Two male presenting figures who are performing outdoors. One is a wheelchair user and is learning far forward and posing on all fours while the wheelchair is still strapped to their waist. The other is behind the wheelchair user and holding onto the wheelchair with one outstretched hand, while crouching down with one long stretched behind them. There are a group of people of mixed age and gender in the background watching the performers.

Liberty Festival

Produced by CRIPtic Arts

Information

Liberty Festival will take place at BAC and other Wandsworth venues.

Festival runs 24-28 Sep, visiting BAC 25-28 Sep.

The Mayor of London’s flagship festival of work by disabled artists comes to Wandsworth as part of London Borough of Culture 2025.

Liberty Festival will spotlight and celebrate the very best disabled artists in Wandsworth and London as part of a joyful, radically inclusive festival where everyone is welcome. 

The festival will explore the disabled experience – past, present and future – and push artistic boundaries to create a fresh, resonant and vital experience, leaving a lasting legacy of widening inclusion to the arts in the borough.

Liberty Festival is part of Welcome to Wandsworth, London Borough of Culture. London Borough of Culture is a Mayor of London initiative.

Produced by CRIPtic Arts.

Gallery

Photos of previous Liberty festivals by Paul Fuller

Three people in purple dresses and a child in a pink top stand in a row, each with one hand on their heads.
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Five people in orange jumpsuits are standing one behind the other, their arms outstretched at different angles.
Two people hold a cup in one hand and a saucer in the other. They are leaning back with their mouths open wide.
Three people swirling ribbons on sticks.

Biographies

CRIPtic Arts exists to create an artistic landscape where disabled people flourish, providing active disabled leadership which advances world-class arts work with disabled creatives. From high-quality community activities to showcasing breakthrough performers; they’re blazing a revolution in accessibility.

Access

PRE EVENT INFORMATION

This event takes place in person in various spaces around the BAC building. There is step-free access to the ground floor, and step-free access to the first floor via a lift.

More detailed access information will be available once the line-up of events have been announced.

For more general information about access at BAC please visit our access page.

VISIT OUR ACCESS PAGE

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