WVIK Community Calendar - Thursday & Friday

Thursday, September 9

Senior citizens can participate in guided riverfront golf cart tours at select times today. There are five different tours from which to choose. Spots are still available, but space is limited. For more information or to register, call River Action at 563-322-2969.

Trees Forever will be hosting a Trees & Water Quality Symposium discussing the role of trees and other vegetation in helping to improve rural and urban water quality.
The event will run from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Stoney Creek Inn in Moline. The symposium is open to the public. For further information or to pre-register, call 800-369-1269 ext.16.

Elizabeth Royte will speak on You're Drinking What? Bottled Water or Tap: What's the Difference and Why Should We Care? for the convocation program at 10:30 a.m. at Augustana College’s Centennial Hall. For more information, call 309-794-7306.

Today through Saturday, the fifth annual Trains, Planes, and Automobiles event will be held in downtown Geneseo. It will begin with a Stearman fly-in with airplane acrobatics at 2 p.m. Thursday. For more information, call 309-944-2686.

Scott County I-Club Dinner will meet at Thunder Bay Grille in Davenport beginning at 6 p.m. The featured speaker will be former Hawkeye and NBA player, Ryan Bowen, who is the current UI Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach. You do not need to be an I-Club member to attend. For more information, call 563-391-5287.

Gregory Gilbert will present Mercedes Matter: An Overview of the Retrospective Exhibition for the Thursdays at the Figge program at 7 p.m. For more information, call 563-326-7804.

Duke University Professor Dr. David Brady will present Workers of the World, an examination of cross-national differences of work and workers at 7 p.m. at the Rogalski Center of St. Ambrose University. The lecture is open to the public and part of the university's yearlong series, The Ubiquity of Work.

Friday, September 10

Tommy G. Thompson, former Presidential Cabinet member and
Governor of Wisconsin, will give Knox College's 2010 Opening Convocation address at 11 a.m. in Harbach
Theatre in the Ford Center for the Fine Arts. The convocation is free and open to the public.

The Backdoor Independent Film Cafe will show Mid-August Lunch at 6 p.m. at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport. For more information, call 563-271-6173.

A canoe and kayak tour will begin at 6 p.m. at Scott County Park in Eldridge. For more information or to pre-register, call 563-328-3286.

An artists' reception featuring Barbara Bianchi and her mixed media works will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. at MidCoast Gallery West in Rock Island. For more information, call 309-737-2066.

An Open Mic Coffeehouse will be held at First Lutheran in Rock Island from 7 to 10 p.m. Donations will benefit St Joe's Evening Meal at Rock Island Township. For more information, call 309-788-9661.

ComedySportz Quad Cities will perform at 7 p.m. at Richmond Hill Barn Theater in Geneseo. Part of the proceeds will go toward ongoing projects at the theater. For more information, call 309-944-2244.

Playcrafters Barn Theatre in Moline will present the musical Hard to Believe at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 309-762-0330.

The documentary The River is Life, the story of two men’s ten state journey down the Mississippi, will be shown at 8:30 p.m. at Riverside Park in Moline. For more information, call 815-589-4545.

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.