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SUMMARY:Antonio’s Song / I Was Dreaming of a Son at Goodman Theatre
DESCRIPTION:A poetic journey of a dancer/artist/father questioning the balance of his passions—art\, culture\, family. \nFrom the streets of Brooklyn to Russia’s ballet training studios\, Antonio struggles to reconcile multiple ethnic identities. He wrestles with the legacy of stereotypes of masculinity while discovering the beauty of becoming a father. Powerful poetry is intermixed with original movement\, music and projected imagery to create an evocative\, wholly unique performance. \nThis performance offers Spanish captioning. \nhttps://www.goodmantheatre.org/Antonio
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/antonios-song-i-was-dreaming-of-a-son-at-goodman-theatre-3/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Event
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SUMMARY:Lab E: Writing Group at Experimental Station
DESCRIPTION:LabE is a series of monthly cohort meetings addressing particular needs of disabled dance artists. \nDuring our May meeting we’ll pool our knowledge around writing funding applications. Whether you’ve written several successful applications or are just beginning the process of writing your first application\, this space is for you. Depending on the needs of the group\, this may look like spending time quietly co-writing\, passing around drafts to get feedback\, discussing strategies for framing our work as disabled artists in applications\, or developing a list of funding opportunities to share with the community.\nLabE is open to all Chicago-area dance artists who self-identify as Deaf/deaf/hard of hearing\, sick\, mad\, neurodivergent\, disabled or living with a disability\, and/or who have lived experience with disability or impairment. This space is particularly meant for those interested in exploring disability and impairment-informed modes of practicing dance. \nAdditional Access Information is available here:\nhttps://highconceptlabs.org/news-2/labe-launches-at-experimental-station \nFor any other questions or requests regarding accessibility accommodations\, please contact HCL’s Accessibility Coordinator\, Yolanda Cesta Cursach Montilla (yolanda@highconceptlabs.org).
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/lab-e-writing-group-at-experimental-station/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230528T160000
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SUMMARY:Antonio’s Song / I Was Dreaming of a Son at Goodman Theatre
DESCRIPTION:A poetic journey of a dancer/artist/father questioning the balance of his passions—art\, culture\, family. \nFrom the streets of Brooklyn to Russia’s ballet training studios\, Antonio struggles to reconcile multiple ethnic identities. He wrestles with the legacy of stereotypes of masculinity while discovering the beauty of becoming a father. Powerful poetry is intermixed with original movement\, music and projected imagery to create an evocative\, wholly unique performance. \nThis performance offers captioning. \nhttps://www.goodmantheatre.org/Antonio
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/antonios-song-i-was-dreaming-of-a-son-at-goodman-theatre-4/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230601T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230601T200000
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SUMMARY:Stacey Abrams: Rogue Justice at The Vic Theatre
DESCRIPTION:#1 New York Times bestselling author\, voting rights advocate\, and history maker Stacey Abrams returns to Chicago with her latest thriller novel\, Rogue Justice. Join Chicago Humanities for an evening with this political leader as we delve into the art of fiction\, current issues affecting our democracy\, and how we can all use our voices to impact our communities. \nThis event will have open captions\, audio description\, ASL interpretation\, and ALDs. \nhttps://www.chicagohumanities.org/events/attend/stacey-abrams/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/stacey-abrams-rogue-justice-at-the-vic-theatre/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230603T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230603T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150908
CREATED:20230516T142457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230516T142457Z
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SUMMARY:Burning Red: Tribute to Taylor Swift
DESCRIPTION:Burning Red: Tribute to Taylor is the premier Taylor Swift tribute act\, by Swifties and for Swifties. Burning Red brings the iconic music of Taylor Swift to life with an energetic performance and detailed Taylor-themed event\, serving up the best Taylor sing-along party you’ll ever find! Every Burning Red show is a journey through all of Taylor Swift’s “ERAS.” If you couldn’t get tickets to Taylor’s ERAs tour\, OR if you got tickets to the Friday or Sunday shows and want to extend the fun\, we have the party just for you! \nDOORS 7 PM | SHOW 8 PM\n18+ | Minors permitted with a parent/guardian\nGENERAL SALE: $22\nVIP PACKAGE: $29 (includes admission and exclusive merch\, while supplies last)\nDOOR SALES: $25 \nCategory: Live Music | Concert
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/burning-red-tribute-to-taylor-swift/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230604T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230604T170000
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SUMMARY:West Side Story at Lyric Opera of Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Tony and Maria are wide-eyed teenagers from two communities in conflict\, who fall in love. As their friends and family battle with one another\, Tony and Maria long for “a place for us…somewhere.” \nAccessibility: Audio Description\, Touch Tour\, ASL Interpreted \nhttps://www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcoming/2022-23/west-side-story/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/west-side-story/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230605T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230605T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150908
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SUMMARY:Poetry at The Green at 320: June 2023
