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Chicago Inclusive Dance Festival

Want your events to be more inclusive? Join us for a community building festival of movement workshops and access presentations! We will explore the concept of making inclusion part of […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • Captioning
  • Free Event
  • In Person

The Best Decision You’ve Ever Made

The Second City has no time for regrets in the 45th e.t.c. revue, The Best Decision You've Ever Made. This choose-your-own comedy (mis)adventure explores the choices we make and how […]

  • Captioning
  • In Person

Chicago Inclusive Dance Festival

Want your events to be more inclusive? Join us for a community building festival of movement workshops and access presentations! We will explore the concept of making inclusion part of […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • Captioning
  • Free Event
  • In Person

TimeLine Theatre Company’s Production of Relentless

After a sold out run this winter, Tyla Abercrumbrie's world premiere play comes to the Goodman, weaving a mother's past with her daughters’ present in a centuries-spanning tale of family, […]

  • Audio Description
  • Touch Tour

Lauren Bon Lecture

This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. For additional access requests, visit saic.edu/access. Join us live for a virtual lecture by artist Lauren Bon […]

  • Captioning
  • Free Event

TimeLine Theatre Company’s Production of Relentless

After a sold out run this winter, Tyla Abercrumbrie's world premiere play comes to the Goodman, weaving a mother's past with her daughters’ present in a centuries-spanning tale of family, […]

  • Spanish captioning

Laws & Paws

Ankin Law Office LLC, in collaboration with Wicker Park Advisory Council, presents LAWS & PAWS, a local gathering on April 30 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. in the Wicker […]

TimeLine Theatre Company’s Production of Relentless

After a sold out run this winter, Tyla Abercrumbrie's world premiere play comes to the Goodman, weaving a mother's past with her daughters’ present in a centuries-spanning tale of family, […]

  • ASL Interpreted

TimeLine Theatre Company’s Production of Relentless

After a sold out run this winter, Tyla Abercrumbrie's world premiere play comes to the Goodman, weaving a mother's past with her daughters’ present in a centuries-spanning tale of family, […]

  • Captioning

Intimate Apparel

In 1905, a Black seamstress named Esther sews her way out of poverty stitch by delicate stitch, creating fine lingerie for her Manhattan clientele while longing for a husband and […]

  • Sensory Friendly

Kinetic Light: Wired

Wired is an immense and intimate experience that traces the fine line between “us” and “them” through aerial and contemporary dance and the metaphoric use of barbed wire. The dancers […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • In Person
  • Low Lighting
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Virtual

Kinetic Light: Wired

Wired is an immense and intimate experience that traces the fine line between “us” and “them” through aerial and contemporary dance and the metaphoric use of barbed wire. The dancers […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • In Person
  • Low Lighting
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Virtual

Believing Women: Anita Hill in Conversation

As a teacher, legal scholar, and advocate Anita Hill has been in the public eye since her landmark testimony during Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991. But, the […]

  • Captioning
  • In Person

Adam Jentleson on the US Senate & the Crippling of Democracy

Senate insider Adam Jentleson takes us into Capitol Hill backrooms for a behind-closed-doors look at how the Senate, once known as “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” has become one of […]

  • Captioning
  • In Person

Intimate Apparel

In 1905, a Black seamstress named Esther sews her way out of poverty stitch by delicate stitch, creating fine lingerie for her Manhattan clientele while longing for a husband and […]

  • Audio Description
  • Captioning

John Waters & the “Feel Bad” Romance

John Waters (legendary filmmaker of the cult classic Pink Flamingos and blockbuster Hairspray, and author of Carsick and Mr. Know-It-All) has turned his brilliant mind to fiction: specifically his first novel and what he calls the “feel bad romance.” In Liarmouth, Waters employs his trademark combination of hilarity and obscenity, weaving a tangled tale of […]

  • Captioning
  • In Person