@cripticarts.bsky.social
Creating an artistic landscape where disabled people flourish cripticarts.org
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Join @cripticarts.bsky.social and Debbie Hannan for a workshop on how to form your idea into a pitch, communicate with potential partners, and strategies for building industry connections and championing your work.
When - 18 Nov
Where - Online
Cost - Free
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A pink graphic with text reading CRIPtic Chats, Networking with Alice Christina-Corrigan
Join @cripticarts.bsky.social and Alice Christina-Corrigan for CRIPtic Chats, an open space for deaf and disabled creatives to drop in, chat, and meet friendly new faces.
When - 26 November
Where - Online
Cost - Free
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Join @cripticarts.bsky.social and Florence Limb for a workshop that will help you to define your own path and claim your identity as a writer.
When - 11 November
Where - Online
Cost - Free
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Casting call
We are casting for two performers for, The Ache of It, a new work by Caitlin Magnall Kearns, which will be performed as part of CRIPtic Arts’ The Acts at Bristol Old Vic Weston Studio in January 2026.
Fiona: Fat Late 20s-50s Have or be able to perform an Irish accent d/Deaf/disabled/neurodivergent Simon: Late 20s-50s Have or be able to perform an Irish accent d/Deaf/disabled/neurodivergent
About The Ache of It: Set in a seaside B&B in Northern Ireland, The Ache of It follows Simon, a married cab driver with osteoarthritis who feels like he’s past his prime, and Fiona, a fat, bisexual widow, as they embark on a complex, decade-long affair. The Ache of It places disabled and fat bodies at the heart of a romantic narrative, exploring themes of desire, guilt, aging, and care with humanity, craic and honesty. The excerpt of the piece performed at the showcase will be 20 minutes in total.
Casting call for two performers for The Ache of It, a new work by Caitlin Magnall Kearns ✨
To be performed as part of CRIPtic Arts’ The Acts at Bristol Old Vic Weston Studio in January 2026 🌟
Deadline: Friday 31st October.
Find out more and apply - cripticarts.org/jobs-2/
Want to know how to build a bespoke rehearsal process that suits your show? Join us next Tuesday for Building a Rehearsal Process with Debbie Hannah! ✨
Our workshops are free and open to anyone!
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-b...
A red border with the Fringe Theatre Awards logo surrounds a photo. Liberty logo is digitally imposed behind a professional studio shot. Three women, two are white and one has brown skin, surround a pile of sand against a grey background in a variety of dynamic balletic positions. Photo by Mefus Photography of Daughters of the Sea.
Larger version of the Fringe Theatre Awards logo. Red and white text over a black circle with red ribbon overlaid reading "Access". Text at top reads "25/26 nomination"
We're delighted to share that we've been nominated in the Access Category of @fringetheatreaward.bsky.social for Liberty ✨
The Fringe Theatre Awards congratulate CRIPtic Arts in the Access Category for their “Liberty Festival”
Please see full nominations on the FTA website #theFTA
The image has an orange background with a photo of faciliator Ellie Spirrett. She is a white woman with long brown hair is standing in pink and blue light. She is wearing a black jumpsuit with and white flowers on it. At the top of the image is the Spread the Word, CRIPtic arts and City Bridge Foundation logo in white. Below is the title ‘connect through creativity’ in white. On the bottom left of the poster reads ‘6th October. Writing into the News. With Ellie Spirrett’ in white writing
Join Ellie Spirrett as they lead workshop and host open mic exploring how we tackle world news, hold onto own voices & protect ourselves from burnout.
✍️ Part of the @cripticarts.bsky.social x Spread the Word Writers Salon.
📅 Mon 6 October, 6.30pm
📍Online
🎟️FREE - book via link tinyurl.com/ywn9pkxa
1 - Production shot of Midgitte Bardot performing on stage, with mouth wide mid song, singing into a microphone.
2 - Production shot of Rebekah on stage. She looks down at the electric guitar she's playing whilst singing into a microphone.
3 - Two audience members enjoying the music, one holds a tamborine above his head.
