WVIK Community Calendar - Saturday, Sunday, & Monday

Saturday, September 25

The 39th Annual Swedish autumn festival will be held today and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Bishop Hill State Historic Site featuring demonstrations, performances, food, music, dance and games. The event is free and open to the public.

Actors in costume will portray some of Moline's early citizens in Echoes From Riverside: Gone, But Not Forgotten, starting from the Riverside Cemetery Chapel Mausoleum in Moline beginning at 1 p.m. For more information, call 309-797-0790.

Dr. Therese Grisham will present Terrorism in Film: Germany at 2 p.m. at the German American Heritage Center in Davenport. For more information, call 563-322-8844.

The 20th annual Maple Leaf Classic Marching Band Competition will begin at 6 p.m. at Geneseo High School. For more information, call 309-945-3869.

Storytellers will tell Ghost Tales for all ages at 7 p.m. on the lawn of the Colonel Davenport House on Arsenal Island. For more information, call 309-786-7336.

Quad City Arts' Visiting Artists The Synergy Brass Quintet will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Galvin Fine Arts Center of St. Ambrose University. For more information, call 563-333-6251.

The music of Bartók, Bloch, and Stravinsky will be the program for the opening concert of the Clinton Symphony Orchestra season at 7:30 p.m. in Centennial Auditorium at Sterling High School. Bus transportation for the Clinton, Fulton, Morrison areas is available. Reservations for the bus are required; for information call 563-243-5958.

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 Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. For more information or tickets, call 563-326-7529.

Elizabeth Macdonald and Charles Metz will perform The Golden Age: Music for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord at 8 p.m. in Wallenberg Hall in the Denkmann Building of Augustana College. For more information, call 309-203-9879.

Pianist Nancy Lindberg Ohlbach, a Galesburg native and acclaimed performer and educator, will give a free, public solo recital at 8:00 p.m in Kresge Recital Hall in Ford Center for the Fine Arts of Knox College.

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

The Second City National Touring Company will perform at 8 p.m. at Centennial Hall of Augustana College. For more information, call 309-794-7306.

Sunday, September 26

The 39th Annual Swedish autumn festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Bishop Hill State Historic Site featuring demonstrations, performances, food, music, dance and games. The event is free and open to the public.

Autumn Market Days will be held in LeClaire from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., featuring music, craft show, demonstrations, barrel rolling, log sawing, and more. For information, call 563-289-9970.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers offers tours of Lock and Dam 15 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Mississippi River Visitor Center on Arsenal Island. Advance registration is required; call 309-794-5338.

Unity Fest International will be held from noon to 8 p.m. at the Putnam Museum in Davenport featuring the music, dances, clothing, and food of cultures from around the world. For more information, call 563-324-1933.

The Quad City Flute Association will hold their Fall Flute Festival at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Bettendorf beginning at 12:30 p.m. Jill Felber will be the featured guest artist performing a recital at 2 p.m. and leading a workshop for high school flutists at 4:30 p.m. For more information, call 309-738-0760.

The Quad City Botanical Center in Rock Island is holding a Budding Artist Day for kids from 8 to High School age at
1 p.m. The students will experience the gardens through the eyes of an artist, learning draw trees, leaves, and other natural elements. Reservations are encouraged, but not required. Call 309-794-0991 ext. 25.

The Figge Art Museum in Davenport will hold a Looking at Art tour beginning at 1:30 p.m. which will cover what to look for in a variety of painting styles. For more information, call 563-326-7804.

The Internet Players will present the premier production of The Tragedy of Sarah Klein by Nathan Porteshawver at the Nighswander Theatre in Davenport at 2 p.m. For more information or tickets, call 563-383-6089.

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

A Celtic music session and Celtic vespers will be held at Gloria Dei Presbyterian Church in Rock Island. Musicians are invited to learn Celtic tunes at 4 p.m. and the vespers service will begin at 5 p.m. For more information, call 309-788-8986.


Monday, September 27

Help support the Quad City Botanical Center by donating items for their Rummage Sale. Donations will be accepted this Monday thru Thursday from 9 to 5 p.m. at the center in Rock Island. The Rummage Sale will be held October 1 and 2 from 9 to 3 p.m.

The Rock Island County 4-H is having a free Open House to find out about their programs from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at 321 West 2nd Ave. in Milan. There will be fun activity stations where kids can explore the many clubs, plus healthy snacks, and games for the whole family to enjoy. For more information or to RSVP, call 309-756-9978 ext. 10.

Uri Rosset, Professor of Middle East Studies and Terrorism at Sapir College in Israel will present a lecture on Israel's Policy towards Terrorism at 7:00 p.m. at the Davenport Eastern Avenue Library. For more information, contact Allan Ross at 309-793-1300.

Danielle Fatkin will present an archaeology lecture entitled The 2010 Excavations at Dhiban, Jordan at Monmouth College at 7:30 p.m. in the Morgan Room in Poling Hall. The talk is free and open to the public.

On Tuesday, as part of the Big Read series featuring Fahrenheit 451, the Moline Public Library will screen the documentary Ray Bradbury: An American Icon at 7:00 p.m. No registration required. For more information, call 309-524-2440.

On Tuesday, Anya Kamenetz, educational futurist and staff writer for Fast Company magazine, will present DIY U: The Coming Transformation of Higher Education at 7 p.m. in the Union Grand Ballroom on the WIU-Macomb campus as part of the University-wide theme Teaching and Learning in a New Era. The presentation is open free to the public.

Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse in Rock Island will present the musical revue A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline through Nov. 6. Evening performances are on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. A matinee performance is held on Wednesday as well. For more information or tickets, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.