WVIK Community Calendar - Thursday & Friday

Thursday, September 30

Donna Freitas, author of Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance and Religion on America’s College Campuses, will speak during convocation at 10:30 a.m. in Centennial Hall of Augustana College. The event is free and open to the public.

Conductor Mark Russel Smith will host Inside the Music, a casual discussion of this weekend’s Quad City Symphony Masterworks I concerts at 5 p.m. at the Figge Art Museum. For more information, call 563-322-0931.

As part of this year’s The Big Read, a discussion of Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 will be held at the Rock Island Library at 5:30 p.m. For more information, call 309-732-7323.

Out Loud, an open poetry and prose reading session will begin at 7 p.m. at the Midwest Writing Center in Davenport. Participants are invited to read their best works. Listeners also are welcome. For more information, call 563-324-1410.

Iowa Poet Laureate Mary Swander and The Eulenspiegel Puppets will present The Girls on the Roof at 7 p.m. at Rogalski Center of St. Ambrose University. The play intended for mature audiences.

Dr. Larry Silver will speak on Hieronymus Bosch, Original Sin, and Death for the Thursdays at the Figge program at 7 p.m. For more information, call 563-326-7804.

The Monmouth College Crimson Masque will present Moliére’s The Learned Ladies Sept. 30 through Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Wells Theater. There will also be a matinee performance on Sunday, Oct. 3 at 2 p.m. For tickets or more information, call 309-457-210.

Tomorrow morning, Church Women United Rock Island/Milan unit will hold its Fall Forum at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Rock Island. Registration will be at 9:00 a.m. followed by a meeting and program at 9:30. Vince Thomas will discuss housing in this area.

Tomorrow morning, the Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging will present a program entitled Cats & Dogs Our Four Legged Friends beginning at 9:00 a.m. at their Rock Island location. To register or for more information, call 309-793-6800.

Friday, October 1

The Backdoor Independent Film Cafe will show Centurion at 6:30 p.m. at the Figge Art Museum. For more information, call 563-271-6173.

Henrik Williams, professor of Scandinavian Languages at Uppsala University, will speak on The Kensington Runestone: Fact and Fiction at 7 p.m. in Room 102 in the Hanson Hall of Science of Augustana College. For more information, call 309-794-7204

Geneseo High School will present the comedy Play On! at 7 p.m. For more information, call 309-945-0399.

The Augustana Choir, Augustana Symphonic Band, and Augustana Symphony Orchestra will perform new, original compositions at 7:30 p.m. at Centennial Hall of Augustana College. For more information, call 309-203-9879.

The Monmouth College Crimson Masque will present Moliére’s The Learned Ladies Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Wells Theater. There will also be a matinee performance on Sunday at 2 p.m. For tickets or more information, call 309-457-210.

The Barley House Band will play for an all ages welcome Illowa Community Folk Dance at 7:30 p.m. at the Singing Bird Nature Center in Rock Island’s Black Hawk State Historic Site. For more information, call 309-788-8986.

Beginning tonight and continuing through October, Harrison Hilltop Theatre in Davenport will present the musical The Rocky Horror Show at midnight on Fridays and Saturdays and at 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For more information, call 563-449-6371

Tomorrow night, the Augustana Clarinet Choir, Augustana Flute Choir, and Augustana Percussion Ensemble will perform new, original compositions at 8 p.m. at Wallenberg Hall in the Denkmann Memorial Building of Augustana College. For more information, call 309-203-9879.

The Quad City Symphony Orchestra and pianist Gustavo Romero will perform at 8 p.m. at the Adler Theatre in Davenport on Saturday and at 2 p.m. at Centennial Hall of Augustana College. Concert Conversations with Kai Swanson and Mark Russell Smith will begin one hour prior to the performance. For tickets or more information, call 563-322-7276.