CRIPtic Arts

Please verify humanity. Tick all the boxes containing a human. Not long now until SqueezeBox takes over the Barnfield theatre to bring you their latest piece of work: an absurd, multisensory, interactive promenade performance with escape room vibes. Join us for a unique theatre experience. May 21st and 22nd only. Image description: a brightly coloured scrambled image that becomes clear enough to reveal a profile image of a white dark-haired man in a wheelchair. Words read BOXED! What space is left for humanity by Hugh Malyon and Tim Dollimore. Below scrambled texts types out : Verify your humanity followed by Get your tickets. Exeternorthcott.co.uk/events/boxed #accessibleevents #immersivetheatre #exetertheatre #barnfieldtheatre #disabilityarts

🌟Wild Women Writers’ Salon 24 — Wonderfully Other: On Disability, Visibility, and the Right to a Rich and Radiant Life🌟 With @beewyld @grace_quantock @cosmogyny @rachelcdailey @pollyrowena 📆Thursday May 28th 7-8.30pm BST 🎙️Online & Recorded 🤟BSL supported 🎟️Pay What You Can 🔗Link in bio @beewyld What does it mean to live a full, vivid, expansive life in a world that so often asks disabled people to shrink, adapt, or disappear? In this salon, we embrace the wonderfully other, not as something to overcome, but as something to honour, explore, and claim. 🌟Hosted by Victoria Bennett, this conversation brings together four extraordinary writers whose work reshapes how we understand disability, visibility, care, and the body: 📚Grace Quantock, author of Living Well with Chronic Illness, whose work offers a compassionate, practical, and deeply human roadmap for navigating long-term illness with agency and self-trust. 📚Rachel Charlton-Dailey, author of Ramping Up Rights, who writes powerfully on disability justice, systemic inequality, and the unfinished work of access and equity. 📚Sophie Strand, author of The Body Is a Doorway, whose lyrical, philosophical work explores illness, ecology, and the body as a site of transformation and connection. 📚Polly Atkin, author of Some of Us Just Fall and several poetry collections, including her latest, Emergency Dream, exploring chronic illness, landscape, and belonging. Together, we will be exploring the politics of being seen, the tension and difference between survival and flourishing; disability as identity, experience, and culture, and the right to joy, pleasure, creativity, and a life that is not defined by limitation 🌟This is not a conversation about overcoming. It is a conversation about living fully, richly, and on one’s own terms.🌟 As always, the salon is an intimate, thoughtful space, with time for audience reflection and questions. So let’s get the conversation started 💖 Tickets available now. #wildwomenwriterssalons #disability #author #inspiringconnections #booktalk

𝘈𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 A procession for imagined worlds. An installation centred around a mobility scooter reimagined as a ceremonial parade vehicle. You just missed it ✨ 📍@spikeisland 50 // Open Studios May 2026

Excited to be apart of @cripticarts Launchpad Cohort!! . My work explores the body as both material and language, questioning how physical extremes can hold emotional, political and narrative meaning. Our creative practice sits at the intersection of high-level circus skill and character-driven storytelling. . My contortion dance and physical theatre practice interrogates the limits of the body, combining choreographic structure with extreme physicality to generate new movement languages. I work with ground contortion as well as specialist apparatuses, including a one-of-a-kind spinning contortion cube and a unique mouthpiece archery skill, using contortion to explore vertiginous movement, freedom, tension, resistance and transformation. . My process centres on generating original physical vocabularies and integrating them with theatre as an interdisciplinary practice. . My solo work has been supported by Arts Council England, Jerwood Arts, Cirko Vertigo Italy and the National Centre for Circus Arts, and was a part of the CircusNext platform. I am currently collaborating with @morganbarbour , a world-renowned performer and record holder. Our combined performance experience spans five continents, including appearances on America’s Got Talent, work with Harry Styles, A Magical Cirque Christmas, Kazakh State Circus, The Box, Giffords Circus, Coliseu Lisboa and The Roundhouse. . We will be working on developing our show “The Double Draw” with the support of the Launchpad program!

Meet the organisations reshaping accessibility in the creative arts.   Youth Music’s Shift the Scene Fund supports ambitious programmes for Disabled children and young people - championing genuine inclusion across all art forms. These organisations are building spaces where Disabled voices don’t just take part, they lead.   Get to know all the recipients and read the full announcement - link in bio. The Shift the Scene Fund has been made possible thanks to National Lottery funding via @aceagrams

