The Center for Sight & Hearing will host its Dining In The Dark event Nov. 13 at the Radisson Convention Center in Rockford.

The dinner-focused fundraiser offers attendees a chance to experience how someone with little to no vision performs everyday tasks such as eating and drinking, according to a community announcement.

The event will feature a cocktail hour, live music, an interactive low vision obstacle course, a four-course meal and a cash wine pull. There will also be a live auction selling original artwork created by center staff, volunteers and patients.

“The meal is challenging for everyone,” Maureen Koch, president of the Center for Sight & Hearing, said in the announcement. “But it does offer attendees the chance to walk in another’s shoes so to speak and build awareness for

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