No Dramas visually impaired facilitator training opportunity!
Posted on: 25 Jun 2024
No Dramas Paid Training Opportunity! We are looking to increase and develop our pool of visually impaired (VI) No Dramas facilitators through a unique PAID training opportunity. No Dramas returns with a refreshed look for 2024. This opportunity applies to facilitators inside and outside of London. No Dramas will be back in London and expanding to […]
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A Letter to Judi Dench
Posted on: 20 Jun 2024
Dear Dame Judi Dench, You don’t know me. I am writing this letter/blog post because I read in the press recently that you are quitting acting because of your sight. This upset me for several reasons. Firstly, you are actual Judi Dench. You are amazing. I recently watched Philomena again, for about the 27th time, […]
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Trustee Recruitment
Posted on: 19 Jun 2024
Trustee Recruitment About Extant We are 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 we do: from the productions we create, to the artists we support, to the audiences we perform to and the participants we work […]
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Extant are recruiting regional visually impaired facilitators and access workers!
Posted on: 18 Jun 2024
Call out for Visually Impaired Facilitators and Access Workers! Extant are looking for freelance visually impaired facilitators and access workers to work on our Paul Hamlyn funded Enhance programme 2024-26. We are particularly interested in freelancers based in these regions: North East / North West / Midlands / Hereford / Derby / London. Enhance Facilitator skill […]
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Identical Twins
Posted on: 5 Jun 2024
Trainee Artistic Director R&D Project on Toxic Masculinity During my time as Trainee Artistic Director (TAD) at Extant there has always been a pot of money for me to develop an artistic project of my own. This was one of the most attractive elements of the original job advertisement when I applied, so I’ve been […]
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The importance of making time for learning
Posted on: 3 Jun 2024
The importance of making time for learning One of the reasons why I joined Extant was to expand my knowledge and grow my practice in theatre and accessibility, and since I joined 8 months ago as Administrator and Project Coordinator, I have certainly been doing that! The staff team at Extant each have […]
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Enhance Makes A Splash!
Posted on: 3 Jun 2024
Enhance Makes A Splash! It has been a lively time for Enhance at Extant. Our first two Enhanced shows for our Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded roll-out – Pepper and Honey by Not Now Collective at The Courtyard, Hereford and English Kings Killing Foreigners by RealFake Theatre company at Camden People’s Theatre, London – both […]
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Unseen: co-creation
Posted on: 3 Jun 2024
Unseen: co-creation and the devolution of creative power to a community of VI artists In November 2022, Maria Oshodi and I found ourselves representing Extant at a glitzy soiree at the House of Lords, hosted by the Vision Foundation in honour of the release of the Unseen Report. We were moved to hear the eloquent […]
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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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