Winner of the Best Environmental Documentary prize at the 2024 Arizona Film Festival and the Audience Award at the 2024 Maui Film Festival, Giants Rising serves as the sixth and final presentation in this year's QC Environmental Film Series hosted by River Action. Its March 2 screening in the Galvin Fine Arts Center of Davenport's St. Ambrose University invites audiences to journey into the heart of America's most iconic forests, the film revealing the secrets and the saga of the coast redwoods: the tallest and among the oldest living beings on Earth.

A Galesburg-based talent who has been active in photography for more than half a century, Rich Ankeney brings his latest exhibition to Moline's Black Hawk College in Embracing the Syncopation: A Visual Exploration, an arresting series of new works on view in the ArtSpace Gallery through February 21.

Lauded by Earth to the Ground Music as a "high-energy, captivating singer songwriter" who "has the uncanny ability to make the stories of the everyman timeless and seemingly effortless," Americana and roots-rock musician Matthew McNeal headlines a February 21 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the talent also lauded for delivering "an enjoyable ride that will keep a lot of people interested."

A special “sound and visual meditation” featuring artists in the realms of music, photography, and literature will unfold at Rozz-Tox on February 21 when the Rock Island venue hosts All Colors Present, an evening of aural and visual magic boasting co-headliners Jon Mueller and Tom Lecky and local poet and Midwest Writing Center director Ryan Collins.