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Poetry @ The Green: May 2023 at The Green at 320

Poetry @ The Green returns for the summer season this May! The Chicago Poetry Center and The Green at 320 S. Canal are proud to reintroduce this free, weekly reading […]

  • Wheelchair Accessible

Maggie Bridger | Scale at High Concept Labs

Limited capacity. Advanced registration is required. Masking is required for this performance. Using the pain scale as a primary source material, Scale places medicalized methods of quantifying pain in conversation […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • ASL Interpreted
  • Captioning
  • Digital Documents Available
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Large Print Programs
  • Masks Required
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Sensory-Friendly Morning at Lincoln Park Zoo

On Sunday, May 14 from 8-10am, Lincoln Park Zoo is offering Sensory-Friendly Morning hours for guests with disabilities, chronicle illness, or Deaf to experience the zoo grounds and animal buildings […]

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

A Night Out With Andy Cohen at Park West

New York Times bestselling author, beloved TV host, and executive producer of The Real Housewives, Andy Cohen is the busiest man in show business. Now, he’s taking on the most […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • Captioning
  • In Person

Jonathan Eig on the Life of Martin Luther King Jr at Chop Shop

There’s no better biographer working right now than Chicago’s own Jonathan Eig. He has helped us understand some of the most monumental lives of our times, such as Jackie Robinson, […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • Captioning
  • In Person
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Physicist Michio Kaku on Quantum Computing at Epiphany Center, Epiphany Hall

In his new book Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything, Kaku attests that this technological breakthrough could allow humanity to do everything from create nuclear fusion […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Captioning
  • In Person
  • Wheelchair Accessible

The Porch on Windy Hill at Northlight Theatre

A young violinist and her song collector boyfriend flee the confines of their Brooklyn apartment to the mountains of North Carolina, where the Appalachian music of Mira’s childhood is just […]

  • Audio Description
  • Captioning
  • Touch Tour

Alonzo King LINES Ballet Family Matinee at Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Alonzo King LINES Ballet returns to the Harris stage for the first time since 2015. The celebrated contemporary ballet company, whose mission is to nurture artistry and the development of […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Large Print Programs
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Barak adé Soleil, SHIFT at Museum of Contemporary Art

On May 6, Barak adé Soleil premieres a new work, SHIFT, that amplifies the presence of Black neurodiverse and disabled bodies by occupying the museum’s spaces both digitally and physically. […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • In Person
  • Touch Tour
  • Wheelchair Accessible