WVIK Community Calendar - Wednesday

Wednesday, October 13

The 19th annual Signature Chefs Auction, a formal gala for the March of Dimes, will begin at 6 p.m. at the Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention Center in Bettendorf. For more information, call 563-323-6378.

The Moline Library will show The Omega Man at 6:30 p.m. as part of their Dystopian Film Series. For more information, call 309-524-2470.

Open-mic night for youths and adults will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Mojo's Cafe in River Music Experience in Davenport. For more information, call 563-326-1333, ext. 102.

Dr. Jonathan Poulton will present In Search of the Blue Day Lily at 7 p.m. at the Quad City Botanical Center in Rock Island. For more information, call 309-788-2346.

A discussion of Thomas Cahill's nonfiction work A Saint on Death Row with the Between the Lines Book Discussion Group will be held at the Davenport Fairmount St. Library at 7 p.m. For information, call 563-326-7832.

The Scandinavian Department of Augustana and the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center are hosting a film festival this week called Beyond Bergman: Modern Swedish Film. Tonight’s film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, will be shown at 7 p.m. at the Hanson Hall of Science. The films are all in Swedish with English subtitles and may have content not be suitable for children. For more information, call 309-794-7204.

Argentinean author Dr. David Foster will present Lourdes Portillo's Senorita Extraviada: Filming Femicide at 7 p.m. at the Rogalski Center of St. Ambrose University as part of The Ubiquity of Work series. For more information, call 563-333-6253.

Internationally acclaimed theatre company, DAH Teatar of Serbia, will perform Crossing the Line at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. in the Studio Theatre in the Ford Center for the Fine Arts at Knox College in Galesburg.

Opening this weekend, 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.