WVIK Community Calendar

Wednesday, April 27

A program covering the safety issues associated with hoarding will be held at 1 p.m. at the Davenport Fairmount St. Library. For more information, call 563-326-7832.

A retirement reception for Western Illinois University President Al Goldfarb will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. in the University Union Grand Ballroom on the WIU-Macomb campus. The reception is open to the public.

Dr. Bruce LeBlanc will speak on Baby Boomers: Looking Back/Looking Ahead at 6 p.m. at the Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging in Rock Island. Registration required; call 309-793-6800.

The documentary Prisoner of Her Past will be shown at 7 p.m. at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport. Afterward, Howard Reich will talk about his mother, the subject of the film. The Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities sponsors the program.  For more information, call 309-793-1300.

Charles McKinley will present The Alienation of Labor and George Sorel's Solution at 7 p.m. at the Rogalski Center of St. Ambrose University.  A pre-lecture reception will be held at 6 p.m.  For more information, call 563-333-5851.

Monmouth College’s Concert Band and Concert Choir will join forces to present a spring concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Kasch Performance Hall of the college’s Dahl Chapel and Auditorium.

Harrison Hilltop Theatre in Davenport will present the musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at 8 p.m. Wednesday thru Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 563-449-6371.

On Thursday, Dr. Lisa Brothers Arbisser will present Health Care: Business or Calling? at 7:30 p.m. in Room 102 in the Hanson Hall of Science of Augustana College.  The lecture is free and open to the public.

Ballet Quad Cities will present Cinderella with the music of Sergei Prokofiev at the Adler Theatre at 8 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 563-326-8500.

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.


Thursday, April 28

A National Community Development Week Luncheon will be held at Knox College in the Lincoln Room at noon. The keynote speaker will be Mr. Bill Lada, President of World Trade Center Illinois.  For more information or to register, call 309-343-1194.

The Galesburg Public Library is hosting a family mystery night at 6 p.m. based on the children's Big Read title Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett. For more information, call 309-343-6118.

Dr. Jeff Johnson will present Adaptive Significance of White Plumage Color in High Arctic Gyrfalcons at 7 p.m. at the John Deere Planetarium in Rock Island. For more information, call 309-794-7721.

As part of Thursdays at the Figge, Dr. Taddy Kalas will present Linking the Verbal and the Visual Text at 7 p.m. For more information, call 563-326-7804.

The Out Loud Poetry and Prose Anthology launch party and open reading will begin at 7 p.m. at the Midwest Writing Center in Davenport. For more information, call 563-324-1410.

Dr. Lisa Brothers Arbisser will present Health Care: Business or Calling? at 7:30 p.m. in Room 102 in the Hanson Hall of Science of Augustana College.  The lecture is free and open to the public.

Janiva Magness and Alan Sweet will perform at 8 p.m. at the Redstone Room, River Music Experience in Davenport. For tickets or more information, call 563-326-1333.

Harrison Hilltop Theatre in Davenport will present the musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at 8 p.m. Wednesday thru Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 563-449-6371.

Beginning Friday, the drama Our Town by Thornton Wilder 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. There will be a discussion after the April 30 performance with members of Augustana's 1989 cast of Our Town.  For more information, call 309-794-7306.

On Saturday, the Augustana Symphony Orchestra will perform Brahms' Symphony No. 1 and Overture by Shostakovich at 8 p.m. at Centennial Hall.  For more information, call 309-794-7306.

Ballet Quad Cities will present Cinderella with the music of Sergei Prokofiev at the Adler Theatre at 8 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 563-326-8500.

On select dates thru May 7, Circa '21 in Rock Island will present the children's musical Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day at 10 a.m. For tickets or more information, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.