Events for December 12 - November 10, 2025
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Power to the People
The monthly meeting of ALL of Access Living's community organizing groups. Come together with your allies in housing, home and community based services, immigration, and racial justice! Contact Amber Smock to request accommodations.
PA Training @Pullman Branch Library
Fall Peer Mental Health Support Group
Online – ZoomThe Fall Peer Mental Health Support Group is an opportunity for Disabled-identifying people and those exploring their relationship to disability identity to share and hold space for one another in an accessible and virtual setting. Facilitated by disabled art therapist Bri Beck, LCPC, ATR, this group is meant to offer an opportunity for participants to […]
PA Training @Harold Washington Library
Cambiando Vidas
Access Living 115 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United StatesCambiando Vidas meets on the second, third,and fourth Tuesdays of every month, and provides a critical space for immigrants with disabilities to come together, organize, and effect change. Learn more about Cambiando Vidas. This is a virtual meeting that takes place over Zoom. Please contact Michelle Garcia to get the Zoom link. Cambiando Vidas meetings are […]
Beyond the Scar: A Portraiture Project
Press Here: Center for Mad Culture 410 South Michigan Ave, Suite 419, Chicago, IL +1 moreAccess Living is looking for models to pose for “Beyond the Scar”, a portraiture project facilitated by disabled artist, art therapy intern, B Randolph (they/them). We are seeking models who would like to include their portrait & stories in Access Living’s Disability Portraiture Project archive. If you are someone with apparent scars and have lived […]
PA Training @WeWork
PA Training @Douglass Branch Library
Rewritten Narratives: A Comic Workshop
Press Here: Center for Mad Culture 410 South Michigan Ave, Suite 419, Chicago, ILRewritten Narratives: A Comic Workshop is for participants who self-identify as disabled and/or chronically ill, whether the disability is apparent or non-apparent. This could mean anything from physical disabilities, learning disabilities, “invisible” disabilities, and disabilities caused by mental health concerns. Let’s reclaim and rewrite our stories as disabled people through writing and drawing together! Too […]
Beyond the Scar: A Portraiture Project
Press Here: Center for Mad Culture 410 South Michigan Ave, Suite 419, Chicago, IL +1 moreAccess Living is looking for models to pose for “Beyond the Scar”, a portraiture project facilitated by disabled artist, art therapy intern, B Randolph (they/them). We are seeking models who would like to include their portrait & stories in Access Living’s Disability Portraiture Project archive. If you are someone with apparent scars and have lived […]
Art Therapy for Chronic Pain Workshop
Do you live with chronic pain and wish to learn creative strategies for managing your symptoms? This virtual two-hour Art Therapy for Chronic Pain Workshop will provide an introduction to coping with pain through art. Facilitators will hold both a therapeutic and educational space for participants to practice a series of structured art directives. No […]
PA Training @Harold Washington Library
Rewritten Narratives: A Comic Workshop
Press Here: Center for Mad Culture 410 South Michigan Ave, Suite 419, Chicago, ILRewritten Narratives: A Comic Workshop is for participants who self-identify as disabled and/or chronically ill, whether the disability is apparent or non-apparent. This could mean anything from physical disabilities, learning disabilities, “invisible” disabilities, and disabilities caused by mental health concerns. Let’s reclaim and rewrite our stories as disabled people through writing and drawing together! Too […]
Advance Your Leadership Power
Online – ZoomAdvance Your Leadership Power meets on the first, third, and fifth (when applicable) Tuesdays of every month. All are welcome to join; AYLP members are people with disabilities, social justice advocates, and allies. At present, AYLP meetings take place on Zoom. Please contact Candace Coleman to get the link to the meeting.
Beyond the Scar: A Portraiture Project
Press Here: Center for Mad Culture 410 South Michigan Ave, Suite 419, Chicago, IL +1 moreAccess Living is looking for models to pose for “Beyond the Scar”, a portraiture project facilitated by disabled artist, art therapy intern, B Randolph (they/them). We are seeking models who would like to include their portrait & stories in Access Living’s Disability Portraiture Project archive. If you are someone with apparent scars and have lived […]
Beyond the Scar: A Portraiture Project
Press Here: Center for Mad Culture 410 South Michigan Ave, Suite 419, Chicago, IL +1 moreAccess Living is looking for models to pose for “Beyond the Scar”, a portraiture project facilitated by disabled artist, art therapy intern, B Randolph (they/them). We are seeking models who would like to include their portrait & stories in Access Living’s Disability Portraiture Project archive. If you are someone with apparent scars and have lived […]
Fall Peer Mental Health Support Group
Online – ZoomThe Fall Peer Mental Health Support Group is an opportunity for Disabled-identifying people and those exploring their relationship to disability identity to share and hold space for one another in an accessible and virtual setting. Facilitated by disabled art therapist Bri Beck, LCPC, ATR, this group is meant to offer an opportunity for participants to […]
Beyond the Scar: A Portraiture Project
Press Here: Center for Mad Culture 410 South Michigan Ave, Suite 419, Chicago, IL +1 moreAccess Living is looking for models to pose for “Beyond the Scar”, a portraiture project facilitated by disabled artist, art therapy intern, B Randolph (they/them). We are seeking models who would like to include their portrait & stories in Access Living’s Disability Portraiture Project archive. If you are someone with apparent scars and have lived […]
Rewritten Narratives: A Comic Workshop
Press Here: Center for Mad Culture 410 South Michigan Ave, Suite 419, Chicago, ILRewritten Narratives: A Comic Workshop is for participants who self-identify as disabled and/or chronically ill, whether the disability is apparent or non-apparent. This could mean anything from physical disabilities, learning disabilities, “invisible” disabilities, and disabilities caused by mental health concerns. Let’s reclaim and rewrite our stories as disabled people through writing and drawing together! Too […]
Beyond the Scar: A Portraiture Project
Press Here: Center for Mad Culture 410 South Michigan Ave, Suite 419, Chicago, IL +1 moreAccess Living is looking for models to pose for “Beyond the Scar”, a portraiture project facilitated by disabled artist, art therapy intern, B Randolph (they/them). We are seeking models who would like to include their portrait & stories in Access Living’s Disability Portraiture Project archive. If you are someone with apparent scars and have lived […]
Not Art Therapy: A Conversation with Sandie Yi and Katie O’Neill
Join artists Sandie Yi and Katie O'Neill as they discuss their work in the exhibition "Not Art Therapy" currently on display at Press Here Studio. Moderated by Matt Bodett, this conversation will address the ideas of therapy in relation to art making by disabled folx. It asks us to reconsider making and notions of collaboration. […]