Monday, April 11, 2011

WVIK Community Calendar

Tuesday, April 12

Big Lesson: Titanic on Trial, a special live performance will be held in the Putnam's IMAX Theatre at 9:30 a.m. Relive that fateful night with a historical drama based on the testimony of survivors of the Titanic tragedy as told during the U.S. government inquiry.  Advance registration is recommended; call 563-324-1933.

The faces, letters, sketches and songs of the men who fought in Illinois regiments during the Civil War will be featured in the new Civil War 150th anniversary exhibit opening today and running through December 30 at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in downtown Springfield.

Bestselling novelist Kimberla Lawson Roby will visit the Moline Library at 6:30 p.m. for one hour speaking engagement and book signing.  For more information, call 309-524-2470.

Tom Davis, professor of Biology at Loras College, will host a free screening of a new film called Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time. The screening will be at 7 p.m. in the St. Joseph Hall of Science on the Loras College campus in Dubuque. For more information, call 563-588-7769.

For the 26th annual Stone Lectureship in Judaism, Sybil Sanchez, director of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, will present Judaism: A Green Religion at 7:30 p.m. at Wallenberg Hall in the Denkmann Memorial Building of Augustana College. For more information, call 309-794-7721.

The Curtainbox Theatre Company will present the comedy Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet at the Village Theatre in Davenport at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday thru Saturday and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. A reception and questions and answers with the cast will be held after Sunday’s show.  For tickets or more information, call 563-322-8504.

The Prenzie Players will present Romeo and Juliet at the Center for Living Arts in Rock Island at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, call 309-278-8426.

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

Through June 4, Circa '21 in Rock Island will present the musical Happy Days.  For tickets or show times, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.

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