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Full Radius Midwest Dance Training Series at University of Illinois Chicago & Loyola Park

University of Chicago 1640 Roosevelt Rd, Chicago

Integrated dance for people with and without disabilities, led by renowned educator Douglas Scott (Atlanta, GA). Friday, July 25 - $30: check-in 3:30, 4:00 - 6:30 pm Community Workshop on […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • In Person
  • Live captioned by CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) services
  • Masks Highly Recommended
  • Masks Required

A Gathering: Artists Design the Future & Community Of The Arts at Sisters in Cinema Media Arts Center

Sisters in Cinema Media Arts Center 2310 East 75th Street, Chicago

A Gathering: Artists Design the Future & Community Of The Arts share the journey to accessible, inclusive ETOD work-live development in South Shore. Imagine how art and culture build community, […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • ASL Interpreted
  • Free Event
  • Hybrid Program
  • In Person
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Summer Screenings 2026 – A Date for Mad Mary

Chicago History Museum 1601 N Clark St, Chicago

Directed by Darren Thornton Countries Ireland Year 2016 Synopsis Released after a short stint in prison, Mary finds everything and everyone around her changed. Her best friend Charlene is engaged, […]

  • Captioning
  • Free Event
  • Image Descriptions
  • In Person
  • Large Print Programs
  • Open Captions
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Art of Being: Move with Waterways

River Esplanade Park 401 E River Dr., Chicago

Along with the Chicago River, sway and dance with the wind, light, and grasses, finding symbiotic nature within and around yourself in a city!! Asian Body Therapist Jennifer O"Hara and […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Wheelchair Accessible

The Meaningful Action Theatre Company Presents A Workshop Reading of “Muffed: A Recounting of Farmington, Maine’s 43rd Annual Chester Greenwood Day Devised by the Members of the Meaningful Action Theatre Company and Produced by David New”

The Factory Theater 1623 West Howard, Chicago

Co-Produced by The Factory Theater and Unheard Of Company, be the first to witness this new devised piece of documentary theater from The Meaningful Action Theatre Company in their debut […]

  • Digital Documents Available
  • In Person
  • Masks Required
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Hershey Felder’s Rachmaninoff and the Tsar – Open Caption Performance at Writers Theatre

Writers Theatre 325 Tudor Ct, Glencoe

OPEN CAPTION PERFORMANCE! $30.00 TICKETS AVAILABLE USE PROMO CODE: WTOC2526 Performance on Thursday, Saturday 04 at 7:30pm. If you experience any issues with this promo code, please reach out to the […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Digital Documents Available
  • In Person
  • Open Captions
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Sensory Friendly Morning

Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum 2430 N Cannon Drive, Chicago

Join us at the Nature Museum for a sensory friendly morning event for guests with disabilities and Veterans to explore our exhibits and experiences in a relaxed and accepting environment […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Sensory Friendly

David De Baca: Inside the World of Teen Angel’s Magazine

National Museum of Mexican Art 1852 W 19th St, Chicago

David “Teen Angel” Holland (now deceased) was the creator and publisher of the groundbreaking Teen Angel’s Magazine, which began in 1980. While the iconic Lowrider Magazine, founded in 1977, predates […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Open Captions

Inside the Lens of Photographer Estevan Oriol

National Museum of Mexican Art 1852 W 19th St, Chicago

World-renowned photographer, director, and urban lifestyle entrepreneur Estevan Oriol has built a career capturing both the gritty and the glamorous sides of Los Angeles. From intimate portraits of the rich […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Open Captions

Cheech Marin: Culture, Comedy, and Chicano Art at Chicago Humanities

Apollo's 2000 2875 W Cermak Rd, Chicago

Step into the world of Cheech Marin — legendary actor, comedian, and cultural icon — as he shares his deep passion for Chicano art and his mission to elevate a […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Open Captions

TEDxChicago 2025: The Future is Human & TEDx Global Idea Search at the Harris Theater

Harris Theater for Music and Dance 205 E Randolph Dr, Chicago

Our future feels uncertain, yet we are resoundingly called to what matters most: You and me. Us. Humanity, itself. At TEDxChicago 2025, we believe the most powerful force shaping tomorrow […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Hybrid Program
  • In Person
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Ashland Avenue – ASL Performance at Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre 170 N Dearborn St, Chicago

“You gotta start living your life right now. Because someday you’ll wake up and it’s over.” Pete’s TV and Video has served Chicagoland for 40+ years, its plucky owner famous […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Assistive Listening Devices

Ashland Avenue – Open-Captioned Performance at Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre 170 N Dearborn St, Chicago

“You gotta start living your life right now. Because someday you’ll wake up and it’s over.” Pete’s TV and Video has served Chicagoland for 40+ years, its plucky owner famous […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • Braille Programs
  • Open Captions
  • Spanish captioning
  • Touch Tour

