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Gilda's Club Chicago Weekly Activities @ Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Date Event
May 1, 2008 Arts as Relaxation
May 8, 2008 A Gift of Relaxation
May 15, 2008 Building Your Practical Support Team
May 22, 2008 Chair Yoga
May 29, 2008 A Gift of Relaxation
* All weekly workshops begin at 4:30 pm and end at 5:30 pm.

All activities offered in the Prentice Women's Hospital 15th floor patient education room.

About Gilda's Club Chicago

Mission Statement:
Gilda's Club Chicago provides a place where men, women, and children with cancer and families and friends, join with others to build social, emotional and informational support.

Gilda's Club is named in honor of the late comedian Gilda Radner, who in describing the support she received in her own life, called for such places to be made available to all people living with cancer.

Gilda's Club Chicago's downtown clubhouse is located at: 537 N. Wells Street, Chicago, IL 60610

For more information on these activities or Gilda's Club Chicago call Kathleen Boss at 312.464.9900 or visit their website at gildasclubchicago.org.

Gilda's Club Chicago Offers:

  • Support and Networking Groups
  • Lectures
  • Creative Workshops (Healing Art, Pottery, Journaling…)
  • Social Activities
  • Mind-Body Activities (Yoga, TaiChi, Relaxation…)
  • Activities for Children & Teens affected by cancer

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