WVIK Community Calendar

Thursday, September 15
Dr. Wendy Smooth will present Women in American Politics -- Why So Few? for the convocation program at 10:30 a.m. at Centennial Hall of Augustana College.  For more information, call 309-794-7494.

Clinton’s Stop the Hate/Show the Love Walk for Peace will begin at 5:00 pm at Clinton Community College.  The event will feature speakers, a release of butterflies, music and more.  For more information, call Sisters of St. Francis at 563-242-7611.

The Jimmy Valentine Quintet will play for the Moline Centre Main Street summer concert series beginning at 6 p.m. at Bass Street Landing Plaza. For more information, call 309-524-2054.

At 7 p.m. in the Studio Theatre in the Ford Center for the Fine Arts in Galesburg, the one-woman show The Lydia Etudes will be performed by Dawn Arnold, artistic director of Moving Dock Theatre of Chicago. The performance is open to the public.

As part of Thursday at the Figge, Professor Dorothy Johnson will present Entertaining Visions: Toulouse-Lautrec and Fin-de-Siecle Paris at 7 p.m.  For more information, call 563-326-7804.

Thursday through Saturday, Carl Sandburg College will host the 8th Annual Black Earth Film Festival in the Fine Arts Theatre in Building F on the Main Campus in Galesburg.  The festival will kick off with the film The Day Carl Sandburg Died a documentary by Paul Bonesteel about the poet’s life and influence. A question and answer session will follow.  For tickets or for more information, call 309-342-7415.

The musical Make Me a Cowboy will be presented at Playcrafters Barn Theatre in Moline at 7:30 p.m. Thursday thru Saturday, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 309-762-0330.

The Curtainbox Theatre Company will present the drama Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies at the Village Theatre in Davenport at 7:30 p.m. Thursday thru Saturday and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 563-322-850.

Tomorrow, the Bucktown Revue, the old-fashioned radio program featuring music, poetry and humor, will begin it’s new season at 7 p.m. at the Mary Fluhrer Nighswander Theatre in Davenport. For more information, call 563-940-0508.

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.