Designed for all ages interested in health, fitness, and athletic performance, the 2022 Quad City Fit Fest will be held at East Moline's Bend XPO on February 27 and 27, the eagerly anticipated two-day event boasting vendors, activities, demonstrations, speakers, and a number of special guest visitors, among them Billy Blanks Jr. of the worldwide phenomenon Dance It Out.

Lauded by the San Diego Reader for delivering “a heightened sense of reality, folk tales, and folk dances transmogrified into sinuous spectacle,” the internationally esteemed dance troupe Russian Ballet Theatre brings its production of Swan Lake to Davenport's Adler Theatre on March 1, this innovative presentation of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's classic ballet described by the Times-Advocate as “probably as good as it gets.”

In the Bettendorf Public Library's latest event in its "Community Connections" series, a true-life tale involving social reformer Frederick Douglass, iconic author Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the United States' first public discussions about abolition will be explored on February 17 through scenes from Sons & Daughters of Thunder, the locally produced 2019 drama boasting the talents of Fourth Wall Films' Kelly and Tammy Rundle and more than two dozen familiar area performers.

Held in conjunction with Black History Month, a special presentation of massive cultural import will be held at the Davenport Public Library's Fairmount Branch on February 22, with Black History: The Fight for Civil Rights in Davenport celebrating figures of the Civil Rights movement who have a local connection – among them the formerly enslaved African-American who stayed in Davenport, and whose name is etched in history through the notorious "Dred Scott decision."