Auditions for “Noises Off” Monday and Tuesday nights, several public meetings, and the monthly Charlotte Writers’ Club North meeting lie ahead in Davidson this week. There’s a Davidson Farmers Market on Saturday next to Town Hall. The YMCA is hosting a blood drive Tuesday and Wednesday. And a variety of Easter services, including two sunrise services, are planned Sunday, April 4.

Those events and more below. And you can check our day-by-day calendar on the right side of the main page in The Guide for an up to date listing of events daily.

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Our calendar of events this week runs the gamut from an elementary school Artfest to a bass fishing tourney to Davidson College Theatre Department’s production of the cross-dressing comedy “Leading Ladies.” On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Vice Chair Donald Kohn speaks at the college. And on Sunday, March 28, 16-year-old flutist Sarah Sullivan joins members of the St. Alban’s Bach Festival Orchestra in a Music at St. Alban’s series concert.

More highlights of the week below. And don’t forget you can see a day-by-day schedule of events in our click-able calendar at right.
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Our calendar in and around Davidson this week gets off to a busy start Monday with a planning workshop in east Davidson, a report from the citizen task force studying high water bills in north Mecklenburg, and a lecture about the future of the news business at Davidson College.  The week also brings theater auditions and performances, a Town Board budget retreat, music and another of Davidson Farmers Market’s winter tailgate markets Saturday. Those and other events below.

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The last week of February brings author Margaret Atwood to town for a public lecture on Thursday and includes the final Davidson College men’s basketball home game on Wednesday. The week begins Monday with a visit to Davidson United Methodist Church by Haiti earthquake survivor Pam Carter of Charlotte and a Davidson Planning Board monthly meeting. Also tonight, the Davidson College women’s basketball team hosts Georgia Southern at Belk Arena.

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After a wintry weekend, the week ahead in Davidson has no shortage of things to do. Basketball games, a slew of concerts and recitals, meetings and lectures, as well as Davidson College’s annual Lunar New Year festival and fireworks, fill our calendar for this week. And the college theater department brings “Nine Parts of Desire” to the stage.

And Saturday is the rescheduled Davidson Cares worship service and community service project to help earthquake victims in Haiti.

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Lectures, a Town Board meeting, basketball and a Chili Cook-off to benefit the Arts & Science Council are on the schedule this week in and around Davidson. Christian author/activist Shane Claiborne gives the college’s annual Staley Distinguished Christian Lecture tonight (Monday, Feb. 8 ) on “Radical Community: Celebrating Jesus’ Prophetic Imagination.” Also on tap this week is a program Tuesday by college archivist Jan Blodgett on the black history of Davidson College for Black History Month.

And Friday brings a pair of fun fund-raisers: the 2010 Green Ball, a contra-dance and fund-raiser for Davidson Lands Conservancy, and the 4th annual Apocalypse Greek Step Show, a showcase of step dancing that will raise money for Davidson-Cornelius Day Care and the American Diabetes Association. Read the full story