Opportunities Archives

Call Out: Organisations with experience of visually impaired prisoners and prison systems

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 […]

Call Out: Visually Impaired People with Prison Experience

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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Collective Dreaming Callout

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 […]

A trio of performers on stage. From left to right, a bald white man wearing a beige jumpsuit with his neck craned to the middle, a person wearing a full body white hazmat suit standing elevated, and an older woman with curly grey hair smiling with hands clutched.

Thinker-In-Residence (Internship)

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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Visually impaired access doesn’t need to break the budget

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 […]

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Recruiting: Regional Enhance and Access Workers

Posted on: 2 Apr 2025

Enhance Regional Recruitment We are recruiting for freelance visually impaired facilitators and access workers to work on our Paul Hamlyn funded Enhance programme 2025-26. We are particularly interested in freelancers based in these regions: North East, Liverpool, Leicester, Norwich and Edinburgh. Visually Impaired Facilitators We are recruiting visually impaired facilitators to deliver Enhance. Extant are […]

Two Actors stand on a stage in blue lighting. To the left a black woman holding a folder. She wears glasses and is dressed in a smart red top and black trousers. To the right a white woman holding a folder and speaking in mid sentence. She wears glasses and is dressed in a smart green top and black trousers.

Trainee Creative Producer

Posted on: 16 Dec 2024

Applications are now open for our Trainee Creative Producer role! About Extant 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 does: from the productions we create, to the artists we support, to the audiences we […]

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Internship opportunity

Posted on: 8 Nov 2024

We are recruiting an Intern! As part of Lambeth’s Next Us programme, which supports NEET 16-24 year olds into creative and digital careers. We are recruiting an intern to join our team. Role: Projects Assistant Reporting to: Ellen Jupp, Administrator and Project Coordinator Location: Extant, 2.06 Carlton Mansions, Brixton House, 385 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8GL. […]

A group of six women and two men are standing on the stage at Camden People's Theatre, posing for a photo and smiling. They are a diverse group of adults, of various ages and ethnicities. Three of them are holding their white canes and there is a guide dog to the left of the photo.

Extant are recruiting Wolverhampton based Access Workers!

Posted on: 7 Nov 2024

Access workers based in Wolverhampton Extant are recruiting access workers to help support our visually impaired attendees to participate our No Dramas Project. No Dramas: Our No Dramas sessions are led by visually impaired facilitators and are full of accessible drama games, which are delivered to visually impaired adults with any level of experience. Duties […]

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No Dramas, Battersea Arts Centre, London

Posted on: 22 Oct 2024

No Dramas Free drama workshops for visually impaired adults, delivered by Extant. Any and all levels of experience are welcome. No Dramas sessions are led by visually impaired facilitators and are full of accessible drama exercises and fun games; they’re a great opportunity to build your confidence, develop new social connections and have a brilliant time. […]

No Dramas, Online

Posted on: 11 Oct 2024

No Dramas Free drama workshops for visually impaired adults, delivered by Extant. Any and all levels of experience are welcome. No Dramas online sessions are led by visually impaired facilitators and are full of accessible drama exercises and fun games; they’re a great opportunity to build your confidence, develop new social connections and have a […]

Extant Theatre Club in Wolverhampton

Posted on: 10 Oct 2024

Upcoming Extant Theatre Club trips in Wolverhampton: ETC is a social group which supports visually impaired audience members in seeing high quality, accessible theatre, and includes discounted tickets! We have two trips planned at the Arena Theatre. In partnership with our Enhance programme, each performance contains pre-show programme notes and a touch tour, followed by […]