Incubate

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

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

Applications for Incubate are now closed.

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.

Who we’re looking for

Incubate is a leadership programme for four UK-based disabled* emerging cultural leaders.

We’re looking for disabled people leading change or building organisations in the arts – people developing and communicating ideas and making an impact. The impact could be sector-wide or community-specific, as long as you’re adding to a shared ecosphere of disabled people and organisations.

*By disabled, we mean “all people who face disableist [including audist or neurotypist] barriers”, or “people who identify themselves as disabled and/or are identified by others as disabled in society”. To find out more about what we mean by this, please look at our website.

What the programme involves

Incubate is a 12-month programme of monthly peer-facilitated sessions. These are structured and led by CRIPtic, but participants will be expected to prepare and present from their own experience and expertise at most sessions. Incubate invests in individual leaders – so even if you’re leading an organisation, the same person is expected to come each time.

Peer-faciliated sessions will all take place online, with captions, rest breaks, and BSL interpretation where required, and we aim to meet other access requirements across the programme as far as possible.

When are the sessions?

The sessions will happen fortnightly on Monday evenings and will run for 2.5 hours, inclusive of a short rest break.

  • Monday 9 June: 6pm – 8.30pm (online)
  • Monday 23 June: 6pm – 8.30pm (online)
  • Monday 7 July: 6pm – 8.30pm (online)
  • Monday 14 July: 6pm – 8.30pm (online)
  • Monday 4 August: 6pm – 8.30pm (online)
  • Monday 18 August: 6pm – 8.30pm (online)
  • Monday 1 September: 6pm – 8.30pm (online)
  • Monday 15 September: 6pm – 8.30pm (online)
  • Monday 29 September: 6pm – 8.30pm (online)
  • Monday 13 October: 6pm – 8.30pm (online)
  • Monday 27 October: 6pm – 8.30pm (online)
  • Monday 17 November: 6pm – 8.30pm (online)
Payment

As a mentoring and development scheme, this programme is not paid. It is free to attend and CRIPtic will cover the access costs associated with joining the programme.  

More information

Please read our FAQs, which contain more information about the programme and what we’re looking for.

We will upload the transcript & slides from our artist Q&A Session to the FAQs page.

Apply to become a Incubate member

Applications are now closed.

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