TAD2 Recruitment
Posted on: 15 May 2024
Applications are now open for our second Trainee Artistic Director! 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 (VI) people at the centre of all it does: from the productions we create, to the artists we support, to the audiences […]
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An insight into the creation of Unseen
Posted on: 19 Mar 2024
An insight into the creation of Unseen: An Assistant Producer’s perspective “We’d be delighted to offer you a place on the devising team and the Assistant Producer role if you’re still interested.” Nice one. My reply […]
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My Development As An Artistic Leader
Posted on: 5 Mar 2024
My Development As An Artistic Leader Amazingly, I am at the halfway point of my time as Trainee Artistic Director with Extant, but I am not sure how this has happened. The past seven and half months have flown by, but in other ways it feels like I have been at Extant forever. […]
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Enhance spreads its wings!
Posted on: 5 Mar 2024
Enhance spreads its wings! One of the first things I organised when starting my role as Enhance Training Manager in October 2023, was to recruit a pool of experienced visually impaired facilitators and access workers. I worked with many Extant creatives during Pathways 2020-23, and was happy to reconnect with them and the wider […]
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Ben Wilson simmers over Richard III controversy
Posted on: 24 Jan 2024
Ben Wilson simmers over the recent Richard III controversy As a disabled person and a Shakespeare nerd, I struggle with Richard III. It’s a really tricky play. Part of me wants to tear it up and never see it again because it’s strewn with vile ableism from start to finish. My soul sinks every time […]
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Enhancing Enhance!
Posted on: 29 Nov 2023
Enhancing Enhance! Enhance 2 – our tailor-made access support and training for shows in post-production – is ready for a 3-year roll-out from 2023-26. Thanks to Paul Hamlyn Foundation, we are now offering this tailor-made programme for venues and touring theatre companies across the U.K. We will be working with 54 touring theatre companies […]
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Blind in Theatre Festival
Posted on: 29 Nov 2023
Blind in Theatre Festival in Zagreb In October, along with Artist Development Manager Louisa, I lead Extant’s biannual visit to the Blind In Theatre festival (BIT) at the New Life theatre in Zagreb, Croatia. Louisa and I were joined by Samuel Brewer, Aarian Mehrabani and Alice Christina Corrigan. Sam and Aarian are both VI actors […]
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I Dream in Colour – 5 star review at the Bloomsbury Festival 2023
Posted on: 29 Nov 2023
I Dream in Colour – 5 star review at the Bloomsbury Festival 2023 October was a busy month for Extant with our Associate Artist, Jasmin Thien. First we presented an excerpt of her show I Dream in Colour at Camden People’s Theatre to a packed crowd, then later in the month we held a full-length […]
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Extant create new audio drama Unseen about the impact of domestic abuse on the VI community
Posted on: 29 Nov 2023
Extant create new audio drama Unseen about the impact of domestic abuse on the VI community Extant are creating Unseen, an audio drama that imaginatively explores and portrays the unique ways in which domestic abuse affects blind and visually impaired individuals. Unseen is a creative response to The Unseen Report (if you would like to […]
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Taking on the Challenge of ‘presenceing’
Posted on: 29 Nov 2023
Taking on the Challenge of ‘presenceing’ Years ago, when I informed my writing agent that I was going to take a break from writing and enrol for a degree in drama, she asked in a puzzled tone, “Why?”. What she meant was why would anyone at that precise point interrupt a healthy blossoming career as […]
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Free Creative Workshops for VI Individuals with Experience of Domestic Violence
Posted on: 25 Sep 2023
Extant offers free creative workshops for VI individuals with experience of domestic violence Extant are creating ‘Unseen,’ an audio drama that imaginatively explores and portrays the unique ways in which domestic violence affects blind and visually impaired individuals. We are offering free creative workshops online to any blind or visually impaired individual with lived […]
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We’re hiring! Extant is looking for an Administrator and Projects Co-ordinator
Posted on: 12 Sep 2023
We’re hiring! Extant is looking for an Administrator and Projects Co-ordinator Arts Council England (ACE) has funded us as a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) from 2023-26 to undertake a programme of radical transformation, exploring new ways to enable truly inclusive arts leadership in the future. Extant is seeking a confident, independent worker to […]
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