DESCRIPTION:Poetry @ The Green at 320 continues for the summer season this June! \nThe Chicago Poetry Center and The Green at 320 S. Canal are proud to reintroduce this free\, weekly reading and open mic series co-curated by CPC’s Poets in Residence Tarnynon Onumonu and Timothy David Rey. \nJoin us on certain Monday nights in June at 6:00 p.m. in this beautiful setting to hear outstanding featured poets perform their work in this partnership between Chicago Poetry Center and The Green at 320 S. Canal. After every poetry performance\, there will be an open mic for any individual that would like to share poetry of their own! \nABOUT JUNE’S FEATURED PERFORMERS:\nJune 5: Noa Micaela Fields is a trans writer with hearing aids. She is the author of the poetry chapbook With and has also been published in Tripwire\, Anomaly\, Zoeglossia\, Elderly Mag\, Tyger Quarterly\, and Sixty Inches From Center\, among others. She is a programming curator at the Poetry Foundation and a 2022 fellow with Zoeglossia and Disability Lead. \nJune 12: Nile Lansana is an interdisciplinary artist from the South Side of Chicago. An acclaimed writer\, poet\, performer\, and filmmaker\, his work is centered around revealing radical truths and amplifying marginalized voices and narratives through a lens of Black imagination and visionary intention. He was a nominee for the inaugural Chicago Poet Laureate position. A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate with degrees in Journalism and English – Creative Writing\, he won the 2021 Ronald Wallace Poetry Thesis Prize and 2020 George B. Hill Poetry Prize. His work is published in American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, & elsewhere. He holds fellowships from the Rebuild Foundation and Obsidian Foundation. He has performed across the country\, including Lollapalooza and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He recently starred in the play “No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks” produced by Manual Cinema. He is a proud uncle and the oldest of four Black boys. You can follow him on Instagram at @nilesupasuit. \nJune 26: Adam Gottlieb is a musician\, poet\, teaching artist\, and organizer from Chicago. This year he was one of the nominees for the inaugural Poet Laureate of Chicago. As a youth\, he was featured in the documentary film Louder Than A Bomb about the poetry slam festival of the same name. He is the leader of the Fusion band Adam Gottlieb and OneLove. He serves as a cantorial soloist for Tzedek Chicago. He has organized with a wide range of grassroots groups around issues such as housing justice\, anti-gentrification\, Indigenous sovereignty\, education\, and police/prison abolition. He also writes for the People’s Tribune. \nABOUT THE CO-CURATORS:\nTarnynon (Ty-yuh-nuh) Onumonu is an artist and licensed Paraprofessional born and raised in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the southeast side of Chicago and is extremely proud of and humbled by her SouthSide citizenship and West African lineage. In 2017\, she took second place in the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards and represented Chicago on the Lethal Poetry Team at the 2018 National Poetry Slam. She has been a Poet in Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center since January of 2019 and has been featured in Newcity Magazine and South Side Weekly. \nTimothy David Rey is a writer/performer who works in poetry\, plays\, and monologue (both fictional and autobiographical). He teaches creative writing and performance throughout the city of Chicago and its suburbs. He is a 2015 Semi-Finalist for the Guild Literary Complex’s Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award\, and one of the winners of Project Exploration (The Poetry Center of Chicago 2004). He is the co-founder of the LBGT Solo Performance Showcase\, Solo Homo (2002-2011). Timothy’s plays and performance pieces have been seen and heard at venues throughout Chicago as well as out of state and in Panama. \nABOUT THE LOCATION:\nThe Green at 320 is a public park located in the West Loop and will be host to many family-friendly activities and events this summer! \nThe Green at 320 is located behind the building at 320 S. Canal\, 1 block west of the river. The main staired entrance to the park is on the corner of Clinton and Van Buren with an ADA-accessible ramp off of Clinton. The park is located 1 block north of the Clinton Blue Line Stop. Please find more detailed transit and location information at https://320southcanal.com/. \nhttps://www.poetrycenter.org/poetry-the-green-at-320-june/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/poetry-at-the-green-at-320-june-2023-2/2023-06-05/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Experience the SoundShirt at West Side Story at Lyric Opera
DESCRIPTION:Lyric Opera is prototyping an innovative new experience for audiences who are D/deaf or hard of hearing called the SoundShirt\, built by CuteCircuit. While the orchestra and artists perform on stage\, microphones capture the sound. Computer software transforms the sounds into touch data\, and the data is broadcast wirelessly to the SoundShirts. SoundShirt wearers experience the feeling of music rendered on their upper body through haptic actuation in real-time in a fully immersive way. \nWe’re prototyping the SoundShirt during our summer musical\, West Side Story\, and inviting a few outside guests who are hard of hearing and D/deaf to participate and experience it. There will be a follow-up survey seeking feedback. Seats and shirt sizes are limited\, and tickets are free. \nFor questions or to reserve tickets\, please write to bdunn@lyricopera.org. \nhttps://www.lyricopera.org/westsidestory
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/experience-the-soundshirt-at-west-side-story-at-lyric-opera/2023-06-08/1/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230608T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230608T160000
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SUMMARY:Experience the SoundShirt at West Side Story at Lyric Opera
DESCRIPTION:Lyric Opera is prototyping an innovative new experience for audiences who are D/deaf or hard of hearing called the SoundShirt\, built by CuteCircuit. While the orchestra and artists perform on stage\, microphones capture the sound. Computer software transforms the sounds into touch data\, and the data is broadcast wirelessly to the SoundShirts. SoundShirt wearers experience the feeling of music rendered on their upper body through haptic actuation in real-time in a fully immersive way. \nWe’re prototyping the SoundShirt during our summer musical\, West Side Story\, and inviting a few outside guests who are hard of hearing and D/deaf to participate and experience it. There will be a follow-up survey seeking feedback. Seats and shirt sizes are limited\, and tickets are free. \nFor questions or to reserve tickets\, please write to bdunn@lyricopera.org. \nhttps://www.lyricopera.org/westsidestory
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/experience-the-soundshirt-at-west-side-story-at-lyric-opera/2023-06-08/2/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230611
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SUMMARY:Genevieve Ramos: Crip Paint Power
