NEWS
Ready, Set, This Week in Davidson: February 13 – 19
Early voting began Thursday, February 12 and concludes on February 28. Primary election day is Tuesday, March 3. There are 19 early voting sites open in Mecklenburg County, with the closest location at Cornelius Town Hall. The full listing of Early Voting sites, as well as the dates and times they are open, can be found on the Mecklenburg Board of Elections page.
Friday, February 13
Men’s Tennis vs VCU
Feb. 13 @ 5:00 p.m.
Davidson Tennis Courts
Baseball vs Bryant
Feb. 13 @ 5:00 p.m.
Wilson Field
Wrestling vs Appalachian State
Feb. 13 @ 7:00 p.m.
Baker Sports Complex
Music at Summit: Winter Music Series – Dane Page
Feb. 13 @ 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Summit Music Stage
Saturday, February 14
Main Street Books Storytime
Feb. 14 @ 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Join us for Tameka Fryer Brown's "Prayer Is" Storytime & Book Launch. We'll have an engaging storytime experience with a celebratory spirit for families with little ones followed by a book signing! Proceeds from pre-orders and sales of “Prayer Is” will be shared with Hearts and Hands Food Pantry in Charlotte.
Men’s Tennis vs Queens
Feb. 14 @ 1:00 p.m.
Davidson Tennis Courts
Women’s Basketball vs Richmond
Feb. 14 @ 1:00 p.m.
John M. Belk Arena
Baseball vs Bryant
Feb. 14 @ 1:30 p.m.
Wilson Field
Davidson Branch Library: Mahjong Intermediate Open Play
Feb. 14 @ 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Davidson Branch Library
Mahjong Intermediate Open Play is a program where adults can play Mahjong at the intermediate level. This means you know the rules and can play at a faster pace than a beginner. No formal instruction will be provided. Registration required.
Sunday, February 15
Baseball vs Bryant
Feb. 15 @ 1:00 p.m.
Wilson Field
Women’s Tennis vs Wofford
Feb. 15 @ 2:00 p.m.
Davidson Tennis Courts
Monday, February 16
Davidson Branch Library: Baby Storytime
Feb. 16 @ 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
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 a 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)
Feb. 16 @ 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
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.]
Davidson Branch Library: Homework Help (K – 5th grade)
Feb. 16: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Children in K-5th grade are invited to drop in to the library on Mondays 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 provides this program on Mondays from 4 p.m.- 6 p.m., however all Library branches offer Homework Help too! Visit the Homework Help website for additional hours of service.
Davidson Branch Library: Reading Buddies (Ages 5 – 11)
Feb. 16: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
We want to be your school aged child's reading buddy! Library volunteers read aloud favorite books by asking questions, building vocabulary, and connecting to your child's world.
This semester will begin February 2-May 4 (no appointments for April 6). Sessions are available Mondays from 4pm-6pm.
This is a drop-in program, no registration required!
Dean Rusk & Pulitzer Crisis Center Lecture: Global Health Equity in a Changing Aid Landscape: Lessons from Africa
Feb. 16 @ 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Visual Arts Center and Lawn VAC-117 Semans Lecture Hall
The Dean Rusk International Studies Program is pleased to welcome global health journalist Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman to campus to deliver the 2026 Spring Pulitzer Lecture. Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman hails from Ghana, where he has multiple national journalism honors to his name. Dini-Osman is a multiple Pulitzer Center grantee and has served as a Senior Broadcast Journalist and News Presenter with EIB Network Ghana since 2016. His work focuses on global health, with special emphasis on investigating inequities in the delivery of healthcare worldwide. He also has reported on climate change and other environmental matters.
Town of Davidson: Sustainability Board Meeting
Feb. 16 @ 6:30 p.m.
Davidson Town Hall and Community Center, Room 120
The Sustainability Board provides recommendations and advice to the Town of Davidson Board of Commissioners and Town of Davidson staff regarding Town sustainability initiatives, including but not limited to Climate Action Plan implementation.
