Posted on: 26 Feb 2026
Access To Work – Statement Extant is mortified at the current arbitrary and callas attack on disabled artists by the imposition of sudden reductions to their Access to Work support by the Department of Works and Pensions. We are in solidarity with established disabled arts leaders such as Jenny Sealey and emerging disabled artists in […]
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Posted on: 25 Feb 2026
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Showcase and Festival Callout Extant have big plans in 2026 and 2027 – and we want to hear from you about how your work and ideas might fit in. In summer 2026, Extant will be working with Underbelly and other partners to present a programme of work at Edinburgh Fringe, including a […]
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Posted on: 2 Feb 2026
Attending Online Training as a Visually Impaired Trainee Creative Producer By Ava Brewster, Trainee Creative Producer As a Trainee Creative Producer, I’m keen to learn as much as I can, build my confidence, and develop skills I don’t yet have much experience in. When I was offered the chance to attend two online training sessions […]
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Posted on: 21 Jan 2026
Dance Description –Phenomenon or Fallacy By Dr Maria Oshodi, Artistic Director & CEO I’ve witnessed a range of visually impaired accessible dance presentations and am involved on consulting and dramaturgy on some dance R&D’s and up-coming dance performances. The question with this form is always whether something so visual, in motion an often wordless, can […]
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Posted on: 8 Jan 2026
Opportunity! Apply for Extant’s Future Labs Come and test ideas in creative performance Labs with us this Spring! Lab 1: 18th-19th March at Battersea Arts Centre, London Lab 2: 3rd-4th June at Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester Taking inspiration from technology, climate challenges, preservation of the past and Nuvo-human thinking, we invite you to explore new […]
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Posted on: 18 Nov 2025
Performing Ethnography and Diaspora: Irish Women Migrants and the Lived Archive By Aisling Keavey, Thinker-In-Residence. My practice-led research uses photography, moving image, and archiving to explore the experiences of Irish women migrants in the UK. In this piece, I look at both the performance and performativity of ethnography and diaspora from an Irish migrant perspective. […]
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Posted on: 18 Nov 2025
What is the difference between access consultancy, access dramaturgy and a car crash? By Dr Maria Oshodi, Artistic Director & CEO My experience of three recent AD consultancies has prompted this question in the ever confused, grasping and turbulent world of theatre making, where including integrated audio description (IAD) or VI representation in productions has been a desire, to do […]
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Posted on: 13 Nov 2025
Calling all venues and theatre companies: why not commission us to tailor your access delivery? Extant the UK’s leading visually impaired theatre company delivers tailored Enhance training for venues and theatre companies. Enhance is a tried and tested two-part access training and consultancy programme, led by professionally trained visually impaired facilitators. We can Enhance your show […]
Read more Posted on: 24 Oct 2025
Welcome Aisling Keavey Extant are delighted to announced that Aisling Keavey has been appointed as our Thinker-In-Residence as part of the Thomas Pocklington Get Set Progress Scheme and starts their role in October 2025. Our Operations Director, Ian Abbott says: “We’re delighted to welcome Aisling to the team as Thinker-in-Residence, a unique role which is […]
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Posted on: 2 Oct 2025
Call Out: Extant seeking organisations with experience of working with visually impaired prisoners and the prison system process. Extant, the UK’s leading company of visually impaired artists, is developing a new project exploring the realities of prison life from a visually impaired perspective. We are looking to speak with organisations/individuals who have either firsthand experience […]
Read more Posted on: 2 Oct 2025
Call Out: Extant Seeking Visually Impaired People with Prison Experience Extant, the UK’s leading company of visually impaired artists, is developing a new project exploring the realities of prison life from a visually impaired perspective. We are looking to speak with visually impaired individuals who have either firsthand experience of prison or who have visited […]
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Posted on: 12 Sep 2025
Extant – Post Enhance – Evaluation Summary – 2024/25 (Year 1) Contributions from Caroline Jeyaratnam-Joyner (Enhance Training Manager), Ian Abbott (Operations Director) and Matthew Cock (Independent Evaluator) Background Over the last 10 years we’ve created and honed the idea of ‘Enhanced Performances’, a form of affordable access provision to support small-scale touring companies to engage […]
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