With the event sponsored by the Office of Student Inclusion and Diversity and the Augustana Diversity Council, the college's annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration on January 15 is themed Called for Love, its keynote speaker the award-winning author Dr. Reggie Williams, who also serves as a professor of Christian ethics at Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary.

Lauded by Vulture magazine for the playwright's "elegant way with exposition and the stealthy way he lures us down into the deep end of the emotional pool," Samuel L. Hunter's A Case for the Existence of God enjoys a January 19 through February 4 run at Iowa City's Riverside Theatre, this moving and magical drama by the writer of last year's Oscar winner The Whale also hailed by the New York Times as a "must-see heartbreaker of a play."

In a special evening featuring acclaimed touring artist Mike Wiley, a horrific piece of history will come to life with thrilling immediacy and power in the author/star's solo performance Blood Done Sign My Name, this arresting work - being presented in the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center on January 22 - hailed by Broadway World as "a fascinating story of one man's journey to understanding and coming to terms with his own community."

With its works taken during what turnout out to be a 5177-mile, 6.5-week quest, a University of Dubuque professor's gifts for composition, lighting, and more will be on display in the gorgeous and evocative Dale Easley in the Wild West: Sabbatical Photography, the exhibition on display in the university's Bisignano Art Gallery through January 31.

On display in the Peter Paul Luce Gallery of Mt. Vernon's Cornell College through March 31, the fascinating exhibition Come Celebrate with Me ... will treat patrons to a collection of arresting pieces by the Illinois-based interdisciplinary artist Nicole Davis.

A 2023 Academy Award nominee that currently boasts a 99-percent “freshness” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Shaunak Sen's documentary All That Breathes serves as the first presentation in 2024 QC Environmental Film Series hosted by River Action, its January screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum demonstrating why the Hollywood Reporter's Daniel Fienberg decreed the film "one of the more dreamily provocative documentaries I’ve ever seen.”

With the event held not long after the celebration of the building's 150th anniversary and the decade-long rehabilitation of historic Forest Grove School Number Five, Kelly and Tammy Rundle of the Moline-based Fourth Wall Films will screen their documentary Resurrecting Forest Grove at the Bettendorf Public Library on January 18, this special presentation a program in the library's popular Community Connections series.

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Lauded by Broadway World for its "broadly drawn characters, exotic settings, and a spectacular murder with no shortage of suspects," the stage version of Agatha Christie's classic Murder on the Orient Express makes its debut at Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse from January 17 through March 2, this delightful mystery comedy also hailed by the Hartford Courant as "a fast-moving, powerful theatrical locomotive" that "will get you to a better place, and slay you merrily en route."

Praised by Glide magazine for songs that "radiate a sense of optimism and purpose ever so welcome in these fragmented times.," the alternative rockers of Big Head Todd & the Monsters headline a January 16 concert at Davenport's recently remodeled Capitol Theatre, the platinum-selling Billboard artists also hailed by the Los Angeles Times for their "great songs that incorporate blues, folk, rock, and country."

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