BY KARYN JESTER
DavidsonNews.net

Try out the new Lake Davidson canoe launch Saturday at Davidson Lands Conservancy's Paddlefest, co-sponsored by Davidson Outdoors.

The folk music group Davidson Local plays Friday night at Summit Coffee. Davidson Farmer’s Market is open and there’s a 5k and kids’ fun run in Huntersville Saturday to help fund special needs activities at participating schools. Later on that day, Davidson Lands Conservancy, Davidson Outdoors and REI host Paddlefest, an afternoon of activities to celebrate the opening of the new canoe/kayak launch on Lake Davidson. Sunday, St. Alban’s Episcopal Church’s arts and spirituality program presents artist Tom Shulz discussing Michelangelo’s famous sculpture “The Pieta.”

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. At right on this page, see our movie show times listings for Our Town Cinemas where “Gnomeo & Juliet” and “Cedar Rapids” open on Friday, joining “Battle: Los Angeles,” “Rango,” “Adjustment Bureau,” and “Paul.”

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Joseph Bathanti

BY KARYN JESTER
DavidsonNews.net

Starting off the week, the Democrats of Precinct 206 are meeting again Monday night to get a quorum of members to elect officers. Also Monday, the Future of the Library Task Force presents its recommendations to the county commission and library board. On Tuesday, Poet and novelist Joseph Bathanti, professor of English at Appalachian State University, will be reading from his work. Cynthia Lawing and Ruskin Cooper will perform Wednesday at this week’s Davidson Music Department Faculty Recital. There’s another concert on Thursday, this time at Summit Coffee where Shantell Ogden from Nashville, Charlotte songwriter Steve Simpson and host Rob McHale will be performing. The Davidson College theater and music departments will join forces to present “Into the Woods,” starting Friday and ending April 2.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. At right on this page, see our movie show times listings for Our Town Cinemas where “Paul,” “Battle: Los Angeles,” “Rango” and “Adjustment Bureau,” are playing.

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Christopher Warren-Green

Christopher Warren-Green, music director of the Charlotte Symphony, has a big gig coming up. Symphony officials were crowing Tuesday about the news that Mr. Warren-Green has been appointed to conduct the London Chamber Orchestra at the April 29 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

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BY KARYN JESTER
DavidsonNews.net

The week starts off with a three-day conference on reformed theology and ethics that will be held at Davidson College and Davidson College Presbyterian Church. There will be worship services and programs on various topics throughout the conference. There are a number of Davidson College lectures this week, subjects include democracy, biology, environmental politics and more. Davidson College Presbyterian Church’s season of Organ at Davidson will come to a close with a performance by organist Marek Kucklicki. Artist Herb Jackson and author Alan Michael Parker have joined together to present a program Thursday called “10 Days,” with images by Jackson and poems by Parker. Lake Norman High School will present “The Sound of Music” this weekend.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. At right on this page, see our movie show times listings for Our Town Cinemas where “Battle: Los Angeles,” “Rango,” “Adjustment Bureau,” and “The King’s Speech” are playing.

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Opening at Community School of Davidson High School.

An exhibit titled “Excavations,” including 19 paintings spanning the 50-year career of Davidson College art professor Herb Jackson, opens with a reception Thursday night at Davidson’s Belk Visual Arts Center. Elsewhere, Community School of Davidson produces its first high-school play, “Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon,” on Friday and Saturday, while the art-forgery drama “Masterpiece” continues at Davidson Community Players’ Armour Street Theater. Davidson College’s Gamut dance group hosts another show Friday and Saturday nights. There’s a Davidson Greenways, Trails and Bikeways meeting on Thursday and a Concert on the Green planning meeting on Friday.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. At right on this page, see our movie show times listings for Our Town Cinemas where “Battle: Los Angeles” opens Friday, joining “Rango,” “Adjustment Bureau,” “Just Go With It,” and “The King’s Speech.” Read the full story

BY KARYN JESTER
DavidsonNews.net

Herb Jackson

The week’s activities begin Monday with a women’s self defense class at the Lake Norman YMCA and another free session offering advice on appealing your Mecklenburg County revaluation, at Ada Jenkins Center. On Tuesday, poet Kevin Prufer reads from his work at Davidson College’s Carolina Inn. Davidson Senior Scholars starts up again for its second session on financial planning and there’s a comical theatrical work titled “Celebrity Autobiography” that brings American celebrities’ memoirs to the Davidson College stage Wednesday. And a 50-year retrospective of the works of Davidson artist Herb Jackson opens with a reception Thursday night at the college.

Lectures at the college this week will focus on divination, foreign relations and philosophy. The college’s Gamut dance company, has a pair of performances, and the college also hosts a variety of musical performances, including student performances of songs and arias titled “Liederabend.” Meetings this week include the Town Board and a Precinct 127 Democratic Party on Tuesday, a Davidson Greenway meeting on Thursday and a Concert on the Green planning meeting on Friday.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. At right on this page, see our movie show times listings for Our Town Cinemas where “Battle: Los Angeles” opens, joining “Rango,” “Adjustment Bureau,” “Just Go With It,” and “The King’s Speech.”

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