Incubate is a project taking four deaf and/or disabled-led arts organisations through a year of engaged workshops, supporting those arts organisations to grow, change, and develop. For CRIPtic as facilitator, we’re learning the same. In disability arts, we are standing (wheeling?) on the shoulders of giants. Graeae have been making deaf and disabled-led theatre for forty years. Extant is a performing arts company of visually impaired artists and theatre practitioners which has existed for 25 years. Deafinitely Theatre has 20 years of work produced bilingually, in British Sign Language and spoken English. Drake Music have been creating music by deaf…
Category: CRIPtic 2022
BEING HYBRID: an easy guide to hybrid events
To read more about Being Hybrid, click here. To access it in a range of other formats, click here Why are you launching Being Hybrid? I keep having the same conversation over and over in my disabled writers group chats this summer. “Why is this festival not programming online?”. We had a period of time in which far more work was accessible to home-bound people and those who would struggle to reach it physically. Now, instead, everything has gone back to being in person. When people ask events “will this also be available online?” the response is almost always “that’s…
Announcing CRIPtic 2022
A belated Happy New Year from us here at CRIPtic Arts – where we are delighted to be announcing CRIPtic 2022! We hope you are as excited as we are to get stuck into another year of creativity. The success of the 2021 CRIPtic Showcase was overwhelming. As we move into 2022, we’re going even further to develop and support the very best of disability arts. This year, we will be working to dismantle even more barriers to deaf and disabled talent across the sector. A taste of our 2022 projects is below. If you want to know more about…
