NEWS AND UPDATES

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The Crip Monologues

While we’ve been plugging away at a wide range of projects here at CRIPtic – from the NOT DYING soundtrack to workshops on writing and staging solo work. We are very excited to announce that Jamie Hale, our Artistic Director…

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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…

The Disablism of Age Barriers in the Arts

The Disablism of Age Barriers in the Arts

At their heart, most age barriers in the arts are disableist. They create barriers that prevent disabled people having equity of access to opportunities. Their assumption that age is representative of life-stage, career-stage, or the point of development someone is…


What’s on at CRIPtic

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Connect Through Creativity: Creating spaces for, with and by the community

By Alice Christina-Corrigan My name is Alice Christina-Corrigan and I am the Community Programme Officer at CRIPtic Arts, producing a year long programme of online creative workshops in partnership with Scope, for all deaf and disabled individuals no matter where…

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Pay Transparency

Pay transparency for freelance work The arts sector is notoriously opaque about pay for freelancers, and pay for freelance work varies wildly. One of the findings from the focus group we held with disabled people from the global majority was…

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Focus Groups: Lessons Learned from our Audience

Earlier this summer, at CRIPtic, we held two focus groups. One was for disabled cultural workers from the global majority. The other was for people facing specific access barriers. This includes people who need 1:1 support, BSL interpreters, use AAC,…

LEARNING AND REFLECTIONS

Focus Groups: Lessons Learned from our Audience

Focus Groups: Lessons Learned from our Audience

Earlier this summer, at CRIPtic, we held two focus groups. One was for disabled cultural workers from the global majority.…

Black Out Nights: The magic of live theatre

Black Out Nights: The magic of live theatre

The magic of theatre is its nature as in live performance; both for audiences, and for performers. You spend weeks…

Broadening Our Practice

Broadening Our Practice

CRIPtic is my baby – but it’s not just mine. It was built as a community project. If I had…

Prioritising Health: Lessons Learned

Prioritising Health: Lessons Learned

This week’s blog is a short one – to make sure I’m prioritising health. Last week, I took some time…

Building Networks: Lessons Learned

Building Networks: Lessons Learned

We went into CRIPtic 2021 without a very wide network. We certainly had quite a few contacts and offers of…