For a series of workshops that enable students of the sixth and seventh grade to develop appreciation for literary arts practices by documenting the stories of their own nomadic Marathi communities. The outcome of this grant will be a publication. The Grantee's deliverables to IFA with the Final Report will include photographs from the workshops and the publication. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, publication costs, workshop costs, professional fees, documentation costs, refreshment costs, and an accountant’s fee.
For a series of workshops for sixth, seventh and eighth grade students at the Government High School, Muchalamba, Bidar District, that integrates geometry and art by using different forms of visual art, folk stories and theatre games. The outcome will be a performance and a publication. The Grantee's deliverables to IFA with the Final Report will include photographs from the workshops, audio video recording of the performance and the publication. Grant funds will pay for performance costs, honorarium, workshop costs, publication costs, documentation and refreshment costs, professional fees and an accountant’s fee.
For a wide-ranging engagement and workshops with seventh grade students of the Government Model Higher Primary School, Maski, Raichur District to introduce them to the short stories of Masti Venkatesha Iyengar and enable them to write their own. The outcome will be a publication. The Grantee's deliverables to IFA with the Final Report will include photographs from the workshops, and the publication. Grant funds will pay for costs towards an honorarium, a workshop, professional fees for resource persons, documentation, publication, travel, and an accountant’s fee.
For a project that attempts to bridge the gap in arts based learning in the fourth standard under the government’s Nali Kali programme. This particular programme will take place for the students in the fourth standard at the Government Higher Primary School, Maravanthe, Kundapura Taluk, Udupi. Through a series of workshops he would engage educationists, artists and designers to guide teachers and children in creating a self learning kit that connect their local environment to their syllabus. The outcomes will be the learning kit and a performance. The deliverables of the grant would include photographs from the workshops and performance, the learning kit and a ten to twelve minute video documentation. Grant funds will pay for preparatory costs, honorarium, printing costs, documentation costs, professional fees, travel costs, performance costs, refreshment costs and an accountant’s fee.
For a project that will enable the eighth grade students of the Government High School (PUC Section) at Malur, Tirthahalli Taluk, Shivamogga, to explore texts from the school syllabus by interpreting it through the poly-vocal rendition of Vadapu which is used in the performance of Puravanthike, a folk art form from the region. Through this process they will consider multiple possibilities of creating performance pieces. The outcome will be a stage performance which will be presented at two to three school venues. The deliverables of the grant would include photographs from the workshops and performance, and a ten to twelve minute video documentation. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, performance costs, professional fees, documentation costs, refreshment costs, costume and music costs, preparatory costs, travel costs and an accountant’s fee.
For a series of workships in the visual arts and storytelling that will connect students and the local community in the Government Primary school at Manipal, Udupi to the issues related to environment in their immediate surroundings. The outcome will be an exhibition. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA with the Final Report will be audio-visual documentation of the workshops, images, and a ten to twelve minute video document of the entire project. Grant funds will pay for professional fees, honorarium, exhibition costs, documentation costs, stationery and an accountant’s fee.
For a folk-artist to use an in-depth participant-trainer method with the fifth to seventh grade students of the Government Model Higher Primary School, Goppenahalli, Davanagere District, to engage them in the diverse understandings of Veeragase, a folk arts form that is rapidly fading from the cultural life of Karnataka. The outcomes will be an exhibition and a performance. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA with the Final Report will be audio-visual documentation of the workshops, images, and a ten to twelve minute video document of the entire project. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, professional fees, material costs, documentation costs and an accountant’s fee.
For introducing the students of the Government High School, Chibbalageri, Uttara Kannada District, to the various aspects of different types of puppetry that is prevalent in the region. The outcomes will be an exhibition and a performance.
For a series of engagements in the literary arts to address learning challenges associated with language, with the students of Government Primary School, Bylandora Gauliwada, Uttara Kannada District, from the Gauli community, who are migrants from Maharashtra. The outcomes will include a publication and performances of the Gauli community.
For a series of artistic engagements with sixth and seventh grade students of the Government Higher Primary School, Birashettyhalli, Mandya District, to explore their science curriculum through poetry and the written word. The outcomes will include recitals, installations and a publication.
