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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/
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.
October 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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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!

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October 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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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
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"
October 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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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!
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.
September 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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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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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."
September 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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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 🎨
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.
September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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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!
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.
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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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 - 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.”
September 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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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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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.“
September 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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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...
"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.
September 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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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...
September 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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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
September 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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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...
A purple graphic with white text reading "So you want to..." in bold, followed by a repeating motif of text "make theate, write, chat, network, be creative, care"
September 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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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...
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.
September 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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✨ 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...
September 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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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.
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!"
July 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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✨ FULL LINE UP ANNOUNCED ✨

Liberty Festival 2025 lands this autumn with an unmissable week of disabled-led art, music, theatre & joy ✨

🗓️ 24-29 Sept
📍 Battersea Arts Centre, Clapham Grand, Tara Theatre, The Bedford, World Heartbeat, Wandsworth Civic Suite, Battersea Park
🎟️ All events FREE!
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.
July 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Introducing our Launchpad 2025 artists! ✨

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A collage of four people above a bold abstract artwork with a mix of reds with white text reading "Launchpad". At the bottom of the graphic are the CRIPtic and Arts Council England Logos
June 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Introducing our Incubate 2025 cohort 🎉

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A collage of three people above a bold abstract artwork with a mix of reds, pinks and oranges, with white text reading "Incubate". At the bottom of the graphic are the CRIPtic and Arts Council England Logos
June 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Introducing our Breakthrough 2025 artist.... 🌟

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Mohammad. A man wearing a black t-shirt and glasses stands gently, arms crossed in a self-embrace — his right hand resting on his left shoulder, and his left arm, which has a visible disability, folded across his chest. Behind him stands a sculpture of a dancing girl with only one arm. She appears to be leaping or twirling mid-air, wearing a dress that flows like feathers. The background resembles a theatrical stage, with curtains drawn aside and a dreamy, forest-like setting behind her. The photo is taken at an exhibition titled “The Last Rain in a wonderland ” in Nottingham — where the artist shares a childhood memory of embracing himself during moments of loneliness, using the same different hand that now holds so much meaning.
June 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Introducing our Reach 2025 cohort... 🔥

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1 - A collage of six people above a bold abstract artwork with a mix of purples and blues with white text reading "Reach". At the bottom of the graphic are the CRIPtic and Arts Council England Logos
June 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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We’re thrilled to announce our 2025 artist cohort! 🎉 This amazing group is set to make some seriously exciting work this year, and we can’t wait to support them every step of the way.

Keep reading or head to our website to find out more... ✨

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"Meet our CRIPtic Artists" in white text and CRIPtic and Arts Council England logo above an abstract painting featuring vibrant blue and green paint splatters on black.
June 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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It all starts here... 😱

This week we're kicking off our 2025 Artist Development Programmes!

We can't wait to introduce you to this year's cohort, they're an amazing bunch 🔥 🔥

Watch this space...

🎨 Gorgeous artwork by Rachel Gadsden who was a Breakthrough 2024 Artist
A bold abstract painting by Rachel Gadsden. Two abstract figures painted in vivid greens and deep purple lean into each other and swirl around with a sense of freedom and movement. They're painted against a vibrant purple backdrop with deeper purple brush strokes.
June 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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📢 ‪@disabilityarts.bsky.social‬ have compiled a page of info on the issues affecting Access to Work customers and new applicants. They've also made a list of actions you can take to fight the proposed changes to Access to Work.

Read now and help #ProtectAtW disabilityarts.online/resources/gu...
A blue background with boxes in the centre that contain white text: “How you can help fight against the changes to Access to Work. 1 Find out more about the changes on Disability Arts Online’s website. 2 Sign and share the open letter from the Culture Sector. 3 Include the hashtag #ProtectAtW when posting on social media. 4 Write to your MP using the template letter. 5 Respond to the current DWP consultation. All resources are available at disabilityarts.online/protectatw” Below is #ProtectAtW written in grey and the DAO and Cathy Waller Co logos.
June 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Come and work with us! 🌟

The Finance and Operations Manager is an exciting new role at CRIPtic Arts, and will work with the Artistic and Executive Director, alongside the Head of Programmes and Producing...
Sam, a mixed-race young man with light skin, dark curly hair, brown eyes and a slim build in his manual wheelchair rehearses Just Short of Saintly. He is wearing a white t shirt with a paisley pattern and grey and white trousers. He leans to his right with arms raised. White text is overlaid reading "we're hiring"
May 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM