NEWS

Davidson Presbyterian Church will be hosting their BBQ this Friday. The event begins at 11:00 a.m., and continues until the BBQ runs out. Opt to dine in or take out. Don't miss the best BBQ in Davidson.

Friday – November 14

Davidson Branch Library:  Puzzle & Game Swap

Nov 14 @ 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Join us at the Davidson Branch for our Puzzle and Game Swap! Have you completed the same puzzles more than once? Are you tired of playing the same board or card games? Ready for some new ones? Bring your gently used puzzles and games leave with new ones. Don't want to bring a puzzle or game home? Then stay and play with our puzzles and games. Puzzlers of all ages welcome! Any puzzles and games left at the end of the swap will be considered property of the Davidson Branch Library.

Davidson Presbyterian Church Annual BBQ

Nov 14 @ 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Davidson Presbyterian Church - 214 Depot Street

The best BBQ in Davidson is back! Come and get a plate or a pound, or both. You won't regret the decision.

Volleyball Hosts Saint Louis

Nov 14 @ 7:00 p.m.

John M. Belk Arena

Music at Summit: Sunday Union

Nov 14 @ 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Summit Coffee Stage

Davidson College Theatre Department: The Drowsy Chaperone

Nov 14 @ 7:30 p.m.

Duke Family Performance Hall

Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Golden Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another. With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favorite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording comes to life and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on. Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.

Saturday – November 15

Davidson Farmers Market

Nov 15 @ 9:00 a.m.

Downtown – Behind Summit and Ben & Jerry’s

Davidson Branch Library:  Creating with Books- Autumn Trees

Nov 15 @ 11:00 a.m.

Davidson Branch Library

We are enjoying the autumn weather, are you? Join us for an autumn-themed story and make a sweet autumn craft to take home! Ages 5-8.

Volleyball Hosts Saint Louis

Nov 15 @ 1:00 p.m.

John M. Belk Arena

Davidson Branch Library:  Mahjong Beginner Open Play

Nov 15 @ 2:30 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Mahjong Beginner Open Play is a program where adults can play Mahjong at the beginner level. This means you know how to play but need to practice. At this time, this is a drop-in and play session for beginners, no formal instruction will be provided. It is, however, a safe space to practice playing with people who are also in the beginning stages. The tiles, mats, and cards are all provided in this session. Just bring yourself. American Mahjong is a tile game stamped with Chinese symbols. Four players play the game at a time. The goal of the game is to be the first to match your tiles to a specific set from a scorecard by picking and discarding. Mahjong is a fun game to play, but also it has many cognitive benefits. It is known to help dementia, aid concentration and memorization abilities. Come practice this inherently social game, and enjoy mental and social benefits!

Men’s Basketball Hosts Bowling Green

Nov 15 @ 6:00 p.m.

John Belk Arena

Music at Summit: Joe Middleton

Nov 15 @ 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Summit Coffee Stage

Davidson College Theatre Department: The Drowsy Chaperone

Nov 15 @ 7:30 p.m.

Duke Family Performance Hall

Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Golden Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another. With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favorite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording comes to life and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on. Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.

Sunday – November 16

Summit: Sunday RunDay with Queen City Mother Runners

Nov 16 @ 9:00 a.m.

Summit Coffee

Women’s Basketball Hosts Iona

Nov 16 @ 1:00 p.m.

John Belk Arena

Davidson West Neighborhood Meeting

Nov 16 @ 2:00 p.m.

Ada Jenkins Center

Davidson College Theatre Department: The Drowsy Chaperone

Nov 16 @ 2:00 p.m.

Duke Family Performance Hall

Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Golden Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another. With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favorite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording comes to life and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on. Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.

Monday – November 17

Davidson Branch Library:  Baby Storytime

Nov 17 @ 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 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 (Outdoor)

Nov 17 @ 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. [Inclement weather note: In the case of inclement weather, please check the website to confirm a cancellation.]

Dr. Nathan Dize: A Missed Translation

Nov 17 @ 6:00 p.m.

Hance Auditorium (Chambers 4121)

A Missed Translation (?): Race, Power, and Reception in the Archives of Beatrice Stith Clark’s Translations of Mayotte Capécia

The more we know about the translator, the more we know about their choices and how they made them. And yet, how are we to learn about the translator if critics, the stewards responsible for maintaining the literary record, ignore translations and erase the translator and her work? What do these choices say about the critic, and how do we recover the missing translation and its translator? In this talk, I will revisit the reception history of Beatrice Stith Clark’s translations of two novels by Mayotte Capécia (née Lucette Combette) through the literary and archival record. When read side-by-side, these two archives reveal histories of segregation, exploitation, and exclusion. In this way, I argue that the translation archive of Beatrice Stith Clark, an African American woman, academic, and translator, rather than merely telling a story of a missed translation or missing translator, offers us pathways for decolonizing and desegregating the literary record. Nathan H. Dize is Assistant Professor of French at Washington University in Saint Louis. He is working on two book projects, Handle with Care: The Legacies of Black Translators of Francophone Literature and Attending to the Dead: Haitian Literature and the Practice of Mourning. Nathan is also a translator of Haitian literature, including The Immortals and The Emperor by Makenzy Orcel, I Am Alive by Kettly Mars, Duels by Néhémy Dahomey, and Antoine of Gommiers by Lyonel Trouillot. He is also a founding member of Kwazman Vwa and the co-editor of “Global Black Writers in Translation” at Vanderbilt University Press.

Town Sustainability Board Meeting

Nov 17 @ 6:30 p.m.

Town Hall and Community Center

Davidson College Violin Studio Fall Recital

Nov 17 @ 7:30 p.m.

Sloan Music Center: Tyler-Tallman Hall

Tuesday – November 18

Davidson Branch Library: Paws to Read

Nov 18 @ 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.

Davidson Branch Library: Spanish Conversation Club

Nov 18 @ 5:00 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Practice your Spanish speaking and listening skills in a relaxed group environment. No lectures, just conversation! This program will be provided by a Davidson library Volunteer. We will talk about various topics, including art, civilization, culture, sports, sociology, nature, and talk about the many aspects of daily life in Spanish-speaking countries. It will be a time of sharing ideas, dreams, past experiences, and much more. We will have plenty of time for informal and spontaneous conversation. Requirements: 16 years old or older; Spanish fluency at an intermediate or advanced level.

Town Board Meeting

Nov 18 @ 6:00 p.m.

Town Hall and Community Center

Davidson Branch Library: French Conversation Club – Intermediate and Advanced

Nov 18 @ 6:30 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Practice your French speaking and listening skills in a relaxed group environment. No lectures, just conversation! Please note: This is a makeup session since the library is closed on the regularly scheduled date of November 11. French Conversation Club usually meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month. We will talk about various topics, including art, civilization, culture, sports, sociology, nature, and talk about the many aspects of daily life in France and other French-speaking countries. It will be a time of sharing ideas, dreams, past experiences, and much more. There will usually be a light preparation at home such as reading a short newspaper or magazine article, watching a you-tube video, etc. as a starting point for our discussion. We will also have plenty of time for informal and spontaneous conversation. Requirements: 16 years old or older, French fluency at an intermediate or advanced level.

The Hansford M. Epes Lecture - Living Memorials and Monuments to Feeling:  Reparative Encounters on Campus

Nov 18 @ 7:00 p.m.

Sloan Music Center: Tyler-Tallman Hall

This talk invites attendees to consider how different collegiate settings choose to stage encounters for repair for students, faculty, staff, and community members through artistic media. The vast majority of higher education institutions in the United States have been supported through enslavement, settler colonialism, or both. These are "histories that hurt" and that ripple into the present in a variety of ways. Over the last 10-15 years, several colleges and universities have commissioned artworks as one way to repair the harm these institutions have historically caused. This talk explores the potentialities and limits of the arts' capacity to materialize cultural memory, to "make real" how we might see, hear, and move through the past into new futures. About the Lecturer - Ariel Nereson, PhD is Associate Professor of Dance Studies at the University at Buffalo – SUNY. She is the author of the award-winning book Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past (University of Michigan Press, 2022); coeditor of the forthcoming collection Critical University Studies and Performance (Vanderbilt University Press); and currently at work on a book about institutions, the arts, and reparations. Her research has most recently been recognized with the Sally Banes Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research. Ariel is Editor of Theatre Journal and a practicing choreographer and dramaturg.

