WVIK Community Calendar

Saturday, May 22

The Young Entrepreneurs' Market and Market Music Fest will be held at the Family Museum in Bettendorf. Children's ID kits, safety information, picture taking, and fingerprinting will be available from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Music will start at 1 p.m. For more information, call 563-344-4106.

The Midwest Writing Center will offer a memoir writing workshop beginning at 1 p.m. led by Deane Knight the author of Someday I'll Have a Bicycle. For more information, call 563-324-1410 to register.

Auditions for Genesius Guild’s summer productions will be held at Lincoln Park Classic Theater in Rock Island. Times are 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The shows include A Midsummer Night's Dream and Richard III.

An Old-Fashioned Band Lawn Concert will begin at 2:30 p.m. at the Bergendoff Hall of Fine Arts of Augustana College. For more information, call 309-794-7236.

Tracy Worth will present Cotton Club in a Box, performing and discussing the music of period at 3:30 p.m. at the Moline Library. Registration requested, call 309-524-2470.

The Galesburg Community Chorus will present A Night at the Opera at 7:30 p.m. at the Orpheum Theatre in Galesburg. To find out more, contact Kathy Dillin at 309-342-8143.

The Knox College Department of Theatre and Dance presents The Serpent by Jean-Claude van Itallie, at 7:30 p.m. in Studio Theatre in the Ford Center for the Fine Arts of Knox College in Galesburg. Seating is limited. Tickets may be reserved by calling 309-341-7472.

The Augustana Music Festival Concert will be held in Centennial Hall of Augustana College at 8 p.m. For more information, call 309-794-7236.

The Prenzie Players will present Cyrano de Bergerac at their theater space at 1616 2nd Ave. in Rock Island. Performances are at 8 p.m. on Saturday, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

Sunday, May 23

The Carl Sandburg State Historic Site Association annual lecture series concludes at 1 p.m. Matthew Norman, Assistant Professor of History and Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College will present Sandburg’s Lincoln, Sandburg’s Galesburg and Civil War Memory at Carl Sandburg site in Galesburg. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Auditions for Genesius Guild’s summer productions will be held at Lincoln Park Classic Theater in Rock Island at 1 p.m. The shows include A Midsummer Night's Dream and Richard III.

A panel discussion with Bernard residents about what life is like in the small Iowa town will begin at 2 p.m. at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport. For more information, call 563-326-7804.

The Prenzie Players will present Cyrano de Bergerac at their theater space at 1616 2nd Ave. in Rock Island. Performance is at 2 p.m.

Chamber Music Quad Cities will perform at 3 p.m. at the Unitarian Church in Davenport. For more information, call 309-797-0516.

The documentary For the Bible Tells Me So will be screened at 5 p.m. at the Rogalski Center of St. Ambrose University. Mary Lou Wallner will take questions following the film. For more information, call 563-324-8281.

Tomorrow morning, Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan will present Protecting Seniors in Tough Economic Times at 11 a.m. at the Moline Library. Her staff will give a presentation until 12:30 p.m. on reverse mortgages, credit cards, and how to avoid counterfeit check scams. For more information, call 217-557-1982.

On Friday, Last Venus Standing will be held from 6-9 p.m. at the Bucktown Center for the Arts in Davenport. Lojo Russo and Emily Hurd will perform. Proceeds will benefit the 2011 Venus Envy Quad Cities show. For more information, call 309-737-2066.

Monday, May 24

Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan will present Protecting Seniors in Tough Economic Times at 11 a.m. at the Moline Library. Her staff will give a presentation until 12:30 p.m. on reverse mortgages, credit cards, and how to avoid counterfeit check scams. For more information, call 217-557-1982.

Today and tomorrow, the Black Hawk Area Education Center in East Moline will hold a used book sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m.

A panel discussion on Financial Literacy and Consumer Protection will begin at 3:30 p.m. at the Moline Library. The panel will include Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan. For more information, call 309-524-2440

Constance Berman will speak on French Mills and the Changing Times at 6 p.m. at the Windmill Cultural Center in Fulton. For more information, call 815-589-3160.

On Tuesday, the film The Blind Side will be shown at 6 p.m. at the Davenport Fairmount St. Library as part of National Foster Care Month. For more information, call 563-326-7832.

On Tuesday, a public interest meeting on the War of 1812 bicentennial, focusing on Illinois' role, will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the VFW in Monmouth.

On Tuesday, Owen Muelder will present Slavery, Abolishment, and the Underground Railroad at 7 p.m. at the Rock Island County Genealogical Society meeting at the Rock Island County Historical Society Library in Moline. For more information, call 309-797-6352.

On Wednesday and Thursday, previews of Whodunit? The Musical will be performed at Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse in Rock Island. For more information or tickets, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.

Beginning Thursday, New Ground Theatre will present the adult comedy Mr. Marmalade at the Village Theatre in Davenport. Performances are at 2 p.m. on Thursday and Sunday and at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. For more information, call 563-326-7529.