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JM: ASL Family Program
Families in the ASL community with kids ages 5-12 are invited to explore the colorful sculptures in Anish Kapoor: Early Works through a tour and art making. Voice interpretation will be provided. Due to limited capacity, the space is reserved for Deaf, Hard of Hearing, CODA and family members. If you are interested in observing this tour please reach out to us at access@thejm.org before ... More >>
Jan 25 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
JM: ASL Tour
Participants in the ASL community are invited to explore the exhibition Anish Kapoor: Early Works through a tour led by a Deaf educator. Please join us from 3 – 3:30 for light refreshments. Anish Kapoor: Early Works presents his rarely seen pigment sculptures from the 1970s and 1980s along with works on paper and the artist’s sketchbooks. The exhibition foregrounds Kapoor’s early and ... More >>
Jan 25 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine with Rashid Khalidi
Join First Unitarian Brooklyn's Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East chapter, Jewish Voice for Peace NYC, the NYC-DSA Anti-War Working Group, Showing up for Racial Justice NYC, and Brooklyn for Peace for a vital conversation with Rashid Khalidi, one of the world’s foremost historians of the Middle East. Through a talk and moderated dialogue, we will explore the roots of ... More >>
Jan 25 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Recruiting Deaf and Hard of Hearing Participants
Study Details: Dates: Jan 23 ~ Jan 31, 2026 (including weekends) Once you reach out to me, we can schedule the time and dates. Duration: Up to 2 hours (depends on signing speed) Target Participants: 9 Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) Requirements: - Familiar/proficient in ASL - Good vision. Participants should not wear eyeglasses during the session because they will wear smart glasses ... More >>
Jan 29 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lincoln Center Presents: Contested Sites of Memory- A Performance With Artist Carrie Mae Weems
Over the course of a four decade career, American artist Carrie Mae Weems's work has consistently given voice to people whose stories would have otherwise been silenced or ignored. Celebrated for her incisive photography, which resides in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art, Weems is also a renowned maker of installation video and performance art. Her ... More >>
Jan 29 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Lincoln Center Presents: Contested Sites of Memory- A Performance With Artist Carrie Mae Weems
Over the course of a four decade career, American artist Carrie Mae Weems's work has consistently given voice to people whose stories would have otherwise been silenced or ignored. Celebrated for her incisive photography, which resides in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art, Weems is also a renowned maker of installation video and performance art. Her ... More >>
Jan 30 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Lincoln Center Presents: Miriam Elhajli
Lincoln Center’s Songwriter/Storyteller seeks to champion innovators of the singer-songwriter genre, celebrating the craft and artistry central to their work. Improviser, vocalist, record label founder, and scholar Miriam Elhajli is based out of Flatbush, Brooklyn. Her nuanced work is influenced equally by her Venezuelan and Moroccan heritage, the history of traditional South American farming ... More >>
Jan 31 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
ASL DrawNow! IN-PERSON with Joyce Hom and Nic Annette Miller
Join teaching artists Joyce Hom and Nic Annette Miller for an in-person participatory drawing workshop presented in American Sign Language (ASL) and inspired by our current exhibitions Trisha Donnelly and Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena. Please note this in-person workshop will be in ASL with no voice interpretation. It is free and open to the signing community.
Jan 31 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play
“Who was I be­fore the world de­fined me?” Tony-nominated choreographer Camille A. Brown shines a spotlight on sisterly love, unfurling the joys and complexities of Black girlhood. Across three dynamic duets, the rhythmic play of schoolyard games and adolescent feuds gives way to nurturing friendships forged in common struggle. Through live music and a mix of modern and ancestral ... More >>
Jan 31 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Lincoln Center Presents: Love Revolution Season One, Episode 4
SLP & The Joyful Noise is an eight-piece band, led by the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks, that serves as her musical workshop for original songwriting and new storytelling. The Tune Up! series, directed by Bessie Award-winning Executive Artistic Director of The Flea Theater Niegel Smith, puts SLP & The Joyful Noise at center stage for a feature-length variety show that ... More >>
Feb 5 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Lincoln Center Presents: Zoilapianista and Her Band
The Mexico City-born pianist, arranger, composer, producer, and singer Zoilapianista began her musical career as a child prodigy. Influenced by the legendary Latin jazz artist Papo Lucca, she boldly transitioned from classical music into salsa. Lucca and Sonora Ponceña supported her 2013 debut solo album, Influencias, which featured both a duet with and a tribute to Lucca. Over the years, she has ... More >>
Feb 6 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Lincoln Center Presents- Sonic Saturday: Sounds of Space
Spend the morning at a free, live performance of Tumble Science Podcast for Kids, featuring science, storytelling, games, and music—all about the sounds of space! Co-hosted by Lindsay Patterson and Marshall Escamilla with the help of scientists, Tumble weaves scientists’ lives and research into entertaining, engaging, and relatable stories of the scientific process. Recommended by The New York ... More >>
