Give back this weekend while playing golf or chowing down on chowder. You can also take in a talk on plants or welcome the basketball season with the Tribe.
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Food and Fun for a Cause
The third annual “Starry Starry Night” at Legacy Hall in New Town will raise money for St. Olaf Catholic Church’s Worship Space Building Fund. It starts at 6 p.m. Friday and includes dinner, live music and a silent auction.
Swing for cancer research at a tournament Saturday at Kiskiack Golf Club. It starts at 10 a.m. in support of a team for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. There will be 18 holes to play, along with a DJ, lunch, awards and prizes.
King of Glory Church will host “Thankful Giving … For the Kids” on Saturday. Though dinner tickets are almost gone, there will be live and silent auctions and a raffle drawings, all to benefit classroom materials, scholarships for families and professional development for teachers at the church’s preschool and kindergarten.
The Jamestown Chowder Festival returns this year at Eco Discovery Park, benefitting the nonprofit that is facing possible closure at the end of the year. Tickets include unlimited chowder tasting, two drink tickets and live music in a heated tent, starting at 6 p.m. Saturday.
Music
Hear Chilean acoustic music when Nano Stern performs Thursday evening at the Williamsburg Regional Library. Stern’s music mixes classical and jazz guitar techniques. The concert starts at 8 p.m.
The Williamsburg Classic Swing Orchestra, a 16-piece big band, will play Saturday evening at the Kimball Theatre. As part of the Rotary Club of James City County’s concert series, the 7:30 p.m. concert will feature original arrangements of classic tunes.
Theater
The Williamsburg Players presents its fall play, “The Mousetrap” by Agatha Christie, this weekend and next. Performances of the murder mystery are at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the group’s theater.
Hampton Roads Academy’s run of Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello also continues this week. The curtain opens at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Svein J. Lassen Auditorium.
Presentations
Professor Tillman Breckenridge, managing attorney at the College of William & Mary’s Appellate and Supreme Court Clinic, will give a presentation Thursday at the Law School. His topic is “Perseverance and Active Citizenship: Doing Your Part to Improve Lives,” and the free event starts at 12:50 p.m. in Room 127.
Bring an item to share or hear the stories at “China Night: My Chinese Collections Show and Tell” on Friday. Starting at 4 p.m., William & Mary’s Confucius Institute will host the event in the Reves Room of the Reves Center for International Studies, where there will also be pizza and refreshments.
Learn about sunlight and native plants at 10 a.m. Saturday at Freedom Park Interpretive Center. Dr. Stewart Ware, professor emeritus of biology at William & Mary, will discuss how much shade plants can tolerate, where they can grow and what plants grow together.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist Williamsburg will present a talk Sunday by Marie Helm on spiritual answers to fear of illness, accidents and stress. It starts at 2 p.m. in the Williamsburg Library Theatre.
This and That
Tribe Basketball returns Friday, when the women’s team takes on Loyola. The game starts at 7 p.m. in Kaplan Arena.
Walsingham Academy will host an Early Childhood Open House on Saturday morning. Guests can learn about the program for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and first-graders, starting at 9 a.m.
