S2 Ep1267: Extant Champions Visually Impaired Access at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025

Some great news for blind and partially sighted people going to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 as Extant, the UK’s leading professional performing arts company of blind and visually impaired artists, has announced plans to make an Edinburgh Festival Fringe venue fully accessible for visually impaired audiences. This landmark Extant collaboration is with ZOO Venues in partnership with Sight Scotland and Visually Impaired Creators Scotland (VICS).Three headline performances at ZOO will feature Extant Enhance – a bold and innovative programme that reimagines access as a creative and collaborative process.The three shows are Holly Gifford’s Big Little Sister, Shaper/Caper’s Small Town Boys and Full Out Formula/Almanac Projects’ I Think It Could Work.RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey caught up with Tam Gilbert, Extant’s Trainee Artistic Director to find out more about this fantastic collaboration with ZOO Venues. To find out more about the Extant collaboration with ZOO Venues along with more about access at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 for blind and partially sighted festival goers do visit - https://extant.org.uk/project/edinburgh-festival-fringe-2025(Image shows the RNIB Connect Radio logo. On a white background ‘RNIB’ written in bold black capital letters and underline with a bold pink line. Underneath the line: ‘Connect Radio’ is written in black in a smaller font)