The performance footage in the video was taken during a rehearsal at the Warehouse.

By CHRISTINA RITCHIE ROGERS
DavidsonNews.net

Bonita Jones Knott

Bonita Jones Knott, “The Bare Foot Poet,” kicks off her shoes this week for her second performance at the Warehouse Performing Arts Center. Following a successful one-woman show in April, “This is not a one night stand: Journeying with a God who is not on the run,” Ms. Knott this week explores the themes of rejection and healing.

She performs a series of eleven poems in her show, entitled, “From the thorn of rejection to the rose of restoration.” Read the full story

CORNELIUS – The Cornelius Parks, Arts, Recreation and Culture Department (PARC) announces its summer 2011 outdoor cinema series. Movie schedules and locations are as follows: Read the full story

By KARYN JESTER
DavidsonNews.net

A four-day Collectibles and Antiques show kicks off Thursday at the Metrolina Expo in north Charlotte, where you can find anything from home decor items to fresh produce.  Saturday is packed with options, from the Charlotte Asian Festival and Dragon Boat races on Lake Norman  to a Charity Ride & Poker Run for the Cornelius Veterans Monument to the Lake Norman Spring Music Festival at Kenton Place. Also Saturday, the Davidson Farmer’s Market is open, and it’s Davidson Town Day, including a 5k run, community service activities and a library book sale.

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 “Thor” opens on Friday, joining “Fast Five,” “Water for Elephants,” “Rio,” and “Atlas Shrugged: Part I. Read the full story

Hough junior Aly Weishaar remembers her travels to New Zealand and Germany, where she took some of the photos she placed in the exhibit Tuesday night. (Christina Ritchie Rogers / DavidsonNews.net)

The W.A. Hough High School Photography Club hosted an exhibit at the Carolina Art Garden gallery, at Oak Street Mill, 19725 Oak St., Tuesday night to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The student photographers donated all proceeds from photograph sales to the foundation. Read the full story

New art classes for babies, preschoolers, youth, teens and adults begin next week at Community Arts Project, in the Oak Street Mill, Cornelius. Topics include drawing; oil, watercolor and acrylic painting; printmaking and pottery/ceramics. Read the full story

Klezmer band Freylach Time

The second Shalom Lake Norman Jewish Festival is scheduled Sunday, Aug. 29, from noon to 5 p.m., bringing games, music, food and fun to Ramsey Creek Park, off N.C. 73 in Cornelius.

More than 700 people attended the first festival last year, and organizers this year have expanded the event’s hours and offerings. The festival is sponsored by the Jewish Council of Lake Norman with support from the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte.

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