4 - Production shot of SO SHA on stage, knelt down looking directly at the camera whilst singing into a microphone.
About last night... 👀
We kicked of Liberty Festival in style last night at The Clapham Grand! 🎉 🔥
With an incredible line up from Midgitte Bardot, SO SHA, Ebony Rose Dark, Santi Tonauac Castro and Sound Minds!
Two continuous graphics with text overlaid on an image of Chisato, a Japanese woman with a black bob. She stands in a white tunic dress in front of a blurred background of trees and greenery. Text reads "Disabled voices bring unique perspectives that challenge mainstream narratives. By spotlighting them, we create space for authenticity and diversity. My disability informs my art by shaping the way I approach the body, presence, and silence, it allows me to transform limitation into creative possibility."
Two continuous graphics with text overlaid on an image of Chisato, a Japanese woman with a black bob. She stands in a white tunic dress in front of a blurred background of trees and greenery. Text reads "Disabled voices bring unique perspectives that challenge mainstream narratives. By spotlighting them, we create space for authenticity and diversity. My disability informs my art by shaping the way I approach the body, presence, and silence, it allows me to transform limitation into creative possibility."
Q&A with artist, Chisato Minamimura, creator of The Lost Golden Lotus ✨
Free tickets are nearly sold out for The Lost Golden Lotus at Tara Theatre this Saturday as part of Liberty Festival, so be sure to book yours quick before they're all gone.
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A white hand holds up print in front of the exterior of Battersea Arts Centre, the sun is shining. In the hand are two pieces of print, the first is a flyer/programme for Liberty Festival featuring artwork by Rachel Gadsden, the second is a map of the Wandsworth area, featuring various venues and train stations.
Have you seen our print out and about? Did you know it opens up to a handy map of all the venues we're taking over for Liberty Festival? 👀
Cover artwork by Rachel Gadsden 🎨
Timetable for Liberty Festival. Wednesday includes Liberty Festival Opening Party at Clapham Grand. Thursday includes When the World Turns and Songs of Self Soothing at BAC Lower Hall Suite, Capturing the Forest at BAC Members Bar and Dorodango workshop, GOBLIN and Elvis Died of Burgers at Battersea Arts Centre. Friday includes When the World Turns, Love In and SADBOI at Battersea Arts Centre, Capturing the Forest at BAC Members Bar and CRIPtic Presents: Past, Present, Future at Tara Theatre. Saturday includes Altar to Joy and Disco Neurotica and Deaf Rave Takeover at Battesea Arts Centre, Capturing the Forest at BAC Members Bar, Love in at BAC Cafe, The Lost Golden Lotus at Tara Theatre, Open Mic at The Bedford and Hexagram at World Heart Beat. Sunday includes Dorodango Workshop and Daughters of the Sea at Battersea Arts Centre, Capturing the Forest at BAC Members Bar, Life of I at Tara Theatre and Sunday Picnic in that Park at Battersea Park.
With so much happening this week (have we mentioned how excited we are for Liberty Festival?), have a look at this handy guide to see what events, shows, installations and workshops you can make it to.
✨ Liberty Festival
🗓️ Wed 24 - Sun 28 Sep
🎟️ All events free!
1 - Text above image. Text reads "It’s INTERCONNECTEDNESS that makes Battersea so special." The band The Outpatients are performing at Kew Gardens. Four men are on stage playing keyboard, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, and drum kit. They are surrounded by lush vegetation, in the background is the glass and ironwork of the Temperate House.
2 - White text on blue background. Text reads “I think what’s important about Sound Minds is that we’re user-led organisation. And we don’t do music and art therapy per se, but we do believe passionately that creative activity is good for people’s wellbeing and their recovery journey.”
Check out the interview with Battersea-based mental health charity, Sound Mind's, CEO Chas de Swiet to find out more about the charity and his connection to Liberty Festival.