Feb 7 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Watch Me Walk
Anne has a disease you’ve probably never heard of and it doesn’t have a cure. Her doctor says it shouldn’t define her, but she’s going to define it for you. Watch Me Walk is a hilarious, biting, and compassionate new play about disability, pity, injustice, and family mythologies that will stay with you long after the curtain–or Anne–falls. Performance and post-show conversation ... More >>
Feb 7 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Lincoln Center Presents- The Future in the Now: Young African-American Creators
The Future in the Now unites young African-American creators at the convergence of art, technology, science, and humanities. This revolutionary panel explores XR immersion; AR integration; VR design and development; and AI collaboration in storytelling, visual design, and music creation. Through discussion and interactive demonstrations, creators reveal how emerging technologies bridge music and ... More >>
Feb 12 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Pratt Institute ASL Art Class Ages 11-14
This semester Pratt Institute's highly regarded Saturday Art School is offering a section of Drawing and Painting class for youth 11-14 who are deaf or hearing impaired and who communicate with ASL. The instructor leading the class is deaf and all instruction will be in ASL. The class will meet for 10 Saturdays, from February 14- May 2. Classes meet at Pratt's Clinton Hill, Brooklyn ... More >>
Feb 14 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: The Musical
Chicka chicka boom boom! Will there be enough room? Flip flop flee and find out in Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: The Musical, a playful adaptation of every kid’s favorite alphabet book! From the adventuresome A, B and C to the lonely balladeer Z, little letters take on big personalities, puppeteered up the coconut tree to a mixtape of musical styles. And look who’s coming! LMNOP—an ... More >>
Feb 15 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Lincoln Center Presents- Black History Is for Everyone: Voices of a People's History
This February performance of Voices of a People's History takes its inspiration from the new book Black History Is for Everyone, written by New York Public Library educator Brian Jones. Black History challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are. Understanding it challenges our assumptions, helps us see larger forces at work, and gives us glimpses of ... More >>
Feb 19 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Lincoln Center Presents: The Sistas With Transistas- A Transformative Evening of Sound, Story, and Sistahood
Join us for Convergence: A Transformative Evening of Sound, Story, and Sistahood, an unprecedented gathering featuring the iconic Afrofuturist musician and technological innovator Nona Hendryx in collaboration with an array of other visionary artists to be announced. These groundbreaking voices will untangle the creative intersections of mechanization and memory, ancestral knowledge and ... More >>
Feb 26 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Lincoln Center Presents- Genesis Presents: there are no dead people
Founded and led by interdisciplinary artists Amanda Dunne Acevedo and Lindsey Barlag Thornton, the Chicago-based collective Genesis hybridizes theater, performance art, and dance to blur the boundaries of live performance. Genesis's newly restaged ensemble production of there are no dead people is a rumination on death and living, offering a deeply human exploration of loss. Devised through ... More >>
Feb 27 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
COME FROM AWAY at Paper Mill Playhouse
This Tony Award-winning musical shares the remarkable true story of 7,000 airline passengers from all over the world who were grounded in the small Canadian town of Gander in the wake of 9/11. Experience this uplifting story, set to a dynamic score and a vibrant, fast-paced narrative, as spirited locals and global passengers come together to forge friendships that will stay with them forever and ... More >>
Feb 28 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Great Expectations - Captioned Play
Queens Theatre presents The Acting Company's Production of Great Expectations, written by Nikki Massoud, adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens. This is a ticketed event with Open-Captions being offered for the evening performance. The link for event information and tickets is attached. For 25% your order feel free to use code: DEAFNYC For any questions feel free to email our Access ... More >>
Feb 28 @ 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
COME FROM AWAY at Paper Mill Playhouse
This Tony Award-winning musical shares the remarkable true story of 7,000 airline passengers from all over the world who were grounded in the small Canadian town of Gander in the wake of 9/11. Experience this uplifting story, set to a dynamic score and a vibrant, fast-paced narrative, as spirited locals and global passengers come together to forge friendships that will stay with them forever and ... More >>
Mar 1 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Captioned Play
Queens Theatre presents The Acting Company's Production of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. This is a ticketed event with Open-Captions being presented on Sunday afternoon. The link for tickets and event/venue info is attached. Please enjoy 25% off your total with code: DEAFNYC For more information, email our access office at access@queenstheatre.org
Mar 1 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Find yourself in the city.
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Sponsored by
Sign Language Center
Deaf & Hard of Hearing Interpreting Services, Inc.
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Our newsletter is sent out every Wednesday.
Don't miss out!
Get weekly updates.
Our newsletter is sent out every Wednesday.
