Jacqui is a black woman with black waist-length twists, She is wearing a green velvet tracksuit. She is sitting in her powered wheelchair and singing into a microphone with her eyes closed.

Incubate 2026

Building disabled-led arts organisations & supporting disabled arts leaders.

Disabled people in the arts are carving new ground and leading change, as individuals, or running small organisations. Successfully leading projects, organisations, campaigns, and movements requires an understanding of everything from brand and pitch to finance and project management.

Incubate takes Jamie’s journey and the development of CRIPtic, and supports four emerging disabled arts leaders or organisations through everything they had to learn – from successes to failures and mistakes to experiments.

2026 Incubate Members

Amanda sits haphazardly on a stool, arms folded across her knees, wavy blonde hair reaching in front of
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Amanda Grace / Factory of Love

Amanda Grace is the Lover of Good Chaos at Factory of Love, a mad-led storytelling collective. Co-founded with Jess Corner, Factory of Love is dedicated to channeling the radical roads to loving discovered by mad and neurodivergent artists into community-based acts of care that cultivate
transformative justice.

You may have found us via one of our more ‘traditional’ shows, traipsing up and down the UK reclaiming surgical operating theatres for our mad ancestors—or deprogramming a swamp monster from alt-right propaganda—or writing love letters to strangers.

Or maybe you’ve taken part in our inaugural season of solstice-based offerings, embracing other creatives at Supported Scratch, or learning the healthiest way to shout into the sunset at The Big Scream.

Perhaps you’re just encountering us for the first time… and we’re so glad you are.

Kirin Saeed / Visually Impaired Creators Scotland

Kirin is a disability consultant, playwright and actor working across theatre and film. She has over 30 years’ experience of working in the disability sector. She focuses on access to museums, galleries, heritage sites and theatres, through the use of audio description and access audits. In 1999 she obtained an MA in Human Resources at Northumbria University. She is also a professional actor trained through Graeae Theatre Company and London Metropolitan University through The Missing Pieces program in 2003. She has toured with Extant, Britain’s leading professional performing arts company of visually impaired people, both in the UK and Europe. She has also worked as a disability consultant for major visual art institutions including Tate Britain, National Galleries of Scotland and Fruitmarket Gallery. In 2020, she obtained a grant from Creative Scotland’s Create: Inclusion program, which enabled her to perform and workshop her first play, Crossing Care, as an emerging playwright. Kirin is an avid user of audio description in theatres, cinemas and leisure facilities and hopes that one day access provision will be the norm for all blind and partially sighted people.

Visually Impaired Creators Scotland (VICS) is an award winning group of artists who work to inspire, promote and encourage the work of visually impaired artists through idea sharing, collaborative performances, workshops and monthly newsletters. VICS has staged the aforementioned show Crossing Care in 2020. They went on to make their award-winning show Cabaret in the Dark at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, which thrust the audience and cast into pitch darkness, winning a Neurodiverse Review Award. In 2024, VICS staged Sense of Loss at the Edinburgh Fringe, which explored the intersection of visual impairment and grief, working through Kirin’s own experience of losing her husband. Set within a Christmas party, the play is intercut with clips of an imagined podcast designed to aid people who are grieving.

Kirin, a middle-aged South East Asian woman with dark hair wearing a red dress, leaning on a chair in front of a large window. She holds a cane in her left hand.

Tríus / House of Tríus

House of Tríus is a neurodivergent-led creative project building a sustainable ecosystem where neurodivergent and independent artists can share tools, collaborate, and make work together — without having to fit into structures that were never designed for the way they think.

Founded by Tríus Douglas in 2020, the project spans a managed hosting platform offering self-hosted productivity tools to members, live performance work and concierge-style support for independent creatives.

House of Tríus is joining Incubate to strengthen the organisational foundations needed to grow from solo practice into a functioning creative infrastructure — one that can support neurodivergent artists for the long term.