielle.
