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Public Gallery Touch Tour | Dressed in History: A Costume Collection Retrospective

Chicago History Museum 1601 N Clark St, Chicago

This touch tour will include the opportunity to touch fabric swatches and accessories created to match the pieces on display, which will give tour-goers additional sensory information about select objects in the Dressed in History: A Costume Collection Retrospective exhibition. While this tour can be especially meaningful for visitors who are blind or have low […]

  • Audio Description
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Touch Tour
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Tellin’ Tales Theatre presents “What’s Yours like?” at IO Theater

iO 1501 N Kingsbury, Chicago

Tellin' Tales Theatre takes its mission "to shatter barriers between the disabled and non-disabled worlds through the transformative power of personal story" to the world of improv. "What's Yours Like" is inspired by a theme developed by the audience at the start of each show. Then, improvisers with and without disabilities leap into action and […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Wheelchair Accessible

The Neo-Futurist Theater Presents: HOW TO BE COOL

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

How to Be Cool is a solo show, written and performed by Neo-Futurist Ensemble Member Neil Bhandari Bouncing and shape-shifting from monologue and dance to live music and cultural anthropology, exploring themes of insecurity, idolization, identity-making and self-mythologizing- all in the impossible pursuit of COOL under the artificially-muscled arm and flimsy-yet-ever-imposing specter of American masculinity. […]

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

Fat Ham – Audio-Described Performance at Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre 170 N Dearborn St, Chicago

A boisterous Southern cookout sets the scene for a Black, queer discovery of self and resilience in this Pulitzer Prize-winning, five-time Tony nominated “uproarious reimagining of Hamlet” (The New Yorker). “This is what I was raised in: pig guts and bad choices.” As Juicy grapples with his identity and his family at a backyard barbecue, […]

  • Audio Description

Betrayal – ASL Performance at Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre 170 N Dearborn St, Chicago

Stage and screen stars Helen Hunt (Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe Awards), Robert Sean Leonard (Tony Award) and Ian Barford (Tony Award nominee) form the “eternal triangle” in Susan V. Booth’s major revival of Pinter’s famed masterwork. Emma, Robert and Jerry have history. As her marriage to Robert comes to an end, Emma reconnects with Jerry, […]

  • ASL Interpreted

“Digging Deeper Into Movies” Film Talk And the Oscars Go To… at Alliance Française de Chicago

Alliance Française de Chicago 810 N. Dearborn St., Chicago

Once again, we will spend the Saturday morning before the Academy Awards “digging deeper” into some of this year’s most provocative nominees. This year, Oscar’s ballot aligns closely with ChicagoIFF’s programming, not just by sharing several titles in common but by showcasing a lively diversity of international cinema as well as English-language films that dwell […]

  • Captioning
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Open Captions

Betrayal – Audio-Described Performance at Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre 170 N Dearborn St, Chicago

Stage and screen stars Helen Hunt (Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe Awards), Robert Sean Leonard (Tony Award) and Ian Barford (Tony Award nominee) form the “eternal triangle” in Susan V. Booth’s major revival of Pinter’s famed masterwork. Emma, Robert and Jerry have history. As her marriage to Robert comes to an end, Emma reconnects with Jerry, […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • Braille Programs
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Touch Tour

Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley – Audio Described Performance

DePaul University Cortelyou Commons 2324 N Fremont St, Chicago

Following critically acclaimed runs in New York City and London, TimeLine will create a site-specific, immersive Chicago premiere of the american vicarious’ imagining of the historic debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr., on the occasion of the event’s 60th anniversary. “Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?” This […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • Captioning
  • English Captioning
  • Open Captions
  • Touch Tour

You Didn’t Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip with Kelsey McKinney at Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture

Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture 2936 N Southport Ave, Chicago

It’s no secret that society is consumed with the concept of “gossip”—is it good, bad, or somewhere in between? Kelsey McKinney, host of the massively popular Normal Gossip podcast, joins Chicago Humanities to explore our obsession with gossip, weaving together journalism, cultural criticism, and personal stories. McKinney’s newest book You Didn’t Hear This From Me […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Open Captions

Play For All

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

Play for All invites children and families with disabilities to come and experience Chicago Children’s Museum’s inclusive, multisensory exhibits and programs free of charge with pre-registration. The museum will open at 10 am for pre-registered guests with disabilities and CCM members, before opening to the public at 11 am. Guests are welcome to come and […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Open Captions
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Spanish / English audio translation
  • Wheelchair Accessible

A LIE OF THE MIND – Raven Theatre (Touch Tour & Audio Description)

Raven Theatre 6157 N Clark, Chicago

The full moon over the highway. A pay phone call in the middle of the night. And a terrible act of violence that forever changes the trajectory of eight people’s lives. Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind follows two families, connected by marriage, as they grapple with the pain and fear of loving and […]

  • Audio Description
  • Touch Tour
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Betrayal – Open-Captioned Performance at Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre 170 N Dearborn St, Chicago

Stage and screen stars Helen Hunt (Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe Awards), Robert Sean Leonard (Tony Award) and Ian Barford (Tony Award nominee) form the “eternal triangle” in Susan V. Booth’s major revival of Pinter’s famed masterwork. Emma, Robert and Jerry have history. As her marriage to Robert comes to an end, Emma reconnects with Jerry, […]

  • Open Captions
  • Spanish captioning