DESCRIPTION:Curb Appeal Gallery is pleased to announce our second exhibition “Genevieve Ramos: Crip Paint Power”. This exhibition debuts new work created as part of Ramos’s Feminist Crip Paint Power\, a multi-year project exploring the love\, care\, and interdependency in disability communities through the lens of disability justice and feminism. Stemming from relationships with disabled BIPOC femmes and through a series of curated interviews and photoshoots in partnership with the photographer Colectivo Multipolar\, “Crip Paint Power” features four portraits of leaders in Chicago’s rich disability network\, including community organizers Candace Coleman and Michelle Garcia\, artist and educator Sandie (Chun-Shan) Yi\, and the artist activist Reveca Torres. The exhibition includes a documentary film and zine created in collaboration with the Disability Culture Activism Lab at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Following the close of “Crip Paint Power”\, the portraits of Coleman\, Garcia\, Torres\, and Yi will be on permanent display at the Disability Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. \nCurb Appeal is an apartment gallery located in the Heart of Chicago\, run by Todd Garon and Sandy Guttman. As an organization\, we are interested in the intersection of art and accessibility. We draw inspiration from the neighborhood topology of our historic storefront space and its visibility to the community in which we are sited. Our large windows and sidewalk stoop encourage passersby to peer in as well as invite themselves into our live/workspace. Grounded in the idea of “home” with an ethic of accessibility\, Curb Appeal reimagines what both an apartment and a gallery can be. \nFor more information\, please contact info@curbappeal.gallery. \nCurb Appeal is wheelchair accessible. As part of the exhibition\, there is a documentary film that is open captioned. All the paintings include image descriptions\, made available through QR code. Additionally\, the zine that accompanies the work is available on the Curb Appeal website. Masks are required for entry and will be provided if needed. Please note\, Curb Appeal is an apartment gallery and doubles as a home to our gallery dog. \nhttps://www.curbappeal.gallery/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/genevieve-ramos-crip-paint-power/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230612
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SUMMARY:Nature Play for All at The Morton Arboretum
DESCRIPTION:Children of all abilities can play and explore nature through accessible activities in The Morton Arboretum’s lush 4-acre Children’s Garden during this special Nature Play for All weekend event\, organized in collaboration with Benedictine University and SEASPAR\, the South East Association for Special Parks and Recreation. Activities include Painting with Nature\, Planting a Seed\, American Sign Language Storytimes\, Pond Exploration\, Sensory Hikes and Nature Scavenger Hunts. Nature Play for All will occur Saturday\, June 10 and Sunday\, June 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Children’s Garden is supported by International Paper. For more information\, visit mortonarb.org. \nAccessibility: ASL interpreted\, quiet spaces\, sensory friendly\, wheelchair accessible \nhttps://mortonarb.org/explore/activities/childrens-family-programs/nature-play-for-all/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/nature-play-for-all-at-the-morton-arboretum/2023-06-10/1/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230611
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SUMMARY:Nature Play for All at The Morton Arboretum
DESCRIPTION:Children of all abilities can play and explore nature through accessible activities in The Morton Arboretum’s lush 4-acre Children’s Garden during this special Nature Play for All weekend event\, organized in collaboration with Benedictine University and SEASPAR\, the South East Association for Special Parks and Recreation. Activities include Painting with Nature\, Planting a Seed\, American Sign Language Storytimes\, Pond Exploration\, Sensory Hikes and Nature Scavenger Hunts. Nature Play for All will occur Saturday\, June 10 and Sunday\, June 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Children’s Garden is supported by International Paper. For more information\, visit mortonarb.org. \nAccessibility: ASL interpreted\, quiet spaces\, sensory friendly\, wheelchair accessible \nhttps://mortonarb.org/explore/activities/childrens-family-programs/nature-play-for-all/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/nature-play-for-all-at-the-morton-arboretum/2023-06-10/2/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230610T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230610T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150908
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SUMMARY:A.B.L.E. presents A Midsummer Night's Dream at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
DESCRIPTION:This spring\, A.B.L.E. returns to the stage and our classical roots with a multimedia version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, updated for our social-media obsessed times. Our modern adaptation by A.B.L.E. teaching artist Emma MacLean focuses on the themes of connection and disconnection. The king and queen of the fairies are fighting\, the mechanicals are rehearsing a play but no one knows their lines\, and the Athenian teens keep changing their relationship status. Join ABLE’s ensembles – 34 actors with intellectual and developmental disabilities as we miss texts\, drop calls\, and wander love struck in the Athenian forest. \nThis multimedia production will weave Shakespeare’s words with original scenes\, monologues\, songs\, and dances devised by our ensembles\, as well as animated film sequences from VFX designer Brock Alter. The virtual ensemble will narrate the tale for us as the in-person ensembles take the stage Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. \nWith your ticket\, you have the option of participating in a 45 minute interactive workshop led by A.B.L.E.’s team of Creative Associates and Teaching Artists. Audiences can experience some of the games and activities A.B.L.E. used to bring their ideas to the stage\, get a touch tour of key costume pieces and props\, and try A.B.L.E.’s signature “dropping in” method. This exclusive opportunity is only available to 20 ticket holders each day – reserve your spot when booking your ticket. \nEvent Details:\nSaturday June 10th at 7pm (pre-show workshop & touch tour at 5:30pm) \nUpstairs at Chicago Shakespeare Theater\n800 East Grand Avenue\nChicago IL 60611 \nTickets: All tickets are Pay-what-you-can\, general admission\nOnline: ableensemble.com/events\nPhone: 312.595.5600\nIn person: at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater box office \nAccess: Performances will be open captioned and dual ASL interpreted. \nCOVID Policies: To ensure A.B.L.E.’s immunocompromised performers and community members feel safe and welcome\, all audience members must remain masked for the duration of their time in the theater complex. \nhttps://www.ableensemble.com/events
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/a-b-l-e-presents-a-midsummer-nights-dream-at-chicago-shakespeare-theater/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230611T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230611T130000
