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David Henry Hwang
Election day is just around the corner, and so are numerous other events across the Lake Norman region. Davidson College’s annual Reynolds Lecture Monday night at 7:30 features playwright David Henry Hwang, author of the 1988 play M. Butterfly. Other lectures this week include on “Exploring the Milky Way” Tuesday at St. Alban’s Church in Davidson. Weekend highlights include the 19th Annual Sheep Dog Trials and Dog Festival at Rural Hill in Huntersville, an the Davidson Lands Conservancy’s annual campout at Fisher Farm. Friday Read on for more highlights and events from This Week’s calendar.
COMING UP THIS WEEK
Trivia night at Summit Coffee continues Monday evening – show off the beginning of your Movember mustache and test your trivial knowledge at 7:30pm on the back porch.
Tuesday is Election Day across the county and state. Voters will elect local officials for mayor, city council, and commissioners across the region. For information on voting and to find your voting location, visit meckboe.org.
In 2011, electric violinist Mark Wood played with Bailey Middle School students Rachel Laminack (left) and Kelsey Tyo. (David Boraks/CorneliusNews.net)
Also this Tuesday, St. Alban’s Episcopal Church welcomes Dr. Naomi McClure Griffiths, internationally recognized astronomer, to deliver a lecture titled “Exploring the Invisible Milky Way” at 6:30pm at St. Alban’s. Hough High School Orchestra Patrons will host electric violinist Mark Wood at 7pm at W.A. Hough High School for a concert with area violin students following Wood’s workshops with them Monday and Tuesday. Emmy-award winning Mark Wood is considered an innovator in the electric violin industry. Davidson College invites the public to the annual Hansford M. Epes Distinguished Lecture. The speaker, Brian Leiter from the University of Chicago, will discuss “The Truth is Terrible: Nietzsche’s Idea of an Aesthetic Justification for Existence” beginning at 7 p.m., in the Alvarez College Union Smith.
This Wednesday, the Lake Norman Regional Medical Center welcomes Van Sikes, MD, of Northshore Orthopedic & Sports Medicine, as the featured presenter for the November Senior Extra program. He is presenting “Freedom from Hip Pain” as the featured topic for the monthly program. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, November 6 at 3pm, in the hospital’s Community Rooms A and B. The Rotary Club of Davidson will continue its weekly meetings tonight at 5:30pm at the Lake Norman YMCA in Cornelius. Find out more by visiting their website, www.davidsonrotaryclub.org. Continue to get your trivia fix this week at trivia night at The Kilted Buffalo in Birkdale Village. The Kilted Buffalo hosts Trivia Night every Wednesday, starting at 8pm.
Besides the Sheep Dog Trials and the Saturday campout at Fisher Farm, this weekend’s events will include the North Mecklenburg Woman’s Club Over the Table Top fundraiser, Bella Love/Cornelius Cultural Arts Group’s 2nd Friday Art Crawl in Cornelius. See our Events Calendar for all the details.
NEW CALENDAR, MORE EVENTS
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