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Our Trainee Artistic Director, Tam Gilbert has started rehearsals this week for her Artistic Project 'Marking Time'. Tam speaks with @rnibradio.bsky.social Toby Davey about her background, role, Extant and 'Marking Time'. Listen below!
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Join our next Extant Connect on Monday 29 June, 7–8.30pm on Zoom!
Nick Coupe from Hat Trick Productions will share his experience of creating new work with a visually impaired actor.
A relaxed online space for blind and visually impaired artists.
Sign up here: extant.org.uk/artist-devel...
Our next No Dramas will take place on 18th May 6-8pm at Battersea Arts Centre. This is a free, fun drama workshop for visually impaired adults, led by Benjamin Wilson, our former TAD. Meet & greet from 5:15pm at Clapham Junction station and access support is available.
Email: [email protected]
Invitation to complete the Rest, Free Time and Disability Questionnaire. A project exploring how rest and free time are experienced, regulated, and denied in the UK. For anyone who self-identifies as a disabled adult, 18+ Contact: [email protected].
breadrosesdisability.uk/questionnaire
Our Thinker-In-Residence's latest blog is live! Aisling compares her experiences of Design & Disability and Beyond the Visual. Exploring themes of access, perception, and Extant's production of Flight Paths and how this has re-shaped her thinking.
extant.org.uk/thinker-in-r...
For Nottingham VI adults, we are offering free theatre tickets to the Enhance performance of 'Scenes from a Friendship' on 2nd June at Nottingham Playhouse. We'll attend Meet Extant 5-6pm, Touch Tour (6:45pm) and show (7:45pm).
Email [email protected]
nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/scene...
For Brighton VI adults, we are offering free theatre tickets to the Enhance performance of 'Beaverhausen' on Thursday 28th May at Komedia. We will attend Meet Extant (4-5pm), the Touch Tour (5:30pm) and performance (6:30pm).
Email [email protected]
www.komedia.co.uk/shows/beaver...
Our Artistic Director & CEO, Dr Maria Oshodi reflects on the path to her PhD; as well as how the echo of the place Hawkwood, past and present, has played its part for Extant, read more in her latest blog post 'Hawkwood – Matter and the Immaterial'.
extant.org.uk/hawkwood-mat...
Extant returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026, pioneering sector wide change in visual impairment access. extant.org.uk/extant-retur...
Read Theatre Villages article on the noise that we are making at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026.
www.theatrevillage.co.uk/is-edinburgh...
