Alternating Currents is an annual arts and cultural festival held throughout Downtown Davenport and the Quad Cities, bringing music, comedy, film, and visual art into venues and public spaces across the urban core. Produced by the Downtown Davenport Partnership, the festival showcases local and regional talent while inviting people to explore downtown businesses, places, and neighborhoods through the arts.
Kyle Carter is Vice President of Place at the Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce, where he leads work focused on creating vibrant, welcoming places across the bi-state region of Iowa and Illinois. His work connects downtown development, placemaking, public spaces, arts and culture, and economic vitality to strengthen communities throughout the Quad Cities.
The Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce works across the bi-state region of Iowa and Illinois to support businesses, strengthen the regional economy, and advance a more vibrant community. Its work spans economic development, business advocacy, talent attraction, placemaking, and initiatives that support the region’s downtowns and commercial districts.
Compton’s Cafeteria Riots is an immersive theatrical production bringing audiences into the history of the 1966 uprising by transgender and queer people at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. The production used performance and place to reconnect contemporary audiences with a pivotal piece of neighborhood and transgender history.
Rob Ready is a San Francisco theater-maker, neighborhood connector, and the kind of person who seems to know everyone. In Sidewalk Ballet’s first episode, he served as a spirit guide to the neighborhood bar as third place—demonstrating how much of city life is built through relationships.
