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CRIPtic 2021 – announcing new artists

At CRIPtic, we’re getting very close to in-person rehearsals starting (Monday 8th). The show opens on the 19th November, so it’s very soon now! We’re delighted to announce that we are adding three new acts to the line-up. Sahera Khan and Gold Maria Akanbi are bringing filmed pieces, and Flawbored are bringing a comedy. So,…

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Sahera Khan, light brown skin, round face, smiling a little, black round glasses, black turban and wearing a khaki shirt.

Introducing Sahera Khan

What made you want to be an artist / performer? I always want be an actor since I was young but it never happened. When I became older, I experienced lots of different directions in my life. Finally, I found my passion for my career which was the creative industry. I have now been an…

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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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MC Geezer is a white man with short hair and a short beard. He is wearing black glasses and a red polo shirt, and is standing outside some buildings in Hackney.

Podcast: MC Geezer & Troi Lee

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This is a photo of Bibi June, a mixed race non-binary person. Bibi is Dutch-Indonesian, with short red curly hair. They wear thin gold-framed glasses and they are looking up into the distance while they rest their head in one hand. A shaft of golden light falls across their eyes. They are wearing a white t-shirt.

Podcast: Bibi June

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Oli - a white non-binary person - has bleached hair and is dressed in a light blue jumper that reads ‘kind human.’ Oli stands in the foreground next to a microphone that is hanging from the ceiling. They have a focused expression and their mouth is slightly open.

Podcast: Oli Isaac

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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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Miss Jacqui is a Black woman with lots of curly hair. She is looking at the camera and is wearing a beige coloured top. She is seated outdoors surrounded by trees and plants.

Podcast: Miss Jacqui

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A portrait black and white photograph. Alice wears clear circlular glasses, she has a fringe and her hair is half up half down.

Podcast: Alice Christina-Corrigan

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This is a black and white portrait. Tom is standing on stage, he is a caucasian boy with short-ish white hair. He is wearing round, plastic blue glasses and a black buttoned up polo shirt.

Podcast: Tom Ryalls

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CRIPtic x Trans Vegas: Trans and Deaf or Disabled Performers

Wanted: trans and deaf or disabled performers to perform at HOME Manchester (paid opportunity – £250) After years of collaboration, including Trans Vegas Director, Kate O’Donnell, directing the original version of Jamie Hale’s NOT DYING, we will be bringing the relaunched version of the show to HOME Manchester on Friday 11th November. To accompany it,…

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NOT DYING by Jamie Hale

CRIPtic Arts will be bringing Jamie Hale’s solo show, NOT DYING, to HOME Manchester on the 11th November. This is part of our long-standing collaboration with Kate O’Donnell and Trans Vegas. Jamie Hale first drafted NOT DYING in 2018, when the Barbican Centre commissioned it through their Open Lab programme. There, Trans Creative’s Kate O’Donnell…

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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 and playwright-performer of NOT DYING (Lyric Hammersmith, Barbican Centre), which won the Evening Standard Director/Theatremaker…

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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…

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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…

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