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SUMMARY:Costume Designing Black History with Ruth E. Carter at Music Box Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Ruth E. Carter is one of the most renowned and celebrated costume designers working today having designed more than 40 films over the course of 3 decades and winning Oscars for Best Costume Design for her work on Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. At Chicago Humanities\, Carter will explore the passion for history that inspired her period pieces and her journey into Afrofuturism\, as well as what it’s been like working with such film legends as Denzel Washington\, Eddie Murphy\, Chadwick Boseman\, Angela Bassett\, Lupita Nyong’o\, and more. \nA book signing will follow this program. \nThis event will have open captions and ALDs. \nhttps://www.chicagohumanities.org/events/attend/ruth-e-carter/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/costume-designing-black-history-with-ruth-e-carter-at-music-box-theatre/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230611T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230611T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150908
CREATED:20230518T003459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230518T003459Z
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SUMMARY:A.B.L.E. presents A Midsummer Night's Dream at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
DESCRIPTION:This spring\, A.B.L.E. returns to the stage and our classical roots with a multimedia version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, updated for our social-media obsessed times. Our modern adaptation by A.B.L.E. teaching artist Emma MacLean focuses on the themes of connection and disconnection. The king and queen of the fairies are fighting\, the mechanicals are rehearsing a play but no one knows their lines\, and the Athenian teens keep changing their relationship status. Join ABLE’s ensembles – 34 actors with intellectual and developmental disabilities as we miss texts\, drop calls\, and wander love struck in the Athenian forest. \nThis multimedia production will weave Shakespeare’s words with original scenes\, monologues\, songs\, and dances devised by our ensembles\, as well as animated film sequences from VFX designer Brock Alter. The virtual ensemble will narrate the tale for us as the in-person ensembles take the stage Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. \nWith your ticket\, you have the option of participating in a 45 minute interactive workshop led by A.B.L.E.’s team of Creative Associates and Teaching Artists. Audiences can experience some of the games and activities A.B.L.E. used to bring their ideas to the stage\, get a touch tour of key costume pieces and props\, and try A.B.L.E.’s signature “dropping in” method. This exclusive opportunity is only available to 20 ticket holders each day – reserve your spot when booking your ticket. \nEvent Details:\nSunday June 11th at 2pm (pre-show workshop & touch tour at 12:30pm) \nUpstairs at Chicago Shakespeare Theater\n800 East Grand Avenue\nChicago IL 60611 \nTickets: All tickets are Pay-what-you-can\, general admission\nOnline: ableensemble.com/events\nPhone: 312.595.5600\nIn person: at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater box office \nAccess: Performances will be open captioned and dual ASL interpreted. \nCOVID Policies: To ensure A.B.L.E.’s immunocompromised performers and community members feel safe and welcome\, all audience members must remain masked for the duration of their time in the theater complex. \nhttps://www.ableensemble.com/events
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/a-b-l-e-presents-a-midsummer-nights-dream-at-chicago-shakespeare-theater-2/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230611T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230611T153000
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SUMMARY:Talk | Gary Simmons at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
DESCRIPTION:On the opening of his first comprehensive survey exhibition\, Gary Simmons: Public Enemy\, multidisciplinary artist Gary Simmons is joined by the curators of the show\, René Morales\, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator\, and Jadine Collingwood\, Assistant Curator\, for a wide-ranging discussion of his powerful work. \nAccessibility: ASL interpreted\, captioning\, Spanish captioning \nhttps://visit.mcachicago.org/events/talk-gary-simmons/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/talk-gary-simmons-at-museum-of-contemporary-art-chicago/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230612T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230612T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150908
CREATED:20230530T001142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230530T001142Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry at The Green at 320: June 2023
DESCRIPTION:Poetry @ The Green at 320 continues for the summer season this June! \nThe Chicago Poetry Center and The Green at 320 S. Canal are proud to reintroduce this free\, weekly reading and open mic series co-curated by CPC’s Poets in Residence Tarnynon Onumonu and Timothy David Rey. \nJoin us on certain Monday nights in June at 6:00 p.m. in this beautiful setting to hear outstanding featured poets perform their work in this partnership between Chicago Poetry Center and The Green at 320 S. Canal. After every poetry performance\, there will be an open mic for any individual that would like to share poetry of their own! \nABOUT JUNE’S FEATURED PERFORMERS:\nJune 5: Noa Micaela Fields is a trans writer with hearing aids. She is the author of the poetry chapbook With and has also been published in Tripwire\, Anomaly\, Zoeglossia\, Elderly Mag\, Tyger Quarterly\, and Sixty Inches From Center\, among others. She is a programming curator at the Poetry Foundation and a 2022 fellow with Zoeglossia and Disability Lead. \nJune 12: Nile Lansana is an interdisciplinary artist from the South Side of Chicago. An acclaimed writer\, poet\, performer\, and filmmaker\, his work is centered around revealing radical truths and amplifying marginalized voices and narratives through a lens of Black imagination and visionary intention. He was a nominee for the inaugural Chicago Poet Laureate position. A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate with degrees in Journalism and English – Creative Writing\, he won the 2021 Ronald Wallace Poetry Thesis Prize and 2020 George B. Hill Poetry Prize. His work is published in American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, & elsewhere. He holds fellowships from the Rebuild Foundation and Obsidian Foundation. He has performed across the country\, including Lollapalooza and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He recently starred in the play “No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks” produced by Manual Cinema. He is a proud uncle and the oldest of four Black boys. You can follow him on Instagram at @nilesupasuit. \nJune 26: Adam Gottlieb is a musician\, poet\, teaching artist\, and organizer from Chicago. This year he was one of the nominees for the inaugural Poet Laureate of Chicago. As a youth\, he was featured in the documentary film Louder Than A Bomb about the poetry slam festival of the same name. He is the leader of the Fusion band Adam Gottlieb and OneLove. He serves as a cantorial soloist for Tzedek Chicago. He has organized with a wide range of grassroots groups around issues such as housing justice\, anti-gentrification\, Indigenous sovereignty\, education\, and police/prison abolition. He also writes for