In a virtual presentation on November 12, the Silvis Public Library invites participants to engage in an important and thoughtful conversation with the acclaimed author, educator, poet, and cultural organizer whose work will be explored in Words, Power, & Community with Dr. Eve L. Ewing, an exploration of race, education, identity, and community hosted by Illinois Libraries Present.

An official selection at the WRPN Women's International Film Festival and the Best Cinematography victor at the AltFF Alternative Film Festival, director Jacinta Lagos' lauded documentary Allowed to Birth: The Journey of a Global Midwife enjoys a special screening at Davenport venue The Last Picture House, the November 18 event presented by Encompass Midwifery and Wonders of Nature Midwifery boasting a post-show Q&A with the film's featured midwife Kristine Lauria.

Speaking about and signing copies of her new book The Couple with the Pitchfork: American Gothic from Easel to Icon, renowned American-art and cultural historian Wanda Corn makes a special appearance at Davenport's Figge Art Museum on November 19, the event also featuring Dr. Ranelle Knight-Lueth, director of the Grant Wood Catalogue Raisonné project.

A masterpiece of brooding intensity and dark laughs that introduced the world to the adage "Hell is other people," Nobel Prize winner Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit closes the 2026 season at Moline's Playcrafters Barn Theatre, its November 13 through 22 run treating audiences to a work the Oxford Culture Review deemed "complex and dark ... convincing and enticing."