WVIK Community Calendar - Friday

Friday, November 12

Bruce Polay and Sarah Moran will present a lecture and performance, Two Songs on Texts of Robert Frost by Bruce Polay at 4 p.m. in Kresge Hall of Knox College’s Ford Center for the Fine Arts in Galesburg. The performance is free and open to the public.

An opening reception for The Art of Charles Walzem will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at MidCoast Gallery West in Rock Island. For more information, call 309-786-2430.

The Backdoor Independent Film Cafe will show Train to Nowhere: Inside an Immigrant Death Investigation at 6:30 at the Figge Art Museum. For more information, call 563-271-6173.

Tonight and tomorrow night, Rivermont Collegiate will present the comedy The Fearsome Pirate Frank at 7 p.m. For more information, call 563-359-1366, ext. 301.

First Lutheran Church in Rock Island will host an open-mic coffeehouse from 7 to 10 p.m. Musicians and poets are welcome. Proceeds will benefit the St. Joe's Evening Meal program at Rock Island Township. For more information, call 309-788-9661.

The Knox College Choir will perform a student composition Requiem Aeternam as part of the choir's free, public fall concert at 7:30 p.m. in Kresge Hall in the Ford Center for the Fine Arts in Galesburg. The 50-voice choir also will perform music by Monteverdi, Tomas Luis de Victoria, and Estonian composer Veljo Tormis.

Playcrafters Barn Theatre in Moline will present Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday; and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. For more information or tickets, call 309-762-0330.

The Prenzie Players will present Shakespeare’s Pericles at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Bettendorf at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. this Sunday. There will be a discussion after tonight’s performance.

Harrison Hilltop Theatre in Davenport will present the comedy The Complete History of America abridged- at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 563-449-6371.

Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse in Rock Island will present Plaid Tidings through Dec. 31. For more information or tickets, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.