Tijana Spasić is a Toronto-based theatre creator & community artist (and has variously worked as a: director, producer and installation artist) She is the Interim Artistic Director of Arts4All, working in close collaboration with a team of five other artistic staff and many other community members and guest artists. She is also an associate artist with Jumblies Theatre. She has led several large-scale community engaged arts projects, in site-specific and traditional venues. She enjoys working in public space with communities, working with young people in a peer to peer relationship, and collective devising in all its forms. Many of her projects explore the city’s economic disparity, the suburban-downtown divide and questions of belonging, home and memory. She speaks Serbian and Russian.
Tijana Spasić
Toronto is home to a large indigenous population including residential school survivors and intergenerational family members who have been impacted by the history and legacy of the residential school system. The sacred land on which we stand has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.
