Join Parallel Play at Center on Halsted (wheelchair accessible) in your costume to sing your heart out with CC community
About this EventDilly Dally for Halloween alongside Parallel Play Chicago! Thanks to a Spark Grant from Center on Halsted, we are offering a limited amount of safety bags containing PPE, whistles, and other harm reductive supplies to each attendee with a free RSVP.
Eventbrite free RSVP & high-quality respirator required.
Event takes place in Center on Halsted's 2nd-floor Youth Space
wheelchair accessible / elevator / accessible all gender bathrooms
We ask that guests refrain from wearing highly scented toiletries, perfumes, or cologne, and to launder items in low/no-scent detergent if possible
Schedule:- 12:30 - 1 pm check-in and set-up help
- 1 - 3 pm - Drop-in distro for safety bags, karaoke, mask-chain making, board games, and Halloween themed arts & crafts
The Venue / Accessibility:Center on Halsted is a fully ADA-compliant, wheelchair-accessible space with an elevator found on the first floor lobby near the Whole Foods entrance. The restrooms have stalls and are gender neutral and fully accessible. There will be ample room for our expected ~40-50 guests. Note that karaoke and all the other activities are located in the same area and ear plugs will be available. Please reach out with any questions or specific access needs.
Parking:
Center on Halsted is located in Chicago’s Wrigleyville/Lake View neighborhood. Paid, metered street parking can be found on Halsted, Broadway, and Addison streets. Guests who are being dropped off can instruct their driver to bring them to the entrance on Halsted, which is wheelchair accessible. Onsite accessible parking spaces for disabled guests may be available to reserve by emailing or DMing Parallel Play prior to the event ([email protected]).
Additonal Parking Option: The Whole Foods parking garage attached to Center on Halsted can be accessed from Waveland. With a purchase, customers are permitted to park in the Whole Foods garage for up to two hours.
Public transit:
Center on Halsted is located 0.3 miles east of the Addison Red Line CTA train station, which is accessible via elevator. It is also right off the 8 (Halsted) and 36 (Broadway) bus routes.
COVID-19 precautions:This is a mask-required event. Guests who are able to wear a well-fitted respirator (N95, KN95, KF94 or equivalent) should do so at all times. Free high-quality masks will be available at check-in. Guests will be permitted to temporarily remove their respirators in an adjacent outside area to eat (please bring your own snacks as needed), drink water, or take a quick mask break. In alignment with Parallel Play's more flexible mask policies for outdoor spaces, we ask our community to distance themselves as much as possible and to participate in reciprocal masking when in close proximity to others who are themselves wearing a respirator.
Air purification and performance areas: Corsi Rosenthal air purifiers will be provided by Parallel Play and windows will be cracked. Typically the CO2 reading is below 1,000 in this space and a live reading will be posted.
Testing & masking prior: The organizers highly recommend that attendees mask extra carefully in the week leading up to Dilly Dally and that they rapid test for COVID before the event if it is possible/accessible to do so. Note that this event is open to the public and there are no guarantees of anyone's pre-event precautions.
Case reporting: We kindly ask guests to notify us if they test positive for COVID-19 in the week following the event using this AFTERPARTY19 case reporting page so we may anonymously share that info with our community.
If you are feeling unwell in any way, please stay home! There will be other Dillys to Dally.
Your host: is a grassroots, community-run 501c3 organization that centers the joy and liberation of COVID-cautious people in the Chicagoland area. We do this by hosting mask-required in-person events and virtual events that serve an intersectional and multi-marginalized community of folks who are still practicing precautions like wearing respirator masks, purifying the air, and testing before gathering to avoid COVID and other airborne illnesses. These events exist for COVID-cautious people to foster connections, build networks of care, and distribute free resources through mutual aid. We strive to create safe, inclusive, accessible, and sensory-friendly spaces, and to monetarily and materially support BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and disabled community members. Through our events and mutual aid endeavors, Parallel Play seeks to create a "parallel universe" for people who are still protecting themselves and their loved ones from debilitating airborne disease. We envision a world where everyone has the community and material support they need to survive the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
