This year at CRIPtic we’ve had the privilege of hosting the disabled performer and activist Katherine Castellucci as an intern. She joined us as a placement as part of her BA Acting…
Category: Reflections
Podcast: Disability and… CRIPtic Arts, with Jamie Hale
Our friends at Disability Arts Online have just released episode 57 of their “Disability and…” podcast, and this episode features Jamie Hale and the work we’re doing at CRIPtic. From our earliest…
Dynamic Creatives: Understanding the Investment Principles
Our friends at Disability Arts Online have been working on some fantastic videos about Arts Council England, including one on “Understanding the Investment Principles: Dynamic Creatives”. Why not watch it, and find…
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…
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 or months creating an alchemy in the rehearsal room. The confrontation between…
Annual Report 2022-23
The CRIPtic Arts Annual Report 2022-23 We are very proud of the impact CRIPtic Arts has had on the arts industry. CRIPtic Arts has come a long way since it started as…
Broadening Our Practice
CRIPtic is my baby – but it’s not just mine. It was built as a community project. If I had to estimate the number of people who’ve been involved with it, it…
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 to focus on my creative work and for family reasons. I don’t…
Building Networks: Lessons Learned
We went into CRIPtic 2021 without a very wide network. We certainly had quite a few contacts and offers of support. A lot of our work centred around the few networks we…
Workload Management: Lessons Learned
As part of the process of assessing quality and success in our projects, we’re writing a series of blog posts exploring some of the key learnings from our 2021 development programme and…
