WVIK Community Calendar - Saturday, Sunday, & Monday

Saturday, October 2

The fourth annual Bard in the Bard festival will be held on the grounds of the historic Flack Barn, 1200 North and 1600 East in rural Macomb. On Saturday, The Two Gentlemen of Verona will be performed at 11 a.m. and Troilus and Cressida at 2 p.m. On Sunday, The Merry Wives of Windsor will be performed at 1 p.m. Advance tickets may be purchased by calling 309-298-1618. For more information, call 309-298-1543.

Explore the cultures of the world at the Black Hawk College 16th International Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the gym in Building 3 at the Moline Campus. For more information, call 309-796-5186.

The Figge Art Museum will hold a Mercedes Matter Art Symposium beginning at 2 p.m. Dr. Ellen Landau will speak on What a Picture Should Mean: Hans Hofmann, Mercedes Matter and the Role of Drawing in Modernism. Dr. Michael Zakian will present Mercedes Matter and the Modernist Still Life. For more information, call 563- 326-7804

The program Opening the Doorway to Inner Peace through Meditation will be presented at 3:00 p.m. at the Family Museum in Bettendorf. For more information, call 563-391-1439.

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

The Augustana Clarinet Choir, Flute Choir, and 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. Chopin's First Piano Concerto will be featured in honor of the composer’s 200th birthday. Concert Conversations with Kai Swanson and Mark Russell Smith will begin one hour prior to each performance. For tickets or more information, call 563-322-7276.

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.

Sunday, October 3

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.

Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, tours of Colonel Davenport House are conducted from noon to 4 p.m. on the north shore of Arsenal Island. For more information, call 563-388-9657.

The Merry Wives of Windsor will be performed at 1 p.m. for the fourth annual Bard in the Bard festival located on the grounds of the historic Flack Barn, 1200 North and 1600 East in rural Macomb. Advance tickets may be purchased by calling 309-298-1618. For more information, call 309-298-1543.

The Figge Art Museum will present The Innovators: Tiffany, Wright, Picasso, and Pollock tour beginning at 1:30 p.m. Discover how these artists changed the way we think about art and design. For more information, call 563-326-7804.

The Quad City Symphony Orchestra and pianist Gustavo Romero will perform at 2 p.m. at Centennial Hall of Augustana College. Chopin's First Piano Concerto will be featured in honor of the composer’s 200th birthday. 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.

An artist's meet-and-greet for the Autumn Rust exhibit by John VanderWalle will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Quad City Botanical Center in Rock Island. For more information, call 309-794-1572.

A Peace Concert will be held in Clinton at Zion Lutheran Church beginning at 3:00 p.m. Several Clinton area church choirs will perform songs around the topic of peace and then will merge for a mass choir directed by Dr. Jon Hurty, Director of Choral Activities at Augustana College. The concert is free and open to the public. For details, call Sisters of St. Francis at 563-242-7611.

The Motorcycle Diaries will be shown for the International Film Series at 4:30 p.m. at the Mary Fluhrer Nighswander Theatre in Annie Wittenmyer complex in Davenport. For more information, call 563-888-2216.

Monday, October 4

An Alpha Book Club discussion of Steig Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will be held at the Rock Island Library at 3 p.m. For information, call 309-732-7323.

Anne Prinz and The Zither Outreach Ensemble will present a program about the history of the instrument at 6:30 p.m. at the Moline Library. Call 309-524-2470

A discussion of Joyce Carol Oates' short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? with the Short & Sweets Discussion Group will be held at the Davenport Eastern Ave. Library at 7 p.m. For information or to register, call 563-888-3371.

The second annual Showcase of Bands will begin at 7 p.m. at the Rock Island High School stadium with seven local high schools performing. For more information, call 309-793-5950, ext. 1174.

Tomorrow, the Rogalski Center of St. Ambrose University will show the German film The Lives of Others at 7 p.m. as part of The Ubiquity of Work series. For more information, call 563-333-6253.

Tomorrow, flutist Kathy Karr will perform for the Guest Artist Series at 8 p.m. in Wallenberg Hall in the Denkmann Memorial Building of Augustana College. For more information, call 309-794-7721

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

On Wednesday, the musical program Nova Singers present Chanticleer will be performed at 7:30 p.m. at the Orpheum Theatre in Galesburg. For more information, call 309-342-2299.

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.