Episode 5

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8th Mar 2021

Disability Arts Consultant Maria Oshodi: Flight Paths

Created by and for a visually impaired audience, Extant’s latest stage adaption highlighted the stories of the blind Japanese female musicians, known as goze. Through a mix of animation, performance and digital video, the production team brought to life this lesson in cultural history using immersive multimedia and binaural sound.

Providing opportunities and a platform for disabled artists has been a personal and professional quest of Maria Oshodi, also CEO and artistic director of the company, for many years. During her conversation with Fiona and Clare, Maria details the challenges they overcame in creating accessible digital content, and the unexpected freedom that emerged from working off-stage, especially when it came to reaching a wider audience.

Experience Flight Paths for yourself: https://flightpaths.extant.org.uk/

Resources referenced during this podcast:

Cathy Mager - Sign Night http://www.cathymager.com/portfolio/sign-night/

Dante or Die - User Not Found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcCvR4y2yk8

Filmed in Lockdown https://www.thespace.org/resource/filmed-lockdown

Artificial Intelligence and Next generation Storytelling
https://www.thespace.org/resource/artificial-intelligence-and-next-generation-storytelling

Finding a younger audience, interested not only in technology but immersive experiences:
https://www.thespace.org/resource/finding-audience

Presented by Fiona Morris and Clare Freeman.

Music: Jangal & Plantations - written & performed by Soumik Datta/published by Bucks Music Group Ltd

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The Space Arts Podcast
27 ballet dancers in the bath, not one but two Billy Barretts, a play set on Facebook...another using 17th century court transcripts, and a bunch of musicians doing nothing but listening to silence... A rather crude sum up of the works featured in the first series of The Space Arts Podcast.
If you're a theatre organisation, a musician, artist, director or producer working in the arts and cultural world, then THIS is the podcast series that will offer a true reflection of what it really takes to make your digital content shine. For more information on commissioning, visit thespace.org

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Clare Freeman

The Podcast Coach: Helping ordinary people share extraordinary stories.

Aged 10, I dreamt of having my own production company called A Small Furry Bear. I presented radio shows on a ghetto blaster in my bedroom with my little brother. Now, some 20+ years later, as a podcast coach and presenter - that day dream has become an everyday reality.

Question is, how can we make your dreams of presenting a podcast come true as well?