French Film Showing: "l’Armée des Ombres"
Feb. 16 @ 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Chambers Hance Auditorium
Concert Series: Verona Quartet
Feb. 16 @ 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Sloan Music Center Tyler -Tallman Recital Hall
The Davidson College Concert Series, with our sponsor WDAV Classical Public Radio, opens its season with "Inflection Points," a program that focuses on societal changes every 100 years through the lens of music. On the program will be pieces by Domenico Scarlatti, Augusta Reed Thomas, Leoš Janáček, and Ludwig van Beethoven. For tickets, please contact the Union Box Office at 704-894-2135. Free for Davidson students, but tickets are required.
Tuesday, February 17
Town of Davidson: Livability Board Meeting
Davidson Town Hall and Community Center, Room 120
Feb. 17 @ 6:00 p.m.
The Livability Board's mission is to serve as a sounding board and provide advice and recommendations to staff on any and all questions concerning parks, recreation, healthy living initiatives, trees and natural assets, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and policies. The Livability Board may be called upon for advice and recommendations to the Board of Commissioners in any or all of the following areas of concern: to create and promote an enjoyable place to live, learn, work, and play; to support safe and vibrant spaces and neighborhoods; to promote cultural, socioeconomic, and age diversity; to encourage committed civic involvement and responsibility; to provide sustainable and healthy choices for transportation, food, and energy use; to enable faithful stewardship of natural and historic resources.
Davidson Branch Library: Writing Club: Cursive Handwriting
Feb. 17: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
You’ve mastered writing in print. Are you ready to learn cursive? Cursive writing is known to enhance fine motor skills, improves retention and comprehension, and helps improve spelling skills. Plus, it's fun! Join us for 5 once-a-week sessions to learn the basics of cursive writing! Since these sessions will build upon skills developed in the previous sessions, registrants are required to sign-up for all 5 sessions. Children must be able to write confidently in print before signing-up! Practice makes progress! Some practice sheets will be sent home to help practice!
Art, Mindfulness & Community
Feb. 17 @ 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Visual Arts Center and Lawn VAC-103 Wm H Van Every Jr. Gallery
With Ivan Mayerhofer, Associate Chaplain for Buddhist Programs, Director of Davidson Meditation Initiative, Coordinator of Interfaith Programs. Join us for a series of mindful and meditative community engagements. No experience with mindfulness necessary.
Baseball vs UNC Greensboro
Feb. 17 @ 5:30 p.m.
Wilson Field
Wearn Lecture – Dr. Kafui Dzirasa
Feb. 17 @ 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Sloan Music Center Tyler-Tallman Recital Hall
Kafui Dzirasa of Duke University seeks to reengineer the brain’s electrical patterns to treat anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Though the mission is bold, many of biomedicine’s most prominent funders believe this psychiatrist, engineer, and neuroscientist is uniquely positioned to succeed. Dzirasa has advised American presidents, headlined TEDMED, and earned the respect of the nation’s leading health officials. We invite all members of the community to attend what promises to be a captivating Wearn Lecture.
Jared Benton – Archeology Series presenter
Feb. 17 @ 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Visual Arts Center and Lawn VAC-117 Semans Lecture Hall
“Punitive Labor and Enslavement in the Roman Bakery”
Free and open to the public. In 2023, excavators in Pompeii found a bakery in the Casa di Rustio Vero that was separated from the house—and the rest of the world—by metal bars. The excavators interpreted the bars as an indication of incarceration and the use of convicts as labor. This lecture explores the evidence for convict labor in bakeries and argues that the material consequences of enslavement and incarceration are probably indistinguishable in the setting of commercial activity. Deploying both textual and material evidence, Benton will show the various ways that punitive labor grafted onto different systems and scales of production.
Wednesday, February 18
Main Street Stories
Feb. 18 @ 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Main Street Books
Main Street Stories is our storytime for young kids and their caregivers. Join us for storytime at the bookstore. We'll explore themes through books and songs.
Event Guidelines
- Winter 2026 Session: Wednesdays January 14 - March 25, 2026
- Please RSVP to each story time individually.
