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Justice Stephen Breyer at Francis W. Parker School

Francis W. Parker School 330 W Webster Ave, IL

Honorably serving for twenty-eight years as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer challenges the textualist philosophy of the court’s supermajority with insightful analysis and arguments for a more nuanced view […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • In Person
  • Open Captions
  • Wheelchair Accessible

David Lamelas: This Is My Place

Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State St, Chicago

About the Event This Is My Place is a fictional documentary about the itinerant life and conceptual artwork of artist David Lamelas, whose sculpture Situacíon de cuatro placas de aluminio […]

  • ASL Interpreted

PURPOSE at Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Steppenwolf Theatre Company 1650 N. Halsted Street, Chicago

For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, pastors and congressmen. But like all families, there are cracks and secrets just […]

  • Open Captions

Play For All at Chicago Children’s Museum

Chicago Children's Museum 700 E. Grand Ave., Chicago

Chicago Children's Museum's Play for All initiative creates a community where play and learning connect for visitors of all abilities. Play for All invites children and families with disabilities to […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Open Captions
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Judith Butler: Who’s Afraid of Gender? at Music Box Theatre

Music Box Theatre 3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago

Judith Butler’s groundbreaking work, and their theory of gender performativity, has had a vast influence on contemporary scholarship in feminism and gender studies. In Butler’s latest work, Who’s Afraid of […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • In Person
  • Open Captions
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Joy-Ann Reid at First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple 77 W Washington St, Chicago

Joy-Ann Reid, host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and best-selling author, chronicles the lives of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers. Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers in college, forging […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • In Person
  • Open Captions
  • Wheelchair Accessible

The Verge AI Sessions: AI and Humans at School of the Art Institute of Chicago

School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago

The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools has created a flood of AI-generated content online, much of it spammy, inaccurate, or even abusive. In her coverage, The Verge reporter Mia Sato […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • In Person
  • Open Captions
  • Wheelchair Accessible

The Verge AI Sessions: Art Creator or Thief? at School of the Art Institute of Chicago

School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago

What guardrails do artists need in a new age of artificial intelligence? As artists voice concerns about AI replacing their work or using their creative intellectual property to train AI […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • In Person
  • Open Captions
  • Wheelchair Accessible

PURPOSE at Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Steppenwolf Theatre Company 1650 N. Halsted Street, Chicago

For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, pastors and congressmen. But like all families, there are cracks and secrets just […]

  • Open Captions

Keep it Going at the Russ Tutterow Theatre

Chicago Dramatists 798 N Aberdeen St, Chicago

In partnership with former Technical Director Glenn B. Rust's Graduate Thesis Project, Keep it Going presents an afternoon of new works that you can watch in the theatre or from […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • Captioning
  • In Person
  • Low Lighting
  • Masks Highly Recommended
  • Pay What You Can
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Virtual
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Samita Sinha, Tremor at the Museum of Contemporary Art

Museum of Contemporary Art 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago

Tremor is artist and composer Samita Sinha’s latest performance work. In the piece, Sinha explores what she describes as “the practice of attuning oneself to the raw material of vibration […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • Captioning