In this episode Michele Taylor talks to Jamie Hale – a disabled and neurodivergent creative coach, trainer, and access consultant working to build cultures rooted in access, equity, and disability justice.  His work sits at the intersection of lived experience and professional practice. He is the Artistic Director at CRIPtic Arts, leading strategic development, commissioning, talent development, and organisational growth.

From this episode:

“I think there’s sometimes presumed to be a divide between great art and community art and this sense that disabled-led work is on the outskirts, it’s community art, it’s very nice to let them make art and maybe they’ll make a nice little play at the end, rather than creating work for audiences to experience and enjoy at a high level, at a high quality. And I think that the assumption that disabled-led work is inherently community art undermines the value both of community art and of kind of mainstream disabled-led work.”

Thank you Jamie for a brilliantly candid and fascinating chat.

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Ramps on the Moon Podcast is hosted by Michèle Taylor.

Michèle Taylor, is a disability equality trainer and consultant, and has been Director for Change for Ramps on the Moon since the Consortium was convened. For the 10 years, she has been supporting the partner theatres to embed disability equality and anti-ableism into their organisations and to realise their ambitions around elevating disabled people across the mainstream industry. In 2022 Michèle was honoured with an MBE For Services to Theatre and Disabled People.

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Read the full transcript here: Jamie Hale Transcript Ramps on the Moon Podcast