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Family Day | Inspire at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Designed and led by Chicago artists, Family Day is a monthly program at the MCA for all families and youth. Enjoy FREE admission while taking part in workshops, open studio […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • ASL Interpreted

Play For All at Chicago Children’s Museum

Play for All: Adaptive Sports Event for Children and Families with Disabilities What: Calling ALL champions! At this event with Dare2tri, visitors will discover the endless possibilities for athletes with […]

  • Quiet Spaces
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Everyone At Play

Kohl Children’s Museum was specifically designed to be inclusive of all children and adults regardless of ability. The Museum’s 17 exhibits and 2 acres of outdoor explorations are designed for […]

  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Sensory Friendly

Hansel and Gretel

This rivetingly modern, astonishingly inventive view of the Brothers Grimm’s fairytale features an eye-popping production that does full justice to Humperdinck’s glorious score. https://www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcoming/2022-23/hansel-and-gretel/

  • Audio Description
  • Touch Tour

Latinx Poetics Anthology Launch Celebration at The Poetry Foundation

Join us for a celebration of University of New Mexico Press’s landmark anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, featuring editor Ruben Quesada and poetry readings from ten […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Captioning
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Virtual

LabE: Mapping Accessible Dance in Chicago at Experimental Station

Join us for our first gathering of LabE, a series of monthly cohort meetings addressing particular needs of disabled dance artists, such as studio access, development and production support, and […]

  • Captioning
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Virtual
  • Wheelchair Accessible

the ripple, the wave that carried me home

A family responds to injustice and a daughter reckons with her political inheritance in this new play by “a poet, a playwright to pay attention to” (Variety). Janice’s parents are […]

  • Audio Description

The Factotum – Audio Description & American Sign Language

A new work inspired by Rossini’s The Barber of Seville that has grown into an original piece all its own, commissioned by Lyric. Updating the action to a Black barbershop […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description