A wildly popular presence on TikTok and Instagram, and the 2022 winner of the inaugural James Beard Award for Best Social Media Account. Alexis Nikole Nelson serves as the latest virtual guest in the Illinois Libraries Present series, her April 10 program The Act of Foraging, co-presented by the Rock Island and Silvis Public Libraries, designed to celebrate all the edible plants hiding in plain sight.

Presented as part of the Davenport venue's popular “Kaffee und Kuchen” series, the German American Center's March 23 program Singing Wheels: August Fruehauf & the History of the Fruehauf Trailer Company will find August's granddaughter Ruth Fruehauf celebrating the exhibit opening of Immigrant Innovators: The Fruehauf Trailer Company, August's invention of the truck trailer having played a key role in transforming transportation in the 20th century.

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.