the People’s Tribune. \nABOUT THE CO-CURATORS:\nTarnynon (Ty-yuh-nuh) Onumonu is an artist and licensed Paraprofessional born and raised in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the southeast side of Chicago and is extremely proud of and humbled by her SouthSide citizenship and West African lineage. In 2017\, she took second place in the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards and represented Chicago on the Lethal Poetry Team at the 2018 National Poetry Slam. She has been a Poet in Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center since January of 2019 and has been featured in Newcity Magazine and South Side Weekly. \nTimothy David Rey is a writer/performer who works in poetry\, plays\, and monologue (both fictional and autobiographical). He teaches creative writing and performance throughout the city of Chicago and its suburbs. He is a 2015 Semi-Finalist for the Guild Literary Complex’s Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award\, and one of the winners of Project Exploration (The Poetry Center of Chicago 2004). He is the co-founder of the LBGT Solo Performance Showcase\, Solo Homo (2002-2011). Timothy’s plays and performance pieces have been seen and heard at venues throughout Chicago as well as out of state and in Panama. \nABOUT THE LOCATION:\nThe Green at 320 is a public park located in the West Loop and will be host to many family-friendly activities and events this summer! \nThe Green at 320 is located behind the building at 320 S. Canal\, 1 block west of the river. The main staired entrance to the park is on the corner of Clinton and Van Buren with an ADA-accessible ramp off of Clinton. The park is located 1 block north of the Clinton Blue Line Stop. Please find more detailed transit and location information at https://320southcanal.com/. \nhttps://www.poetrycenter.org/poetry-the-green-at-320-june/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/poetry-at-the-green-at-320-june-2023-2/2023-06-12/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lucy and Charlie's Honeymoon at Lookingglass Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Hooray! Lucy and Charlie just got hitched…and they’re embracing the worst of the American dream. They do what they want. Take what they want. They’re First Generation Asian American Renegades. In love. And on the run. \nFeaturing original country western and folk songs\, directed by Amanda Dehnert (Peter Pan (A Play)\, Eastland)\, Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon tracks a young couple as they rev it down quintessentially American highways and across stereotypic borders\, fleeing expectation and trawling up trouble along the way. \nDirect from his Broadway debut in Almost Famous The Musical\, Artistic Associate Matthew C. Yee’s world premiere musical romp gives a nod to America’s past\, takes tally of its present\, and blows its future wide open. \nTouch Tour will begin at 12:30 PM CT.\nAudio Described Performance begins at 1:30 PM CT. \nPlease contact our Box Office to reserve your seats! \nhttps://lookingglasstheatre.org/event/lucy-and-charlies-honeymoon-2022/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/lucy-and-charlies-honeymoon-at-lookingglass-theatre/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Talk | Barak adé Soleil with SHIFT Community Participants at MCA
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a communal dialog with award-winning artist Barak adé Soleil and members of the local Black and Brown neurodiverse and disabled community who are part of adé Soleil’s newly commissioned work SHIFT. \nSHIFT\, a multidisciplinary project for the MCA’s Frictions series\, has two components: \nAn installation located on the first floor of the MCA during the performance’s run\, intentionally next to a spiraling staircase that goes up to the museum’s fourth floor. Barak is creating a film that will be installed and projected onto a diamond-like platform. In this dreamlike video installation\, bodies both at rest and as they shift are visible onscreen at life-size and larger-than-life scale. The presence of Black neurodiverse and disabled bodies is amplified from many angles\, infiltrating the architecture of the museum’s iconic public stairwell. Whereas these bodies might otherwise be violently misinterpreted as either lazy or near death\, adé Soleil offers rest—and the intimacy of everyday gestures—as forms of political resistance for Black people.\nA gathering on Saturday\, May 6\, where members of the Disability community will join adé Soleil in a “promenade” throughout the museum’s public areas; at times they will ascend the staircases and take up space to make visible and apparent the power of community presence. The use of the word promenade is intentional\, drawing from its definition: “to take a leisurely public walk\, ride\, [wheel] or drive so as to meet or be seen by others.”\nSHIFT is curated by Tara Aisha Willis\, Curator of Performance & Public Practice at the MCA. \nAccess Information\nASL interpretation\, CART captioning\, and live audio description are provided. AD devices are available at the museum\, and audience members may also use their personal devices to access the audio description through a URL provided on-site. \nThis event has relaxed viewing protocols and sensory-friendly lighting. \nASL provided.Audio description available.Haptic elements used. \nhttps://visit.mcachicago.org/events/talk-barak-ade-soleil-with-shift-performers/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/talk-barak-ade-soleil-with-shift-community-participants-at-mca/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:2023 Accessible Juneteenth at UIC Quad
DESCRIPTION:Accessible Juneteenth 2023\nPlace: the UIC Quad (behind UIC Student Center East); 750 S. Halsted St.\, Chicago\, IL\nDate and Time: Saturday\, June 17th\, 2023 from 1pm to 5pm (Open mic livestream from 2:15pm to 3:15pm on Zoom and Chicagoland DPOCC Facebook page)\n*******************************************\nCome and celebrate our second Juneteenth where we celebrate the black disability community and the victories we accomplished! We want to make Juneteenth a fun and important accessible experience for all\, including disabled people in the African Diaspora. \nRSVP at https://go.uic.edu/2023_AccessibleJuneteenth_RSVP to get event notifications! \nThis year\, we will have a DJ who will bless us with music fit for our Accessible Juneteenth celebration. There will be food\, giveaways\, and resources given out by vendors also\, including from Black-owned and disability-owned/friendly organizations and businesses. \nWe will host an open-mic where you can share your talents in singing\, spoken-word\, playing instruments\, and more! Sign up at https://go.uic.edu/2023_AccessibleJuneteenth_OpenMic_Signup by June 9th at 11:59pm CT\, or sign up in-person at the event. But hurry\, because spots are limited! \nIf you’re not able to attend the celebration in person\, that is okay! You can join us virtually; we will host a livestream of the open mic portion of the event. Register for the livestreams at https://go.uic.edu/2023_Virtual_AccessibleJuneteenth_Stream\, or watch the livestream on Chicagoland DPOCC’s Facebook page on June 17th. \nASL will be provided for open mic portion; live captioning will be provided for the livestream of the open mic portion \nMore event details TBA as we get closer to the day; stay tuned for updates. \nThis event is brought to you by:\nChicagoland Disabled People of Color Coalition\nThe Institute on Disability and Human Development at UIC\nAccess Living\nUIC Disability Cultural Center\nChicago Disability Pride Parade\nWhole Foods \nhttps://fb.me/e/O6EJFU1V
