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DavidsonLearns Event: Boomerang Water
NEWS Join us on April 21 at 1:00 pm, as Jason Dribble, Shaun Zaken and Max Vierling from Boomerang Water discuss their solution to the environmental problem of single-use plastics. Headquartered in Davidson, NC, Boomerang Water is a small batch bottling system that...
Civil Rights and Racial Justice in the North in the 1960s – DavidsonLearns Event
NEWS Dr. Aldridge will speak about the civil rights issues of northern cities in the 1960s involving issues like Police/Community relations, fair housing, equitable schooling, and the type of post-civil disobedience activism that emerged in that context. He...
Housing Inequality and the Racial Wealth Gap
NEWS The UNC Charlotte Urban Institute: seeking solutions to the social, economic, and environmental challenges facing our communities for more than 50 years. In 2014, a team of Harvard researchers ranked the Charlotte metro region last among the country's 50...
The English Cozy Mystery
NEWS Cold winter days in February invite us to curl up with a good book. You may have your favorite genres, but Jan will tempt you to relax and enjoy British Cozy Mysteries. Cozy mysteries, also referred to as "cozies", are a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and...
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
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.