WVIK Community Calendar - Thursday & Friday

Thursday, October 21

Thomas Tredway will present Augustana History, 1935 to 1975 at 2 p.m. at the Rock Island Library as part of the 13th annual Frieze Lecture Series. This year's series will celebrate Augustana’s 150th anniversary. For more information, call 309-732-7323.

Ishmael Khaldi will present From Bedouin Shepherd to Israeli Diplomat at 7 p.m. at the College Center of Augustana College. For more information, call 309-793-1300.

The African Children’s Choir will present a concert in Augustana’s Ascension Chapel on Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. On Friday, they will perform a public concert at First Lutheran Church in Moline at 7:00 p.m. For more information, call 309-203-9879.

Julie Berger Hochstrasser will present the art lecture All is Vanity -- or is it? Death and Still Life in the 17th-Century Netherlands for the Thursdays at the Figge program at 7 p.m. For more information, call 563-326-7804.

Tonight thru Saturday, Rockridge High School will present Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream at 7 p.m. For more information, call 309-793-8020.

The Bootleggers and the cast of A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline will present the musical revue A Country Cabaret at 7 p.m. at Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse in Rock Island. For tickets or more information, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.

The concert The Intimate Lute and Flute: Irish, Scottish and Continental Renaissance and Baroque will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Davenport as part of the Black Hawk Chamber Music Festival. For tickets or more information, call 563-323-9989.

Dr. Jason Steffen will present Kepler Mission's Search for Planets Around Other Stars: Finding Other Earths at 7:30 p.m. in Room 102 of Augustana College’s Hanson Hall of Science as the Harry Nelson Lecture in Astronomy.

New Ground Theatre will present the black comedy August: Osage County at the Village Theatre in Davenport at 7:30 p.m. Thursday thru Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 563-326-7529.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate will read selections from his works at the University of Iowa’s Van Allen Hall at 8 p.m.

Friday, October 22

The Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging at 729, 34th Avenue in Rock Island will be holding a seminar about preventing falls at 9 a.m. For more information or to reserve a place, call 309-793-6800.

A book release party for Dark Highlands Anthology #1 will be held at Huckleberry's in Rock Island from 6 to 9 p.m.

The inauguration of the new Quad Cities Poet Laureate Shellie Moore Guy will be held at the Quad City Arts Center in Rock Island at 7 p.m. There will be readings by Shellie Moore Guy as well as former Poet Laureates Dick Stahl, Cathleen Lawless Cox, and Dale Haake. For information, call 309-793-1213 ext. 100.

The African Children’s Choir will present a concert at First Lutheran Church in Moline at 7:00 p.m. For more information, call 309-203-9879.

The Midwest Writing Center's poet-in-residence Salvatore Marici will read his published and emerging poetry at the River Valley Library in Port Byron at 7 p.m. For information, call 563-324-1410.

Tonight and Saturday, Rockridge High School will present Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream at 7 p.m. For more information, call 309-793-8020.

A public reading by the participants of the Great River Writers' Retreat will be held at 7 p.m. in the Rogalski Center of St. Ambrose University. Chicago-based poet, Ann Hudson, and Grand View University associate professor, Paul Brooke, will read from their published and emerging poetry. For information, call 563-324-1410.

The Carl Sandburg College Choirs will present their fall concert Faith, Hope, Love at 7:30 p.m. at the First Christian Church in Galesburg. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 309-341-5238

Musician Bill Miller will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Galvin Fine Arts Center of St. Ambrose University. For more information, call 563-333-6251.

New Ground Theatre will present the black comedy August: Osage County at the Village Theatre in Davenport at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 563-326-7529.

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.