Events Calendar

The market emphasizes locally grown produce and products, ensuring that all items are sourced from Illinois growers. This focus on local sourcing helps to reduce transportation emissions and supports the regional economy.
The market welcomes new vendors and offers a variety of goods, including fruits, vegetables, baked and canned goods, as well as artwork and crafts. It operates between 3 and 6 PM, making it accessible for afternoon and early evening shoppers.

Internationally acclaimed Scottish band Skerryvore will bring its explosive blend of traditional Scottish music, folk, pop and rock to Wiley Park in Galva on Tuesday, September 22.
The evening will begin at 6:30 p.m. with Black Hawk Pipe and Drum Band, followed by Skerryvore. Presented by Crossroads Cultural Connections, the all-ages event will also feature food and drinks available for purchase from Snazzy’s Lemonade and Azteca de Oro.

Known for a sound that is both deeply rooted in Scotland and unmistakably modern, Skerryvore combines bagpipes, fiddles, accordion and whistles with guitar, vocals, bass, drums and keyboards. The result is a powerful, expansive sound that moves easily between intimate melodies and festival-sized energy.

Every Tuesday Night!!
Come win some prizes. Free to play!

Join us for September's Old Friends Talk Art with Angelica Penn at 10am Wednesday, September 23 in the Board Room of the Warren County Public Library. Hear about the process of publishing her first book, "The Beast and the Beauty." This event is free and open to the public, refreshments will be served.

We’re kicking off Oktoberfest + our 3rd Anniversary with a week packed with good times!

Monday 9/21 – 6PM – 8PM
Anniversary Bingo with BIGGER, BOLDER prizes.

Wednesday 9/23
Our new Fall Drink Menu drops with old favorites + new sips.

Friday 9/25
Get your first taste of Bier Bowle, our German-inspired beer cocktail bursting with apple-berry flavor.

Saturday 9/26 - 8PM - 11PM
Wrap it all up with Big Guitars & G-Strings rocking the back patio from 8–11PM! 21+ • FREE

Come celebrate with us!

Esther J. Hamori will deliver the 39th Annual Mary Olive Woods Lecture in Religious Studies and Philosophy at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, in the University Union Sandburg Theatre.

Hamori is a professor of Hebrew Bible at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Her research is focused on conceptions of divine-human contact and communication in the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Middle Eastern literature.

Hamori’s 2023 book, “God’s Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible,” explores how in both the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, God deploys an entourage of monsters. Hamori suggests that confronting God’s monsters and the God-monster may be uncomfortable, but that biblical writers’ unflinching depictions of the monstrous God validate the human experience of a world that is unpredictable, unjust, and at times monstrous.

The annual Mary Olive Woods Lecture is sponsored by the Religious Studies and Philosophy

Programs in the School of Humanities and the Mary Olive Woods Foundation. The event is open to the public.
Light refreshments will be served after in the Sandburg lounge.

This performance is free and open to the public and will be live-streamed on the School of Music's YouTube channel.

Program to be chosen from the following:

Us - Thad Jones

Straight Out - Don Menza

A Foggy Day - George Gershwin/arr. Lennie Niehaus

Two in One - Thad Jones

The Party's Over - Jule Styne/arr. Lennie Niehaus

My Funny Valentine - Richard Rodgers/arr. Willie Maiden

It's Only a Paper Moon - Richard Rodgers/arr. Fletcher Henderson

I'll be Seeing You - Sammy Fain/arr. Gil Cray

One O'clock Jump - Count Basie/arr. Buck Clayton

Chucho - Paquito D'Rivera/arr. Justin Haynes

Sandburg will host a Founders Day celebration Sept. 24 on the Galesburg campus to commemorate its 60th anniversary.

The event will take place at 3 p.m. Sept. 24 in the Graham Health System Science & Technology Center Atrium. All are welcome to attend this free event. The celebration will include opening a time capsule sealed in 1976 during Sandburg’s 10th anniversary. It contains letters from past employees and students, along with other artifacts from 50 years ago.

The college plans to collect current-era items throughout the course of the year and reseal the time capsule so it can be opened by future generations.

Sept. 24 will mark 60 years to the day of the college’s establishment, and the first classes in Sandburg history took place exactly a year later, Sept. 24, 1967.

For questions, contact Emma Smith, student engagement specialist, at 309.345.3522 or studentlife@sandburg.edu. 

Fresh produce, baked goods, food, crafts, entertainment, and more in Downtown Burlington, Iowa!

You’re invited to the 2026 Evening of Excellence! This signature event brings our community together to honor outstanding achievements, share memorable moments, and celebrate success. Don’t miss this unforgettable evening—register now and join the celebration.

Tickets and event partnerships are available now

Award nominations are now being accepted through September 4, 2026.