On March 23, fans of the BBC and Netflix sensation The Great British Baking Show are invited to Join UK travel/relocation consultant and former UK resident Claire Evans at Moline's Butterworth Center for a delightful culinary tour of the country. Evans' in-person presentation The Great British Baking Tour will offer insight on making a proper cup of tea, as well as regional specialties, their origins, and the particular parts of the UK they hail from. She’ll also translate the trickiest parts of British recipes for Americans, so you can try them in your own kitchen.

Featured on season eight of America’s Got Talent, the exquisite talents of Catapult Dance deliver the premiere performance of their 2025 tour at Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on March 15, the artists employing interpretive dance and amazing acrobatics to create visual stories for the whole family all through expressive light and shadow.

With the event co-presented by the Midwest Writing Center, the Quad Cities' longest-running reading series SPECTRA returns to Rock Island's Rozz-Tox on March 15 in celebration of the release of two new MWC Press chapbooks: Amie Whittemore's Hesitation Waltz and Joshua Bohnsack's Atonality. Both books were selected for the 2023 Foster-Stahl Chapbook Series, with Whittemore's work the Series Selection and Bohnsack's the Editors’ Choice.

One of the area's most eagerly anticipated sales events returns to Rock Island's QCCA Expo Center March 7 through 9, as Melting Pot Productions, Inc. presents this year's pre-spring 2025 Antique Spectacular Vintage Market Quad Cities, allowing hunters of vintage goods an all-weekend opportunity to shop for a wide range of quality antiques.