WVIK Community Calendar

Satuday, October 8

The Importance of Being Curious: A Symposium Honoring Mike Nolan will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Olin Center of Augustana College. Schedule information is online at Augustana’s website.

As part of the Global Gathering Brazil series, the Mystery Book Discussion Group will discuss Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage at 9:30 a.m. at the Bettendorf Library.  For more information, call 563-344-4179.

Photographer Jim Frink will present The Fantastic World of Fungi program and walk at 9:30 a.m. at Singing Bird Nature Center in Black Hawk State Historic Site. For more information, call 309-788-9536.

Make and eat a fall feast with native vegetables and fruits at Autumn Cornucopia Native Harvest from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Nahant Marsh Education Center in Davenport. The event will start with a hike, progress with food preparation corn-grinding, apple-pressing, cider-making, butter-churning, solar cooking, and end with the meal. For more information, call 563-323-5196.

An exhibition of Japanese flower arrangements by the Chicago Ikenobo Ikebana Society will be offered from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Moline Library featuring demonstrations of flower arranging and tea ceremonies in the afternoon. For more information, call 309-755-3522.

Classic Stories in French and English with storyteller Salem Dogbe for ages 5 and up will begin at 2 p.m. at the Moline Library. For more information, call 309-524-2480.

Cantilena Augustana, Wennerberg Men's Chorus, Jenny Lind Vocal Ensemble, and Ascension Singers will perform for the Augustana Four Choirs concert at 4 p.m. at Centennial Hall. For more information, call 309-794-7306.

Nova Singers will present Voices and Keys at 7:30 p.m. at Knox College’s Kresge Recital Hall in Galesburg. For more information, call 309-341-7038.

New Ground Theatre will present the drama God of Carnage at the Village Theatre in Davenport at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 563-326-7529.

The musical A New Brain will be presented at the Galvin Fine Arts Center of St. Ambrose University at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets or more information, call 563-333-6251.

Quad Cities Ballet Folklorico will perform at 8 p.m. at Centennial Hall of Augustana College.  For more information, call 309-794-7306.

Thru Nov. 5, Circa '21 in Rock Island will present the musical The Marvelous Wonderettes. For tickets, show times or more information, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.\


Sunday, October 9

AppleFest and Autumn Market Days will be held in downtown LeClaire from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. featuring food, a craft show, and kids' activities. For more information, call 309-289-4242, ext. 1135.

The West Music Redstone Rumble student recital will begin at 1 p.m. at the Redstone Room of River Music Experience in Davenport. For more information, call 563-326-1333.

The Figge Art Museum will offer the tour Art and Advertising: A Look at Turn-of-the-Century Posters at 1:30 p.m. For more information, call 563-326-7804.

A rededication ceremony of the refurbished fountain in Riverside Park will be held at 2 p.m. at the fountain in the gardens west of the greenhouse. It was presented to the city in 1906 and refurbished by the Friends of Riverside Park Gardens.

Minda Powers-Douglas will present Step Back in Time: Civil War at Oakdale at 2 p.m. at Oakdale Memorial Gardens Public Mausoleum in Davenport. For more information, call 563-324-5121.

New Ground Theatre will present the drama God of Carnage at the Village Theatre in Davenport at 2 p.m.  For tickets or more information, call 563-326-7529.

The musical A New Brain will be presented at the Galvin Fine Arts Center of St. Ambrose University at 3 p.m.  For tickets or more information, call 563-333-6251.

Nova Singers will present Voices and Keys at 4 p.m. at First Congregational Church in Moline.  For more information, call 309-341-7038.

Thru Nov. 5, Circa '21 in Rock Island will present the musical The Marvelous Wonderettes. For tickets, show times or more information, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.


Monday, October 10

First Lady LuHenry Hoover with impersonator Rosemary Harris will be the program for the Friends of the Rock Island Library meeting at 11:30 a.m. at First Baptist Church in Rock Island. Reservations rare equired; call 309-786-5293.

DAGOBAH, a science fiction and fantasy book discussion group, will meet at 6 p.m. at the Davenport Library.  For more information, call 563-326-7832.

The documentary Seven Centuries of the English Windmill will be shown at 6 p.m. at the Windmill Cultural Center in Fulton. For more information, call 815-589-3160.

Rock Island High School will host a Marching Band Showcase at 7 p.m. Participating high schools are Orion, Geneseo, Moline, United Township, and Rock Island.  For more information, call 309-793-5950, ext. 1174.

As part of the Global Gathering Brazil series, Bohdan Dziadyk of Augustana College will present Ecological Systems of the Amazon Basin at 7-8:30 p.m. at the Bettendorf Library. For more information, call 563-344-4175.

Catholicism in China, a panel discussion led by Janet Carroll, former director of the United States Catholic China Bureau, will begin at 7 p.m. at the Rogalski Center of St. Ambrose University. For more information, call 563-333-6389.

On Thursday, Dr. Michael Shermer, founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and director of the Skeptics Society, will talk about Why People Believe Weird Things at 7 p.m. in the Olin Center of Augustana College.

Alleman High School in Rock Island will present the musical The Sound of Music at 7 p.m. on Thursday and Saturday, and at 4 p.m. on Sunday.  For more information, call 309-786-7793.

Thru Nov. 5, Circa '21 in Rock Island will present the musical The Marvelous Wonderettes. For tickets, show times or more information, call 309-786-7733, ext. 2.