Abby Paj Tries to Stay Alive at The Neo-Futurists Theater

The Neo-Futurist Theater 5153 N Ashland Ave., Chicago

Abby Paj Tries to Stay Alive is a solo show written and performed by Neo-Futurist Ensemble Member, Abby Pajakowski. The doomsday clock ticks 89 seconds to midnight and the world […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • ASL Interpreted
  • In Person
  • Masks Required
  • Pay What You Can

Nate Silver and Richard Thaler in Conversation

Illinois Institute of Technology - Herrmann Hall 3241 S Federal St, Chicago

Nate Silver, founder of the popular data-driven news and analysis website FiveThirtyEight, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard H. Thaler come together for a wide-ranging conversation. In his most recent publication, […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Open Captions

Christian Davenport on the Rocket Dreams of Musk and Bezos

Illinois Institute of Technology - Herrmann Hall 3241 S Federal St, Chicago

Moon landings and space walks once captivated the public’s attention. But, in recent decades, the U.S. space enterprise has waned. Now, that’s finally about to change. The award-winning Washington Post […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Open Captions

Big White Fog at Court Theatre

Court Theatre 5535 South Ellis Ave, Chicago

Theodore Ward’s Big White Fog is the big shoulders on which A Raisin in the Sun stands. First completed in 1938, funded by the Federal Theatre Project, and influenced by […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • Touch Tour
  • Wheelchair Accessible

The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon

Illinois Tech - Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship 3137 S Federal St, Chicago

The Wrigley Building is one of Chicago’s most emblematic buildings — a gleaming white palazzo at the head of our city’s grandest boulevard, Michigan Avenue. Join us for a panel […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices

Robin Givhan on Virgil Abloh

Illinois Tech - Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship 3137 S Federal St, Chicago

The late creative visionary Virgil Abloh upended a century’s worth of ideas about luxury and taste, fundamentally reshaping how we see creativity and the world around us. Join us at […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • Braille Programs
  • Large Print Programs
  • Touch Tour

A Performance with Angela Davis and Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble

Illinois Institute of Technology - Herrmann Hall 3241 S Federal St, Chicago

Join us for a powerful musical performance inspired by Angela Davis’s pioneering activism interspersed with readings by — and a post-performance conversation with — Davis herself. Award-winning composer, Guggenheim fellow, […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • Open Captions

HCL Art/Access Lab: Open Lab | Tsehaye Hébert and Terri Lynne Hudson at Experimental Station

Experimental Station 6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago

Art/Access Lab: Open Lab provides artists in the disability community an affinity space for artists to share emerging projects, test ideas, and gain perspective on their work through community exchange. […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Free Event
  • Hybrid Program
  • In Person
  • Low Lighting
  • Masks Highly Recommended
  • Open Captions
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Virtual
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Big White Fog at Court Theatre

Court Theatre 5535 South Ellis Ave, Chicago

Theodore Ward’s Big White Fog is the big shoulders on which A Raisin in the Sun stands. First completed in 1938, funded by the Federal Theatre Project, and influenced by […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Open Captions
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Play For All at Chicago Children’s Museum

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

Play For All invites children and families with disabilities and Museum members to come and experience CCM's inclusive, multisensory exhibits and programs. The museum opens at 10 am for Play […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Chicago Poetry Center Presents: October Blue Hour Featuring Rhoni Blankenhorn & Alicia Wright at Haymarket House

Haymarket House 800 W. Buena, Chicago

The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop. Our October featured readers are Rhoni Blankenhorn & Alicia Wright. Each event […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • ASL Interpreted
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Masks Highly Recommended
  • Pay What You Can
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Leo Lionni’s Frederick at Chicago Children

Chicago Children's Theatre 100 S Racine Ave, Chicago

While other mice are gathering food for the winter, Frederick daydreams the summer away. But when fall weather comes, it is Frederick who has stored up something special for the […]

  • Sensory Friendly

Princeton University President on Academic Free Speech

Ida Noyes Hall-- Max Palevsky Cinema 212 E 59th St # 3, Chicago

Princeton University President and legal scholar Christopher L. Eisgruber joins us in conversation to challenge the common assumptions about free speech on college campuses. He argues that most American colleges […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Open Captions

Gary Shteyngart: Vera, or Faith

Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, University of Chicago 1155 E 58th St, Chicago

Award-winning Russian-American novelist Gary Shteyngart offers an entirely original literary perspective, merging memoir and satire to create contemporary characters informed by his upbringing in Soviet Leningrad, his Jewish heritage, and […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • In Person
  • Touch Tour
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Roxane Gay: 10 Years of Being a Bad Feminist

University of Chicago -- Mandel Hall 1131 E 57th St, Chicago

The last 10 years have been eventful, to say the least. And who better to reflect on our times than cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay? Gay joins us […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Open Captions

Amitav Ghosh: Wild Fictions

Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, University of Chicago 1155 E 58th St, Chicago

Internationally acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh joins us in conversation with UChicago professor Benjamin Morgan to illuminate the topics that have been central to Ghosh’s work over the last 25 years: […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices

20 Years of Freakonomics

University of Chicago -- Mandel Hall 1131 E 57th St, Chicago

Helping to establish the field of pop economics, the bestselling book Freakonomics sparked both public interest and academic debate. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the original publication, author […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Open Captions

