Dr. Navina Jafa

Dr.Navina Jafa combines a multifaceted personality as a cultural professional. She specializes in creative activities ranging from academic cultural tourism, cultural representation, cultural diplomacy, arts in development programs and conflict transformation through Arts. She is a cultural activist, an academician, a performing artist, cultural historian and cultural entrepreneur.

Cultural Consultancy Work:-

Lead Consultant Asian Heritage Foundation on SASIAN Journeys:- A multicultural project which is engineering and conceptualizing a theatrical exhibit on the Cultural Traditions of South Asia.

Lead Consultant Asian Heritage Foundation on Heritage and Pedagogy:-

  1. The project is visualizing ways to provide upgrading of skills for folk and street performers,
  2. Education Awareness programs with Schools to create an understanding for the creative and cultural industries and thereby prepare the future consumers for this sector, and
  3. Creating Curriculums for Schools on Cultural Education so as to create a pool of cultural professionals.

Consultant World Cultural Forum:- The Confrence Scheduled for early 2011 Dr. Jafa is managing the section of Cultural Policy.

Book in Publication is titled :- Performing Heritage:- Art of Heritage Walk: This is a technical book on the nuances of curetting Walking Study Tours it and dicusses the technique of making this a lucrative business. It argues the value of taking academic work into public space.

Presently working on Book titled :- Speaketh Delhi: Perspectives on Oral History. The value of oral narrative in folklore studies, making of popular history.

 
 
 
 
 
 
"You have inspired me to come back again to India ...you have given me peace..."
Secretary of State Ms. Condoleezza Rice March 2005
 
“I wished I had seen India like this earlier, from within, today I have experienced India in a way I never imagined."
Dr. Henry Kissinger , November 2004
 
"Thank you, for bringing me hope and peace..."
Benazir Bhutto , 2003