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Talk | Gary Simmons at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

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. Accessibility: ASL interpreted, captioning, Spanish captioning https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/talk-gary-simmons/

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Captioning
  • Spanish captioning

A.B.L.E. presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Event Series A.B.L.E. presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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 […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • Captioning
  • Digital Documents Available
  • In Person
  • Masks Required
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Costume Designing Black History with Ruth E. Carter at Music Box Theatre

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 […]

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

A.B.L.E. presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Event Series A.B.L.E. presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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 […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • Captioning
  • Digital Documents Available
  • In Person
  • Masks Required
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Nature Play for All at The Morton Arboretum

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 […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • In Person
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Nature Play for All at The Morton Arboretum

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 […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • In Person
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Genevieve Ramos: Crip Paint Power

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 […]

  • Captioning
  • Image Descriptions
  • Masks Required
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Experience the SoundShirt at West Side Story at Lyric Opera

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 […]

  • ASL Interpreted

Experience the SoundShirt at West Side Story at Lyric Opera

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 […]

  • ASL Interpreted

Poetry at The Green at 320: June 2023

Poetry @ The Green at 320 continues for the summer season this June! The 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. Join us on certain Monday nights in […]

  • Free Event
  • Wheelchair Accessible

West Side Story at Lyric Opera of Chicago

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.” Accessibility: Audio Description, Touch Tour, ASL Interpreted https://www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcoming/2022-23/west-side-story/

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • Touch Tour

Burning Red: Tribute to Taylor Swift

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 […]

  • In Person