Posted on: 21 Aug 2025
Extensive BBC Press Coverage for Extant at the Edinburgh Festival 2025 Our aim to make the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 more accessible to visually impaired audiences has been a resounding success. Thanks to funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation who support our Enhance programme, we’ve been able to attract a lot of press attention, demonstrate […]
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Posted on: 24 Jul 2025
Collective Dreaming – October 2025 and January 2026 Opportunity This Collective Dreaming is part of a series of Extant wide interventions across 2025/26 including: organisational research and development periods and a brand-new role we’re currently recruiting – Thinker-in-Residence. Extant are in the middle of a period of planned leadership and organisational change and are exploring […]
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Posted on: 23 Jul 2025
What’s Useful To Know – Insights for Blind and Visually Impaired People When Starting Out in the Arts After completing a Masters in Applied Theatre and gaining experience through internships, placements, and a mix of freelance and contract-based work, I began to reflect on all the things I wish I’d known when starting out. These […]
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Posted on: 11 Jul 2025
Applications are now open for our Thinker-In-Residence (internship) Extant is delighted to be offering a Thinker-in-Residence (Internship) as part of the Get Set Progress scheme. Extant is the UK’s leading professional performing arts company that explores visual impairment to create unique and innovative artistic experiences, placing visually impaired people at the centre of all it […]
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Posted on: 27 Jun 2025
The Extermination of Disabled People at Work – Access To Work in 2025 Each week at our Extant team meeting we offer a nugget of information from the arts news world that has caught our attention. My initial go to place is Disability Arts Online, so imagine my alarm last month (23rd May to be […]
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Posted on: 19 Jun 2025
Access for visually impaired audiences doesn’t need to break the budget At Extant, we are often approached by artists keen to make their work accessible to visually impaired audiences, but commonly they feel blocked by lack of knowledge, time and resources. We know that for many artists, particularly those working at fringe level, these can […]
Read more Posted on: 9 Jun 2025
Welcome Ava Brewster Extant are delighted to announced that Ava Brewster has been appointed as our first Trainee Creative Producer and starts her role in June 2025. Our Artistic Director, Maria Oshodi states that “with the current paucity of skilled theatre producers in the industry, I am proud that we are going some way […]
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Posted on: 13 May 2025
No Dramas – The Process of a National Pilot From October 2024-March 2025, we delivered 20* (*actually 21 but who’s counting?) No Dramas workshops across the country. No Dramas had previously only happened in London and online with a focus on improvisation, so our task with this pilot was to create a new 5 session […]
Read more Posted on: 29 Apr 2025
Extant are delighted to announced that Tam Gilbert has been appointed as the second Trainee Artistic Director (TAD2) and will start her role in April 2025. Our Artistic Director, Maria Oshodi states that “it is with great excitement that we welcome Tam as our second Trainee Artistic Director to Extant – I am sure she […]
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Posted on: 17 Apr 2025
No Dramas Meets Some Unexpected Characters As part of my Projects Assistant internship at Extant I was able to attend 4 different No Dramas sessions. It was interesting getting to learn about the different facilitators’ styles and the importance of creating safe accessible spaces to deliver drama workshops in. My first trip was to The […]
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Posted on: 15 Apr 2025
Digital Inclusion Award Winners We are thrilled to announce that we are joint winners of the 2025 Digital Culture Awards Digital Inclusion category for our audio drama, Unseen, sharing the award with Zoo Co for their work on ‘Perfect Show for Rachel‘. Our Sound Designer, Ian Rattray, was longlisted for the Digital Ambassador award. Ian […]
Read more Posted on: 15 Apr 2025
Extant and ZOO announce Edinburgh Festival Fringe Partnership Extant and ZOO are working in partnership to make ZOO the first fully accessible venue for visually impaired audiences at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2025. All shows in ZOO’s programme will offer different forms of access for visually impaired audiences, including audio described performances. Headlining ZOO’s […]
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