WVIK Community Calendar

Friday, August 26

Rebecca Ann Rakstad will talk about her process in creating letterpress posters and print works at 3 p.m. in Room 141 of St. Ambrose University’s Galvin Fine Arts Center.

The Ellis Kell Band will play outdoors for Friday Live at 5 in the River Music Experience courtyard in Davenport. For more information, call 563-326-1333.

A reception for the Rar Rar Press exhibit of letterpress posters and print works by Rebecca Ann Rakstad will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at The Bakery Gallery, 1330 E. 12th St., in Davenport.

The opening reception for Stepping in, Looking Through, with paintings by Zachary Cleve and Emma Farber, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at The Phoenix Art Gallery, 1530 5th Ave. in Moline. For more information, call 309-762-9202.

A Bucktown Revue preview party, an old-fashioned radio program featuring music, poetry and humor, will begin at 7 p.m. at the Mary Fluhrer Nighswander Theatre in the Annie Wittenmyer complex in Davenport.

The Princeton Players will present the melodrama He Done Her Wrong, or Wedded But No Wife! at the Community Center in Princeton, Iowa at 7 p.m. on Friday; and at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday. The audience may throw at the villain. For more information, call 563-289-4282.

As part of Bucktown’s Final Friday Event, the Afghan Women's Writing Project open mic will be held at 7 p.m. at the Midwest Writing Center in Davenport.  The event is open to the public.  Those interested in reading can visit the Afghan Women’s Project website to find an essay or poem to share.  For more information, call 563-324-1410.

Timber Lake Playhouse will cap off its 50th Anniversary season with the latest installment of a wildly popular Late Nite Catechism series.  Til’ Death Do Us Part: Late Nite Catechism 3 will run until September 4.  For tickets or more information, call 815-244-2035.

On Saturday, River Action’s Riverine Walk Rock Island Hydropower Plant will be held at 9 a.m. at 5200 11th St., Rock Island.  Pre-registration is required; call 563-322-2969.

Continuing through Sept. 17, the Augustana College Art Museum in Centennial Hall will display A Memorial Tribute to Jim Konrad, an exhibit of the artist's life work.  The gallery is open from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday thru Saturday.  For more information, call 309-794-7231.

Thru September 24, Circa ’21 in Rock Island will present the comedy Nana's Naughty Knickers. For tickets or more information, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.