Arts
The Alabama Solution
A screening of the documentary film "The Alabama Solution" will be followed by panel discussion of formerly incarcerated members of the Quad Cities community.
The film follows the prison system in Alabama from the perspective of incarcerated leaders. The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and was released by HBO and HBO Max. At the 98th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Documentary. (Wikipedia)
Sponsored by the Augustana Prison Education Program.
Keep On Dancin'
For over 30 years, the Augustana Dance Company has delighted audiences with beautiful and captivating movements on stage. Their spring performance will feature pieces choreographed by members of the Company and will showcase a variety of genres including lyrical, jazz, ballet, and others.
Celebrating Women in the Arts
Sigma Alpha Iota offers the yearly Celebrating Women in the Arts recital to commemorate women who perform and compose music. This event also includes art forms such as visual art, dance and poetry.
Sigma Alpha Iota is an international music fraternity for women. Augustana's Delta Tau chapter was chartered in 1965.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Speaker for the Dead – Poetry Workshop with Anders Carlson-Wee
Poet Anders Carlson-Wee will lead a poetry writing workshop focusing on writing using a persona, in the Midwest Writing Center - the basement level of the Rock Island Public Library. The workshop is free for high school and college students, $15 for the general public. The workshop and Carlson-Wee’s reading (along with others) at Rozz-Tox are part of the All Senses Festival, Sept. 28-30, including writing, music, film and arts events.
Students, alumni present Titanic: the Musical
Augustana College will present "Titanic: the Musical" April 28-30 and May 5-7.
Mississippi Bend Players: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Neil Simon's hilarious semi-autobiographical portrait shows an American family in post-depression, pre-war Brooklyn, through the eyes of a 15-year-old boy. The play has wit, warmth and Simon's signature laughs.
The Mississippi Bend Players is a new theatre company based in the Quad Cities whose mission is to provide excellence in the Quad Cities theatre by producing both commercially proven works and original musical and dramatic material. The group gives students and community members the opportunity to work together on professional stage productions.
Mississippi Bend Players: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Neil Simon's hilarious semi-autobiographical portrait shows an American family in post-depression, pre-war Brooklyn, through the eyes of a 15-year-old boy. The play has wit, warmth and Simon's signature laughs.
The Mississippi Bend Players is a new theatre company based in the Quad Cities whose mission is to provide excellence in the Quad Cities theatre by producing both commercially proven works and original musical and dramatic material. The group gives students and community members the opportunity to work together on professional stage productions.
Brighton Beach Memoirs will also be performed on August 4, August 5, August 6, August 11, and August 13.
Mississippi Bend Players: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Neil Simon's hilarious semi-autobiographical portrait shows an American family in post-depression, pre-war Brooklyn, through the eyes of a 15-year-old boy. The play has wit, warmth and Simon's signature laughs.
The Mississippi Bend Players is a new theatre company based in the Quad Cities whose mission is to provide excellence in the Quad Cities theatre by producing both commercially proven works and original musical and dramatic material. The group gives students and community members the opportunity to work together on professional stage productions.
Brighton Beach Memoirs will also be performed on August 4, August 5, August 11, August 12, and August 13.
Mississippi Bend Players: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Neil Simon's hilarious semi-autobiographical portrait shows an American family in post-depression, pre-war Brooklyn, through the eyes of a 15-year-old boy. The play has wit, warmth and Simon's signature laughs.
The Mississippi Bend Players is a new theatre company based in the Quad Cities whose mission is to provide excellence in the Quad Cities theatre by producing both commercially proven works and original musical and dramatic material. The group gives students and community members the opportunity to work together on professional stage productions.
Brighton Beach Memoirs will also be performed on August 4, August 6, August 11, August 12, and August 13.
Mississippi Bend Players: Wait Until Dark
A blind Greenwich Village housewife becomes the target of three con men searching for heroin hidden inside a doll. This masterfully constructed thriller by Frederick Knott builds toward an electrifying, breath-stopping final scene.
The Mississippi Bend Players is a new theatre company based in the Quad Cities whose mission is to provide excellence in the Quad Cities theatre by producing both commercially proven works and original musical and dramatic material. The group gives students and community members the opportunity to work together on professional stage productions.
Wait Until Dark will also be performed on July 21, July 22, July 23, July 28, and July 29.