Posted on November 19th, 2008 by David Boraks
Five 2-3 multiage classes at Davidson Elementary school will be selling compact fluorescent light bulbs on the Davidson Village Green this Saturday, Nov. 22, 9:30 to noon, as part of a community service fund-raiser on behalf of schoolchildren in Kenya.
Also Saturday, a group of North Mecklenburg High School students has organized a 5K race and [...]
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Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by David Boraks
Our community calendar in Davidson week includes the opening of Davidson Community Players’ production of “Working” in their new theater at Armour and Watson streets. Tuesday is Election Day, and also the date of the next Main Street Books story time for kids 5 and under. Lectures at Davidson College this week include one [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2008 by David Boraks
A leading advocate for human rights among minorities in China will give a free lecture Tuesday, Oct. 21, at Davidson College. Rebiya Kadeer, a Uyghur from northwest China, will speak on “China’s Other Tibet: The Plight of China’s Uyghur People” at 7 p.m. in Alvarez College Union 900 Room.
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Posted on October 17th, 2008 by David Boraks
It’s hard not to be moved by images in the exhibit “Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh,” which opened Thursday night at Davidson College’s Belk Visual Arts Center Van Every/Smith Galleries. This show is unlike others seen here recently, and you could sense it Thursday night. Davidson gallery director Brad Thomas noted that there was [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2008 by David Boraks
Indian vocalist Mallika Akella sang at the opening of the exhibit “Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh” Thursday, Oct. 16, at Davidson College Belk Visual Arts Center. More about the exhibit: http://davidsonnews.net/2008/10/17/sheikhs-photos-and-text-compel-us-to-learn/
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Posted on September 24th, 2008 by David Boraks
Davidson native Drew Wilgus, who works as an intern for an architecture firm in Raleigh, has won grand prize in Dwell.com’s Design Your Dwelling international design competition. Mr. Wilgus, a recent UNC Charlotte architecture graduate, was praised for a single-story home near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge that uses salvaged bridge elements. Judges said it [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2008 by David Boraks
Members of the Lake Norman Jugglers and their counterparts from Atlanta, Baltimore, Washington, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and other places took over the Village Green Saturday morning for the 19th Annual Hurricane Hugo Juggling Festival.
Jugglers showed off their skills, and some experts taught newbies a few tricks at the festival. About 70 jugglers were pre-registered for [...]
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Posted on August 29th, 2008 by David Boraks
A Harvard anthropologist’s talk about migration and China’s one-child policy on Monday, Sept. 1, will kick off a series of four lectures on China this fall at Davidson College. The free series includes a human rights activist, a veteran U.S. journalist, and a Tibet expert. The lectures are co-sponsored by the Dean Rusk International Studies [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by Laurie Dennis
Brenda Barger’s June 19 Around Davidson column described how Davidson resident Hans Deissel will be chaperoning a group of high school students (including Alex Gunn of Davidson) to a town in Rwanda to do volunteer work at a health clinic and school. The trip is sponsored by the Echo Foundation, which has a focus on [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by David Boraks
“Little Women, the Musical” continues this weekend. Cast includes (from left) Amanda Roberge (Amy); Kathryn Withers (Meg); Kim Baysinger (Marmee); Lisa Smith (Jo); Suzanne Lenz (Beth).
Summer is in full-swing, and what better way to spend a Saturday evening than with a benefit beer tasting and live music at Summit Coffee? On Sunday morning, you can [...]
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