WVIK Community Calendar

Saturday, September 17

The 24th annual Riverssance Festival of Fine Arts will be held in Lindsay Park in Davenport featuring artworks, music, food, and children's art activities. The Festival is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.  For information, call 309-764-6074.

The 8th Annual Black Earth Film Festival in the Fine Arts Theatre in Building F on the Main Campus Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg ends today.  For titles and schedule information, call 309-342-7415.

WQPT's annual Brew Ha Ha fundraiser will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. at LeClaire Park in Davenport for ages 21 and up. For more information, call 309-796-2424.

Healthy Families Day will be held until 3 p.m. at Browning Field in Moline. It will include inflatables, a mobile playground, kite-making and flying, backyard games, and more. Proceeds will benefit Moline High School extracurricular activities.

The 6th Annual ChiliFest benefit for Second Saturdays Art Happenings will be held at Distinctive Gardens in Dixon, Illinois beginning at 5 p.m.  For information, call 815-535-7325.

A Choir Musical will begin at 6 p.m. at Vineyard Church of Davenport. Area choirs will perform. For information, call 563-650-7157.

The Popular Astronomy Club invite all to join in night sky viewing with its mobile observatory and telescopes from 7 to 11:30 p.m. in the parking lot of Niabi Zoo. Club members will also be available to help participants set up and use their own telescopes.  For information, call 309-797-3120.

The Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Galvin Fine Arts Center of St. Ambrose University.  For tickets or more information, call 563-333-6251.

The musical Make Me a Cowboy will be presented at Playcrafters Barn Theatre in Moline at 7:30 p.m. on 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. on Saturday and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 563-322-850.


Sunday, September 18

The annual Arrowhead Ranch Round-Up will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 12200 104th St. in Coal Valley. It will include a vehicle auction at 11 a.m., performance by ComedySportz, a craft fair, and more.  For information, call 309-799-7044, ext. 270.

The 24th annual Riverssance Festival of Fine Arts will be held in Lindsay Park in Davenport featuring artworks, music, food, and children's art activities. The Festival is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  For information, call 309-764-6074.

The Friends of Riverside Park Gardens fall plant sale will be held from noon to 3 p.m. at the Riverside Park Garden Center in Moline.

A recital by area and guest professors will be given at Asbury United Methodist Church in Bettendorf beginning at 3 p.m.  Proceeds will go toward restoration of the Pleyel double-grand piano at River Music Experience believed to be one of only six in the world.  For more information, call 563-355-3807.

The Curtainbox Theatre Company will present the drama Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies at the Village Theatre in Davenport at 3 p.m.  For tickets or more information, call 563-322-850.

The Ernest Dawkins Quartet will be the featured performers for the Third Sunday Jazz Workshop and Matinee at the Redstone Room of River Music Experience. The workshop begins at 3 p.m. and the Matinee concert at 6 p.m.  For more information, call 309-373-0790.

The musical Make Me a Cowboy will be presented at Playcrafters Barn Theatre in Moline at 3 p.m.  For tickets or more information, call 309-762-0330.

As part of the ninth annual Jewish Film Series, the 2009 French film The Concert will be shown at 4 p.m. at the Figge Art Museum.  For more information, call 309-793-1300.

The Caliendo Barcellona Flute Guitar Duo will perform at 7 p.m. in Denkmann Memorial Hall of Augustana College. For more information, call 309-794-7306.


Monday, September 19

As part of the Music on the Mississippi series, the Tony Hamilton Orchestra will play for beginning at 6 p.m. in the Ben Butterworth Parkway at 53rd Street in Moline.

Dudley Hanson will speak on the book Defiant Courage by Astrid Karlsen at 7 p.m. at the Viking Club in Moline.  The event is open to the public.  For more information, call 563-355-7778.

Eagle View Group Sierra Club will hold a discussion of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben at 6 p.m. at the Moline Library. And then at 7 p.m., Jodi Zimmerman will speak on Paddling the Boundary Waters.  For more information, call 309-762-0609.

Tomorrow, ProFair an event that will connect students with potential employers, internships and graduate schools, will be held at the PepsiCo Recreation Center on the campus of the Augustana College from noon to 4 p.m.  For more information, call 309-794-7721.

Tomorrow, the evening Contemporary Books Discussion Group will discuss Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed by Larry Rohter from 7 p.m. at the Bettendorf Library.  For more information, call 563-344-4179.

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. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 563-322-850.

On Saturday, the 15th Annual West Liberty Children’s Festival and Puppet Mini Fest will be held at the New Strand Theater from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Featured will be puppet performances by the Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre, food, and a host of children's games and activities.  For information, call 319-627-248.

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.