The Art House Cripping Breath Residency – Rachel Gadsden, Christopher Samuel and Liberty Bligh 08 April 2026 - 29 October 2027 Cripping Breath is a collaborative project emerging from a major interdisciplinary research programme, bringing together disabled artists with lived experience of respiratory illness and mechanical ventilation. Developed through a long-term partnership with the University of Sheffield and supported by the Wellcome Trust, the project explores breathing not only as a medical condition, but as a social, political, and cultural one. Bringing together the work of artists Rachel Gadsden, Christopher Samuel and Liberty Bligh, the project foregrounds lived experience as a vital form of knowledge and artistic practice. Working across installation, text, and interdisciplinary forms, the artists offer deeply personal and critical perspectives. Their work challenges dominant narratives around illness and disability, repositioning lived experience as a site of authorship and resistance. The artists will participate in a collaborative residency running in 2026 and early 2027, culminating in an exhibition at The Art House in late 2027. Emerging in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cripping Breath opens up urgent conversations about life and the conditions that shape who gets to breathe safely. The project extends into wider social and structural questions, including air pollution, poverty, housing, and access to care. At its core, Cripping Breath is a project about interdependence between bodies, technologies, environments, and systems, and about rethinking how we understand breath itself. Find out more .uk/residencies/rachel-gadsden/?fbclid=IwVERDUARMSXJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeMsJs53S431Cr9MOPSDe1XbWSl8nciy-UkhnbmKl6NdO3Ll8RQgQpthN3ges_aem_BIoTob9pEug0RusTuawdOA Image credit – Louise Atkinson

Some snippets from the big thing I wrote about my experiences being a disabled voice actor, what I've learnt, some advice for those new to the industry, a list of groups, organisations and coaches that have helped me and what I want the industry to do to make things easier for us. The full thing is at the link in my bio, and there's also a voiceover if you'd rather not read it. I've been writing this for the past 2 years right from when I started; adding things as I learn them and fleshing bits out as I discover more. But then I put off finishing and posting it because I convinced myself that a certain brand of people were gonna think I was EVIL for saying that things are often expensive and inaccessible. Usually whenever I talk about inaccessibility I'm very to the point and always think "ah it be reyt, sod anyone who has a problem", but I think the fact rejection is so common in this industry and there seems to be a bunch of unspoken social rules (along with the state of the world) meant that I was less fired up than usual and got in my head. So this is me saying it be reyt and posting it anyway. If anyone fancies sharing it it'd be much appreciated. As much as I love doing the work I do and there are some lovely people in this industry, there's still a lot that needs to change so disabled talent can feel safe, supported and able to do a job that has the potential to be accessible to so many. Also if anyone's got a podcast or event and you need someone to talk about accessibility within voice acting (especially if gaming related) please wang me a message, I'd love to come and yap [Image descriptions in alt text and pinned comment] #Actor #VoiceActor #Voiceover #GameDev #Disabled

pigeons are badasses. punk rock don't give a fuck 🕊️⭐ Pruu the Pidj. Bristol Old Vic. January 2026. [image description: Pruu the Pidj lies sideways on her spiked bed under pink stage lighting, unbothered, at home in the impossible.] #pruuthepidj #newwriting #theatre #pigeonlovers❤️ #filipinaartist

My time as a @cripticarts Reach artist was a total game changer. The friendship and support shown by the CRIPtic team when I was on the 2024 programme was a real turning point in my career and a shining example (and reminder to self) of how you can still make work and look after yourself and others. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to make the work I needed to make back then, which I can now reveal is to be the third and final show in the CVNT Trilogy, a triptych of solo shows exploring the institutions which shape this funny world we find ourselves in. CVNTCLAVE is the first in the trilogy, and will be the focus for the next year or so. And as I throw myself into that universe I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking and acknowledging the foundations, and CRIPtic Arts is a big part of it whether they know it or not lol Thank you @jamierhale for believing in my work and changing my whole life, thank you @wakely for your unending support, and thank you @nicolamileswild for being the best, most compassionate dramaturg and facilitator one could ever ask for ❤️ I also couldn’t have asked for a lovelier, kinder cohort of fellow artists, you are all so talented and I feel so lucky I got to make work amongst you 😭 Here are some photos from our residential - it was such a special time. 📸 cheers @megterzza Two-year delay in posting, I’m really outdoing myself. Hence long caption time ig

Next Friday, my show Quality of Life is Not a Measurable Outcome will be on at the Cheng Building, Jesus College, Oxford, as part of some exciting research exploring how it changes how people think about social care and cost, and followed by a discussion on those topics. I'd love to see you there! For tickets visit tinyurl.com/QoLOX

when someone asks you why you NEED that third cup of coffee ☕ 🫴🏻 Pruu the Pidj. Bristol Old Vic. January 2026. my first ever play! and the first-ever music-led theatre play starring a ✨pijon✨ Made possible by @cripticarts ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ [image description: SO SHA performing as Pruu the Pidj on stage at Bristol Old Vic, in full costume, high energy, absolutely no notes.] #pruuthepidj #theatre #newwriting #pigeons #filipinaartist

I'm bringing my show Quality of Life is Not a Measurable Outcome to the Cheng Building, Jesus College, Oxford on the 27th May (next Friday) at 6pm, as part of some exciting research exploring how it changes how people think about social care and cost, and followed by a discussion on those topics. I'd love to see you there! For tickets visit tinyurl.com/QoLOX