Grant & Projects

Krishnamoorthy Narasimha Gaonkar


Grant Period: One year

For a series of arts-based exploratory learning modules at the Government Higher Primary School, Heggar, Ankola, Uttara Kannada district. The project will involve 43 students in various arts-integrated activities centred on food recipes of the community. The outcome of this project will be set of radio plays titled Aahaara Samskriti—Idu Namma Oota ('Food Culture —This is our Food'). The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be a digital recording of the radio plays, photographs and video documentation of the project. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, workshop and material, audio recording and editing, professional fees, travel, documentation and an accountant’s fee. 

This Grant was amicably cancelled based on reasons mutually agreed upon by the Grantee and IFA due to unavoidable circumstances.

Vishwanath E


Grant Period: One year and two months

For a series of arts-based exploratory learning modules at the Government Higher Primary School in Dodda Thimmayyana Palya (DT Palya) village, Tumakuru district. The project will involve sixth and seventh grade students in various literary and visual arts activities in a process of exploring the local history, geography, arts and science associated with the town Madhugiri in Tumakuru district.  The outcome of the project will be an exhibition and a publication. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be a copy of the publication, photographs and video documentation of the project. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, stationery and material, printing and publication, travel, professional fees, exhibition, documentation, preparatory and accountant’s fee.   

This Grant was amicably cancelled based on reasons mutually agreed upon by the Grantee and IFA due to unavoidable circumstances.

Priyanka Chhabra


Grant Period: One year and three months

For the creation of a film that will explore the overlapping relationships among memory, place, and personal archive. Located in Amritsar and anchored on the life, memories and archive of Charandas Bangia, a refugee of the Partition, the project is a cinematic exploration of ways in which personal history overlaps with the larger political narratives. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be the film and video recordings of the interviews. Grant funds will pay for professional fees, honorarium, equipment hire, materials, travel and living, communication and stationery, library and archive fees and accountant’s fee.

Sunil Kumar AM


Grant Period: One year and three months

For a series of arts-based exploratory learning modules at the Higher Primary School in Aletti, Dakshina Kannada district. The project will involve fifth-grade students to learn English through various literary and theatre arts processes that explore the local history of the freedom struggle against the British colonisers in 1834. The outcome of the project will be a performance, an exhibition and a publication. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, workshop and performance, documentation and printing, travel, professional fees, material and an accountant’s fee. 

Shrikant Navalagiri


Grant Period: One year and three months

For a series of arts-based exploratory learning modules at the Kasturba Girls Residential School, Kadampur, Bagalkot district. The project will involve sixth to eighth grade students in various visual arts, story-telling, street plays and theatre integrated activities centred on the lives of people from villages submerged during the construction of dams across the river Krishna in the district. The outcome of this project will be a series of performances and radio-plays. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be still and video documentation of the project and digital copies of the radio-plays. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, performance and exhibition, travel, professional fees, printing documentation, material and an accountant’s fee.

Mahesh S


Grant Period: One year and three months

This grant supports a photography-based exploration of the history, architecture, and cultural memory of Building No. 37 that was opened to citizens in 1973, as the tallest built space in Bangalore. Delving into narratives of nostalgia, dismay, hope, and indifference, the project seeks to investigate into the conception of the building, the impact it has had on the city and imagine its possible futures. The outcomes of the project will be an on-site multimedia exhibition / installation comprising of audio, photographs and sketches, a photo essay, a personal essay and a website. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be photographs and sketches from the project, photographs of the exhibition, the photo essay, audio recordings of the interviews, the website and the personal essay on the building. Grant funds will pay for equipment and studio hire, professional fees, honorarium, printing, mounting and publicity, local conveyance, costumes and props, stationery and refreshments, and an accountant’s fee.

Jahanara


Grant Period: One year and three months

For a series of arts-based exploratory learning modules at the Higher Primary School in Mukta Gudadur, Koppala district. The project will involve sixth to eighth-grade students in various craft, literary, and folk arts activities to explore and document the quilt-making practices of the region. The outcome of the project will be a performance, an exhibition, and a publication. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be a copy of the publication, photographs and video documentation of the entire project. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, printing, workshop, performance, professional fees, travel, documentation, and an accountant’s fee.

Tharanatha P


Grant Period: One year

For a series of arts-based exploratory learning modules at the Government Higher Primary School, Belandoor, Dakshina Kannada district. The project will enable seventh-grade students to explore the ecosystem of a local river, Kumaradhara. Drawing on content from their geography, mathematics, language and science syllabi, students will attempt to learn about the journey of the river, the flora and fauna around it, and its centrality in the environment of the region. They will be encouraged to respond through their creative expressions. The outcome of this project will be an exhibition and a publication. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be a copy of the publication, photographs and video documentation of the project. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, workshop and materials, travel, exhibition and printing, documentation, professional fees and an accountant’s fee.   

