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Liberty Festival 2025 brings a celebration of disabled artistry to Wandsworth from 24–29 September. This year, disabled-led company CRIPtic Arts is curating the programme. Artistic Director, Jamie Hale tells Haneul Lee that audiences should expect creativity, conversations and above all, a sense of connection. Read by Haneul Lee. The article is available here.

BFI Southbank's We Crip Film Festival during this year's Disability Pride Month promised to be 'a reclamation by the disabled film community to champion our strength, creativity and ingenuity as we survive and thrive.' We Crip Film is BFI's 'intersectional disability advocacy group'. James Zatka-Haas reflects on its significance. Read by Joe Turnbull. The article is available here.

Artist and filmmaker Richard Butchins visits the Design and Disability exhibition at London’s V&A Museum. Promising to put disability on the map in the history of design, the show champions inclusion and accessibility – but does it offer anything more? The video review is available here. Design and Disability is at V&A, London until 15 February 2026. Free to disabled visitors, £16 otherwis...

Watch Us Lead is a new permanent exhibition by Christopher Samuel at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, combining interviews with disabled people of colour based in the region with stained glass and drawings by Samuel which bring the stories to life. Written and read by Ashokkumar Mistry. Read the article here.

Outside In provides a platform for artists who encounter significant barriers to the art world due to health, disability, social circumstance, or isolation. Gill Crawshaw visits their national open exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall. She finds diverse interpretations of the theme of Shelter , ranging from safety and home comforts to the dangers and insecurity that result when shelter is abs...

Fiona Moon’s one-woman Fringe show explores the shame, pain and grief of a neurodivergent life alongside a tapestry of furious stimming, facts, audience participation, and a small pink squishy brain companion. Written by Oren Shoesmith. Read by Rabindranath X Bhose. Read the article here.

Finger Talk is a new installation by Cathy Mager which foregrounds BSL as a living, evolving language with a rich cultural history, bringing together archival films, contemporary performance, animation and sound. Mark Sheerin went to experience the work at the Wellcome Collection. Read by Mark Sheerin.

The Dan Daw Show uses kink and theatricality to reclaim power and explore disabled sexuality in a way that is rarely seen on screen or stage. Elspeth Wilson experienced the show at Edinburgh International Festival in a way that put her bodymind at ease, despite the at times discomforting subject matter. Written and read by Elspeth Wilson. The article is published here.

Sonia Boué and Ashokkumar D Mistry interpret Southampton’s archive of the story of 4000 Basque children seeking refuge in Las Gemelas: ‘Arrival (a lexicon of unmaking)’. Colin Hambrook went to see the show, currently on exhibition at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Read by Colin Hambrook. Read the article here.

Colin Hambrook reflects on Claire Cunningham’s latest show Songs of the Wayfarer, bringing a world of hillwalking and Mahler together under one roof with her signature aesthetic and caring approach to audiences. Read by Colin Hambrook. Read the article here.