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Liberty 2025 Open Call: Artistic Work, CRIPtic Arts

  •  London
  •  £15k-20k
  •  Part time
  •  Closes May 1, 2025
  •  team@cripticarts.org
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Job Summary

We are looking to programme bold, innovative, and thought-provoking work by disabled* artists for Liberty 2025, taking place from 24-28 September 2025. The festival will take place in venues / spaces across Wandsworth, with Battersea Arts Centre as the central hub.

Job Description

We are looking to programme bold, innovative, and thought-provoking work by disabled* artists for Liberty 2025, taking place from 24-28 September 2025. The festival will take place in venues / spaces across Wandsworth, with Battersea Arts Centre as the central hub.

The work commissioned could include creative performances presented live to audiences, screenings, interactive events, exhibitions or installations, talks, workshops, and discussions. It could be aimed at a general audience or a specific audience.

The minimum amount that you can apply for is £500. The maximum is £20,000.

As a guide, we are likely to take forward the following number of applications. We expect the project you are applying for to be near-completion with a plan for completion, or complete at the point of application, and the majority of the budget to go to presentation costs.

We are anticipating programming the below number of projects. This is just a guide to help with applications. The number and scale of the acts in the confirmed line up may vary.

  • 1 x headline: up to £20,000
  • 2 x large-scale: up to £10,000
  • 4 x mid-scale: up to £5,000
  • 3 x small-scale: up to £1,500
  • 5 x micro: up to £500

*When we talk about disabled people, we mean "all people who face disableist [including audist or neurotypist] barriers", or "people who identify themselves as disabled and/or are identified by others as disabled in society". To find out more about what we mean by this, please look at https://cripticarts.org/frequently-asked-questions-2/ - CRIPtic Arts FAQs page here.

https://welcometowandsworth.com/creative-health-and-wellbeing/liberty-festival/liberty-2025-open-call-artistic-work/ - Read the full call out description here.

Job Requirements

We want to hear from disabled creatives working across all artforms and disciplines, from live performance and digital art to community engagement projects and large-scale public works. We want work that is ready for presentation or exhibition, with minimal development required, and where it can be delivered at a high quality within budget.

We are committed to supporting a diverse range of work-from intimate storytelling to large-scale productions, panel discussions to interactive workshops, craft events to art installations. Whether you are an emerging artist who has just created their first piece, or an established creative with a major new work, we want to hear from you.

Job Responsibilities

We welcome proposals that:

  • Go beyond tropes of disability -whether exploring the disabled experience past, present, or future, or using a crip lens to engage with broader themes that challenge societal norms and redefine artistic possibilities.
  • Work that is immersive, engaging and accessible, especially for disabled people.
  • Take a creative approach to accessibility, ensuring work is inclusive and engaging.
  • Advocate for disabled people's rights, highlighting issues, experiences, and triumphs through art.
  • Attract new audiences to disability arts, reaching beyond traditional spaces and engaging the wider community.
  • Work that has the potential to tour across other UK and international arts festivals.

This opportunity is open to both individuals and organisations working in any artform, as long as the creative lead on the project is a disabled person.

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