Friday, March 5, 2010

Friday, March 5

The German American Heritage Center in Davenport is featuring a new exhibit Amana Colonies: The Move to City Life which will run through July. For more information, call 563-322-8844.

Deanna Swoboda will perform at 3 p.m. at Deere-Wiman House in Moline as part of their Fridays at Deere-Wiman series. For more information, call (309) 743-2701 for details.

The Catich Art Gallery in the Galvin Fine Arts Center will hold a reception for In-Between: The Architecture of Migration from 5-7 p.m. For more information, call 563-209-1287.

Tonight and tomorrow night at 7 p.m., Hersong will feature acoustic music in a coffee house style setting at the Unitarian Church in Davenport. For more information, call 563-359-0816.

The Quad City Arts Center will hold an opening reception for Labyrinth from 7-9 p.m. For more information, call (309) 793-1213.

The St. Ambrose University Dance team will present Legacy featuring many dance styles at the Galvin Fine Arts Center at 7:30 p.m.

Harrison Hilltop Theater in Davenport is premiering the musical Tired American Dream by Peoria composer Derek Childs. Showtimes are Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. Call 563-449-6371 for tickets or details. (563) 326-1333

At 8:30 p.m., Tea Leaf Green and The Giving Tree Band will perform at the Redstone Room in Davenport. For questions or tickets call 563-326-1333 ext. 101.

Comedian Iliza Shlesinger, the most recent winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, will perform at St. Ambrose University at 9:30 p.m. in the Rogalski Center ballroom. For more information, call 563-333-6395.

On Monday, Alan Campbell will present Professional Networking Website: What You Need to Know at the Butterworth Center in Moline beginning at 5:30 p.m. Reservations are due March 6; call 563-333-616.
Saturday, March 6

The Pen in Hand Writing Conference will be held at the Midwest Writing Center in Davenport. Five workshops will be offered - The Page as Visual Art at 8:30am; Fiction as Dream at 10:30am; Big Profits on a Shoestring Budget at 1:15pm; Building the Image (for middle-school students only) at 1:15pm; Publishing, Self-publishing and Otherwise at 3:15pm. call 563-324-1410.

An American Girl Doll Party will be held at 10 a.m. at the Hauberg Civic Center in Rock Island. Call (309) 732-7275 to register.

United Way of the Quad Cities is sponsoring a Battle of the Bands at 1 p.m. in the Performance Hall of River Music Experience. Bands scheduled to play include Crushing Irony, Regan, The Faded Lines and FireSale. For more information, call (563) 326-1333.

A concert presented by Lee Murdock, From Auld (Old) Sod to New Prairie: the Irish in America, will begin at 2:30 p.m. at the Moline Library. For information, call (309) 524-2440.

Charlotte's Web will be performed at Alleman High School in Rock Island at 7 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday. Call (309) 786-7793 for details.

The Quad City Symphony Orchestra will perform Masterworks V bringing together two renowned, yet incomplete, classics Schubert’s Eighth Symphony and Bruckner’s Ninth. On Saturday, the concert will be at the Adler Theater in Davenport at 8 p.m. On Sunday, the concert will be at Augustana’s Centennial Hall at 2 p.m. One hour prior to each concert, Kai Swanson and conductor Mark Russell Smith will discuss the works in Concert Conversations. Call (563) 322-7276 for details.

Harrison Hilltop Theater in Davenport is premiering the musical Tired American Dream by Peoria composer Derek Childs. Showtimes are Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. Call 563-449-6371 for tickets or details. (563) 326-1333

Sunday, March 7

The Quad City Symphony Orchestra will perform Masterworks V bringing together two renowned, yet incomplete, classics Schubert’s Eighth Symphony and Bruckner’s Ninth at Augustana’s Centennial Hall at 2 p.m. One hour before the concert, Kai Swanson and conductor Mark Russell Smith will discuss the works in Concert Conversations. Call (563) 322-7276 for details.

A gallery talk Printmaking Mastery in the 19th Century will take place at 2 p.m. at the Figge Museum.

Romanticism, a presentation by Maria Drummond exploring the artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement of the 18th century, will be held at 2 p.m. at the German American Heritage Center in Davenport. For more information, call 563-322-8844.
(563) 322-8844

At 3 p.m., the Quad City Wind Ensemble will take their audience back to the turn of the 20th century with the concert In the Style of Sousa at Moline High School.

Charlotte's Web will be performed at Alleman High School in Rock Island at 4 p.m. Call (309) 786-7793 for details.

Tomorrow morning, the Short & Sweets Short Story Discussion Group at the Davenport Fairmount St. Library will have dessert and discuss A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune by Chris Crutcher at 10 a.m. To register, call (563) 328-6833.

On Wednesday, a discussion of Audrey Niffenegger's book The Time Traveler's Wife with the Between the Lines Book Discussion Group will be held at the Davenport Fairmount St. Library at 7 p.m. For information, call 563-326-7832.

On Wednesday, a concert given by the St. Ambrose University-Community Symphony Orchestra will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Galvin Fine Arts Center of St. Ambrose University. For more information, call (563) 333-6149.

Monday, March 8

The 17th annual Career Fair for People with Disabilities will be held from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the i wireless Center in Moline. Participants will also be able to have their resume reviewed by area professionals. For more information, call (309) 786-6468.

At the Friends of the Rock Island Library meeting, Mark Schwiebert will discuss his archeological dig in the Holy Land at 11:30 a.m. at the First Baptist Church in Rock Island. Reservations required; call (309) 786-5909.

DAGOBAH, a science fiction and fantasy book discussion group, will meet at 6 p.m. at the Davenport Library. Call (563) 326-7832 for details.

Dr. Cyrus Ali Zargar and Dr. Jason Mahn will share their insights as to how Muslims and Christians tend to think about suffering and death at 7 p.m. at the Benet House Retreat Center in Rock Island.

Dr. Erik Camayd-Freixas, an interpreter who translated at federal hearings after the 2008 immigration raid at Agri-Processors in Postville, Iowa, will present Immigrant Rights and American Values at The Canticle in Clinton. For more information, call 563-242-7903.

A Popular Astronomy Club swap meet will begin at 7:30 p.m. at John Deere Planetarium, Augustana College. Call 309-797-3120 for details.

On Tuesday, Quad City Visiting Artist Deanna Swoboda will perform at Clinton Community College at 7 p.m. For more information, call 563-244-7040.

On Wednesday, the Bix All-Star Band will perform at the 16th annual Bix Birthday Bash from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Davenport Fairmount St. Library. For more information, call (563) 326-7893.

On Wednesday, the documentary In the Shadow of the Raid featuring the Postville, Iowa, immigration raid will be held at the Rogalski Center of Saint Ambrose University at 7 p.m. The screening will include a panel discussion with filmmakers and Postville community leaders. For more information, call 563-333-6284.(563) 333-6284

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