Professor Stephanie Burt on the Genius of Taylor Swift

Ida Noyes Hall -- Cloister Club 1212 E 59th St, Chicago

Harvard professor and poetry expert Stephanie Burt joins us to explain the artistry — and the celebrity — of Taylor Swift. Through heartfelt critical appreciation, Burt analyzes Swift, her body […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Assistive Listening Devices

An Evening with Steven Pinker

University of Chicago -- Mandel Hall 1131 E 57th St, Chicago

Join Steven Pinker, world-renowned cognitive scientist, Harvard professor, and one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today,” for a fascinating exploration of human psychology. In a lecture […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Open Captions

Woodworking and Tomfoolery with Nick Offerman

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago 5850 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago

Join us for an evening of conversation and tomfoolery with the one and only Nick Offerman. Offerman makes his return to Chicago to discuss his newest work, Little Woodchucks, an […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Open Captions

Frankenstein Screening at the Chicago International Film Festival

AMC NEWCITY 14 1500 N Clybourn Ave c301, Chicago

FRANKENSTEIN SCREENING DIRECTED BY Guillermo del Toro COUNTRIES U.S. RUN TIME 149 minutes SYNOPSIS Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • Closed Captions
  • Open Captions

Rental Family Screening and Awards Event at the Chicago International Film Festival

Music Box Theatre 3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago

RENTAL FAMILY SCREENING AND AWARDS EVENT DIRECTED BY HIKARI COUNTRIES U.S., Japan RUN TIME 103 minutes SYNOPSIS Set in modern-day Tokyo, Rental Family follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • Live captioned by CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) services
  • Open Captions

Frankenstein (Audio Described) at Theater Wit

Theater Wit 1229 W Belmont, Chicago

Following a sold-out run at Chicago Shakespeare Theater this spring, A.B.L.E.—Artists Breaking Limits & Expectations is thrilled to bring their acclaimed adaptation of Frankenstein back to life this fall at […]

  • Audio Description
  • Digital Documents Available
  • In Person
  • Masks Required
  • Open Captions
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Revolution(s) – ASL Performance at Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre 170 N Dearborn St, Chicago

By Zayd Ayers Dohrn Music and Lyrics by Tom Morello Directed by Steve H. Broadnax III October 4 – November 9, 2025 Put your hands on the wheel of history. […]

  • ASL Interpreted

The 6th Annual Danny Awards via Livestream

The Town Hall 123 W. 43rd St, New York

Daniel's Music Foundation proudly presents the 6th Annual Danny Awards, an annual, global award show that recognizes the incredible contributions of artists with disabilities to the world of music. Enjoy […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • Braille Programs
  • Closed Captions
  • Hybrid Program
  • Live captioned by CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) services

Gazelle Screening at the Chicago International Film Festival

AMC NEWCITY 14 1500 N Clybourn Ave c301, Chicago

Gazelle Screening DIRECTED BY Nadir Sarıbacak, Samy Pioneer COUNTRIES U.S., Turkey RUN TIME 103 minutes SYNOPSIS In this tense, timely, and poignant drama, Yakup, a beloved music teacher and Turkish […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • Closed Captions
  • Open Captions

Medea at Lyric Opera

Lyric Opera of Chicago 20 N Wacker Drive, Chicago

A tale of infidelity & revenge like no other. Accessibility: Audio Description, Touch Tour, Sound Shirt https://www.lyricopera.org/ace-configuration/smartseat-reserve/?itemNumber=18957#/ 

  • Audio Description
  • Braille Programs
  • Large Print Programs
  • Touch Tour

Frankenstein (ASL Interpreted) at Theater Wit

Theater Wit 1229 W Belmont, Chicago

Following a sold-out run at Chicago Shakespeare Theater this spring, A.B.L.E.—Artists Breaking Limits & Expectations is thrilled to bring their acclaimed adaptation of Frankenstein back to life this fall at […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Digital Documents Available
  • In Person
  • Masks Required
  • Open Captions
  • Sensory Friendly

Revolution(s) – Open-Captioned Performance at Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre 170 N Dearborn St, Chicago

By Zayd Ayers Dohrn Music and Lyrics by Tom Morello Directed by Steve H. Broadnax III October 4 – November 9, 2025 Put your hands on the wheel of history. […]

  • Open Captions

Hundreds and Hundreds of Stars – Open-Captioned Performance at Lookingglass Theatre

Lookingglass Theatre 163 E Pearson St, Chicago

Motherhood, marijuana, and the multiverse collide in this Chicago-set story of family, immigration, and American identity. Like millions of Americans, Clara is doing her best to hold everything together—working hard, […]

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

Hundreds and Hundreds of Stars – Open-Captioned Performance at Lookingglass Theatre

Lookingglass Theatre 163 E Pearson St, Chicago

Motherhood, marijuana, and the multiverse collide in this Chicago-set story of family, immigration, and American identity. Like millions of Americans, Clara is doing her best to hold everything together—working hard, […]

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