NEWS

 

Friday – November 1

Early Voting

Nov 1 @ 8:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Town Hall & Community Center – 251 South Street (Lower Level)

 

Baseball Wilson World Series:Game 1

Nov 1 @ 5:00 p.m.

Wilson Field

 

Music at Summit:

Nov 1 @ 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Summit Coffee

 

Saturday – November 2

Early Voting – FINAL DAY

Nov 2 @ 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Town Hall & Community Center – 251 South Street (Lower Level)

Please note that if you wait until the final day of early voting – there may be a longer wait.

 

Davidson Farmers Market 

Nov 2 @ 9:00 a.m.

Downtown Davidson – behind Summit, between Main Street and Jackson Street

 

Volleyball vs. Fordham

Nov 2 @ 2:00 p.m.

Belk Arena

 

Baseball Wilson World Series: Game 2

Nov 2 @ 2:00 p.m.

Wilson Field

 

Sunday – November 3

Davidson Annual Smashing Pumpkins Event

Nov. 3 @ 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Fisher Farm

The second annual Pumpkin Smash & Shoot event will take place from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. at the Fisher Farm Archery Range. All jack-o-lantern walk entries will be brought to the event to be smashed!

 

Volleyball vs. Fordham

Nov 3 @ 1:00 p.m.

Belk Arena

 

Flags In 

Nov 3 @ 1:30 p.m.

Mimosa Cemetery on South Street

Volunteers will help place American flags on the graves of Davidson’s veterans in advance of Veterans Day. Flags will be place at the three cemeteries in town: Christian Aid Society, College Cemetery, and Mimosa Cemetery.

 

Baseball Wilson World Series: Game 3

Nov 3 @ 2:00 p.m.

Wilson Field

 

Monday – November 4

Davidson Branch Library: Baby Storytime

Nov 4 @ 9:30 a.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Babies experience brain stimulation through language and socialization. Engage your little one with new sights and sounds through books, songs, and rhymes. This group is a majorly lapsit program for babies from birth to 18 months. Registration is on a first come, first serve basis. Only the first 12 babies will be accepted. Please collect a ticket at the front desk upon arrival.

 

Davidson Branch Library: Family Storytime (Outside)

Nov 4 @ 10:30 a.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Bring your whole family out to enjoy stories, songs, and movement activities that support early literacy skill development and help foster a love of books and reading in your child. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to participate. This storytime will take place outdoors in front of the Davidson Library.

 

Davidson College Concert Series: Mozart, Webern, and Haydn

Nov 4 @ 7:30 – 9:00 p.m.

Sloan Music Center: Tyler-Tallman Hall
Taylor Marino, principal clarinet with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, joins Chamber Music For All to perform Mozart’s charming Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581. Also featured are Anton Webern’s lyrical and brooding Langsamer Satz and Haydn’s chipper String Quartet in G major op. 77, no. 1. Calin Lupanu, violinMonica Boboc, violinMarcus Pyle, violaMarlene Ballena, celloTaylor Marino, clarinet For tickets, please contact the Union Box Office at 704-894-2135. Free for Davidson students, but tickets are required.

 

Men’s Basketball Hosts William Peace (Exhibition)

Nov 4 @ 7:00 p.m.

Belk Arena

 

Tuesday – November 5

Election Day 2024

Nov 5 @ 6:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.

NOTE: voters may only vote at their designated precincts on Election Day. Precinct 127 is located at Hopewell Baptist Church. Precinct 206 is located at Town Hall & Community Center – 251 South Street (Lower Level).

 

Davidson Branch Library: The In-Person Book Club (Daytime Edition)

Nov 5 @ 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Join us on the 1st Tuesday of each month at 2:00 pm for The In-Person Davidson Branch Book Club! This month we will be discussing Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin.

A luminous novel, whose humor, wisdom and tenderness shine through on every page. Emily Austin writes with a perfectly-gauged lightness of touch, deftly balancing perceptive musings on life and death with scenes that make you laugh out loud. I was utterly charmed by the kind-hearted but morbidly anxious Gilda, a woman whose self-conscious overthinking leads her into the oddest of predicaments. The way she ties herself in ever-tighter knots trying to fit in and please everyone is something we can all relate to. Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead hits that sweet spot: a fun, page-turner of a novel that engages both heart and head. I was captivated by it.” —SARAH HAYWOOD, New York Timesbestselling author of The Cactus

 

Davidson Branch Library: Preteen Scene – Creative Writing

Nov 5 @ 4:00 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Have you heard of NaNoWriMo? It stands for National Novel Writing Month! Join us at the library as we explain more about the program and take some time to practice writing small stories based on prompts. Who knows, maybe it will spark your own idea for a novel! For ages 9-12! See you there! You do not need to prepare anything before the program. It always helps to have an open mind and brainstorm a fun idea. Just have fun with it! We will have light refreshments! 

 

Davidson Branch Library: Paws to Read

Nov 5 @ 4:00 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

This program will be provided by Davidson Paws to Read volunteers! Boost your reading skills and confidence by reading aloud to a volunteer therapy dog. The length of sessions will be around 10 minutes. This is a drop-in program, so no registration is required.

