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Nyle DiMarco: Deaf Utopia

America’s Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars champion Nyle DiMarco knows “just how damn cool it is to be Deaf.” DiMarco’s career (which also includes executive producing the reality show Deaf U and Academy-award nominated documentary Audible) has been dedicated to celebrating what makes Deaf culture so unique and beautiful. Join DiMarco at […]

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Selma Blair on the Power of Telling Your Story

Selma Blair has played many memorable Hollywood roles, from “preppy ice queen” in Legally Blonde, to “the ingenue” in Cruel Intentions—but we love her most as herself. In her memoir Mean Baby, Blair gets candid about the roles that have made her compassionate and wise: from friend and mother to advocate for people with disabilities. […]

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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago: RE/UNION

Program A (May 13) features the highly-anticipated return of Ohad Naharin’s DECADANCE/CHICAGO, an evening-length work curated specifically for Hubbard Street comprised of excerpts from Naharin’s most celebrated pieces, including 'Sadeh21,' 'Naharin’s Virus,' and the iconic 'Minus 16.' Friday, May 13, 8:00 pm Performance Runtime: Approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission Program […]

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Kim Gordon, Sinéad Gleeson & Laurie Anderson on Women in Music

Here’s to the women in music who kick in doors, who break genres, who are repeatedly asked: “What’s it like to be a girl in a band?” Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon doesn’t like the question, but her new anthology This Woman’s Work, edited with former music journalist Sinéad Gleeson, gives us multitudes of answers on […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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

John Waters & the “Feel Bad” Romance

John Waters (legendary filmmaker of the cult classic Pink Flamingos and blockbuster Hairspray, and author of Carsick and Mr. Know-It-All) has turned his brilliant mind to fiction: specifically his first […]

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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 […]

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