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/2023-accessible-juneteenth-at-uic-quad/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:What the Constitution Means to Me at TimeLine Theatre
DESCRIPTION:What the Constitution Means to Me is a “slyly crafted piece of persuasion and a tangible contribution to the change it seeks” (The New York Times) and a “singularly charming\, politically urgent and cathartically necessary play” (Los Angeles Times) that shows “how broad concepts of law and governance effect individual lives in the most intimate ways” (The Guardian). \nFifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious\, hopeful\, and guttingly human debate-meets-play\, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the relationship between four generations of women—all while grappling with the founding document that\, for better and worse\, shapes their lives. \nWhat the Constitution Means to Me became a sensation upon its premiere at New York Theatre Workshop in 2018 and went on to a five-month Broadway run with Schreck in the leading role\, garnering Tony Award nominations for Best Play and Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play. A national tour—launched in 2020\, paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic\, and resumed in 2021—followed. The play has been filmed\, again with Schreck performing\, for Amazon Prime Video. \nTimeOut New York declared: “Here is something that every citizen must see: It’s theater in the old sense\, the Greek sense\, a place where civic society can come together and do its thinking and fixing and planning.” On the heels of the reversal of the foundational Roe v. Wade ruling\, What the Constitution Means to Me is bound to feel even more relevant\, profound\, and searing than during its original run and Broadway debut. In the end\, Shreck’s personal stories reflect our own\, as does her passion\, her laughter\, and her outrage at a document that deserves to be challenged as much as it is upheld. \nAccessibility: captioning \nhttps://timelinetheatre.com/calendar/?month=June+2023&event=27464
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/what-the-constitution-means-to-me-at-timeline-theatre/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230620T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230620T213000
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SUMMARY:The SoundShirt at West Side Story at Lyric Opera
DESCRIPTION:Lyric Opera is prototyping an innovative new experience for audiences who are deaf or hard of hearing called the SoundShirt\, built by CuteCircuit. While the orchestra and artists perform on stage\, microphones capture the sound. Computer software transforms the sounds into touch data\, and the data is broadcast wirelessly to the SoundShirts. SoundShirt wearers experience the feeling of music rendered on their upper body through haptic actuation in real-time in a fully immersive way. \nWe’re prototyping the experience during our summer musical\, West Side Story\, and inviting a few outside guests who are hard of hearing and deaf to participate and experience it. There will be a follow-up survey seeking feedback. Seats and shirt sizes are limited\, and tickets are free. \nFor questions\, please write to [bdunn@lyricopera.org](mailto:bdunn@lyricopera.org). \nhttps://www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcoming/2022-23/west-side-story/ \n 
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/the-soundshirt-at-west-side-story-at-lyric-opera/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:What the Constitution Means to Me at TimeLine Theatre
DESCRIPTION:What the Constitution Means to Me is a “slyly crafted piece of persuasion and a tangible contribution to the change it seeks” (The New York Times) and a “singularly charming\, politically urgent and cathartically necessary play” (Los Angeles Times) that shows “how broad concepts of law and governance effect individual lives in the most intimate ways” (The Guardian). \nFifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious\, hopeful\, and guttingly human debate-meets-play\, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the relationship between four generations of women—all while grappling with the founding document that\, for better and worse\, shapes their lives. \nWhat the Constitution Means to Me became a sensation upon its premiere at New York Theatre Workshop in 2018 and went on to a five-month Broadway run with Schreck in the leading role\, garnering Tony Award nominations for Best Play and Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play. A national tour—launched in 2020\, paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic\, and resumed in 2021—followed. The play has been filmed\, again with Schreck performing\, for Amazon Prime Video. \nTimeOut New York declared: “Here is something that every citizen must see: It’s theater in the old sense\, the Greek sense\, a place where civic society can come together and do its thinking and fixing and planning.” On the heels of the reversal of the foundational Roe v. Wade ruling\, What the Constitution Means to Me is bound to feel even more relevant\, profound\, and searing than during its original run and Broadway debut. In the end\, Shreck’s personal stories reflect our own\, as does her passion\, her laughter\, and her outrage at a document that deserves to be challenged as much as it is upheld. \nAccessibility: audio description \nhttps://timelinetheatre.com/calendar/?month=June+2023&event=27464
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/what-the-constitution-means-to-me-at-timeline-theatre-2/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230623T213000
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SUMMARY:The Women Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe at Raven Theatre
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard Computers worked by daylight at the observatory\, studying photographic plates of the night sky. The play follows Annie Jump Cannon and Henrietta Leavitt through their groundbreaking discoveries that changed the field of astronomy and shaped how we understand the universe. This performance brings the science of space to life through movement\, music\, and light. A celebration of friendship\, curiosity\, and the never-ending search to find our place in the universe. \nAccessibility: ASL interpreted \nhttp://www.raventheatre.com/stage/universe/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/the-women-who-discovered-how-to-measure-the-universe-at-raven-theatre/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230624T210000
