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DavidsonLearns Presents: How Visionary Davidson led North Carolina on Affordable Housing, December 16
NEWS Join Mark Washburn, Board Chair, Davidson Housing Coalition Wednesday, December 16 at 1:00 PM via Zoom How Visionary Davidson led North Carolina on Affordable Housing Statistically, Davidson is North Carolina's most expensive city for real estate....
DavidsonLearns Winter (Semester) is Coming
NEWS Register beginning December 7 DavidsonLearns invites adult learners to check out courses for the upcoming 2021 Winter/Spring term, which begins the last week of January and continues into May. All courses still meet safely online. Check out the full details of...
DavidsonLearns Presents TRUE LIKENESS: A Conversation about Portraiture
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Portraits serve as expressions of identity, popular taste, social standing and documents of who, when and where. Representing self in the best light or seeing others in understandable terms, are motives behind why we record images of each...
DavidsonLearns Presents Police Chief Penny Dunn
DAVIDSONLEARNS Davidson Police Chief Penny Dunn will talk with us about the evolution and the challenges of policing. She says: "Good policing is complex. It includes skills not taught in police academies and issues not listed in criminal statutes. We need to...
DavidsonLearns Presents Pianist Blair McMillen
DAVIDSONLEARNS On Monday, November 9 at 7:00 p.m., DavidsonLearns is pleased to welcome pianist, Blair McMillen, as he presents a variety of piano selections for listening and discussing. Hailed by the New York Times as “prodigiously accomplished and exciting” and...
DavidsonLearns Hosted “All You Need to Know About Voting 2020”
NEWS DavidsonLearns recently held a Spotlight Event via Zoom on a topic of great general interest—all you need to know about voting in the 2020 national election. Presenters Barbara Randolph and Greg Snyder discussed the voting process and shared information...
DavidsonLearns 2020: Still Learning
DAVIDSONLEARNS Right on schedule, the region’s lifelong-learning organization has begun its fall academic term, but in virtually unusual circumstances. And we do mean virtually. DavidsonLearns Executive Director Jake Jacobs encourages folks to check out the...
Spotlight Event Featuring Davidson Community Foundation
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DavidsonLearns and the Town of Davidson Present a Spotlight Event Featuring DavidsonLearns, along with Davidson Scholars, is sponsoring the Spotlight Event that features Dave Cable and Ellen Donaldson, founders of Davidson Community...
DavidsonLearns Offers Political Brand Strategies Presentation Online
NEWS On March 12, DavidsonLearns announced the suspension of classes and Spotlight Events until further notice, in response to the need for social distancing to flatten the curve of Covid-19 contagion. But to provide its members with the opportunity to learn...
Benefit Performance of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime”
DAVIDSONLEARNS Davidson Learns and the Davidson Community Players are joining together to present a benefit performance of the production, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime," February 26 at the Armour Street Theatre. The proceeds of the evening will...
DavidsonLearns
Our vision is to become a premier adult learning institute serving as a regional resource for any adult who wants to maintain an active mind and demonstrates a love of learning. DavidsonLearns seeks to enhance the intellectual life of adults by providing a selection of challenging, diverse, and relevant educational courses and events, and, in so doing, form a community of learners. It is our belief that educational and cultural experiences provide a common ground where people come together with shared goals, expectations, and vulnerabilities.