Questions, events, submissions accepted!
AVAILABLE EVENTS
JM: ASL Family Program
Families in the ASL community with kids ages 5-12 are invited to explore the colorful sculptures in Anish Kapoor: Early Works through a tour and art making. Voice interpretation will be provided. Due to limited capacity, the space is reserved for Deaf, Hard of Hearing, CODA and family members. If you are interested in observing this tour please reach out to us at access@thejm.org before ... More >>
Jan 25 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
JM: ASL Tour
Participants in the ASL community are invited to explore the exhibition Anish Kapoor: Early Works through a tour led by a Deaf educator. Please join us from 3 – 3:30 for light refreshments. Anish Kapoor: Early Works presents his rarely seen pigment sculptures from the 1970s and 1980s along with works on paper and the artist’s sketchbooks. The exhibition foregrounds Kapoor’s early and ... More >>
Jan 25 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine with Rashid Khalidi
Join First Unitarian Brooklyn's Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East chapter, Jewish Voice for Peace NYC, the NYC-DSA Anti-War Working Group, Showing up for Racial Justice NYC, and Brooklyn for Peace for a vital conversation with Rashid Khalidi, one of the world’s foremost historians of the Middle East. Through a talk and moderated dialogue, we will explore the roots of ... More >>
Jan 25 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Recruiting Deaf and Hard of Hearing Participants
Study Details: Dates: Jan 23 ~ Jan 31, 2026 (including weekends) Once you reach out to me, we can schedule the time and dates. Duration: Up to 2 hours (depends on signing speed) Target Participants: 9 Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) Requirements: - Familiar/proficient in ASL - Good vision. Participants should not wear eyeglasses during the session because they will wear smart glasses ... More >>
Jan 29 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lincoln Center Presents: Contested Sites of Memory- A Performance With Artist Carrie Mae Weems
Over the course of a four decade career, American artist Carrie Mae Weems's work has consistently given voice to people whose stories would have otherwise been silenced or ignored. Celebrated for her incisive photography, which resides in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art, Weems is also a renowned maker of installation video and performance art. Her ... More >>
Jan 29 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Lincoln Center Presents: Contested Sites of Memory- A Performance With Artist Carrie Mae Weems
Over the course of a four decade career, American artist Carrie Mae Weems's work has consistently given voice to people whose stories would have otherwise been silenced or ignored. Celebrated for her incisive photography, which resides in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art, Weems is also a renowned maker of installation video and performance art. Her ... More >>
Jan 30 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Lincoln Center Presents: Miriam Elhajli
Lincoln Center’s Songwriter/Storyteller seeks to champion innovators of the singer-songwriter genre, celebrating the craft and artistry central to their work. Improviser, vocalist, record label founder, and scholar Miriam Elhajli is based out of Flatbush, Brooklyn. Her nuanced work is influenced equally by her Venezuelan and Moroccan heritage, the history of traditional South American farming ... More >>
Jan 31 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
ASL DrawNow! IN-PERSON with Joyce Hom and Nic Annette Miller
Join teaching artists Joyce Hom and Nic Annette Miller for an in-person participatory drawing workshop presented in American Sign Language (ASL) and inspired by our current exhibitions Trisha Donnelly and Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena. Please note this in-person workshop will be in ASL with no voice interpretation. It is free and open to the signing community.
Jan 31 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play
“Who was I be­fore the world de­fined me?” Tony-nominated choreographer Camille A. Brown shines a spotlight on sisterly love, unfurling the joys and complexities of Black girlhood. Across three dynamic duets, the rhythmic play of schoolyard games and adolescent feuds gives way to nurturing friendships forged in common struggle. Through live music and a mix of modern and ancestral ... More >>
Jan 31 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Lincoln Center Presents: Love Revolution Season One, Episode 4
SLP & The Joyful Noise is an eight-piece band, led by the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks, that serves as her musical workshop for original songwriting and new storytelling. The Tune Up! series, directed by Bessie Award-winning Executive Artistic Director of The Flea Theater Niegel Smith, puts SLP & The Joyful Noise at center stage for a feature-length variety show that ... More >>
Feb 5 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Lincoln Center Presents: Zoilapianista and Her Band
The Mexico City-born pianist, arranger, composer, producer, and singer Zoilapianista began her musical career as a child prodigy. Influenced by the legendary Latin jazz artist Papo Lucca, she boldly transitioned from classical music into salsa. Lucca and Sonora Ponceña supported her 2013 debut solo album, Influencias, which featured both a duet with and a tribute to Lucca. Over the years, she has ... More >>
Feb 6 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Lincoln Center Presents- Sonic Saturday: Sounds of Space
Spend the morning at a free, live performance of Tumble Science Podcast for Kids, featuring science, storytelling, games, and music—all about the sounds of space! Co-hosted by Lindsay Patterson and Marshall Escamilla with the help of scientists, Tumble weaves scientists’ lives and research into entertaining, engaging, and relatable stories of the scientific process. Recommended by The New York ... More >>
