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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. MBE, Director for Change for Ramps on the Moon.

Michèle takes the Ramps on the Moon podcast straight into the engine room of mainstream theatre. Across all episodes, she chats with actors, directors, producers and chief executives to uncover the joys, the tensions, the breakthroughs and the lessons in placing disabled people at the centre of cultural organisations.

Michèle shares the realities of the ‘now’ and what the future can hold for disability equality in the arts with Anti-Ableism weaved into every part of an organisation.

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