What’s On

MC Geezer and Troi 'DJ Chinaman' Lee perform at the CRIPtic Pit Party in 2021. MC Geezer raps and signs on stage, while Troi Lee plays music from behind a desk, with his hand raised.

Events

Workshops, writers’ salons, 1:1 advice and networking sessions for everyone.

Our 2023 Events Programme, Connect through Creativity, is a year long programme of practical arts workshops, writers’ salons, 1:1 advice and networking sessions. These are all online, BSL Interpreted, have auto-captions, and are open to deaf & disabled people. Connect and become part of a Creative Community!

What’s On


Workshop

Moving your Body

Led by Dark Horse Theatre

Wednesday 27 September, 6.30-8.30pm / Zoom

In this workshop, you will connect with your body and all its parts, discovering new possibilities for creative expression. We will be inspired by music and pictures, exploring movement that works for you and the potential to show different emotions, characters and stories physically.

£0 / BSL / Integrated AD / Auto Captions

A head shot of Aarian Mehrabani. A clean shaven Middle Eastern Man in his early 20s looking directly at the camera. He has thick black hair and is wearing a black T-Shirt.

Salon

Refined Chaos

Led by Aarian Mehrabani

Monday 2 October, 6.30-8.30pm / Zoom

Refined Chaos: A look into how we can take the guard rails off our imagination and writing in order to create with no expectations, before then examining and refining the work to find direction.

n this session we’ll look at some of the ways Aarian approaches his writing, as well as some of the tools used to create “It’s A MotherF**king Pleasure”. 

Through a series of exercises we’ll explore finding the central question of your work and building off these to improvise, free write and refine to produce the skeleton of your work. 

We’ll also look at how we can use our real lives and lived experience to feed into our work without necessarily creating something autobiographical and mining our trauma or lives. 

It’s a careful balance to strike between needing to have a direction and central question you are always working towards, whilst also allowing yourself to abandon everything you’ve created in order to create freely and potentially find a real gem that you would have never found had you just gone off exploring a side street in your imagination. 

£0 / BSL / Integrated AD / Auto Captions

Workshop

Falling down into the grass – how to write authentically and in your own voice

Tuesday 10th October, 6.30-8.30pm / Zoom

Writing memoir requires that we are willing to be naked in front of ourselves, in order to write to the truth of our lives. This workshop will look at truth v. emotional authenticity, drawing on selected excerpts from other writings, guided exercises, and prompts to get you close to the heart of our story

£0 / BSL / Integrated AD / Auto Captions

Workshop

Building a Movement Sequence

Led by Dark Horse Theatre

Wednesday 25 October, 6.30-8.30pm / Zoom

In this final workshop, we will develop characters using your body, the shapes and patterns you can create and the movements you can make, to tell a series of stories.

£0 / BSL / Integrated AD / Auto Captions

Image: Jamie Hale, a white person with red hair and beard looks directly towards the camera with a confident smile. They sit in their electric wheelchair in front of vivid red/orange photographers banner, wearing black jeans, a ribbed black turtleneck and a silver floral blazer. A shock of bright pink and orange eyeshadow brings out their green eyes.

CRIPtic Chats

with Jamie Hale

19 October, between 2.30-3.30pm / Zoom

15-minute advice sessions with Jamie Hale, Artistic Director of CRIPtic Arts.

£0 / BSL Interpreter pre-booked / Auto Captions

Image: Jamie Hale, a white person with red hair and beard looks directly towards the camera with a confident smile. They sit in their electric wheelchair in front of vivid red/orange photographers banner, wearing black jeans, a ribbed black turtleneck and a silver floral blazer. A shock of bright pink and orange eyeshadow brings out their green eyes.

CRIPtic Chats

with Jamie Hale

19 October, between 3.30-4.30pm / Zoom

15-minute advice sessions with Jamie Hale, Artistic Director of CRIPtic Arts.

