Nina Jane Patel
Director of Arts & Culture
Kabuni
Canada
As the Director of Arts & Culture for Kabuni Immersive (www.kabuni.com), Nina is leading the vision to create artistic content for the future. Our goal is to commission high quality artistic productions for immersive audiences with the use of
VR headsets. Ultimately, to contribute to shaping the future of arts + culture, creating space for new creative processes, new ways of storytelling, new voices and developing artistic talent in a new virtual world. Nina is committed to innovation
and revolution of the arts sector for the benefit of all.
As the Director of Daya Creatives (www.dayacreatives.com), Nina provides digital solutions and consulting services to artists and arts organisations. Nina has a wide range of
experience within organisations across Canada and the UK, bringing together her passions for social justice, climate change and the arts, including Citizens UK, The Coral Reef Conservation Trust, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Arts in Health NHS
UK, Seeta Patel Dance Ltd., Dancer Transition Resource Centre, Canada’s Dancing on the Edge Festival, Ballet British Columbia, MascallDance and Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
As a natural problem solver and strategic thinker, Nina
is particularly experienced in digital strategy, organisational development, outreach/participation data, and fundraising. Nina is currently advising dance artists/orgs keen to identify sustainable development strategies for international
creative exchange. Nina is an award winning dancer and choreographer and a recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts Digital Strategy Grant (2019), selected in the inaugural cohort of Cultural Leadership Program at the Banff Centre for Arts
& Creativity, an ISPA Fellow 2019-2022, and most recently identified as an emerging leader by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (2020).
Listen to her podcast Exponential Technology and The Future of Dance available on
all podcast platforms.
Equally important, Nina is a wife and mother to four children - Issabella, Mackenzie, Amelia and Kaeden. Learn more about me www.ninajanepatel.com
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ISPA would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts for their partnership in this important regional initiative.
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