WVIK Community Calendar - Thursday

Thursday, December 16

Bren Tooley and Presiana Yorgakieva will present a program on Bulgaria at noon in the Whiteman-McMillan Highlander Room of Monmouth College’s Stockdale Center. The program is free and open to the public.

Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse in Rock Island will present the musical Jack Frost Saves Christmas on select dates through December 26th. For more information on show times or tickets, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.

The Lessons and Carols service will be presented at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Ascension Chapel in Augustana College’s Founders Hall featuring the Augustana Chamber Singers and the Ascension Ringers handbell choir. For more information, call 309-794-7833.

The winter installment of Art Gumbo, a quarterly soup dinner supporting local art projects will begin at 6 p.m. at the Dubuque Museum of Art. For more information, call 563-564-5290.

Tonight is the final night for the annual Season of Light planetarium show will be presented at 7 p.m. in the Augustana College’s John Deere Planetarium. Reservations are requested; call 309-794-7327 during business hours.

New Ground Theatre will present the musical The Gift of the Magi at the Village Theatre in Davenport at 7:30 p.m. Thursday thru Saturday; and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. For more information or tickets, call 563-326-7529.

Harrison Hilltop Theatre in Davenport will present Waiting for Godot at 8 p.m. Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, call 563-449-6371.

Bettendorf High School will offer the Christmas Star at the Schaefer Planetarium program at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Reservations are necessary; call 563-332-4516 on school days from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

On Friday, The Bucktown Revue, an old-fashioned radio program, will present their Christmas show featuring folk music, poetry and humor, at 7 p.m. at the Performance Hall of River Music Experience in Davenport. For more information, call 563-326-1333.

On Friday, the Nova Singers will present A Nova Christmas at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport. On Saturday, they will perform at First Lutheran Church in Galesburg. For more information, call 309-341-7038.