This Grant was amicably cancelled based on reasons mutually agreed upon by the Grantee and IFA due to unavoidable circumstances.

Rani Manjula Devi G


Grant Period: One year

For a series of arts-based exploratory learning modules at the Government Higher Primary School, Haandi, Chikkamagalur district. The project will involve fifth to seventh-grade students to study, analyse and sing the Shatpadis — six-line poetic stanzas— from the Jaimini Bharata composed by Lakshmisha, the 16th century Kannada poet from the region. The outcome of the project will be a performance.  The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be photographs and video documentation of the project. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, professional fees, travel, performance, documentation, workshop and an accountant’s fee. 

This Grant was amicably cancelled based on reasons mutually agreed upon by the Grantee and IFA due to unavoidable circumstances.

Mounesh Vishwakarma K


Grant Period: One year and four months

For a series of arts-based exploratory learning modules at the Government Model Higher Primary School, Kalladka, Dakshina Kannada district. The project will involve 30 students in various engagements to understand, analyse, and critique different aspects of the performing arts and enable them to write about it. The outcome will be a bi-monthly arts newsletter created by the students. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be copies of the publication, photographs and video documentation of the project. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, printing, workshop, professional fees, travel, postal charges, documentation and an accountant’s fee. 

Anaheeta Pinto


Grant Period: Four months

For an artistic engagement involving the children of Richards Town, Bangalore, including students of the Clarence School on Pottery Road and the children of the Pourakarmikas who work in the ward, led by a local artist and a design firm.  The children will be encouraged to explore the environs surrounding Richards Park and their connections to the neighbourhood. The outcome of the project will be a three-day artistic intervention culminating in the creation of artworks on the walls along the railway track on Pottery Road. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be photo documentation of the three-day event and digital copies of the artworks. Grant funds will pay for refreshment, material, digitising and printing, and communication and outreach. 

Syed Fakruddin Huseni


Grant Period: One year and six months

For a series of arts-based exploratory learning modules at the Government Model Primary School, Hongasandra, Bangalore. The project will enable fifth-grade students to explore the world of matchboxes: their design and the reasons behind it, their typography, and their geographical journeys. The outcome will be a matchbox museum set up in the school. Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be photographs and video documentation of the project. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, workshop and material, professional fees, documentation and printing, travel, exhibition and an accountant’s fee.

KV Nayaka


Grant Period: One year and six months

For a series of arts-based exploratory learning modules at the High School section of the SSEA Government Pre-University College, Gauribidanur, Chikkaballapura district. The project will involve ninth-grade students in various visual arts and theatrical activities centred on the struggles for independence, and later, for land, that were witnessed in Vidurashwatha and Nagasandra villages in 1938 and 1984 respectively. The outcome of the project will be a performance and a publication.The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be a copy of the publication, photographs and video documentation of the project. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, workshop, performance, professional fees, travel, documentation, printing and publicity, and an accountant’s fee. 

This Grant was amicably cancelled based on reasons mutually agreed upon by the Grantee and IFA due to unavoidable circumstances.

Sunitha R


Grant Period: One year and three months

For a series of arts-based exploratory learning modules at the Government High School, S M Krishna Nagara, Gadag. The project will involve eighth-grade students in visual-arts-integrated activities involving subjects such as math and science. The activities will be centred on the ecology of a tree, exploring its nature and structure, the animals and insects that inhabit it, as well as its importance in the environment. The outcome of this project will be an exhibition and a publication titled Maravembudu Ondu Jaivika Vyavasthe (‘Tree is an Organic Ecosystem’)The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be a copy of the publication, photographs and video documentation of the project. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, workshop and material, documentation and printing, exhibition, professional fees, travel, and an accountant’s fee. 

This Grant was amicably cancelled based on reasons mutually agreed upon by the Grantee and IFA due to unavoidable circumstances.

Sri Neelakanteswara Natyaseva Sangha


Grant Period: Eight months

For the creation and dissemination of a theatrical production titled Olangana, a Kannada adaptation of the play Interior written by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck. Involving a guest director and 15 alumni of Ninasam, the play aims to dislodge the centrality of text and bring in a new performance vocabulary into contemporary Kannada theatre. The performance is scheduled to open at Ninasam in February 2020 and will subsequently be performed in 15 to 20 cities and small towns across Karnataka.  The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be still and video documentation of the rehearsal process and the performance. Grant funds will pay for professional fees, dissemination, sets and costumes, rehearsal and living space, documentation and travel.

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