When free speech apparently only applies to red America, and the First Amendment is under attack on many fronts, it was with renewed urgency that the annual Banned Books Reading was held Monday night at the Rock Island Public Library, Watts-Midtown Branch. Part of national Banned Books Week, the local Banned Books Read Out is […]
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Tapestry Farms will hold its first fall fundraiser – Harvest Moon Celebration – on Tuesday, Oct. 7th at 7 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 121 W. 12th St., Davenport. At the end of April, the nonprofit’s executive director Ann McGlynn got an email from New York-based soprano and Davenport native Claire Kuttler with a generous idea: “What […]
The Quad City Symphony Orchestra Association (QCSOA) on Thursday announced two landmark agreements that underscore the organization’s commitment to artistic excellence, stability, and community impact: a new four-year Collective Bargaining Agreement with the American Federation of Musicians, Local No. 137, and a six-year contract renewal with Music Director and Conductor Mark Russell Smith. The QCSOA […]
Thirty-six local nonprofits are receiving $629,000 through the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Operations and Program Grants. The Operations and Program Grants are made possible by generous donations to Field of Interest Funds as well as the Quad Cities Community Impact Fund. The grants make up the Community Foundation’s largest competitive grantmaking cycle each year, according […]
For the second time in less than three years, Davenport’s German American Heritage Center and Museum (GAHC + M) has a new boss. Moline native Kirk Marske, 54, took over the reins of the nonprofit in mid-September, succeeding Brian Allen, who left as executive director after 26 months this past spring to become executive director […]
Moline native Hunt Harris – a successful businessman, photographer and tireless volunteer – put in countless hours and dollars in supporting Quad Cities nonprofits his entire adult life. Nearly two years after his death at 74, his family is ensuring his legacy will live on for decades. The Harris family is making a transformative, historic […]
The Figge Art Museum (225 W. 2nd St., Davenport) has a new exhibit of local interest — Kristin Quinn: Luminous Flux Paintings From the Watershed, a new exhibition featuring recent works by local artist and St. Ambrose University professor Kristin Quinn. Quinn’s work is inspired by her connection to the Mississippi River watershed and her travels across […]
The Putnam Museum’s third-annual Recycling Fashion Show, “Garbage Glam,” is scheduled for Saturday, September 27th. The event was initially inspired by the JUNKraft: Global Crisis of Plastic Pollution exhibit two years ago. The exhibit showcased JUNK, a homemade raft which used 15,000 recycled plastic bottles for flotation. With no motor or support vessel, the two-man […]
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