Siara Illing-Ahmed is a Specialist in Performing Arts; writer, community arts engagement worker, acting coach, creative mentor, lecturer, PhD researcher and mother. Siara has worked in the arts sector for 22 years and now encourages social activism through artistry.
Siara and I discuss all sorts!
- Being walking contradictions
- The power of contentment
- I learn the meaning of the word diasporic and Siara describes herself as inappropriate.
- Vulnerability and armouring up
- Needing to misbehave more in midlife
- Siara's experiences of racism
- Diet culture and anti fat bias
- How women and their bodies are represented in theatre
The musical we discuss is "SIX", more info here: https://www.sixthemusical.com/