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!

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. welcometowandsworth.com/news/chisato...

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 🎨

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!

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. welcometowandsworth.com/news/sound-m...

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! welcometowandsworth.com/news/jack-wa...

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! bac.org.uk/whats-on/cap...

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...

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...

💥 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-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X9d...

🍁 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

📣 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

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👇

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:

✨FULL LINE UP ANNOUNCED✨ #LibertyLDN, @london.gov.uk's flagship festival celebrating D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists, lands in Wandsworth this autumn💫 🗓️ 24-29 Sept 🎟️ All events are FREE! 🔗 welcometowandsworth.com/liberty-fest...

✨ 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!

Introducing our Launchpad 2025 artists! ✨ cripticarts.org/launchpad-ar...

Introducing our Incubate 2025 cohort 🎉 cripticarts.org/incubate-art...

Introducing our Breakthrough 2025 artist.... 🌟 cripticarts.org/breakthrough...

Introducing our Reach 2025 cohort... 🔥 cripticarts.org/reach-artists/

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... ✨ cripticarts.org/artist-devel...

Join a workshop with @cripticarts.bsky.social‬ and Lilach Yosiphon that will offer tools to work bilingually in BSL and English in a rehearsal space. When - 23 Jun Where - Online Cost - Free disabilityarts.online/events/works...

Booking is open - hope you can join us @unitytheatre.bsky.social @londonfriend.bsky.social @cripticarts.bsky.social

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

Join @cripticarts.bsky.social‬ for the 3rd and final workshop with Genevieve Barr and learn how to develop screenwriting language, identity and confidence When - 16 Jun Where - Online Cost - Free disabilityarts.online/events/works...

Join us on 8 June for an online workshop led by @pegasusunder.bsky.social with @cymerafestival.co.uk , where you'll learn how to uncover your novel’s through-line! BSL Interpretation will be provided. Get your ticket now: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/weaving-the-...

📢 ‪@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...

Join Connect through Creativity’s @cripticarts.bsky.social‬ x‪ @spread-the-word.bsky.social‬ Salon with Josephine Dickinson and sign up for the Salon open mic if you’d like to share your work. When - 02 Jun Where - Online Cost - Free disabilityarts.online/events/write...

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...

Cuts to ‘Access to Work’ threaten the entire creative sector. These cuts are an existential threat to disabled creatives, the disability arts sector, and all disabled people in work in general. Read our full statement 👇 www.instagram.com/p/DKHvvr8RyNX/

Join our creative community 🎭 🖌️ ✍️ 🎶 Connect through Creativity, is a year long programme of arts workshops, writers’ salons, 1:1 advice and networking sessions. They are open to deaf & disabled people ✨

Did you know our free creative workshops take place online nearly every week? 🌟 Connect through Creativity, is a year long programme of arts workshops, writers’ salons, 1:1 advice and networking sessions. They are open to deaf & disabled people. Connect and become part of a Creative Community! ✨

For this season of Connect Through Creativity, our networking session will be led by none other than our Artistic Director (and legend), Jamie Hale! (@jamierhale.bsky.social) 🔥 Book your free space and drop any questions below 👇 🗓️ 26th May - 6:30-8pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1365344916...

Sell out warning🔥 Tix are nearly gone for our next Writer Salon with @shepherdpoet.bsky.social - book your FREE place now to avoid disapppointment. spreadtheword.org.uk/events/spread-the-word-x-criptic-salon-create-in-language-with-josephine-dickinson @cripticarts.bsky.social

We have some really brilliant facilitators for this year's Artist Development Programmes 🌟 With only three days left to apply, here's Nickie Miles Wildin, our Reach facilitator, to tell you a little bit more about Reach specifically.

Only four days left to apply for this year's artist development programmes! ⌛️ We can't wait to read your applications!

To celebrate #DeafAwarenessWeek we have curated an exciting 3 months of free online workshops facilitated by leading Deaf artists across the UK ✨ Chisato Minamimura is leading three incredible workshops, Creative From Paper, on 3rd and 17th June 🎨 ✂️ 📄 🎭

Why did we curate an entire season of free Connect Through Creative workshops led by Deaf facilitators? Here's what Jamie Hale, our Artistic Director, had to say 🧵

Attention!! 📣 One week left to apply for our Artist Development Programmes 😱 📅 Applications open now until Sunday 11 May 2025, 5pm! 🔗 Learn more & apply now - cripticarts.org/artist-devel... #ArtistDevelopment #CRIPticArts

Considering applying for our Artist Development Programmes but not sure if they're for you? Keep reading to see the standard access provisions we have in place. 🖌️ 🧵

The second in a series of three workshops with Genevieve Barr and @cripticarts.bsky.social . This workshop will look at how to find the right story engine for the stories we want to tell. When - 13 May Where - Online Cost - Free disabilityarts.online/events/a-cal...

A few free spaces left for this fab workshop - grab them whilst you can! 🔥

▪️ @cripticarts.bsky.social are looking for someone to join them as Head of Operations, Finance and Development. This is an exciting new role at the organisation. Closing - 18 May Location - Remote ££ - £40.8K-£42K FTE disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...