First Presbyterian, 7551 Quick Ave., River Forest, is hosting the Agape Ringers in the church’s sanctuary from 4-5:30 p.m. April 8.

April 4-April 30

Retrospective by Howard McClain
8 a.m.-2 p.m. weekdays
Senior Services Dining Room, 130 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park
Free

The Oak Park Area Arts Council is presenting the popular and colorful outsider artwork of Howard McClain. McClain started painting in a class at the Oak Park Arms, a retirement home, and is now a successful artist. Multi-talented McClain has been a singer, a choir director, organist and pianist for 50 years. 

April 5

Henry Fogel Presents
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Nineteenth Century Club, 178 Forest Ave., Oak Park
$35

Henry Fogel will introduce Jana Pavlovska, an award-winning Macedonian pianist and faculty member at Roosevelt University in Chicago, who will perform Chopin and Schumann. After the performance, the audience will be able to meet Pavlovska and Fogel, former president and CEO of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

April 6-April 8

Special Oscar Film Screenings
6 p.m. April 6
3:30 p.m. April 7
1 p.m. April 8
Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave., Evanston
Free

The Evanston Public Library is hosting a special Oscar Film Screening Weekend. Each of the three featured films won one or more Oscars for 2017. “Call Me by Your Name” will be shown April 6; “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” April 7; and “The Shape of Water,” April 8.

April 7

Living Your Best Life
9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Mallinckrodt Community Center, 1041A Ridge Road, Wilmette
$75

This interactive day-long workshop will help you identify your life purpose and the passions that will make your life ideal. You will learn the formula for living your best life and strategies to achieve success. A workbook and handouts will be distributed at the event. Register at thesuccessfulnurse.com.

Discover Tinley Expo
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Tinley Park Convention Center, 18451 Convention Center Drive, Tinley Park
Free

The annual Discover Tinley Expo showcases the community’s business and nonprofit organizations, as well as its government services. Visitors can learn more about what Tinley Park has to offer. The event features entertainment, food samples and giveaways at many of the booths.

Brookfield Zoo Goes Blue
10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Brookfield Zoo, 3300 Golf Road, Brookfield
Free admission and parking

Brookfield Zoo is once again taking part in the annual Zoos Go Blue campaign. To commemorate the day, the zoo’s iconic lion statues will be clothed in blue scarves; blue flags will decorate the park’s grounds; and special inclusive activities and animal Zoo Chats will take place. For complimentary admission and parking, register at CZS.org/zoosgoblue.

Tails in Bloom Benefit
6-10 p.m.
Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation, 303 Dodge Ave., Evanston
$125-$156

By attending this benefit, you’ll make a difference for the abandoned and abused animals at the Evanston Animal Shelter. For tickets, go to eventbrite.com/e/tails-in-bloom-gala-tickets-41922059007#tickets.

April 8

Play and a Pint: “True West”
2 p.m.
Hamburger Mary’s Show Lounge, 155 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park
$12

The play is a character study that examines the relationship between two brothers. It is set in the kitchen of their mother’s home, 40 miles east of Los Angeles. Although the men are extreme opposites, by the end of the play, each man finds himself admitting that he had somehow always wished he were in the other’s shoes. Purchase tickets at The Visitors Center, 1010 Lake St., or at nineteenthcentury.org. 

The Agape Ringers River Forest Concert
4-5:30 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, 7551 Quick Ave., River Forest
Free

First Presbyterian is hosting the Agape Ringers in the church’s sanctuary. Works to be performed will include transcriptions by Bach, Bizet and Tchaikovsky, five original compositions and two hymn settings.

April 11

A Discussion of Israel’s Anniversary
11:30 a.m.
Ezra-Habonim, 4500 Dempster, Skokie
$25

The executive director of the Jewish National Fund in Chicago, Marlene Dodinval, will speak at a luncheon and program celebrating the 70th anniversary of Israel. The event is being sponsored by the Sisterhood of Ezra-Habonim, the Niles Township Jewish Congregation. For reservations or more information, call 847-675-4141 or go to ehnt.org.

–Cook County Calendar of Events April 4 – April 11–