Guggenheim ASL Tour: Going Dark
2024-02-25 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY , NY, 10128, United States
The Guggenheim welcomes visitors from the D/deaf community for an in-person American Sign Language (ASL) tour on Sunday, February 25, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Join us at the museum to explore the exhibition Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility.
This after-hours program will be led by educator Joyce Hom. We’ll begin with a tour of the galleries followed by a light reception and art-making activities in the education center.
Designed for the D/deaf community, the tour is in ASL only without voice interpretation. Due to limited capacity, we are not able to accommodate ASL students at this time.
Free, but space is limited. Please RSVP at least three days before the program. To RSVP, click here or email access@guggenheim.org.

Empowerment Through Practice in Fashion
2024-03-01 18:00 - 19:00 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Sinéad Burke, CEO and Founder, Tilting the Lens
Grace Jun, CEO and Board Member, Open Style Lab
Tara Levy, Head of Marketing, Nest
Mellissa Huber, Associate Curator, The Costume Institute, The Met
Join a panel of experts and advocates working in the fashion industry as they discuss concerns related to accessibility, sustainability, and the collective nature of design. Mellissa Huber, co-curator of the exhibition Women Dressing Women, moderates a conversation with the panel after a series of short presentations.
Presented celebration of Women’s History Month and in conjunction with the exhibition Women Dressing Women.
Free with Museum admission, though advance registration is required. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served. Registration does not guarantee admission once the auditorium reaches capacity.
Masks are strongly recommended. See our visitor guidelines.

Watch the livestream on The Met’s YouTube channel. Please note: No registration or log in required to view the livestream.

American Sign Language interpretation will be included for the in-person audience and real time captions will be included for both in-person and online audiences. Assistive listening devices are available from the ushers. For other access accommodations, contact access@metmuseum.org or 212-650-2010.

Regina Opera presents 'Cavalleria Rusticana" and a Concerto by Mozart with orchestra
2024-03-02 15:00 - 17:30, 2024-03-09 19:00 - 21:30, 2024-03-10 15:00 - 17:30 | OUr Lady of Perpetual Help schol 5902 6th Ave, Brooklyn, 5902 6th Avenue beetween 59 & 60 streets, Brooklyh, NY, 11220, United States
On March 2, 3, 9, and 10, at 3PM; and March 9 at 7PM, 2024, Regina Opera will present a Double Bill: fully-staged performances of Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and a Concerto by Mozart. In the one-act opera, the themes of Love, lust, and betrayal will be played out. The cast includes Dilara Unsal (r) and Paolo Buffagni (l) (pictured) . This tuneful production will be presented in Italian with piano accompaniment and English supertitles.
Conductor: Scott Jackson Wiley; Stage Director: Sabrina Palladino
Place: Our Lady of Perpetual Help school, 5902 6th Avenue, Brooklyn, between 59th aand 60th Streets, Regina Opera’s accessible venue. The venue has an accessible entrance, restroom, and concession stand. Accessible entrance is located to the right of the main entrance on 6th Avenue between 59th and 60th Streets.
For further information, visit the website: https://www.reginaopera.org/cavalleria.htm
e-mail: reginaopera@yahoo.com; Or call 718-259-2772
Photo by Sabrina Palladino

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. The Regina Opera Company’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Major support is provided by New York City Council Members Alexa Avilés and Justin Brannan, the Donald C. Brace Foundation, New York City Tourism Foundation, Con Edison, Investors Foundation, Citizens Philanthropic Foundation, and the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation.

Met Signs Tour
2024-03-08 18:00 - 20:00 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
With Debra Cole. Meet in Gallery 534, Vélez Blanco Patio.
For participants who are Deaf. Explore works of art through engaging conversations in the galleries.
Presented in American Sign Language only, without voice interpretation. Programs in Sign Language are intended primarily for the Deaf community.
For updates on upcoming programs, connect with us on Facebook or contact us at access@metmuseum.org.
Masks are strongly recommended. See our visitor guidelines.

