The Festival Saturday, August 11, 2018 – Gates open at 4:00 p.m. Ya Maka My Weekend, the “Original District Festival” celebrates Caribbean culture with ethnic foods, live reggae and Caribbean music, palm trees and sand. This festival enjoys a Midwest...
Come to the Main Library for Anime Night! Watch anime online, enjoy Japanese snacks, and learn to write Japanese hiragana characters. 図書館へようこそ! (This means "Welcome to the library!")
Come join us for a great dinner by Bridges and listen to the coaches talk about the upcoming season. Doors open at 6:00, Dinner at 6:30, and the program starts at 7:15.
Moms and daughters join us for a magical afternoon at the Quad City Botanical Center. Dress up as your favorite fairy, troll, or magical creature and explore the gardens! We will have a fairy seek and find in the gardens,...
From 1888 until 1903 a Rock Island photographer named Oscar Hakelier worked from his studio in downtown Rock Island. He called it the "Vienna Photographic Studio," and it was located at 1722 Second Avenue. As he worked he took many...
We are celebrating author Chris Grabenstein's birthday with a drop-in scavenger hunt. Pick up your game sheet and play. Return the completed form to the children's room desk and it will go into a prize drawing on Friday, August 31.
We are celebrating author Chris Grabenstein's birthday with a drop-in scavenger hunt. Pick up your game sheet and play. Return the completed form to the children's room desk and it will go into a prize drawing on Friday, August 31.
Norm Moline, professor emeritus of geography at Augustana College, will tell attendees about 100 years of the National Parks system.
Calling all educators! The Quad City Botanical Center invites you to an open house to show our appreciation for what you do for the Quad Cities. Enjoy complimentary appetizers, door prizes, tours of our gardens, insight into our outreach programs...
Annual celebration of the freedom to read and think as you like. Features readings of favorite passages from banned or challenged books by local readers, writers, and other fans of the written word.