WVIK Community Calendar

Tuesday, March 9

Best selling author and motivational speaker, Brian Tracy will present a program at the Galvin Fine Arts of St. Ambrose University starting at 6 p.m. Net proceeds will be used to support a scholarship fund for business students excelling in leadership, academics, and service. For more information, call 563-333-6406.

Waggin’ Tales at the Davenport Fairmount St. Library is a chance for kids to come to story time in pajamas and see animals from Quad-City Animal Welfare Center. The program begins at 6:30 p.m. Call 563-326-7893 for details.

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

Tomorrow, Ballet Quad Cities will present The Ugly Duckling and Other Dances at 7:00pm at the Center for Performing Arts in Muscatine’s Central Middle School. Call 309-786-3779 for more information.

On Friday, Winter Jam 2010, Christian music's largest annual tour is coming to the i wireless Center at 7 p.m. Call 800-745-3000 for details.

Through Mar. 20, Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse in Rock Island will present Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. There are evening performances on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, and matinees on Wednesdays. For tickets, call (309) 786-7733, ext. 2.

River Music Experience in Davenport is now offering music lessons for any age or level of experience. Lessons in on everything from flutes, violins, piano, guitar, drums and voice are offered six days a week. For more information and assistance contact: Ellis Kell, Director of Programming & Education, at 563-326-1333, ext.113.

A Beginning Genealogy Workshop in the Davenport Public Library’s Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center will be held on Saturday from 8:30 – 4:00 p.m. Seating is limited, and registration is required. Call 563-326-7902 to learn more.Wednesday, March 10

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.

Black Hawk College is offering a series of brown bag presentations to celebrate Women’s History Month. This week’s program will be Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, the Academy Award-winning documentary about the creator of the Vietnam Veterans memorial. A discussion led by Zaiga Thorson, associate professor of art will follow. The program will begin at noon Building 4, Room 131 of the Moline campus.

Join River Music Experience’s own Tom Swanson for open mic night from 6:30 - 9 p.m. every Wednesday at Mojo's Cafe, River Music Experience in Davenport. Call (563) 326-1333, ext. 102 for details.

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.

At 7 p.m., Tim Britton will perform Music and Celtic Tales at the Moline Public Library. Mr. Britton is a leading player of the uillean pipes as well as the wooden flute, tin whistle, highland pipes and mandolin. For more information, call 309-524-2480.

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.

The USAF Brass Ensemble will perform Brass in Blue at Augustana College’s Centennial Hall at 7:30. For more information, call 309-794-7236.

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.

Thursday, March 11

5th Annual Athena Business Women's Awards honoring the top Quad City business women will be held at the i wireless Center in Moline beginning at noon. To register, call 309-631-0167.

At 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Nickelodeon’s Storytime Live! will be performed at the i wireless Center in Moline. The show includes The Backyardigans, Dora the Explorer and more. Call 800-745-3000 for details.

The next meeting for the Scott County Historic Preservation Society will be held at 7pm at the Beer Cellar Room at the Front Street Brewery in Davenport. Dr. Frank Claudy will perform on the Irish flute, playing authentic music of Ireland. For more information contact Duane Timm at 563-323-4088.

At 6:30 at the Bettendorf Library, Toby McGriff will discuss archeological evidence that has come to light recently regarding Moses, the Exodus and the plagues of Egypt. For more information, call (563) 344-4175.

Stephen Bloom, author of Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America will discuss multicultural fragmentation, community and values at 7 p.m. in the Rogalski Center of St. Ambrose University. Call 563-333-6284 for more information.

The Quad-City Audubon Society meeting will include a presentation by Jon Stravers on studies of the red-shouldered hawk and cerulean warbler and a new book on Gladys Black. The meeting will be held at the Butterworth Center in Moline at 7 p.m. and is open to the public. For information, call Brent Langley at 309-799-7192.

The Jazz Jam with the North Scott Jazz Combo will begin at 7 p.m. at Mojo's Cafe, River Music Experience in Davenport. Call (563) 326-1333 for details.

On Sunday, the Battle of the Hemp Bales will be the topic for Quad City Civil War Round Table. It begins at 2 pm at the Deere Wiman Carriage House in Moline. All meetings are free and open to the public.