Tania Cañas

Tania Cañas is an artist and researcher based in unceded Kulin Nation Territory. She is the Arts Director at RISE Refugee, Australia’s first refugee and asylum seeker organization to be run, governed and controlled by the community. She also lectures on art and community practice at the University of Melbourne. She is a Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner and currently sits on the Editorial Board at the International Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Academic Journal/ PTO Inc. Most recently she was appointed International Guest Curator at the International Community Arts Festival 2017, The Netherlands. Tania has had her creative work presented at conferences, as well as facilitated community theatre workshops at universities and community groups, both locally and internationally. Her focus on self-determination through socially engaged practice methodologies is a means of creating sites of resistance, with a focus on theatre and performance.

Tania Cañas is part of the Be.Bop 2018 Team.