Feb 7 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Watch Me Walk
Anne has a disease you’ve probably never heard of and it doesn’t have a cure. Her doctor says it shouldn’t define her, but she’s going to define it for you. Watch Me Walk is a hilarious, biting, and compassionate new play about disability, pity, injustice, and family mythologies that will stay with you long after the curtain–or Anne–falls. Performance and post-show conversation ... More >>
Feb 7 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Lincoln Center Presents- The Future in the Now: Young African-American Creators
The Future in the Now unites young African-American creators at the convergence of art, technology, science, and humanities. This revolutionary panel explores XR immersion; AR integration; VR design and development; and AI collaboration in storytelling, visual design, and music creation. Through discussion and interactive demonstrations, creators reveal how emerging technologies bridge music and ... More >>
Feb 12 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Pratt Institute ASL Art Class Ages 11-14
This semester Pratt Institute's highly regarded Saturday Art School is offering a section of Drawing and Painting class for youth 11-14 who are deaf or hearing impaired and who communicate with ASL. The instructor leading the class is deaf and all instruction will be in ASL. The class will meet for 10 Saturdays, from February 14- May 2. Classes meet at Pratt's Clinton Hill, Brooklyn ... More >>
Feb 14 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: The Musical
Chicka chicka boom boom! Will there be enough room? Flip flop flee and find out in Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: The Musical, a playful adaptation of every kid’s favorite alphabet book! From the adventuresome A, B and C to the lonely balladeer Z, little letters take on big personalities, puppeteered up the coconut tree to a mixtape of musical styles. And look who’s coming! LMNOP—an ... More >>
Feb 15 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Lincoln Center Presents- Black History Is for Everyone: Voices of a People's History
This February performance of Voices of a People's History takes its inspiration from the new book Black History Is for Everyone, written by New York Public Library educator Brian Jones. Black History challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are. Understanding it challenges our assumptions, helps us see larger forces at work, and gives us glimpses of ... More >>
Feb 19 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Lincoln Center Presents: The Sistas With Transistas- A Transformative Evening of Sound, Story, and Sistahood
Join us for Convergence: A Transformative Evening of Sound, Story, and Sistahood, an unprecedented gathering featuring the iconic Afrofuturist musician and technological innovator Nona Hendryx in collaboration with an array of other visionary artists to be announced. These groundbreaking voices will untangle the creative intersections of mechanization and memory, ancestral knowledge and ... More >>
Feb 26 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Lincoln Center Presents- Genesis Presents: there are no dead people
Founded and led by interdisciplinary artists Amanda Dunne Acevedo and Lindsey Barlag Thornton, the Chicago-based collective Genesis hybridizes theater, performance art, and dance to blur the boundaries of live performance. Genesis's newly restaged ensemble production of there are no dead people is a rumination on death and living, offering a deeply human exploration of loss. Devised through ... More >>
Feb 27 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
COME FROM AWAY at Paper Mill Playhouse
This Tony Award-winning musical shares the remarkable true story of 7,000 airline passengers from all over the world who were grounded in the small Canadian town of Gander in the wake of 9/11. Experience this uplifting story, set to a dynamic score and a vibrant, fast-paced narrative, as spirited locals and global passengers come together to forge friendships that will stay with them forever and ... More >>
Feb 28 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Great Expectations - Captioned Play
Queens Theatre presents The Acting Company's Production of Great Expectations, written by Nikki Massoud, adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens. This is a ticketed event with Open-Captions being offered for the evening performance. The link for event information and tickets is attached. For 25% your order feel free to use code: DEAFNYC For any questions feel free to email our Access ... More >>
Feb 28 @ 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
COME FROM AWAY at Paper Mill Playhouse
This Tony Award-winning musical shares the remarkable true story of 7,000 airline passengers from all over the world who were grounded in the small Canadian town of Gander in the wake of 9/11. Experience this uplifting story, set to a dynamic score and a vibrant, fast-paced narrative, as spirited locals and global passengers come together to forge friendships that will stay with them forever and ... More >>
Mar 1 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Captioned Play
Queens Theatre presents The Acting Company's Production of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. This is a ticketed event with Open-Captions being presented on Sunday afternoon. The link for tickets and event/venue info is attached. Please enjoy 25% off your total with code: DEAFNYC For more information, email our access office at access@queenstheatre.org
Mar 1 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Find yourself in the city.
Sponsored by
Sign Language Center
Deaf & Hard of Hearing Interpreting Services, Inc.
Hands On
Our newsletter is sent out every Wednesday.