July 7th, 2022
Arts & Entertainment News
The Quad City Botanical Center is seeking storytellers to contribute to their newest exhibit, Plants of the World: People Behind the Plants. This new, unique exhibit is being designed to capture stories of Quad Citizens from around the world – who now call the Quad Cities home. Our tropical Sun Garden houses hundreds of varieties […]
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February 18th, 2018
Entertainment
Storyteller and librettist Charlotte Blake Alston will be in residence through Feb. 23, thanks to Quad City Arts’ Visiting Artist Series. Charlotte Blake Alston is a nationally acclaimed storyteller, narrator, instrumentalist, librettist and singer who performs in venues throughout North America and abroad. She is the host of “Sound All Around,” the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Preschool […]
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January 23rd, 2018
Entertainment
Storyteller and librettist Charlotte Blake Alston will be in residence Feb. 12-23, thanks to Quad City Arts’ Visiting Artist Series. Charlotte Blake Alston is a nationally acclaimed storyteller, narrator, instrumentalist, librettist and singer who performs in venues throughout North America and abroad. She is the host of “Sound All Around,” the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Preschool concert […]
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March 17th, 2016
Arts & Entertainment News
Given that it’s St. Patrick’s Day and the Irish are known as imaginative and entertaining storytellers, we thought you would enjoy this short story about the holiday… REPTILIA By: Sean Leary Into the midst of the candlelit enclave, a battle room wide and fortressed in marble, the sliver of a man dropped, clad in a […]
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