Dennis Ogburn - Archeology Series Presenter

Nov 18 @ 7:30 p.m.

Visual Arts Center – Semans Lecture Hall

Dennis Ogburn, “How the Inkas built Sacsayhuaman, Revisited”

About the lecture: This lecture will discuss new ideas about how the Inkas constructed their megalithic walls, such as those of Sacsayhuaman above Cusco in Peru. Although scholars know the technology the Inkas used to quarry, transport, and shape the stones that were used in their high-quality structures, the exact process of how they maneuvered and fit the building blocks of their megalithic walls has long been elusive. Proposed solutions have remained speculative. Fieldwork in 2024 involving excavation and observation of unfinished terrace walls at the site of Sacsayhuaman in Cusco provided direct evidence for how blocks were put into place. About the speaker: A member of AIA Society 333, Dennis Ogburn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and an affiliate of the Latin American Studies Program at UNC Charlotte. His research focuses on archaeology of the Andean region of South America, where he specializes in the use of geochemical analysis, ethnohistory, and radiocarbon dating to study the expansion and maintenance of the Inka Empire. His interests include the development of political power in ancient empires, the role of monumental architecture in state societies, and Inka warfare. He is conducting a long-term investigation of sources of Inka building stones in the Cusco region of Peru and is part of a multinational team conducting excavations at Sacsayhuaman on the edge of Cusco.

Wednesday – November 19

DavidsonLearns: Let's Keep Our Wits: Staying Sharp Throughout the Lifespan

Nov 19 @ 1:00 p.m.

Town Hall and Community Center

Speaker, Linda Austin, MD, is a graduate of Duke University School of Medicine and practiced clinical medicine for over forty years.  She served as Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina with a special interest in teaching the public about mental health and preventative medicine in media-based programs. She hosted the public radio program “What’s on Your Mind?” for thirteen years; has written three books; has produced four films on mental health issues; has appeared on numerous television interview shows, including Oprah Winfrey; and has been an active podcaster.

Davidson Branch Library: Technology Help

Nov 19 @ 4:00 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Free, one-on-one help with computers and technology. Bring your iPhone, iPad, laptop or other device. Improve your skills and confidence! These drop-in sessions will be led by volunteers from the Hough High Honors Computer Science Club.

Davidson Branch Library: Homework Help

Nov 19 @ 4:00 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Children in K-5th grade are invited to drop in to the library on Wednesdays from 4pm-6pm for Homework Help! Trained Homework Help volunteers provide a welcoming and supportive environment where young learners can:

• Get help completing assignments
• Practice important foundational math and reading skills (such as math facts or reading)
• Explore and get connected to important Library resources, including Tutor.com, a free professional tutoring service that provides 15 free tutoring sessions in any subject each week with a Library card or ONE Access account

Whether your child needs a little extra support, or a focused one-on-one support session, Homework Help is a great way to build confidence and stay on track. Let us partner with you in your child’s learning journey! Note: While our homework help program is intended for student support, it is not a tutoring service. Volunteers provide help and guidance to the best of their ability, but are not certified teachers. Volunteers do not complete assignments for students. Students are called to work 1 on 1 with a trained volunteer for a 20-minute block after completing a short intake form to share your learning support needs.

Davidson Branch Library: Paws to Read

Nov 19 @ 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.

Davidson Branch Library: Reading Buddies

Nov 19 @ 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 17 – December 17 (no appointments for November 26). 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 2-13). Please call 704-416-4000 or stop by the front desk to view available slots and to register your child for this upcoming semester.

