Held in conjunction with the Davenport venue's current exhibition John Leslie Breck: American Impressionist, the Brandywine River Museum of Art's Senior Curator Amanda C. Burdan will present a July 28 Scholar Talk at the Figge Art Museum, exploring the artwork of a highly recognized painter, and those who preceded and followed her, in “Impressionistes Américaines: Lilla Cabot Perry & the American Women Impressionists."

On July 26 and 27, the Davenport Public Library will host a pair of virtual author visits with rising literary stars whose works have been selected as part of the State Library of Iowa's All Iowa Reads program, with Kate O'Shaughnessy discussing her writing process and critically acclaimed The Lonely Heart of Maybelle Lane on Tuesday, and Rachel Mans McKenny, on Wednesday, providing a deep dive into her career and chosen title The Butterfly Effect.

Returning to downtown Davenport for the 48th time, the Quad-City Times Bix 7 will find runners and walkers taking on a seven-mile foot race alongside live bands and cheering crowds, with the July 29 and 30 weekend also featuring numerous block parties – hosted by dozens of downtown-Davenport businesses – between the Rock Island Arsenal Bridge on the east to the Centennial Bridge on the west.

A 2016 Tony Award nominee and a tune-filled farce that the New York Daily News named one of its year's top-10 must-see musicals, the heady and hysterical Disaster! enjoys a July 20 through September 10 run at Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse, this jukebox delight inspiring Time Out New York's Adam Feldman to rave, "I can’t remember the last time I laughed out loud at the theatre as often as I did at Disaster!"