Radio Aluna Teatro

“I wonder what would happen in our world if there was real space and time to process these things that shake up our lives forever?” - Bilal Baig    Bilal Baig is a queer trans-feminine Muslim playwright and workshop facilitator. Bilal’s plays include Kitne Saare Laloo Yahan Pey Hain, Kainchee Lagaa, and Acha Bacha. Bilal is a facilitator with Story Planet, Rivers of Hope Collective and the Paprika Festival. Their play Acha Bacha has just been published by Playwright’s Canada Press!  In this interview we talk about the power of speaking Urdu on stage without compromise, religion, queerness, and why Bilal is passionate about youth accessing arts education.    Show notes:  The premiere production of Acha Bacha presented at Theatre Passe Muraille Bilal’s interview with OMNI TV   Paprika Festival, a performing arts festival celebrating the work of young and emerging artists Rivers of Hope Project, which offers workshops to high schools and youth challenging racism and Islamophobia through the art of Muslim and rac