With a performance by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
We will begin the festivities with a 90-minute performance by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Auditorium, followed immediately by cocktails, dinner, an awards presentation honoring Ann Nash and Amina Dickerson, and dancing at the Palmer House!
Auditorium Theatre • 50 East Ida B Wells Drive
Are You In Your Feelings? (Kyle Abraham 2022)
Unfold (Robert Battle 2007)
Revelations (Alvin Ailey 1960)
Palmer House, a Hilton Hotel • 17 East Monroe Street
**For purchasing tickets at $600 or a table of to starting at $6,000, please contact Rebecca Snedeker-Meier.**
If you cannot attend and still want to support the Auditorium Theatre, please consider donating here.
Ann Nash, Adler & Sullivan AwardOur immediate past chair and board member since 2007, Ann will be honored with the Adler & Sullivan Award for her lasting contributions to the arts and her longstanding and exceptional commitment to the National Historic Landmark, Auditorium Theatre.
Recipient of our inaugural Beatrice Spachner Award, Amina will be recognized for substantially enhancing the cultural fabric of Chicago by demonstrating an exemplary commitment to issues of civic concern, social justice, and community development.
All Annual Gala event proceeds benefit the not-for-profit Auditorium Theatre, helping ensure we can continue bringing you the finest in international, cultural, community, and educational programming while preserving and restoring our magnificent National Historic Landmark theatre.
GALA CO-CHAIRS
Thomas R. Baryl
Thomas R. Nash
Isobel Neal
Nicole Robinson
GALA HOST COMMITTEE
Michelle T. Boone
Joan Colmar
Patti Eylar & Charlie Gardner
Annette C. M. Guzman
Helen Hall Melchior
Roderick K. Hawkins
Nicole Hayes
Emily Nash & Lawrence Mabes
Kate Nash & Gustave Falciglia
Julia & Patrick Ryan
