Friday, January 28, 2011

WVIK Community Calendar - Saturday, Sunday & Monday

Saturday, January 29

The Eagles and Ivories Ragtime Weekend Festival will be held in Muscatine from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Pearl City Station in Riverside Park and nearby Lock and Dam 16. For more information, contact the Muscatine Park Rangers at 563-263-7913.

The annual Bald Eagle Watch will be held at the Mississippi Valley Welcome Center in LeClaire. Hours are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Naturalist Bob Motz will guide trolley tours at noon Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday. Space is limited. For more information, call 563-322-3911.

The Family Museum in Bettendorf is holding a day of Paper Airplane Competitions beginning at 10 a.m. For more information, call 563-344-4106.

A free kid’s demo class for Zumbatomic will begin at 12:15 at the Rock Island Fitness and Activity Center. Kids ages 7 to 12 who enjoy the demo can register for the current session which is held Tuesdays at 4:45 p.m. To register, call 309-732-7275.

Meet artist Warren Ostrom from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Putnam Museum in Davenport. For more information, call 563-324-1933.

A reception for the exhibit Take 10: Ten Regional Photographers will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. in the D Building Gallery of Carl Sandburg College. The show will continue through March 1. For more information, call 309-341-5303.

Flutist John McMurtery and pianist Ashlee Mack will perform a recital of contemporary music at 7:30 p.m. in the Kasch Performance Hall of Monmouth College’s Dahl Chapel and Auditorium.

As part of The Ubiquity of Work series, Quad City Arts' Visiting Artists Max Pollack and RumbaTap will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Galvin Fine Arts Center of St. Ambrose University. For more information, call 563-333-6251.

The drama Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman will be presented in Potter Theatre in the Bergendoff Hall of Fine Arts of Augustana College at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, call 309-794-7306.

Harrison Hilltop Theatre in Davenport will present the musical I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at 8 p.m. Thursday thru Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, call 563-449-6371.

Sunday, January 30

The Quad City Botanical Center in Rock Island will hold the fifth annual Chocolate Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 309-794-0991.

The Bettendorf Police Explorers’ will host a chili competition supper at Bettendorf Middle School from noon until 6:00 p.m.

The Muscatine Art Center will hold an opening reception for a John Bloom exhibit from 1 to 5 p.m. The exhibit will be on display through March 6.

The annual Bald Eagle Watch will be held at the Mississippi Valley Welcome Center in LeClaire. Hours are 1 to 4 p.m. Naturalist Bob Motz will guide a trolley tour at noon. Space is limited. For more information, call 563-322-3911.

The Figge Art Museum in Davenport will conduct a Grant Wood and Art of the Midwest tour at 1:30 p.m. Free with museum admission. For more information, call 563-326-7804.

The drama Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman will be presented in Potter Theatre in the Bergendoff Hall of Fine Arts of Augustana College at 1:30 p.m. For more information, call 309-794-7306.

In conjunction with the exhibition Tracks: The Railroad in Photographs from the George Eastman House Collection, the program Tracking the Trains: Artists and American Railroads will be held at 2 p.m. at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport. For more information, call 563-326-7804.

Harrison Hilltop Theatre in Davenport will present the musical I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at 2 p.m. For more information, call 563-449-6371.

A reception for Those Who Can: The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History Studio Faculty Exhibition will begin at 3 p.m. at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport. For more information, call 563-326-7804.

Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse in Rock Island will present the musical revue All Shook Up thru March 19. For more information or tickets, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.

Monday, January 31

Bettendorf High School is hosting 8th Grade Parent Night on at 6 p.m. in the school’s Fine Arts Center. Parents and guardians of students planning to enter Bettendorf High School in the fall of 2011 are encouraged to attend. For more information, call 563-332-7005.

A Beat Poet's Night will be held at Mojo’s in River Music Experience beginning at 6 p.m. The event is co-sponsored by the Midwest Writing Center and led by Broc Nelson. All poets and musicians are welcome, but profanity is not allowed. For information, call 563-324-1410.

The program Discovering Places: Travels Along the Mississippi River will be held at 6 p.m. at the River Valley Library in Port Byron. For more information, call 309-523-3440.

Jabali Afrika, a high-energy group from Kenya featuring traditional rhythms, costumes and dancing, will perform at 7 p.m. in the lower lobby of Building 1 of Black Hawk College in Moline. For more information, call 309-796-5467.

The drama Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman will be presented in Potter Theatre in the Bergendoff Hall of Fine Arts of Augustana College at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, call 309-794-7306.

Every Friday and Saturday, ComedySportz Quad Cities will perform improv at 7 p.m. at Establishment Theatre in Rock Island. For more information, call 309-786-1111.

This weekend, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra will perform works by Bach, Hertel, and Mozart as part of their Masterworks IV concert. The concert will be held at 8 p.m. at the Adler Theatre in Davenport on Saturday, and at 2 p.m. in Augustana College’s Centennial Hall on Sunday. Concert Conversations with Kai Swanson and Mark Russell Smith will begin an hour before each performance. For more information, call 563-322-7276.

Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse in Rock Island will present the musical revue All Shook Up thru March 19. For more information or tickets, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.

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