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Rylan is gazing softly into the distance as he stands against a black wall. He has wavy brown hair, with a centre parting and his fringe falling onto his face. He has a silver hoop in his left ear, and is wearing a black hoodie, with brown buttons around the collar.

Podcast: Rylan Gleave

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A black and white photo of Rufus. Rufus Elliot is pictured playing its viola, focusing on something out of shot. It is wearing a black short sleeved shirt, with its short hair tied up at the back.

Podcast: Rufus Isabel Elliot

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What made you want to be an artist / performer? I suppose my flair for the dramatic! I trained as a singer before studying as a composer, then my voice began to gradually creep back into my work. What/who inspires your craft? Much of my work addresses both the personal and political, stemming from a…

Introducing Rufus Isabel Elliot

What made you want to be an artist / performer? I don’t really know how to answer this question. I love music, but struggled a lot with performing before I got into the more composing and writing side of things. I had a brilliant A Level teacher who taught me that it was okay to…

Introducing Miss Jacqui

What made you want to be an artist / performer? I’ve always been creative and I wasn’t always sure I could be an artist/performer because I never saw anyone who looked like me do what I wanted to do. I guess I stopped wait for someone else to be the first and jumped in. I…

Incubate: the next generation of deaf and disabled-led arts organisations

Incubate is a project taking four deaf and/or disabled-led arts organisations through a year of engaged workshops, supporting those arts organisations to grow, change, and develop. For CRIPtic as facilitator, we’re learning the same. In disability arts, we are standing (wheeling?) on the shoulders of giants. Graeae have been making deaf and disabled-led theatre for…

Launching BEING HYBRID – our quick, cheap, and easy guide for making your event hybrid

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 this summer. “Why is this festival not programming online?”. We had a period of time…

Accessible Finance: Budgeting for Access

Budget. It’s a word that strikes fear into the hearts of many people trying to work out how to make affordable work, sustainable work, and accessible work. When I got my head around how I wanted to think about budgeting, it was by going beyond “how am I spending this” and into “how does my…

CRIPticArts: 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 would be in the three figures comfortably, and that’s not including audiences. Three years ago I must have been writing the first funding…

Looking for a DIRECTOR for Jamie Hale’s NOT DYING

Jamie Hale here! I’m delighted to say I’ve received ACE funding for a new Research & Development process on my solo show, NOT DYING. This means I’m recruiting for roles, and especially a director. The role is open to any deaf or disabled director, but I am particularly interested in finding a director who is…