ASL Queens Museum Tour with Joyce Hom
2024-03-09 14:00 - 15:30 | Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park , Queens , NY, 11368, United States
Members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities are invited to explore Queens Museum with museum educator Joyce Hom. This program will feature ASL tours of the contemporary art exhibitions sonia louise davis: to reverberate tenderly, Emilie L. Gossiaux: Other-Worlding, and Caroline Kent: A short play about watching shadows move across the room.

Advance registration is required. Please sign up here!

Due to limited capacity, ASL students will not be admitted to the program. This program is offered without voice interpretation.

About Joyce Hom
Joyce Hom is a Deaf museum educator working within Access Programs at several museums in New York City, and is the ASL Programs Coordinator at The Jewish Museum. She received her BFA in Illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia.

ASL Tour at Queens Museum with Joyce Hom
2024-03-09 14:00 - 15:30 | Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park , Queens , NY, 11368, United States

NYBG ASL Signs of Spring Tour
2024-03-16 12:30 - 13:30 | New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Meets at the Reflecting Pool
This tour, led by an NYBG Tour Guide accompanied by an American Sign Language interpreter, gives visitors who are Deaf an enhanced experience scouting for signs of warmer weather at the New York Botanical Garden. Spring sights to be on the lookout for include spring ephemeral flowers, buds on the ground and tree limbs, as well as wildlife.
To better serve our audience, please register here if you plan to attend this event. Admission required to enter Garden. Explore admission options, including free options for Bronx residents here. On-site parking is additional.

Interpreting MoMA: Prints and Process
2024-03-20 17:00 - 19:30 | The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY, 10019, United States
Please join us for MoMA’s bimonthly program welcoming individuals who are Deaf or hard of hearing to participate in an ASL-interpreted private gallery talk focusing on one of MoMA’s exhibitions, along with a wine and snack reception.
In March, we will explore the exhibition New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching with curator Esther Adler. Master printer and publisher Jacob Samuel has brought etchings—prints created by transferring ink from a metal plate to paper—into the 21st century through collaborations with more than 60 contemporary artists. Together we will learn about the flexibility of etching and its reinvention for a contemporary world through Samuel’s printmaking tools and processes.
Interpreting MoMA is offered free of charge. Space is limited and advance registration is required. Registration opens on February 14, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.
For more information or to register, please email AccessPrograms@moma.org or call Access Programs at (212) 408-6447.

NYBG Hidden Life of the Forest ASL Tour
2024-04-20 12:30 - 13:30 | New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Meets at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center
This tour, led by an NYBG Tour Guide accompanied by an American Sign Language interpreter, gives visitors who are Deaf an enhanced experience through the Thain Family Forest at the New York Botanical Garden. The Forest is alive with rich and complex relationships between critters, fungi, and plants interacting with one another in hidden ways. Unearth these connections on a one hour walking tour.
To better serve our audience, please register if you plan to attend this event here. Admission required to enter Garden. Explore admission options, including free options for Bronx residents here. On-site parking is additional.

Collective Rage for Collective Liberation: Rachel Cargle, Céline Semaan, and Jenn Tardif
2024-04-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY, 11238, United States
2–4 pm
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor

Register for free

In honor of Earth Day, join Rachel Cargle, Céline Semaan, and Jenn Tardif for a conversation that will expand on the concept of climate rage—a cousin of climate grief, or the experience of anxiety and mourning over ecological loss. Together, they discuss how anger can be alchemized into action within the climate justice movement, as well as intertwining struggles for liberation.
Cargle is a writer, entrepreneur, and founder of the Loveland Foundation, a nonprofit that offers free therapy to Black women and girls. Semaan is cofounder and CEO of Slow Factory, a nonprofit working at the intersection of climate justice and human rights, using media justice, the arts, regenerative system design, and science and technology to address and redesign systems of oppression. Tardif is a meditation teacher, aromatherapist, and founder of 3rd Ritual, a company that creates modern tools for ancient mindfulness techniques.
The conversation is followed by a teach-in and distribution of free plants with Herban Cura, a collective that shares knowledge of plants and herbal remedies to build community resilience as part of its Plants to the People campaign.
Free; registration is required. Seating is first come, first served.
This program will include ASL interpretation. For access needs, email us at access@brooklynmuseum.org.