£0 / Integrated AD / Auto Captions

Workshop

Being idle and blessed – how to find (and nurture) the wonder in your words

Victoria Bennett

Thursday 14th November, 6.30-8.30pm / Zoom

Memoir can take us up close and personal with our lives – the beautiful and the bruised. Using inspiration from other artists and writers, along with guided exercises and prompts, this final workshop is about developing and nurturing the wonder in your words by creating a nourishing writing life.

£0 / Integrated AD / Auto Captions

(Sessions with BSL Interpreter available below)

A photo of three people chatting and smiling together.

Connect Session for Deaf and Disabled People

Led by CRIPtic Arts

Thursday 23 November 2023, 2-4pm / Zoom

CRIPticArts networking sessions are an open and inclusive space for deaf and disabled people with an interest in the arts to chat, share knowledge and experience, and meet like minded people.

This is a very relaxed event with no pressure: just a great way to meet new people, make connections and grow your network.

£0 / BSL / Integrated AD / Auto Captions

Workshop

Storytelling through movement

Led by Dark Horse Theatre

Wednesday 29 November, 6.30-8.30pm / Zoom

In this final workshop, we will develop characters using your body, the shapes and patterns you can create and the movements you can make, to tell a series of stories.

£0 / BSL / Integrated AD / Auto Captions

Image: Jamie Hale, a white person with red hair and beard looks directly towards the camera with a confident smile. They sit in their electric wheelchair in front of vivid red/orange photographers banner, wearing black jeans, a ribbed black turtleneck and a silver floral blazer. A shock of bright pink and orange eyeshadow brings out their green eyes.

CRIPtic Chats

with Jamie Hale

18 December, between 6.30-7.30pm / Zoom

15-minute advice sessions with Jamie Hale, Artistic Director of CRIPtic Arts.

£0 / BSL Interpreter pre-booked / Auto Captions

Image: Jamie Hale, a white person with red hair and beard looks directly towards the camera with a confident smile. They sit in their electric wheelchair in front of vivid red/orange photographers banner, wearing black jeans, a ribbed black turtleneck and a silver floral blazer. A shock of bright pink and orange eyeshadow brings out their green eyes.

CRIPtic Chats

with Jamie Hale

18 December, between 7.30-8.30pm / Zoom

15-minute advice sessions with Jamie Hale, Artistic Director of CRIPtic Arts.

£0 / Integrated AD / Auto Captions

A photo of three people chatting and smiling together.

Connect Session for Deaf and Disabled People

Led by CRIPtic Arts

Thursday 25 January 2024, 2-4pm / Zoom

CRIPticArts networking sessions are an open and inclusive space for deaf and disabled people with an interest in the arts to chat, share knowledge and experience, and meet like minded people.

This is a very relaxed event with no pressure: just a great way to meet new people, make connections and grow your network.

£0 / BSL / Integrated AD / Auto Captions

Image: Jamie Hale, a white person with red hair and beard looks directly towards the camera with a confident smile. They sit in their electric wheelchair in front of vivid red/orange photographers banner, wearing black jeans, a ribbed black turtleneck and a silver floral blazer. A shock of bright pink and orange eyeshadow brings out their green eyes.

CRIPtic Chats

with Jamie Hale

22 February 2024, between 2.30-3.30pm / Zoom

15-minute advice sessions with Jamie Hale, Artistic Director of CRIPtic Arts.

£0 / BSL Interpreter pre-booked / Auto Captions

Image: Jamie Hale, a white person with red hair and beard looks directly towards the camera with a confident smile. They sit in their electric wheelchair in front of vivid red/orange photographers banner, wearing black jeans, a ribbed black turtleneck and a silver floral blazer. A shock of bright pink and orange eyeshadow brings out their green eyes.

CRIPtic Chats

with Jamie Hale

22 February 2024, between 3.30-4.30pm / Zoom

15-minute advice sessions with Jamie Hale, Artistic Director of CRIPtic Arts.

£0 / Integrated AD / Auto Captions

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