- Location: Main Street Books
- Address: 126 S. Main St, Davidson NC
- Main Street Stories is a free program
Davidson Branch Library: Technology Help
Feb. 18: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Get free one-on-one assistance 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.
Documentary Film Screening and Q&A with Director Pamela Yates & Producer Paco de Onís
Feb. 18 @ 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Knobloch Campus Center - Duke Family Performance Hall
The United States border is not just a geographic location. The border is everywhere. It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at any moment they can be captured, incarcerated, deported; their lives destroyed. "Borderland | The Line Within" not only exposes the profitable business of immigration and its human cost, but weaves together the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes resisting and showing a way forward, intent on building a movement in the shadow of the border industrial complex, recognizing the human rights of all.
Town Hall: Design Review Board Meeting
Feb. 18 @ 5:30 p.m.
Davidson Town Hall and Community Center, Room 120
The Design Review Board (DRB) interprets and enforces the design regulations contained in the Davidson Planning Ordinance. The Board reviews the building schematic design of all new commercial, civic/institutional and multifamily construction as well as additional structures as required by the Davidson Planning Ordinance.
Town Hall: Historic Preservation Commission
Feb. 18 @ 5:30 p.m.
Davidson Town Hall and Community Center, Room 120
As public stewards of the Davidson Historic District, the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) has several powers and responsibilities. These include recommending to the Board of Commissioners the designation, or the removal, of historic district overlay zoning; granting requests for proposed changes within the historic district that are congruous with state, federal, and local governments in pursuance of its responsibilities; and conducting meetings or hearings necessary to carry out these roles. The HPC meets the third Wednesday of each month, immediately following the 5:30 PM Design Review Board meeting, unless otherwise noted. All meetings are open to the public.
Summit Coffee - Open Mic Night
Feb. 18 @ 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Summit Coffee
Men’s Basketball vs Richmond
Feb. 18 @ 7:00 p.m.
John M. Belk Arena
Thursday, February 19
Art + Apps: Hidden Gems in Art Collection Storage
Feb. 19 @ 11:05 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Visual Arts Center and Lawn VAC-100 Atrium
Join Gallery interns as they share some of their favorite works currently in collection storage. Join us for a snack afterward. (Storage is located in the VAC Basement.)
Davidson Branch Library: Emerging and Established Artists
Feb. 19: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Join fellow art enthusiasts to share inspiration, ideas, and stories. This program is not led by an instructor--it's an opportunity for you to bring in your canvas, paints, or other media to work in community with fellow artists.
Note: No supplies will be provided.
Join us on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
While you're in the branch, check out our many art books.
Davidson Branch Library: The Third Thursday Travel Club
Feb. 19: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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 arm chair travel.
February's theme is Cruises. 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: Preteen Perler Bead Projects
Feb. 19: 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Join us for a DIY Perler Project at Davidson Branch Library just for ages 9-12 years. Design and create your own project with perler beads!
Makerspace programming focuses on exploring new technology as well as project-based learning through designing, prototyping and building ideas from start to finish.
Registration required
Borderland Masterclass – Pamela Yates and Paco de Onís
Feb. 19 @ 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Chambers Hance Auditorium
Please join us on February 19 at 4:30 p.m. in Hance Auditorium, for a special masterclass with filmmakers Pamela Yates and Paco de Onís. They will offer a masterclass presentation, in which they will discuss their human rights media organization, Skylight, and its method for creating films that act in solidarity with social justice causes. Free and open to the public.
Lorenzo Dow Turner Lecture
Feb. 19 @ 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Visual Arts Center and Lawn VAC-117 Semans Lecture Hall
The Africana Studies Department is pleased to invite you to the 2026 Lorenzo Dow Turner Lecture. This year’s lecture will be presented by Dylan Rodriguez, Professor in the recently created Department of Black Study as well as the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California-Riverside. “Toward the Abolition of Liberal Counterinsurgency: Philanthropy, the University, and (Black) Radical/Anarchist Alter-Being"
Summit Coffee Trivia Night
Feb. 19 @ 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Summit Coffee