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SUMMARY:Bronzeville Vendor Fair and Wildflower Music Festival at IIT
DESCRIPTION:Join us on June 24\, 2023\, from 10 a.m.–9 p.m. for the inaugural Bronzeville outdoor vendor market and bazaar that will take place on 33rd Boulevard between Michigan Avenue and State Street. Shop among the area’s finest merchants\, makers\, and artists. Dance to the music provided by Greater Bronzeville musicians and vocalists. Bring the entire family—there is something for everyone including a bouncy house where you will supervise your kids! \nThe Wildflower Music Festival stage will feature Chicago’s most well-loved and popular musical artists. Senabella Gill\, also known as the Bronzeville Diva\, will host the events on the Wildflower stage. Gill is a renowned\, multi-awarded jazz vocalist\, music activist\, youth mentor\, and founder of The Chicago Living Legacy Awards. The Office of Community Affairs and has partnered with the Cultural Access Collaborative to make this event accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing. The equipment is being loaned by Cultural Access Collaborative with special thanks to the Chicago Academy of Sciences and the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. \nhttps://www.iit.edu/events/bronzeville-vendor-fair-and-wildflower-music-festival \nHeadlining acts for the Bronzeville Vendor Fair and Wildflower Music Festival include: \nMae Koen\nMae Koen \nMae Koen’s specific harmonic talents took her on the road with Aretha Franklin from 1997 to 2004 and again in 2013 to 2017. Koen appeared with Franklin at her last Chicago performance at Ravinia in September 2017. She has also appeared with Frankin on several television shows including those hosted by David Letterman and Jay Leno in addition to The View\, Good Morning America\, and the Rosie O’Donnell Show. On the televised limited VH1 series Diva’s Live\, you can see Koen not only singing with Franklin\, but also offering up support vocals for Mariah Carey\, Shania Twain\, Gloria Estefan\, Celine Dion\, and Carole King. Franklin has even made special mention of Koen being among her favorite background singers in her 1999 memoir From These Roots. Locally\, Koen is constantly sought after to offer her expertise in background and lead vocals on many local projects. You can see Koen with the MAC 180 Band\, the Leland Project\, the Steeley Dan tribute band Bad Sneakers\, Chicago-based jazz vocal quartet Vocal Poynt\, and a host of other various and diverse acts. \nBand members include June “Obie Copeland on bass\, Brady Williams on drums\, and Theodis Rogers on keyboard. \nPerformance time: 12:30–1:20 p.m. \nTony “TOCA” Carpenter—Toca Live!\nTony Carpenter \nTony Carpenter is an urban percussionist who began his percussive journey in the early 1970’s when he began exploring the traditional rhythms of West Africa and performed with African dance troupes such as Julian Swains’ Inner-City Dancers and Najwa Dance Troop. Carpenter has played with many masters congueros including\, Mongo Santamaria\, Armando Peraza\, Alex Acuna\, and Giovanni Hidalgo. His performances include playing R&B\, gospel\, and jazz. The melodious tones of his unit\, “TOCA LIVE\,” is a sound that is memorable. He has combined rhythms with his favorite jazz classics\, which he calls cultural jazz. Carpenter has performed with many great artists of all genres\, such as Leroy Hudson\, Tyron Davis\, The Emotions\, Jerry “The Ice Man” Butler\, Ramsey Lewis\, The Soul Children of Chicago\, Kim Stratton\, Malachi Thompson\, and currently tours nationally with a-list performers. \nBand members include Toca on conga percussions\, Malcolm Banks on drums\, Roger Harris on keys\, James Perkins on sax\, Kelvin Djembe Olu on dunn dun Uche’ on Shakara percussion. \nPerformance time: 1:50–2:45 p.m. \nThe Alan Burroughs and The AB Band\nAlan Burroughs \nAlan Burroughs is a native of Chicago and has been in the music industry for more than 20 years. He has followed a path that embraces jazz\, rock\, blues\, and a myriad of other musical styles. He has traveled nationally and has shared the stages with artists such as Miles Davis\, Art Porter\, Phillip Bailey\, KoKo Taylor\, The Dells\, and countless others. Burroughs is currently in the studio recording his second album. \nBand Members include Alan Burroughs on lead guitar. \nPerformance time: 3–3:50 p.m. \nD’Erania and Jahari Stampley\nJahari Stampley and D’Erania Stampley \nD’Erania Stampley and Jahari Stampley are aptly entitled as a “mother -son duo.” These two are Internationally renowned\, Grammy-awarded musicians who play with the most sought out and favored jazz musicians on local and international stages. The two are delighted to join the Wildflower Music Festival stage. Jahari\, being the multi-talented musical phenom he is\, will be using his musical super powers playing piano\, keys\, electronic drums\, while mom D’Erania will play with him on sax and upright bass. This mother-and-son duet will be a phenomenal addition that is an unforgettably electric\, soul-stirring performance! \nBand members include D’Erania on upright bass and sax and Jahari on keys and electronic drums. \nPerformance time: 4:10–5:15 p.m. \nMario Abney and The Abney Effect\nMario Abney \nMario Abney is a singer\, songwriter\, master trumpeter\, and bandleader originally from New Orleans. Last year\, Mario Abney & The Abney Effect were featured on Good Morning America for Mardi Gras and became a regular on the HBO series Tremé. He developed his chops in Chicago at Fred Anderson’s legendary Velvet Lounge. Abney has been compared to the genius of Miles Davis and the leadership and insight of Art Blakely. He fuses the art of jazz music with the soul\, spirituality\, and freedom of New Orleans. \nThe Abney Effect was established in 2010 and has since produced amazing concerts at well-known establishments all over the country and overseas. The Abney Effect is currently featured at Andy’s Jazz Club every Tuesday night and has upcoming or past performances at Untitled Supper Club\, Adorn Bar & Restaurant (Four Seasons)\,Shedd Aquarium\, and private events. \nThe Abney Effects’ longevity\, notoriety\, talent\, and energy has created a lot of buzz\, evidenced by their prominent online presence\, concert attendance\, and album sales. \nBand members include Abney on trumpet\, Micah Collier on bass\, Frank Morrison on drums\, and Josh Atkin on sax. \nPerformance time: 5:30– 6:35 p.m. \nThe Frank Russell Band\nFrank Russell \nChicago bass guitarist Frank Russell was the recent recipient of the prestigious 2020 Jeff Award for Best Original Music In A Play\, in collaboration with the legendary Ladysmith Black Mambazo. To date\, Russell is the only bass guitarist to grace the cover of Chicago Jazz Magazine. He has performed with Ramsey Lewis\, Wallace Roney\, Freddie Hubbard\, Alphonse Mouzon\, Ken Chaney\, Henry Johnson\, Robert Irving III\, and many more. \nJoining Russell on the Wildflower stage will be his star-studded lineup consisting of Irving III on keys\, Corey Wilkes on trumpet\, Marco Villarreal on lead guitar\, Steve “Kwame” Cobbs on drums\, and featuring international vocalist Yvonne Gage. \nPerformance time: 7–8:45 p.m.
