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The Penelopiad at Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre 170 N Dearborn St, Chicago

An unexpected remix of Homer’s The Odyssey, told by the celebrated and subversive author Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale). It’s her turn. Penelope has waited 20 years for her husband […]

  • Open Captions

Justice Stephen Breyer at Francis W. Parker School

Francis W. Parker School 330 W Webster Ave, IL

Honorably serving for twenty-eight years as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer challenges the textualist philosophy of the court’s supermajority with insightful analysis and arguments for a more nuanced view […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • In Person
  • Open Captions
  • Wheelchair Accessible

David Lamelas: This Is My Place

Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State St, Chicago

About the Event This Is My Place is a fictional documentary about the itinerant life and conceptual artwork of artist David Lamelas, whose sculpture Situacíon de cuatro placas de aluminio […]

  • ASL Interpreted

PURPOSE at Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Steppenwolf Theatre Company 1650 N. Halsted Street, Chicago

For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, pastors and congressmen. But like all families, there are cracks and secrets just […]

  • Open Captions

“This Living Earth – Our Shared Gaia” exhibition showcase at Beverly Arts Center

Beverly Arts Center 2407 W. 111th Street, Chicago

WHO: Beverly Arts Center in partnership with the Beverly Area Arts Alliance – https://www.thebeverlyartscenter.com | https://beverlyarts.org/ WHAT: “This Living Earth – Our Shared Gaia” Exhibition WHEN: April 5 - 27, 2024 WHERE: Beverly Arts Center, Simmerling 2nd Floor Gallery, 2407 W. 111th St, Chicago, IL 60655 ARTISTS’ RECEPTION “This Living Earth — Our Shared Gaia” […]

  • Free Event
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Play For All at Chicago Children’s Museum

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

Chicago Children's Museum's Play for All initiative creates a community where play and learning connect for visitors of all abilities. Play for All invites children and families with disabilities to […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Open Captions
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Politics of Poetics: CAConrad

Museum of Contemporary Art 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago

About the Event Join us for a reading with poet CAConrad in celebration of the new series Politics of Poetics. ASL and CART captioning are provided. About the Series Politics […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Captioning
  • Spanish captioning
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Judith Butler: Who’s Afraid of Gender? at Music Box Theatre

Music Box Theatre 3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago

Judith Butler’s groundbreaking work, and their theory of gender performativity, has had a vast influence on contemporary scholarship in feminism and gender studies. In Butler’s latest work, Who’s Afraid of Gender?, they tackle the global rise of right-wing movements that seek to nullify reproductive justice, undermine protections against sexual and gender violence and strip trans […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • In Person
  • Open Captions
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Joy-Ann Reid at First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple 77 W Washington St, Chicago

Joy-Ann Reid, host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and best-selling author, chronicles the lives of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers. Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers in college, forging […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • In Person
  • Open Captions
  • Wheelchair Accessible

The Verge AI Sessions: AI and Humans at School of the Art Institute of Chicago

School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago

The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools has created a flood of AI-generated content online, much of it spammy, inaccurate, or even abusive. In her coverage, The Verge reporter Mia Sato […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • In Person
  • Open Captions
  • Wheelchair Accessible