Artist & Cultural Leader • Kolkata Centre for Creativity • she/her

Reena has been spearheading many projects to promote research and development of different disciplines of art that leads to a volumetric and qualitative impact not only in the art field but on society and young artists & performers.

Reena champions and facilitates Inclusion, Diversity and Gender Equality in Museums and Art Spaces. She is instrumental in launching the first ‘Accessibility Program’ in Eastern India, which forms a bridge between people with special abilities and Arts. She works for social inclusion using arts for the development of marginalized and differently-abled communities, empowering them through self-expression. She co-convened the first International conference in India on ‘Gender Mainstreaming and Cultural Rights’. She is pioneering social changes creating an inclusive culture in Kolkata Centre for Creativity that addresses different abilities & choices, gender & sexual diversity and marginalization of communities through appreciation and applications of art.

Recipient of prestigious fellowships, Australia Council’s International Leadership Program, Art Think South Asia, International Society for Performing Arts and of ‘Emerging Scholar’ award from Ground Research Networks. She has presented papers in Museum conferences on various international platforms, which gives her vision an immediate global perspective.

Kolkata India

Community, Arts, Empowernment

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Reena Dewan on the Web

https://www.kolkatacentreforcreativity.org/, https://www.facebook.com/KCCinKolkata/

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