The popular Big Umbrella Festival blooms as a free campus takeover at Lincoln Center full of relaxed spaces with multi-sensory experiences, performances, installations, and workshops specifically welcoming neurodivergent audiences and their families.

Highlights include:

• Mi Casa, Your Casa 2.0—an interactive outdoor installation from Esrawe + Cadena (Mexico) featuring a series of three-dimensional red frames on Josie Robertson Plaza, inviting passerby to relax and sway in the small houses at their leisure (April 10-26).
• Glasgow-based dance-theater company Barrowland Ballet's The Unexpected Gift—inviting neurodivergent audiences into an interactive, multi-sensory wonderland, transforming ordinary objects into something magical (April 10-12 & 17-19).
• Antarctica! Crew Wanted from Rosán’s Sensory Adventures (Ireland) invites neurodivergent audiences to an immersive participatory theater work. Created by Phillida Eves and Amélie Bal, the piece is inspired by Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition of 1915, and weaves movement, music, and sensory storytelling into a travel experience centered on teamwork and friendship (April 17-26).
• AXIS Dance Company, one of the nation’s most acclaimed ensembles of disabled, non-disabled, D/deaf, and neurodiverse performers, presents Patterns in Alice Tully Hall—featuring works by Nadia Adame, Sonya Delwaide, Christopher Unpezverde Nunez, Kayla Hamilton, and Natasha Adorlee Westbrook (April 17-19).
• CMS Kids: Tuneful Teamwork invites audiences to experience chamber music up close in a relaxed and welcoming environment with The Viano Quartet —featuring lively pieces by  Haydn, Grant Still, Beethoven, Borodin, Mendelssohn, and Bridge — showing different ways to lead, follow, and play as a team (April 18-19).
• Lincoln Center Teaching Artists lead an interactive Box of Wonders Workshop—using multisensory objects and art-making tools to create magical spaces of warmth and comfort (April 18).
• A vibrant and community-powered evening with ASL Slam in the David Rubenstein Atrium, offering a stage for members of the ASL and Deaf/signing community to share and create traditional, contemporary, and experimental sign language literature. Plus, ASL Baby Slam: a unique morning program geared towards younger audiences (April 18).
• ReelAbilities Comedy Night brings an evening of standup comedy to the Kaplan Penthouse, presented in collaboration with the 18th Annual ReelAbilities Film Festival. This one-night-only performance features an outstanding lineup of disabled comedians, to be announced in March (April 24).
• Visual art stations led by Lincoln Center’s Education team and Teaching Artists.