HAI’s Community Events Program provides access to cultural events for special needs populations. With a number of distinct components, including those listed below, the program opens the world of concert halls and theatres to individuals who are culturally isolated due to mental or physical disability, frailty or age, impaired immunity, illness, homelessness or substance abuse. This program helps individuals overcome physical, economic, temporal and programmatic obstacles to New York’s cultural richness.

The Community Performing Arts Series arranges professional performances at physically accessible venues throughout the five boroughs.

The Summer Program arranges special seating at NY Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera concerts in City parks and transportation to Shakespeare Festival productions at the Delacorte Theater.

HAI's two Omni*Buses safely and comfortably carry people who use
wheelchairs and individuals who are bed-confined from nursing homes and rehabilitation centers to cultural events throughout the greater New York area.

Tickets To Go sponsors greatly discounted tickets to cultural events for New Yorkers aged 60 and over.

Describe! provides live audio descriptions of Broadway and Off Broadway performances for blind and visually impaired individuals.

STEP (Student Teacher Enrichment Program) enables NY public schools to purchase tickets to cultural events through HAI.