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Anna, Matthew and Peyvand perform on stage. The stage is washed with blue light and the three performers all look up wearing dark sunglasses. The floor is a giant image of the moon and creative captioning behind them reads “Copy deployment of opticals”

CRIPtic 2025 Artist Development Programme

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Nurturing the practice and work of disabled creatives is integral to us. In 2025, we are running our artist development programme with 4 strands – Reach, Launchpad, Breakthrough and Incubate. These are…

A photo of a manual wheelchair user doing a headstand in front of a crowd at a previous Liberty Festival.

Liberty Festival: Artist Call-Out

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CRIPtic Arts is excited to launch our call-out for work for Liberty Festival 2025, taking place 24th to 28th September 2025. The call-out closes on the 1st May 2025. We are looking…

A wheelchair user dances under green laser light, their AAC device on display

Working with AAC Users

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This is a guide on working with people who use Alternative and Augmentative Communication as their primary form of communication. You can read the guide below, which is available to download as…

The vimeo cover of our documentary, featuring a black woman with dreadlocks, in an electric wheelchair silhouetted against a colourful background

Call Us CRIPtic – A Disability Arts Documentary

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In 2021, we collaborated with Fig Films to make a disability arts documentary. We’re so excited to share it with you now! Call Us CRIPtic takes you on a journey through our…

Featuring Katherine Castellucci

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This year at CRIPtic we’ve had the privilege of hosting the disabled performer and activist Katherine Castellucci as an intern. She joined us as a placement as part of her BA Acting…

A picture of Jamie Hale against a blurred outdoor background. They are white, with dark red hair and a dark red beard. Their electric wheelchair headrest is behind their head, and they are wearing a blue denim jacket

Podcast: Disability and… CRIPtic Arts, with Jamie Hale

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Our friends at Disability Arts Online have just released episode 57 of their “Disability and…” podcast, and this episode features Jamie Hale and the work we’re doing at CRIPtic. From our earliest…

Jamie Hale performs NOT DYING. Jamie, white person with red hair, wears a silver shirt, a beige leather jacket and grey jeans. They stare into the camera as the word 'Inspirational' is projected in an arc behind them.

Dynamic Creatives: Understanding the Arts Council Investment Principles

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Our friends at Disability Arts Online have been working on some fantastic videos about Arts Council England, including one on “Understanding the Investment Principles: Dynamic Creatives”. Why not watch it, and find…

Pay Transparency

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Pay transparency for freelance work The arts sector is notoriously opaque about pay for freelancers, and pay for freelance work varies wildly. One of the findings from the focus group we held…

A black square saying "lessons learned: focus group" with a symbol of a chair in the middle

Focus Groups: Lessons Learned from our Audience

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Earlier this summer, at CRIPtic, we held two focus groups. One was for disabled cultural workers from the global majority. The other was for people facing specific access barriers. This includes people…

The poster for Tambo & Bones, showing two black men leaning against each other on a red background, with the text in yellow neon saying "Tambo & Bones"

Black Out Nights: The magic of live theatre

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The magic of theatre is its nature as in live performance; both for audiences, and for performers. You spend weeks or months creating an alchemy in the rehearsal room. The confrontation between…