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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 followed by an audience Q&A. Lauren Bon is an environmental artist from Los Angeles. Her practice, Metabolic Studio, explores self-sustaining and self-diversifying systems of exchange […]

  • 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, legacy and progress. Set in the Black Victorian era, Relentless looks at the deep personal secrets we keep to protect the ones we love most. […]

  • 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 Park Field adjacent to the Wicker Park Dog Park (1425 N. Damen, Chicago, IL 60622). The event allows the Chicago community and their canine friends […]

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, legacy and progress. Set in the Black Victorian era, Relentless looks at the deep personal secrets we keep to protect the ones we love most. […]

  • 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, legacy and progress. Set in the Black Victorian era, Relentless looks at the deep personal secrets we keep to protect the ones we love most. […]

  • 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 a future. She finds common ground with a Jewish fabric merchant, a relationship they both know cannot grow. So when correspondence with a lonesome Caribbean […]

  • 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 of Wired spin and soar together in this meditation in sound, light, and movement on the gendered, racial, and disability stories of barbed wire in […]

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

Touch Tour and Audio Description for Rasheeda Speaking at Shattered Globe Theatre

Join SGT artists for a Touch Tour at 6:45 PM and an audio described performance at 8 PM of Rasheeda Speaking by Joel Drake Johnson, directed by AmBer D.Montgomery on Friday, May 6 Shattered Globe performs at Theater Wit, 1229 West Belmont, Chicago. Rasheeda Speaking is a comedy- turned- social thriller about workplace racism. www.sgtheatre.org

  • Audio Description
  • Touch Tour