 

Women’s Basketball Hosts Florida Gulf Coast University (Exhibition)

Nov 5 @ 7:00 p.m.

Belk Arena

 

Wednesday – November 6 

Davidson Branch Library: Tabletop Board Games

Nov 6 @ 10:00 a.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Unplug from screens and dive into the world of tabletop gaming with a variety of board games suitable for adult players at the Davidson Branch Library. This program offers a fantastic opportunity for adult and older adults to connect with others. Participating in board games encourage cooperation, problem solving, letter and word recognition, and critical thinking skills. A variety of games will be available to use during the program or bring your own! Light refreshments will be served.

 

Davidson Branch Library: Student Success Center

Nov 6 @ 4:00 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Visit the Student Success Center at Davidson! The Student Success Center is a pop-up learning space designed to provide a supporting learning environment for children in elementary school grades. Students can visit the Student Success Center to work with a trained volunteer to get support in one of three ways: homework help, skills practice, or Tutor.com login help.

Note: The Student Success Center is not a tutoring center, but rather a space designed to seek learning support from a volunteer. Students are called to work with volunteers on a first come, first served basis and no registration required. Drop by the Student Success Center to get the support you need today!  For more information, visit https://cmlibrary.org/ssc. Suitable for: School Age (5-11)

 

 Davidson Branch Library: Reading Buddies

Nov 6 @ 4:00 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

We want to be your school aged child’s reading buddy! Sign up your school aged child for a 30-minute reading buddy session to share in the joy and power of reading. Library volunteers read aloud favorite books by asking questions, building vocabulary, and connecting to your child’s world. This semester will begin September 18 – December 18. Sessions are available Wednesdays from 4pm-6pm. Children register for a weekly reading buddy time for the entire semester! Sessions are offered on a first come, first serve basis. Registration opens one week prior to session (September 9th-16th). Please call 704-416-4000 or stop by the front desk to view available slots and to register your child for this upcoming semester.

 

Francophone Film Series: Orlando – My Political Biography

Nov 6 @ 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Chambers: Hance Auditorium

Synopsis: “Come, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.” Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando: A Biography” as his starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado fashioned the documentary ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY—a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto. For almost a century, Woolf’s eponymous hero(ine) has inspired readers with their gender fluidity as well as their physical and spiritual metamorphoses across a three-hundred-year span. In making his film, Preciado invited a diverse group of more than twenty trans and nonbinary people to play the role of Orlando and to participate in this shared biography. Together, they perform interpretations of the novel, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories of transition and identity formation. Not content to simply update a groundbreaking work, Preciado interrogates the relevance of “Orlando” in the ongoing struggle to secure dignity for trans people worldwide. (The Criterion Chanel)

 

Open Mic at Summit

Nov 6 @ 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Summit Coffee

 

Traditional (Music) Series: Larry & Joe

Nov 6 @ 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Duke Family Performance Hall

Join us for a concert focused on Latin/Appalachian connections, with the great duo of Larry Bellorin and Joe Troop, known simply as Larry & Joe. Joe Troop, a Grammy-nominated Old-time and Bluegrass multi-instrumentalist who spent over a decade in Argentina teaching music and cultivating Latingrass, has joined with Larry Bellorin, a Venezuelan master on harp, cuatro, upright bass, and maracas. It will be one of the most distinct virtuoso performances that the Traditional Series has produced, alternating between two countries and cultures. For tickets, please contact the Union Box Office at 704-894-2135. Free for Davidson students, but tickets are required.

 

An Evening with Claire Jimenez

Nov 6 @ 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Chambers Lilly Family Gallery

A reading by Claire Jiménez, winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez, with discussion to follow. Free and open to the public.

 

Thursday – November 7

Davidson Branch Library:  Crafting with Books: Turkeys for Thanksgiving

Nov 7 @ 11:00 a.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Join us in celebrating the yummiest time of the season! We will listen to stories and make a turkey craft for the Thanksgiving season! For ages 3-5. See you there!!

 

Davidson Branch Library:  Technology Tutors: 1-on-1 Support Session

Nov 7 @ 3:00 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Sign up for a 1-hour individual session with a library staff member to get tech help with computer basics, job help assistance, Microsoft Office, Internet, email, or other topics.

 

Davidson Branch Library:  Teen and Preteen Board Game Night

Nov 7 @ 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Dive into the world of tabletop gaming with a variety of board games suitable for preteens and teens at Davidson. Participating in board games encourage cooperation, problem solving, letter and word recognition, and critical thinking skills. This drop-in program will be provided by Davidson’s teen services staff member and is recommended for ages 9-18. A variety of board games and puzzles will be available to use during the program. Snacks and light refreshments will be provided. You’re encouraged to bring your friends!

 

Trivia Night at Summit

Nov 7 @ 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Summit Coffee

 

Conversation with Dr. Sarah Arens

Nov 7 @ 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Chambers Hance Auditorium

This presentation will make a case for extending decolonization efforts to animals and thinking about animals – from the museum, to the lab and to conservation – in order to formulate a more comprehensive understanding of colonialism’s all-pervasive nature via colonial knowledge production, animal engagement and representation.