Dean Rusk & Pulitzer Crisis Center Lecture: Yao-Hua Law: "The Drivers of Deforestation: Reporting on People, Plants, and Animals in Malaysia"

Nov 19 @ 4:30 p.m.

Visual Arts Center – Semans Lecture Hall

The Dean Rusk International Studies Program is very pleased to welcome Yao-Hua Law to campus on November 19th to deliver the Pulitzer Lecture: "The Drivers of Deforestation: Reporting on People, Plants, and Animals in Malaysia," Yao-Hua Law is an award-winning science journalist from Malaysia who blends narrative writing with data analysis to bring environmental issues to a wider audience. He co-founded Macaranga Media in 2019, Malaysia's only environmental newsroom, that works at building environmental journalism in the country. His work has been honored by several awards from the Malaysian Press Institute as well as the Sigma Award in 2023 and the One World Media Prize in 2020. Currently he is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Town Design Review Board & Historic Preservation Committee Meeting

Nov 19 @ 5:30 p.m.

Town Hall and Community Center

Courtside Chat: Beyond the Pages of Shot Ready by Stephen Curry '10

Nov 19 @ 8:00 p.m.

Virtual Event

Be at the forefront of an exciting exploration by participating in Davidson's new virtual book club as we delve into “Shot Ready” by Stephen Curry '10. Discover Stephen Curry's game-changing philosophy as detailed in his book. "Shot Ready" offers insights into preparation, continuous improvement, creativity, connection, mindfulness and joy. Curry's distinctive voice, paired with more than 100 stunning photographs, provides personal storytelling intertwined with powerful guidance to unlock your potential. Grab your copy (sales opened Sept. 9) and be ready to join the Courtside Chat at 8 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Nov. 19. This virtual program will feature a conversation with Leader-in-Residence Bob McKillop, Davidson’s former head men’s basketball coach, soon to be inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame, moderated by Davidson College Athletic Director Chris Clunie '06. Together, they'll dissect the insights presented in “Shot Ready.” The Courtside Chat will offer a platform for exploring Curry's ideas on preparation, creativity and mindfulness, all within the context of his acclaimed success. Gain unique perspectives and a deeper understanding through this interactive dialogue.

Be a Part of It!

• Secure Your Spot: Don't miss this opportunity to interact with our eminent speakers and connect with fellow Wildcats. Register now.
• Connect with Other Readers: Join the online discussion group, Book Forum "Shot Ready" by Stephen Curry '10, in Davidson Connect, Davidson’s online community. Don’t have an account? Create one today. Have an account and forgot your password? Create a new one.

Join a community of enthusiastic Wildcat readers and thinkers, all eager to explore new horizons through the lens of Stephen Curry’s transformative book. We look forward to seeing you there!

Thursday – November 20

Davidson Branch Library: Third Thursday Travel Club

Nov 20 @ 3:00 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Join our monthly meeting of the Third Thursday Travel Club. We'll chat about travel stories, experiences, share advice, invite in experts, share library resources, and maybe even do some armchair travel. In honor of Veterans Day, November's theme is Veterans and Where They've Traveled. Bring your questions, your stories and your Wanderlust! Newcomers always welcome! This program will take place indoors at the Davidson Branch library. Registration not required.

Davidson Branch Library: Paws to Read

Nov 20 @ 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.

Davidson Branch Library: Manga Mashup

Nov 20 @ 4:30 p.m.

Davidson Branch Library

Been reading any manga or watching any anime lately? Come share with us what you're reading and watching! We're not a regular book club. We're an "UnBook Club!" What's an Unbook Club, you ask? We don't all agree to read the same things. (After all, some like shojo more than shonen, or like the mecha genre more than the magical girls’ type. Some might even like both!) Here we all take turns sharing what we're currently reading, give and ask for recommendations, and share our love of manga! We play games, watch anime, make crafts, and hang out. Join us every last Thursday of the month at 4:30 p.m. in the community room. In November and December we've had to move our usual time due to holidays!