The Quad Cities River Bandits 2020 baseball season may have been canceled, but that doesn’t mean the picture-perfect Modern Woodmen Park is sitting on the disabled list.

The beautiful stadium at 209 S. Gaines St., Davenport, will be showing classic movie titles on the big screen on select dates through the end of September. They hosted six movies in August, and have four planned this month. All tickets will be just $5 and all the proceeds from ticket sales will go to the Genesis Health Services Foundation.

“We like to partner with great community entities and the health care industry has been through a lot during the Covid-19 global pandemic, so it made sense to us to do as much as we could locally for the Genesis Foundation,” River Bandits general manager Joe Kubly said Monday.

The flick list for September features the following:

• Friday, Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m.: “Batman” (1989)
• Friday, Sept. 18 at 8 p.m.: “The Big Lebowski” (18 and older, with costume contest)
• Friday, Sept. 25 at 7:30 p.m.: “Minions” (kids 12 and under free with adult ticket)
• Saturday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m.: “Sonic the Hedgehog” (kids 12 and under free with adult ticket)

Kubly said there may be more movies in October, but the park weekends are booked the first two weekends for private events already, so it will be pending weather the rest of that month.

The movies in the park are shown with a maximum of 10-percent seating capacity (roughly 850 patrons) and all the seats in the bowl are blocked off into pods to ensure social distancing, he said.

Tickets can be purchased at the box office Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., by calling 563-324-3000 or online at https://uw1.glitnirticketing.com/uwticket/web/ev_list.php.

To find out more about the team (the Class A affiliate of the Houston Astros), visit www.riverbandits.com.

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Jonathan Turner

Jonathan Turner -- who has called the Quad Cities home since 1995 -- has decades of experience as a professional journalist and pianist. His experience writing for daily newspapers, public radio and local TV encompasses a wide range of subjects, including the arts, politics, education, economic development, historic preservation, business, and tourism.

Jonathan most loves writing about music and the arts (which he now does as a freelancer for the River Cities Reader and Visit Quad Cities). He has a passion for accompanying musicals, singers, choirs and instrumentalists, including playing for QC Music Guild's 2023 productions of RENT and SWEENEY TODD. He is assistant music director and accompanist for the spring 2025 Music Guild show, ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE. He wrote an original musical based on The Book of Job, which premiered at Playcrafters in 2010. Jonathan penned a 175-page history book about downtown Davenport, that was published by The History Press in 2016, and a travel guide about the QC published by Reedy Press in 2022.