Guggenheim ASL Tour: By Way Of
2024-04-28 18:30 - 20:30 | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY , NY, 10128, United States
The Guggenheim welcomes visitors from the D/deaf community for an in-person American Sign Language (ASL) tour on Sunday, April 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Join us at the museum to explore the exhibition By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection.
This after-hours program will be led by educator Joyce Hom. We’ll begin with a tour of the galleries followed by a light reception and art-making activities in the education center.
Designed for the D/deaf community, the tour is in ASL only without voice interpretation. Due to limited capacity, we are not able to accommodate ASL students at this time.
Free, but space is limited. Please RSVP at least three days before the program. To RSVP, click here or email access@guggenheim.org.

ASL NYBG Native Plant Garden Tour
2024-05-18 12:30 - 13:30 | New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Meets at the Native Plant Garden Entrance.
This tour, led by an NYBG Tour Guide accompanied by an American Sign Language interpreter, gives visitors who are Deaf an enhanced experience through the Native Plant Garden at the New York Botanical Garden. This collection houses a diverse collection of ferns, perennials, shrubs, and trees native to the Northeastern United States.
To better serve our audience, please register if you plan to attend this event here. Admission required to enter Garden. Explore admission options, including free options for Bronx residents here. On-site parking is additional.

Teens Take The Met! (Ages 13–18)
2024-05-31 16:00 - 20:00 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Large-print and Braille activity schedules, American Sign Language interpretation, sighted guides, and assistive listening devices are available. Please head to the Welcome Desk in Carson Family Hall, inside the 81st Street Entrance, to link up with an interpreter, sighted guide, or to learn about other accommodations.

Grab your friends and celebrate the 10th anniversary of Teens Take The Met! Drop in for teen-only activities across the Museum, including art making, performances, music, and more. Discover what you can also do at over 50 NYC cultural and community organizations.
Doors open at 4 pm. Teens Take The Met! is free and open to all teens 13+ with a middle or high school ID. Just show up or RSVP now to get a free ticket to beat the line. If you’re a chaperone who’d like to come with a group of 10 or more teens, please email teenprograms@metmuseum.org for instructions.
A schedule of events will be available in English and Spanish.
This event will be photographed, filmed, and/or recorded. By your presence at the event, you consent to the photography, filming, and use of your image and/or voice.
Teens Take The Met! is a Teen Night co-organized with over 50 community partners.
92nd Street Y; Aalokam; All City Chorus; Alphonso Horne and the Gotham Kings; Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE); Art in the Park, Inc.; ArtsConnection; Art Students League; Ballet Hispánico; Bangladesh Academy of Fine Arts; Bard High School Early College (Manhattan); Brooklyn Museum Teen Programs; Brooklyn Public Library; Bronx Museum; Building Beats; Center for Anti-Violence Education; Center for Architecture; Center For Book Arts; Children’s Orchestra Society; Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum; Dorill Initiative; El Museo del Barrio; Girls for Gender Equity; Harlem Children’s Zone; Hill Art Foundation; Intrepid Museum; Jazz House Kids; Kaufman Music Center; Lewis Latimer House Museum; Loisaida Inc.; Manhattan Theatre Club; Museum at Eldridge Street; Museum of Chinese in America; Muslim Girl; New York City Department of Youth & Community Development; New York Hall Of Science; New-York Historical Society; New York Korean Performing Arts Center; New York Public Library; Noguchi Museum; NYC Scholastic Awards; Parsons Scholars Program; Planned Parenthood of Greater New York; Poster House; Roundabout Theatre Company; Sadie Nash Leadership Project; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Studio Museum in Harlem; Susan E. Wagner High School Marching Band; Teens@Graham; The Door; The Whitney Museum of American Art; Titan Theatre Company; UrbanGlass; Wave Hill; Writopia Lab
Masks are strongly recommended. See our visitor guidelines.
Teens Take The Met! is made possible by

Musical Storytime
2024-06-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center, 62nd St, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Presented in collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center celebrates summer in New York City as our free Storytime series returns to The Garden at Damrosch Park—and this year due to popular demand, we have scheduled a second event every Wednesday! Curated by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, this storytime event presents a children’s book reading with live music incorporated to keep kids of all ages enraptured and engaged!
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Guest Experience at 212-875-5456 or guestexperience@lincolncenter.org.
The event at 1:00 pm will include American Sign Language interpretation.

