CRIPtic Arts to produce Liberty Festival 2025 as part of Wandsworth’s year as The Mayor’s London Borough of Culture
We’re delighted to be shaping Liberty for London Borough of Culture in Wandsworth in 2025.
As the Mayor’s flagship disability arts festival, Liberty leads the way, and our vision showcases bold, innovative work that excites, challenges and reframes disability for audiences across the capital. This year, disabled people will be creatively collaborating with local communities, and celebrating our existence. Through Liberty, CRIPtic will foster new creatives and develop experienced creatives, investing in work at every stage, from fresh ideas to world-class works, shaping the present and future of disability arts.
What’s our vision for the Festival?
At CRIPtic, we are passionate about commissioning work that explores the disabled experience – past, present and future – celebrating our existence and advocating for our rights. Equally, we seek work that emerges from a crip lens and addresses topics far beyond disability, challenging perspectives, questioning norms, and defying expectations. We welcome work that pushes artistic boundaries—across form, theme, and style—moving beyond tropes and traditional narratives to create something fresh, resonant, and vital.
In 2025, Liberty will fill Wandsworth with the richness and diversity of disability arts, with work that speaks to everyone—from children’s workshops to dementia-friendly performances, from community engagement projects to groundbreaking theatre – and access for disabled people existing at the heart of it. It will reach new audiences, bringing disabled-led art to local businesses, venues, and partners, with the artists and commissions central to making this a reality.
For artists, participating should also be an opportunity – for growth, learning and development. Our commissions will support disabled creatives at every stage—from emerging talent to established artists—nurturing work from its earliest spark of inspiration to fully realised, world-class productions.
Liberty 2025 is a celebration of – and an investment in – the present and future of disabled people, art, culture, and community.
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