Bagalkot

Shrikant Navalagiri


Project Period: One year and six months

For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that aims to bring together professional backstage theatre artists from the villages across North Karnataka to share their skills and weave the stories of their lives into stage texts and performances. The outcome of this project will be a theatre performance based on the lives of backstage theatre art and artists of North Karnataka. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA along with the final reports will be a handbook of documented interviews of the backstage artists. Project funds will pay for contract fees, production, documentation, travel and living, hire of equipment, consumables and purchase of books.

Mahantesh Madar


Project Period: One year and four months

For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that engages sixth grade students of the Morarji Desai Residential School in Devarabelakere village in Davanagere district, in the study of the production of cotton and history of cotton mills in Davanagere through local stories and folk songs. Students will attempt to develop a theatre script with all their findings to bolster their learning of their Kannada language lessons. The outcome of the project will be a performance in the presence of school staff and villagers. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will include photographs and video documentation of the performance and the entire project. Project funds will pay for honorarium, performance, professional fees, travel, workshop, material, and documentation.

This Project was Terminated by IFA and the Project Coordinator is ineligible to apply to IFA in the future.