Soundcake: Aural Confections by Sapphira Cristál & Monét X Change
2024-06-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center, 62nd St, New York, NY, 10023, United States
New commission by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
For the must-see opening night performance of Summer for the City, Lincoln Center presents a sparkling new commission from director James Blaszko that unites the beauty of opera and the fabulosity of drag, paying homage to the queerness and gender expansion present in both. Soundcake marks the debut duet of two superstar queens from the blockbuster reality competition RuPaul’s Drag Race—All-Star champion Monét X Change and the latest season competitor Sapphira Cristál—singing a repertoire of time-tested standards and original pieces that reflect their personal journeys across classical vocal training to superstardom. Monét and Sapphira will be joined by the Queen of Classical Music, Drag Race alumna and violinist Thorgy Thor, and further supported by a flawless, begowned orchestra conducted by David Bloom. Cancel whatever else you had on your calendar; you’ll never forgive yourself if you miss Soundcake.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Guest Experience at 212-875-5456 or guestexperience@lincolncenter.org.

Will include American Sign Language interpretation.

Live captioning available on personal devices by scanning a QR code.

Soundcake: Aural Confections by Sapphira Cristál & Monét X Change
2024-06-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center, 62nd St, New York, NY, 10023, United States
New commission by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
For the must-see opening night performance of Summer for the City, Lincoln Center presents a sparkling new commission from director James Blaszko that unites the beauty of opera and the fabulosity of drag, paying homage to the queerness and gender expansion present in both. Soundcake marks the debut duet of two superstar queens from the blockbuster reality competition RuPaul’s Drag Race—All-Star champion Monét X Change and the latest season competitor Sapphira Cristál—singing a repertoire of time-tested standards and original pieces that reflect their personal journeys across classical vocal training to superstardom. Monét and Sapphira will be joined by the Queen of Classical Music, Drag Race alumna and violinist Thorgy Thor, and further supported by a flawless, begowned orchestra conducted by David Bloom. Cancel whatever else you had on your calendar; you’ll never forgive yourself if you miss Soundcake.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Guest Experience at 212-875-5456 or guestexperience@lincolncenter.org.
ASL-viewing seats are marked with signs.

ASL Campus Workshops
2024-06-13 16:00 - 17:30, 2024-06-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Join us for a free in-person American Sign Language-led exploration of Lincoln Center’s campus, transformed for our annual summer festival. This workshop will explore the artistic design by visionary artist Clint Ramos, featuring greenery and colorful botanicals, and an iconic mega disco ball hanging over the Revson Fountain in Lincoln Center’s Plaza.
A majority of the workshop will take place outdoors, including several stops, covering the distance of approximately three square blocks along an accessible route. Seating will be available at several points throughout the workshop.
Led in ASL by educator Joyce Hom, this workshop will incorporate discussion.
To register, fill out this form or contact access@lincolncenter.org or 212-875-5375.
After you register, you will receive a confirmation email with information, including the meeting location and details about the workshop.
American Sign Language Led, no voice interpretation

Funny Puppet
2024-06-14 20:00 - 21:30 | The Underground at Jaffe Drive, Jaffe Dr, New York, 10023, United States
Comedian Maysoon Zayid is bringing the funny to Lincoln Center, debuting her brand new stand-up comedy show Funny Puppet. In this unique interactive experience, Maysoon will have the audience pick her jokes for her. The entire set will be improvised based on suggestions the audience tosses her way. This is a once-in-a-lifetime, one-night only event. ASL interpretation and captioning will be provided and any other accommodations by request.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Guest Experience at 212-875-5456 or guestexperience@lincolncenter.org.
Live captioning available on personal devices by scanning a QR code
Will include American Sign Language interpretation

