WVIK Community Calendar - Friday

Friday, September 24

Jim Leach, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will speak on The Humanities' Role in Restoring Civility to Political Discourse at 10 a.m. at the Rogalski Center of St. Ambrose University.

Today through Sunday, Autumn Market Days will be held in LeClaire, featuring music, library book sale, craft show, demonstrations, barrel rolling, log sawing, and more. For information, call 563-289-9970.

The Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College presents a lecture Lincoln and Executive Power by Jennifer Weber at 4 p.m. in the Alumni Room of Old Main in Galesburg. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Taste of the Moline/Coal Valley School District will be held at Wharton Field House in Moline beginning at 5 p.m. It will include performances by the high school drum corps and middle schools cheerleaders, food, games and more. Proceeds will benefit the schools. For information, call 309-781-2098.

The film The Eclipse will be shown at the Backdoor Independent Film Cafe in the Figge Art Museum at 6 p.m. For more information, call 563-271-6173.

Final Friday events scheduled the Bucktown Center for the Arts in Davenport this evening include a Banned Books reading, works by breast cancer survivors, a performance by ComedySportz and more beginning at 7 p.m. For information, call 563-324-1410.

New Ground Theatre will present the comedy Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins at the Village Theatre in Davenport at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. For more information or tickets, call 563-326-7529.

The Internet Players will present the premier production of The Tragedy of Sarah Klein at the Nighswander Theatre in Davenport at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. For more information or tickets, call 563-383-6089.

The Speakeasy in Rock Island will host a singers' open-mic night for ages 18 and up at 8 p.m. Each singer may perform two songs. For more information or to sign up to sing, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.