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1 - “I think that there is a sense in a lot of places that work made by disabled people is of less quality than work made by abled people, which is such NONSENSE.” Digitally imposed over Jack, a white non-binary person with bright green hair and wearing a white t-shirt stands with their back to the camera under UV light, doing a morning stretch. They are surrounded by trinkets; a tiny pink flamingo, a book, leaves, a water bottle, a shiny pink love-heart shaped disco purse, and other nondescript things.
2 - Same image as before with this text digitally added: “It's also really important that disabled artists are given the space and the time and the ability to make work that isn't entirely about being disabled.“
Jack Wakely Talks Disability, Clowning, and GOBLIN
Check out the interview with Jack ahead of their performance of GOBLIN at Liberty Festival this Thursday! A handful of extra tickets have been released but grab them quick before they're all gone!
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"Extra tickets released" is digitally imposed behind a professional studio shot. Three women, two are white and one has brown skin, surround a pile of sand against a grey background in a variety of dynamic balletic positions. Photo by Mefus Photography of Daughters of the Sea.
That's right! Extra tickets now added to many of the sold out (and FREE) events taking part as part of Liberty Festival 2025 😱
🗓️ 24-29 Sept
🎟️ All events FREE!
🔗 Book your spot before they're all gone! -welcometowandsworth.com/liberty-fest...
A behind the scenes look at The Lost Golden Lotus 👀
✨ The Lost Golden Lotus at Liberty Festival 2025
🗓️ Saturday 27th September
📍 Tara Theatre
🎟️ Free!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1500522115...
The first time to experience it in person...
✨ How to be Held: Songs of Self-Soothing at Liberty Festival 2025
🗓️ Thurs 25th September
🕓 4pm to 7pm
📍 Battersea Arts Centre
🎟️ Free! No booking required.
How to be Held: Songs of Self-Soothing is an immersive, multi-sensory sound installation within a
Join artist Kristina Veasey for a sensory exploration of the forest... 🍃
Two free new workshops added! Led by the artist behind Capturing the Forest.
Capturing the Forest Workshops ✨
🗓️ Thursday 25 Sep at 6pm
🗓️ Sunday 28 Sep at 12pm
📍 Battersea Arts Centre
🎟️ Free!
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We're SO EXCITED about this upcoming season of Connect Through Creativity, jam packed with free workshops and networking to get your creativity flowing and up your game 🔥
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/cc/criptic-a...
Text reads "2 weeks to go!" digitally added onto image of Sim Campbell sitting centre stage on a sofa. He is a black man with dyed dreadlocks, wearing a black vest, grey shorts and white socks. He's surrounded by mysterious figures wearing trench coats, masks and hats. They frame him as they pass objects to eachother, behind and around him. But Sim is looking intently at his own hands, which are held up in front of him as he uses sign language.
In just two weeks time we'll be partying it up at the Liberty Festival Opening Party 🥳
Liberty Festival 2025 will be an unmissable week of disabled-led art, music, theatre & joy ✨
🗓️ 24-29 Sept
📍 Wandsworth
🎟️ All events FREE!
🔗 welcometowandsworth.com/liberty-fest...
✨ Host & special performance reveal ✨
Open Mic at Liberty Festival
🗓️ Saturday 27th September
🕛 1-3pm
📍 The Bedford, Balham
🎟️ Free!
Hosted by Lolo Brow with special performance by Maddie Morris 🔥
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1450127924...
A graphic introducing our open call. Text reads 'Open Awards. Supporting bold creative visions from disabled artists.' Next to this is a photo of three performers in colourful costumes dance on a circular, illuminated stage under a large ring of lights suspended from the ceiling. The theatrical set resembles a futuristic nightclub or cabaret venue with neon signage, curved architectural elements, and vibrant purple and blue lighting throughout the space.
💥 Applications are now open for our Open Awards 2025/26! 💥
We’re offering £413k to disabled artists in England, Scotland and Wales.
Got a bold, brilliant idea that’s ready to shake things up? Applications are open now until Monday 29 September 2025.