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/bronzeville-vendor-fair-and-wildflower-music-festival-at-iit/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sensory-Friendly Morning at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Sensory-Friendly Morning is a free program for all people who benefit from visiting the MCA without large crowds and other sensitive environmental elements. This includes visitors with sensory sensitivities\, disabilities\, autism\, PTSD\, dementia\, and more. On these mornings\, lighting at the museum is dimmed\, sounds from artworks and environmental noise is kept at a minimum\, and a quiet space is available to visitors for breaks. During Sensory-Friendly Mornings\, preregistered individuals and their families can visit the museum to explore exhibitions at their own pace\, and join a Chicago-based artist for a sensory-friendly art-making experience. The museum is closed to the general public until 11:30 am; at that time\, the lights and artworks return to usual operations. \nSensory-Friendly Morning aims to be a welcoming space to experience contemporary art in a judgment-free environment. \nAccessibility: Sensory-Friendly. ASL Interpretation \nhttps://visit.mcachicago.org/events/sensory-friendly-morning-5/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/sensory-friendly-morning-at-museum-of-contemporary-art-chicago/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230626T193000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at The Green at 320: June 2023
DESCRIPTION:Poetry @ The Green at 320 continues for the summer season this June! \nThe Chicago Poetry Center and The Green at 320 S. Canal are proud to reintroduce this free\, weekly reading and open mic series co-curated by CPC’s Poets in Residence Tarnynon Onumonu and Timothy David Rey. \nJoin us on certain Monday nights in June at 6:00 p.m. in this beautiful setting to hear outstanding featured poets perform their work in this partnership between Chicago Poetry Center and The Green at 320 S. Canal. After every poetry performance\, there will be an open mic for any individual that would like to share poetry of their own! \nABOUT JUNE’S FEATURED PERFORMERS:\nJune 5: Noa Micaela Fields is a trans writer with hearing aids. She is the author of the poetry chapbook With and has also been published in Tripwire\, Anomaly\, Zoeglossia\, Elderly Mag\, Tyger Quarterly\, and Sixty Inches From Center\, among others. She is a programming curator at the Poetry Foundation and a 2022 fellow with Zoeglossia and Disability Lead. \nJune 12: Nile Lansana is an interdisciplinary artist from the South Side of Chicago. An acclaimed writer\, poet\, performer\, and filmmaker\, his work is centered around revealing radical truths and amplifying marginalized voices and narratives through a lens of Black imagination and visionary intention. He was a nominee for the inaugural Chicago Poet Laureate position. A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate with degrees in Journalism and English – Creative Writing\, he won the 2021 Ronald Wallace Poetry Thesis Prize and 2020 George B. Hill Poetry Prize. His work is published in American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, & elsewhere. He holds fellowships from the Rebuild Foundation and Obsidian Foundation. He has performed across the country\, including Lollapalooza and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He recently starred in the play “No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks” produced by Manual Cinema. He is a proud uncle and the oldest of four Black boys. You can follow him on Instagram at @nilesupasuit. \nJune 26: Adam Gottlieb is a musician\, poet\, teaching artist\, and organizer from Chicago. This year he was one of the nominees for the inaugural Poet Laureate of Chicago. As a youth\, he was featured in the documentary film Louder Than A Bomb about the poetry slam festival of the same name. He is the leader of the Fusion band Adam Gottlieb and OneLove. He serves as a cantorial soloist for Tzedek Chicago. He has organized with a wide range of grassroots groups around issues such as housing justice\, anti-gentrification\, Indigenous sovereignty\, education\, and police/prison abolition. He also writes for the People’s Tribune. \nABOUT THE CO-CURATORS:\nTarnynon (Ty-yuh-nuh) Onumonu is an artist and licensed Paraprofessional born and raised in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the southeast side of Chicago and is extremely proud of and humbled by her SouthSide citizenship and West African lineage. In 2017\, she took second place in the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards and represented Chicago on the Lethal Poetry Team at the 2018 National Poetry Slam. She has been a Poet in Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center since January of 2019 and has been featured in Newcity Magazine and South Side Weekly. \nTimothy David Rey is a writer/performer who works in poetry\, plays\, and monologue (both fictional and autobiographical). He teaches creative writing and performance throughout the city of Chicago and its suburbs. He is a 2015 Semi-Finalist for the Guild Literary Complex’s Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award\, and one of the winners of Project Exploration (The Poetry Center of Chicago 2004). He is the co-founder of the LBGT Solo Performance Showcase\, Solo Homo (2002-2011). Timothy’s plays and performance pieces have been seen and heard at venues throughout Chicago as well as out of state and in Panama. \nABOUT THE LOCATION:\nThe Green at 320 is a public park located in the West Loop and will be host to many family-friendly activities and events this summer! \nThe Green at 320 is located behind the building at 320 S. Canal\, 1 block west of the river. The main staired entrance to the park is on the corner of Clinton and Van Buren with an ADA-accessible ramp off of Clinton. The park is located 1 block north of the Clinton Blue Line Stop. Please find more detailed transit and location information at https://320southcanal.com/. \nhttps://www.poetrycenter.org/poetry-the-green-at-320-june/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/poetry-at-the-green-at-320-june-2023-2/2023-06-26/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Summer Screenings: Soft (Canada) at Chicago Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:DIRECTED BY Joseph Amenta\nSYNOPSIS\nThree friends fall in love with summertime Toronto’s lively nightlife. Young\, queer\, and unapologetically self-confident\, the trio spends their days holding court and plotting to sneak into a nightclub. When one of their caregivers goes missing under suspicious circumstances\, reality comes crashing in and their seemingly unbreakable bond is tested. Featuring remarkable performances from its young actors\, Soft is a tender portrait of youth\, friendship\, and life on the city’s margins. \nAccessibility: ASL interpreted\, assistive listening devices\, captioning\, large print program\, wheelchair accessible \nhttps://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/film/soft/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/summer-screenings-soft-canada-at-chicago-cultural-center/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lucy and Charlie's Honeymoon at Lookingglass Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Hooray! Lucy and Charlie just got hitched…and they’re embracing the worst of the American dream. They do what they want. Take what they want. They’re First Generation Asian American Renegades. In love. And on the run. \nFeaturing original country western and folk songs\, directed by Amanda Dehnert (Peter Pan (A Play)\, Eastland)\, Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon tracks a young couple as they rev it down quintessentially American highways and across stereotypic borders\, fleeing expectation and trawling up trouble along the way. \nDirect from his Broadway debut in Almost Famous The Musical\, Artistic Associate Matthew C. Yee’s world premiere musical romp gives a nod to America’s past\, takes tally of its present\, and blows its future wide open. \nOpen Captioned performance begins at 7:00 PM. \nPlease contact our Box Office to reserve your seats! \nhttps://lookingglasstheatre.org/event/lucy-and-charlies-honeymoon-2022/
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/lucy-and-charlies-honeymoon-at-lookingglass-theatre-2/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lab E: In-Progress Showing at Experimental Station
DESCRIPTION:LabE is a series of monthly cohort meetings addressing particular needs of disabled dance artists. \nThe LabE gathering on July 2nd is designed to be a safe\, disability-centric space where artists can come together to share a work-in-progress\, try out new ideas\, workshop concepts\, and experiment with new scores. Hosted by Maggie Bridger\, this inclusive event is open to all artists who seek a supportive community where they can connect with peers who share similar experiences and offer and receive support\, encouragement\, and constructive feedback. \nThis gathering aims to foster community connections among Deaf\, disabled\, sick\, neurodivergent\, and Mad artists while providing a platform for artists to explore their creativity and showcase their unique perspectives. \nIf you are an artist who is interested in showcasing your art or working through new ideas\, please reach out to Maggie at mbridg8@uic.edu to participate in this event. \nhttps://highconceptlabs.org/events/lab-e-july-2023
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/lab-e-in-progress-showing-at-experimental-station/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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