News, Blog and Updates from CRIPtic Arts

CRIPtic Arts 2026 Artist Announcement

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Announcing our 2026 Artists. We’re thrilled to introduce the amazing creatives who have joined our 2026 Artist Development Programmes! In 2026, we’re once again delivering four artist development programmes, designed to support…

Autobiographical Work for Theatre-makers

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By CRIPtic Arts Artistic Director, Jamie Hale. Theatre often asks people, especially people from marginalised groups, to mine their trauma as the most valuable creative inspiration we have to offer. That expectation…

A graphic comprising of a black and white image on a grey background with text in a repeated pattern and two logos. The image is of Theo Angel in rehearsals. Theo, a mixed-race person with pale skin, freckles, short, very curly hair and dark features, is in their manual wheelchair. They hold their hands above their head, mapping out an invisible web. They smile as they look at their right hand. Behind their image is a digitally imposed bright blue drop shadow, with a repeated pattern text reading “Funded by youth music”. The two logos are of CRIPtic Arts and Youth Music Shift the Scene.

CRIPtic Arts Secures Funding to improve access to the arts and creative industries for disabled young people.

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CRIPtic Arts are delighted to announce that we’re now supported by Youth Music’s Shift the Scene Fund, which champions inclusive, ambitious creativity across all art forms. This support means more time, space…

Jamie Hale talking to a team member in a theatre.

Winning an OFFIE doesn’t erase the disadvantages disabled directors face

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By CRIPtic Arts Artistic Director, Jamie Hale. This year, myself, Marcella Rick and Claire Beerjeraz were awarded an OFFIE for staging for our work on Transpose:SUBVERSE, partially produced by CRIPtic. As a…

Tatum, a non-binary person, sits in a spotlight, their back to the camera.

CRIPtic 2026 Artist Development Programme

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In 2026, CRIPtic Arts will once again deliver four artist development programmes, Reach, Launchpad, Breakthrough and Incubate. Each project is designed to support disabled creatives at different stages in their career, from…

The youtube page for an access training video, showing Jameisha Prescod, a black woman in a white t-shirt, presenting training. The caption says "I am an artist-filmmaker and your access trainer over the course of these videos".

Free Introduction to Access Training

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We are very excited to launch our free course led by Jamiesha Prescod – an Introduction to Access Training for the Cultural Sector. At CRIPtic Arts, we work with organisations in the…

A wheelchair user drawn in blues and purples against a green background.

Annual Report 2024-25

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After a bit of a pause, we are now ready to release our Annual Report 2024-25. This covers the work we completed between April 2024 and March 2025. Introduction When I look…

Anna, Matthew and Peyvand perform on stage. The stage is washed with blue light and the three performers all look up wearing dark sunglasses. The floor is a giant image of the moon and creative captioning behind them reads “Copy deployment of opticals”

CRIPtic 2025 Artist Development Programme

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Nurturing the practice and work of disabled creatives is integral to us. In 2025, we are running our artist development programme with 4 strands – Reach, Launchpad, Breakthrough and Incubate. These are…

A photo of a manual wheelchair user doing a headstand in front of a crowd at a previous Liberty Festival.

CRIPtic Arts x Liberty Festival 2025

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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…

The vimeo cover of our documentary, featuring a black woman with dreadlocks, in an electric wheelchair silhouetted against a colourful background

Call Us CRIPtic – A Disability Arts Documentary

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In 2021, we collaborated with Fig Films to make a disability arts documentary. We’re so excited to share it with you now! Call Us CRIPtic takes you on a journey through our…