Celebrate Pride Month with Cooper Hewitt! At Drag Story Hour, an artist will read a picture book, get you singing, and moving to your own beat. This is designed to be a sensory-friendly environment; it will be held in a quiet space with a small...
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. Take the Garden Tram to the Edible Academy stop and explore the plants...
Set sail with Emit Theatre and a brand-new TYA production, Waves of Wonder: A Play About Water and Our World. Free public performances will take place on Saturday, June 24 at Carl Schurz Park (Peter Pan Circle near 87th St) and Sunday, June 25 at bkONE’s Tom Kane Theatre (51...
This summer, the popular Big Umbrella Festival takes bloom as a free 1-day campus takeover full of relaxed spaces with multi-sensory experiences, performances, installations, and workshops specifically welcoming neurodivergent audiences and their families. Be awed by the high-flying aerial stunts of SWAY’s Bloom!, tap into your...
Join Poster House on the First Friday of every month for free admission and extended hours! Explore the museum’s latest exhibitions and get in on the fun by attending a tour, workshop, performance, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique...
Join experts for lively 30-minute dialogues on works of art on view in the galleries. In this talk, author, filmmaker, and founder of Disability/Arts Consultancy Simi Linton first considers the historical and physical significance of the Great Hall stairs. She then continues in the Patio...
Friday, July 21, 2023; 6:30 & 7:30 pm (2 showings, 30-minutes each) The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden WORLD PREMIERE Jerron Herman, choreographer, dancer, and sound artist Sugandha Gupta, costume designer Dancer and choreographer Jerron Herman responds to The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey with LAX, a solo...
Friday, July 21, 2023; 6:30 & 7:30 pm (2 showings, 30-minutes each) The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden WORLD PREMIERE Jerron Herman, choreographer, dancer, and sound artist Sugandha Gupta, costume designer Dancer and choreographer Jerron Herman responds to The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey with LAX, a solo...
Join us July 22 as we celebrate the history and contributions of people with disabilities to the botanical world—past and present—as we offer multi-sensory plant activities for all ages, a live performance from Heidi Latsky Dance, and tours. 12–3 p.m., Vanishing Art Featuring Heidi Latsky Dance, Performing...
Building with what we have discovered in the Cultivating Access Ecologies series, this Closing Party acts as a beautiful experiment about what it means to share space, ideas, joys, and dilemmas. We will experience access as a set of possibilities and invitations. We will dance with Silent...