The Summit Twilight 5K will be downtown Friday, with running, music and a downtown festival. Click for info.
It’s a weekend made for the jocks in your house with a number of sporting events — for participants and spectators alike. Football tops the list, with high schools well into the postseason and Davidson College closing out its 2011 schedule at Homecoming. Meanwhile, the weekend kicks off Friday with a regional Veterans Day ceremony and dedication of the new Veterans Monument in downtown Cornelius.
In the high schools, Davidson Day will play for its first state title when it faces Trinity Christian for the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association’s Division III championship Friday night at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte. Two other schools with area connections — Cannon School in Concord and Southlake Christian in Huntersville — will both have semifinal games in the NCISAA Division II playoffs that night, and Mooresville will host Watauga in the second round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association’s 4A West Regional playoffs.
Saturday afternoon, the Davidson Wildcats football team will host Morehead State at Richardson Stadium in their annual Homecoming game. The night before, Davidson’s men’s basketball team — recently voted as the favorite to win the Southern Conference’s South Division title — hosts Guilford in the 2011-12 season-opening game at Belk Arena .
For the runners in the family, the inaugural Summit Twilight 5K will be held Friday afternoon, with its 5-kilometer course running through Davidson – including a torch-lit section of the Southeast Greenway; and the Thunder Road Marathon — a qualifying event for the Boston Marathon — will be held Saturday morning in Charlotte.
And for those interested in four-legged athletes, go by Huntersville’s Rural Hill Farm for the 16th-annual Rural Hill Sheepdog Trials and Dog Festival , which features some of the world’s best and brightest border collies showing off their sheep-herding skills.
Meanwhile, Davidson College Symphony Orchestra will perform Thursday night at the college’s Duke Family Performance Hall ; the Warehouse Performing Arts Center in Cornelius opens its run of Stupid Human Tricks , four one-act performances written by Christopher Durang, on Thursday; the Connie Company — the youth program of the Davidson Community Players — opens its run of Schoolhouse Rock Live! Friday night; and Celtic fiddler Jamie Laval will perform at Davidson College’s Tyler-Tallman Hall in the Sloan Music Center on Sunday afternoon.
These events — and more below — are in our day-by-day calendar at right. Also, at right on this page, see our movie show times listings for Our Town Cinemas .
The History of Cornelius Exhibit , 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Cornelius Arts Center , Oak Street Mill, 19725 Oak St., Unit 1, Cornelius. The Cornelius Historic Preservation Commission and Cornelius Parks and Recreation Department present “The History of Cornelius: The Conard Collection” from Oct. 17-Nov. 12. View photos from the collection of local resident Jack Conard, whose personal interest in the history of Cornelius has led to the single-largest accumulation of photographs known to exist of the town. Information: Visit www.cornelius.org .
Art Exhibit , 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 12-4 p.m. Saturdays through Dec. 7, Belk Visual Arts Center , Davidson College, Davidson. Exhibition of paintings and other works by Davidson College assistant professor Hagit Barkai . The exhibition, titled “It Looks Something Like This,” reflects Barkai’s experience growing up in Israel. There is no charge to attend. Information: Call 704-894-2519.
Davidson Farmer’s Market poster contest , weekdays, 9-5, Davidson Town Hall Rotunda Gallery , 216 S. Main St., Davidson. See the winning poster and other entries by local school children in the Davidson Farmer’s Market’s 2011 Winter Market poster contest .
Stupid Human Tricks , 8 p.m. Nov. 10-12 and Nov. 18-19, 2 p.m. Nov. 13 and Nov. 20, the Warehouse Performing Arts Center , 9216-A Westmoreland Road, Cornelius. Four one-act performances written by Christopher Durang and directed by Rachel Jeffreys and Anne Lambert. Tickets: $12 Nov. 10 preview, $20 adults, $15 students/seniors/groups of eight or more. Reservations: Call 704-619-0429 or email tickets@warehousepac.com .
Amazing Maize Maze , 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Rural Hill Farm , Neck Road, Huntersville – The Amazing Maize Maze is an outdoor challenge in a 7-acre cornfield. Find your way out by following clues and assembling pieces of a map puzzle. Open Fridays to Sundays through Nov. 13. Friday night flashlight mazes Sept. 30 to Nov. 4 (till 8:30 p.m.). Food and drink available. $10 for ages 13 and up, $7 for kids 5-12. Info: www.ruralhill.net .
Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr. , 7 p.m. Nov. 11, 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Nov. 12 and 4 p.m. Nov. 13, Armour Street Theatre , 307 N. Armour St., Davidson. Performance by the Connie Company, the youth program of the Davidson Community Players, of the play based on the Emmy-winning Saturday morning educational cartoon series from the 1970s and 1980s. Tickets are $10, and can be purchased online at www.davidsoncommunityplayers.org .
Carolina Renaissance Festival , 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Carolina Renaissance Festival grounds, on Poplar Tent Road just south of N.C. 73. The 18th-annual Carolina Renaissance Festival, with food; crafts; music, juggling and other circus entertainments; jousting demonstrations; fun rides and games of skill. Continues Saturdays and Sundays through Nov. 20. Info: RenFestInfo.com , 704-896-5544, toll free 877-896-5544.
Rural Hill Sheepdog Trials , 8 a.m. Nov. 12-13, Rural Hill Farm , 4431 Neck Road, Huntersville. The 16th-annual Rural Hill Sheepdog Trials and Dog Festival will feature some of the world’s best and brightest border collies showing off their sheep-herding skills. The Dog Festival will also offer historic agriculture machinery, docent demonstrations in the 1760′s cabin, pumpkin chunkin’, kid’s inflatable houses, food, shopping and dog agility trials. Admission: $10 per person ages 13-up, $7 for children ages 5-12, children 4 and under admitted free. Non-competing dogs are welcomed but must remain leashed and under their owner’s control. Complete event information is available online at www.ruralhill.net .
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