NYBG ASL African American Garden Tour
2024-06-15 13:00 - 14:00 | New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Meets at the Barnsley Beds at The Edible Academy
This tour, led by an NYBG Tour Guide accompanied by an American Sign Language interpreter, gives visitors who are Deaf an enhanced experience through the African American Garden at the New York Botanical Garden. Explore the botanical legacies of the African Diaspora, including plants that are food staples, remedies, and sources of inspiration to Black culture in the United States, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
To better serve our audience, please register if you plan to attend this event. Admission required to enter Garden. Explore admission options, including free options for Bronx residents here. On-site parking is additional.

Dance Storytime
2024-06-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center, 62nd St, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Presented in collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center celebrates summer in New York City as our free Storytime series returns to The Garden at Damrosch Park—and this year due to popular demand, we have scheduled a second event every Wednesday! Curated by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, this storytime event presents a children’s book reading with live dance incorporated to keep kids of all ages enraptured and engaged!
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Guest Experience at 212-875-5456 or guestexperience@lincolncenter.org.

The event at 1:00 pm will include American Sign Language interpretation.

Some Sing: A Juneteenth Celebration
2024-06-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Hearst Plaza at Lincoln Center, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Any cultural historian will tell you that blues, jazz, rock, R&B, Hip-Hop, zydeco, and country can all trace their roots back to Black innovators, making the history of popular music in America and Black music in America inextricably bound. This truth is at the heart of historian, artist, and curator Carl Hancock Rux’s 2024 Juneteenth Celebration at Lincoln Center, a campus-wide jubilee of Black sound in all its vernacular and complex manifestations. Rux’s vision acknowledges how music unites a people and acts as an agent for growth and freedom, referencing the uses of the art in work songs, prison laments, spirituals, and commemorations. At different performance spaces across campus, visitors will hear performances by influential free jazz experimentalist Cooper-Moore, Brooklyn singer-songwriter Tamar-kali, Bronx-born soul musician Stephanie McKay, and many more, culminating in a concert set with Herb Alpert award-winning composer Toshi Reagon (Parable of the Sower) and her full band.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Guest Experience at 212-875-5456 or guestexperience@lincolncenter.org.
Will include American Sign Language interpretation.

Toshi Reagon's Songs of the Living: Freedom Songs
2024-06-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center, 62nd St, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Over the past several years, the ever-expansive singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon has explored questions of fellowship and activism with Lincoln Center programs that have united professional singers with audience members through shared performance, most notably in her innovative and participatory opera based on the work of author Octavia Butler, The Parable of the Sower. Reagon’s program this year is a continuation of her Songs of the Living Community Choir project, and the Parable Path. This iteration of Songs of the Living is centered on freedom songs: drawing from 200 years of Black Music in collaboration with music across the global African Diaspora. This Juneteenth concert will be rooted in music Toshi learned as a child growing up during the Southern Freedom Movement which expanded into the 20th century American Civil Rights Movement and other revolutions in international human history. Reagon’s multitudinous and intergenerational choir is supported by her band BIGLovely and joined by an array of special guests to be announced. It is a collaborative concert that first and foremost acknowledges the ongoing fight for justice and equality that is our necessary struggle and birthright.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Guest Experience at 212-875-5456 or guestexperience@lincolncenter.org.

Will include American Sign Language interpretation and open captioning.

Brooklyn Talks: Artists on Giants
2024-06-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY, 11238, United States
7–9 pm
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

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Celebrate the release of Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys in a conversation with featured artists Jarvis Boyland and Jamel Shabazz, moderated by curator Kimberli Gant. The publication illustrates 100 works by nearly 40 Black American, African, and African diasporic artists represented in the Dean Collection. Expanding upon the book’s intergenerational themes, this conversation dives into each artist’s practice and their relationship to collecting.
Tickets are $30 and include after-hours access to Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys. Member tickets are $18. Not a Member? Join today! Add a copy of the publication at checkout.
This program will include ASL interpretation. For access needs, email us at access@brooklynmuseum.org.
