WVIK Community Calendar

Tuesday, August 30

Shyla will perform for a live lunch at noon at Mojo's Café in River Music Experience.  For more information, call 563-326-1555.

As part of the Moline Centre Main Street summer concert series, Whoozdads? will play at 7 p.m. at Bass Street Landing Plaza.  The next concert in the series will be the Jimmy Valentine Quintet on September 15.  For more information, call 309-524-2054.

Tomorrow, Karen O'Connor will present Your Family Tree: Finding Your Roots at the Davenport Fairmount St. Library at 1 p.m. Following the program, attendees may go to the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center at the Main Street library to conduct research.  For more information, call 563-421-2198.

Tomorrow, Scott McLeod, a leading academic expert on school technology, will be speaking at Bettendorf High School at 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Room on the impact of technology on 21st century learners.  The public is invited to attend this free presentation.

Tomorrow is the deadline to apply for the April 2012 Collins Poetry Residency.  Any poet who has not yet published a chapbook or book length collection of poetry and who lives in any of the six counties of the Quad Cities area is eligible.  To apply, submit a cover letter, a writing resume, five representative poems, a purpose statement and availability. For more information, call 563-324-1410.

On Thursday morning, Marc Prensky and Dr. Mark Bauerlein will debate technology and its impact on social relationships for the convocation program at 10:30 a.m. at Augustana College’s Centennial Hall.  Questions will also be taken from the audience.  For more information, call 309-794-7494.

This week’s Thursdays at the Figge program will feature fall studio preview art demonstrations with Heidi Hernandez, Andi Naab, and Donna Young beginning at 5 p.m. For more information, call 563-326-7804.

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.

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.