Episode Details

Hello there! It's Episode 21 of A View from the Box - The Podcast and it's my second Toronto Fringe Festival podcast episodes! Today I'm speaking to Banafsheh Hassani and esi callender from "Regarding Antigone."

Banafsheh بنفشه is an Iranian feminist artist who performs, writes, and wirghts theatre. She is a co-founder of The Sky is the Limit Theatre, a collective-creation based theatre collective aimed to tell sotries by, for and with people living in the margins. They recently completed a BFA in Performance Creation from Concordia University, where they will be starting their MA program soon to nurture their growing creative inquietude for diasporic and immigrant lives and experiences. Banafsheh is preoccupied with home, memory, dreams, identity, un/changing and relations (blood and otherwise), and all that would happen “if only home [was not] the mouth of a shark” (home, Warsan Shire). Besides theatre, Banafsheh also works as a facilitator with Quebec Writers' Federation's Writers in the Community program.

esi callender is a Black feminist theatre artist and scholar based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, where they co-founded the theatre collective Sort Of Productions. esi’s research deals with collaboration and solidarity where they live and in their family’s home country Ghana.

You can find them online here: Instagram Sort Of Productions (@sortofproductions) • Instagram photos and videos

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