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 […]
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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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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 By Ava Brewster, Trainee Creative Producer. 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 […]
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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 By Tam Gilbert, Trainee Artistic Director. 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 […]
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Posted on: 19 Jun 2025
Access for visually impaired audiences doesn’t need to break the budget By Louisa Sanfey, Artist Development Manager. 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 […]
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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