The 2025 Annual Benefit
for
The Center for Life and Learning
at Fourth Presbyterian Church on Michigan Avenue
Saturday, May 10, 2025 • 4:00–7:00 p.m.
(Enter at 126 E. Chestnut Street, a half-block west of North Michigan Avenue)

This year’s event will begin in Anderson Hall with the opening of our CLL Student Art Show and conversations with the artists.

Next, our guests will enjoy a musical stroll through time in cabaret style featuring the talents of local performers and CLL instructors, Anne and Mark Burnell, David Aaron Harbin, and Pam Peterson. There will be singing, dancing, and hilarious entertainment.

We’ll conclude the evening in Borwell Dining Room with wine and heavy hors d’oeuvres.
A great time will be had by all!

Tickets
$100 for the full evening in person
$50 for a live performance online
$30 for Chicago Cabaret Week performance only
(please call 312.981.3386 to purchase tickets, limited seating)

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Sponsorships are tax deductible and are directed exclusively to the Center for Life and Learning to help sustain high-quality programming, scholarships, and ongoing membership operations.

About the CLL

The highest quality lifelong learning opportunities and personal, caring connections for older adults are the hallmarks of the Center for Life and Learning (CLL). Located in the heart of Chicago’s vibrant North Michigan Avenue neighborhood on the campus of Fourth Church, the CLL serves several hundreds of seniors of all backgrounds and faiths every year—more than 10,000 since its founding in 1965.

The CLL has grown to become one of the city’s most respected programs for older adults 60+, offering a rich portfolio of in-person and virtual classes, events, discussion groups, activities, and support initiatives scheduled all year long. From fitness and exercise classes to art history, music history, French and Spanish language study, studio art, writing, stage and screen classes, national and international event discussions, meditation, and so much more, CLL is a place to learn and a place to belong!