Find out more and apply: bit.ly/4mHxqRZ
We invite you to join us on Monday 4 August from 7-8pm to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month. Deaf poet, actor & filmmaker Sahera Khan presents Sign Poems and is in conversation with Newham Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz on Zoom. Free. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/roots-and-...
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Liberty logo is digitally imposed behind a production shot. Midgitte Bardot, a person with dwarfism, performs on stage. They wear bold white makeup with blue eyeshadow covered mostly by thin white sunglasses, a glamorous blonde wig, red fish net tights and silky white shorts. They hold a cymbal in front of their chest which reflects golden light, with rays of more golden light flooding from the top left. Photo by Holly Revell.
🍁 This autumn, Liberty Festival 2025 brings a celebration of disabled creativity to London - featuring four alumni artists and two Unlimited commissions.
Experience an electrifying programme of free events: bit.ly/4f0TKmY
@cripticarts.bsky.social
A poster to promote our latest campaign, Free Reads. An image at the top showing people sat at a desk reading and writing. Underneath is a light blue background with black lettering saying, 'FREE READS 2025. Applications open. London writer on a low income? Apply for professional feedback: - on your manuscript - on your submissions package - with an editor one-on-one Submissions close 7 October 2025 Find out more: tinyurl.com/2c2hd599' Below that are the TLC, Arts Council England and Spread the Word logos
📣 Free Reads 2025 is now live! If you are a London-based writer on low income, you could receive professional, editorial feedback on your writing and support on your writing journey.
Find out more: tinyurl.com/2c2hd599
@artscouncilengland.bsky.social @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social
A light blue background with headshots of Remi Graves (a black person with a shaved head, staring off camera, wearing a white shirt) and Liam Konnemann (a trans man with dark brown hair, wearing a black shirt and thin chain looking into camera). Underneath in black capitals reads '30th Anniversary LGBTQIA+ Emerging Writer Commissions. We are commissioning 3 LGBTQIA+ writers. Submissions close Tuesday 19 August 2025. Find out more: tinyurl.com/3yjrtyue'. The Spread the Word logo is in the bottom right hand corner in black.
We are excited to announce our 30th Anniversary LGBTQIA+ Emerging Writer commissions are now open!
🗓️ Submission deadline is 19th Aug. The selected writers will be judged by Remi Graves and @liamkonemann.bsky.social
Find out more - tinyurl.com/3yjrtyue
Are you a disabled facilitator interested in running a one off creative workshop? 🔥
This could be game design, dance, painting or anything creative you want to share! 🎨 🎶 🎭
This is a paid opportunity for an upcoming season of our online, free workshops, Connect Through Creativity
Find out more👇
🌟 Set, Props & Costume Designer 🌟
Fee: £2,400 (£150/day for an estimated 16 full days or equivalent hours, where 1 day is equivalent to 8 hours), plus hotels, transport and per diems as required
Contract: Freelance/self-employed
Location: Pre-show meetings virtual/hybrid; rehearsals, London/Bristol
🌟 Assistant Director 🌟
We are particularly looking for an assistant director who requires wheelchair access in order to work. Extensive experience is not required.
Fee: £2,100 (£150/day, where 1 day is equivalent to 8 hours)
Contract: Freelance/self-employed
Production shot of The Acts. Anna, a freckled white woman with long brown wavy hair, Matthew, a white male, with light brown hair with a few greys, and Peyvand, an olive skinned woman with a black bob cut and septum piercing wearing a blue cover-all, perform on a stage washed with blue light, they all look up wearing dark sunglasses. Text digitally imposed reads "We're hiring!"
We're searching for two people to join the team for our upcoming show, The Acts 2025 🔥 🔥 🔥
Keep reading to find out more, or read the full descriptions and apply here 👉 cripticarts.org/jobs-2/
The deadline for applications is 5pm on Monday 18 August 2025.
Liberty Festival will provide a fantastic platform for disabled creatives to showcase their talent, innovative ideas and bold new work as part of Wandsworth’s year as my London Borough of Culture.
See the free programme of events, produced in collaboration with @cripticarts.bsky.social:
