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Super Power Panto R&D

Posted on: 14 Dec 2021

On October 4 visually impaired Extant actors joined three actors from children’s pantomime company Simply Smiley to start research on accessible panto for the first time. Artistic Directors Maria Oshodi and Shannon McNab led and were also joined by TV comedy start Kiell Smith-Bynoe to develop the storyline and humour around the theme of super power […]

A celebratory group shot of visually impaired drag artists, all dressed in a variety of colourful and outlandish costumes. Some are posing while others grin and have their hands in the air.

Opportunity: Artist Development Manager

Posted on: 3 Sep 2021

Extant is looking for a knowledgeable, supportive and experienced arts professional to lead a new 2-year pilot Artist Development initiative for our theatre company, which is due to be based in the brand-new Brixton House Cultural Hub from 2022. Over the last 20 years, Extant has been supporting marginalised visually impaired artists with more accessible […]

The left of the painting is a blue purple colour and towards the right it is yellow. In the centre red is prominent, in the shape of a cross. These three background colours all melt together so there are no edges. A variety of squares, circles, triangles and abstract shapes are dotted around and overlapped. There are also straight and curved black lines that go through the colours and shapes.

Inside Yellow Sound

Posted on: 29 Jun 2021

CEO and Artistic Director Maria Oshodi is currently collaborating with Dr Maria Kapsali, Lecturer in Physical Performance at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, and her colleagues Dr Nikos Stavropoulos, a composer of acousmatic and mixed music, and experimental music technologist, Kingsley Ash. Inside Yellow Sound is an immersive environment […]

A workshop setting: small groups of people sit on chairs in circles talking amongst themselves.

Opportunity: Freelance Project Manager

Posted on: 18 May 2021

Extant are currently recruiting for a Freelance Project Manager on a project on access to scripts for blind and VI artists. We are targeting freelance project managers with lived experience of being blind or visually impaired, and/or people with experience of working in this field. The Project Manager will build on our current research and […]

A black woman conversing to a group of seven others who are laughing at what she is saying.

Opportunity: Join our Board of Trustees

Posted on: 10 May 2021

We are looking for trustees to join us at an exciting time in our development. We’re building on our successes and new ways of working during the pandemic, strengthening and deepening our work on equality, diversity and inclusion, and shortly to embark on strategic planning for the next four years. We’re particularly interested in hearing […]

A group of visually impaired and blind actors standing on stage, their attention directed to one of them being piggybacked.

Opportunity: Disabled actors

Posted on: 6 Apr 2021

Extant are recruiting disabled actors who are interested and available for a gig on Monday 14th June 2021, 9.45am-2pm on Zoom. This will be a Pathways Directing Lab for our fifteen blind and visually impaired directors who are training in the craft of directing. Each Pathways Director will work in a break-out room to direct a […]

The Space Arts Podcast

Posted on: 31 Mar 2021

Artistic Director and CEO Maria Oshodi joins The Space’s Creative Director, Fiona Morris and audio producer Clare Freeman for an episode of their new podcast series now available at to listen to on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. During her conversation with Fiona and Clare, Maria chats about the challenges of creating accessible digital content, the […]

A night of eye-watering laughter

Posted on: 3 Nov 2020

On Saturday 17 October, thirteen visually impaired comedians took to the stage for a livestreamed covert comedy show, Eye Say, Eye Say, Eye Say! as part of Bloomsbury Festival! The comedians reflected on everything from lockdown, personal hygiene, the ups and downs of technology to life on the streets of Hackney. The full show is […]

Eye Say, Eye Say, Eye Say!

Posted on: 16 Oct 2020

At the Bloomsbury Festival
Saturday 17 October 2020, 6pm show-time

New sighted guiding advice

Posted on: 11 Sep 2020

The Government has recently confirmed that blind and partially sighted people in England can be guided from someone outside their household. This follows recent government advice from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which also confirms sighted guiding can go ahead. If you need sighted guiding from family or friends who live in different households, the RNIB have […]

Flight Paths R&D - A medium close up of a woman with cropped hair throwing her head back in laughter. She wears a sky blue, zip up hoodie. She is in a theatre auditorium and aerial silks are visible behind and above her.

Opportunity: Social Media Intern

Posted on: 4 Sep 2020

Extant is the UK’s leading professional performing arts company of visually impaired artists and theatre practitioners, producing touring productions and delivering training regionally and internationally. The company aims to redress invisibility of blind and partially sighted artists and explore new creative territories. It is a dynamic, political space to articulate and celebrate what visual impairment […]

A close up of a middle aged white man's face. His expression is haggard and his fingers touch his left cheek right below his eye.

Rathband

Posted on: 14 Jul 2020

PC David Rathband was shot and blinded in Durham by escaped prisoner Raoul Moat in July 2010 – A decade on, in July 2020, Extant launched an interactive Zoom cast of ‘Rathband’ by writer Christopher Hogg, hosted by visually impaired actor, Robin Paley Yorke. Robin was an eye witness of the fateful event that took […]