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A wide landscape shot of two women on aerial silks mid-fall.
A 3x3 grid with off-kilter white sloping lines forming trapezoids rather than squares within the grid. From top left the images are: Aarian Mehrabani’s face against an orange background, Neil Skene in profile speaking into a microphone, Holly Thomas crouching with hands raised, Ebony Rose Dark in a huge wig mouth wide, Tito Bone fanning themselves with a rainbow fan, Tom Skelton smiling widely, Shashank Sharma in a trenchcoat raising a glass, and then in the bottom right a logo with the text Extant Festivals in white against a purple background.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026

August 2026

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 We will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer building on the success of our landmark 2025 programme. We will present two ‘Enhance’ shows alongside a new showcase, in partnership with Underbelly. Underbelly and ZOO have committed to ensuring every show in their programme is 100% visually impaired accessible by including […]

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During the touch tour, 4 people are standing on the set of ghost stories, which is a dark grimy room with pipes on the wall and a raised floor. To the right a large window with smaller square panels and to the left a red door. Around the set are lit up candles.

Enhance Performances

Regular

Enhance Productions 2026-27   Visually impaired access has been created for these shows post-production, devised by an Extant visually impaired facilitator.  This is not audio description, but instead an ‘enhanced’ way of providing access that has been tried and tested by Extant.  In 2026 we’re working with New Diorama (London), Komedia (Brighton), Nottingham Playhouse, and […]

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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 Theatre Club

Regular

Extant Theatre Club ETC is a social group, which supports visually impaired audience members to see high quality, accessible theatre. It runs in London and across the country. As part of ETC you will receive:  Direct, trustworthy information on theatre that is accessible to VI audiences Free access support around the venue and to and from public […]

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A square poster which has a light blue background. At the top is the title in bold, dark green text which reads 'Unseen’. Underneath it, in smaller dark green text, it reads ‘a gripping new audio drama by Extant’. Towards the bottom right, there’s additional dark green text reads ‘streaming from 4th March 2024’ and below this is a URL link to the website ‘www.extant.org.uk/unseen’. At the bottom of the poster is a row of 4 pitched rooftops in a line, the houses are painted blue, pink, yellow and green.

Unseen

October 2024 - Permanently available

Listen to Unseen Audio Drama below:  Content warning: This audio drama contains themes of domestic abuse, violence, trauma and strong language.  If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in Unseen, there are links to resources at the bottom of this page. If you would like to view a copy of […]

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A drawing by Sally Booth of a zoom screen. There are 9 windows arranged in a grid of three-by-three, with a pencil or watercolour sketch of a face in each.

Extant Connect

Monthly

Extant CONNECT   Extant CONNECT is our monthly online session for blind and VI people to network, talk, learn and share ideas, taking place on the last Monday evening of every month. For more information and joining information please contact [email protected] Upcoming dates (all times are from 7pm to 8.30pm) Monday 27th  July – The Future […]

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A digitally animated drawing of a blind Japanese woman walking in an open landscape in close up. She is in side profile, wearing a purple and light blue kimono patterned with orange flowers. The background is shaded in muted browns, and a pale yellow sun looms in the horizon.

Flight Paths

17 August 2020 - Permanently available

Experience it now: http://flightpaths.extant.org.uk/ Flight Paths, our epic multimedia production inspired by the Goze – blind female performers of medieval Japan – is brought to life on screen for the first time in a new digital retelling, co-commissioned by The Space. Combining animation, aerial movement and creative audio description, Flight Paths is an interactive online […]

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