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Plowed – a Poem by Nora Shepard
NEWS Newton School, Asheville, NC 1956 In the third grade we were very seriousabout contour plowing. We poured overthe artless pictures in our textbooks,inspected the patterns placed before us:the swirls and folds in the badly colored fieldsof our rough...
Considering Matthew Shepard
NEWS Davidson College Chorale and Chamber Singers 25 years have passed since Matthew Shepard, a young, gay student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left to die in a field under a blanket of stars. Five days later, when Matt passed...
Ready, Set, This Week in Davidson: March 3 – 9
NEWS Friday – March 3 Spin with Us – Hearts on Fiber March 3 @ 3:00 p.m. 208 South Main Street We love spinning! We also love the company while spinning. So let’s make a group. Bring your spinning wheel, or drop spindle, or whatever you have to spin with and...
Unrecorded History
NEWS The antebellum history of Davidson and its surrounding communities is rich with accounts of Davidson College, merchants and professionals, prominent families, schools, churches, historic homes, and the plantations that remain from the antebellum period. What...
“Native Gardens,” Davidson Community Players Season Opener, Plants More Than Pretty Flowers
NEWS What a way to tackle diversity! Playwright Karen Zacarias cleverly sprouts controversial social, cultural, and intergenerational issues in her one-act play, Native Gardens, directed by Robert Coppel at the Davidson Community Players Armour Street Theatre....
Together for Ukraine and Democracy
NEWS Reflecting on a Year of Resiliency – Ukraine Awareness and Fundraising Event Davidson College’s Dean Rusk International Studies Program, the Department of Russian Studies, UCCA (Ukrainian Congress Committee of America) in Charlotte, and Davidson for...
More Than An Amazing Concert – Rhiannon Giddens
NEWS Sunday evening was standing room only in the Duke Family Performance Hall.was While they came for the musical performance that would be part of the Davidson College Concert Series and the C. Shaw and Nancy K. Smith Artist Series, ticket holders got so...
Lauren Jackson Coplan Concert and Conversation
NEWS Music at St. Alban’s featured Davidson native Lauren Jackson Coplan on the piano on Sunday, February 26. After college, Lauren continued her music studies in Manhattan, teaching piano there as well. She has recently completed her MFA at the NC School of...
Ready, Set, This Week in Davidson: Feb. 24 – March 2
NEWS Friday – February 24 Spin with Us – Hearts on Fiber Feb. 24 @ 3:00 p.m. 208 South Main Street We love spinning! We also love the company while spinning. So let’s make a group. Bring your spinning wheel, or drop spindle, or whatever you have to spin with...
DCP Welcomes Todd Olsen as New Artistic Director
NEWS Davidson Community Players is pleased to welcome Todd Olson to its staff as our Artistic Director. Olson brings over thirty years of experience in professional and community theater to the region as an accomplished director and theater administrator. Olson’s...