IFA is an independent, nationwide, not-for-profit, organisation that makes grants and implements projects across practice, research and education in the arts and culture in India. Set up as a Public Charitable Trust in 1993, IFA started making grants and implementing projects in 1995. Since then, we have supported and implemented over 750 projects, disbursing over Rs 36.51 crore (USD 4.44 million) across the country. The outcomes of these projects—as books, films, performances, exhibitions, games, websites, and archival materials—have been circulating in the public domain through showcases, presentations, seminars, screenings, lecture demonstrations, and festivals, helping widen access and encouraging broader participation in the arts.
About the Proposal
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) seeks to implement arts projects facilitated by teachers from government schools in Karnataka, for their schools. These projects have approvals from the Department of State Educational Research and Training, Karnataka.
The Arts Education programme. ‘Kali Kalisu’, is an effort to make learning a continuous and joyous process in schools, with the application of different art forms in curriculum-based teaching pedagogies. It is an aspiration to nurture a student-centered learning process with the integration of curriculum-based learning with creative approaches, that could build a strong relationship with the world outside a classroom and the students' lived experiences, through local stories, music, theatre, painting, folk, and other local art forms.
IFA is requesting project proposals that hope to form a solid foundation for art-integrated teaching pedagogies and encourage curiosity and creativity in students.
Scope of Work
The implemented projects could do any of the following:
Bring multiple stakeholders such as parents, students, teachers, school administration and arts practitioners together for an artistic project.
Explore learning environments enriched by regional/local art forms and practices in the classroom.
Conceptualise and put in place student-centered programmes such as an arts wing within the student community which will meet regularly to experience and explore various art forms (theatre, visual arts, film, literature, photography, music, etc).
Examine possibilities with the arts to sensitise and engage the school community to think about local realities such as social justice and environmental issues.
Other long-term or short-term projects that engage with arts education in innovative and creative ways will also be considered.
How to Apply
Your final proposals must be sent in a single email not more than 25 MB to Krishnamurthy TN, Senior Programme Officer, Arts Education, at krishna@indiaifa.org
Subject of the email: Project Proposal for Arts Education
Phone number: 8762954080 (You can call between 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM from Monday to Friday)
