Request for Proposals: IFA-PARI Creative Grant | Deadline Extended: October 10, 2020 (CLOSED)

Please note:
As we have received an overwhelming response to our "Request for Proposals" for the IFA-PARI Creative Grants, it is taking us much longer than anticipated to review all the proposals. Therefore, shortlisted candidates will be informed in December 2020, interviews will take place in January 2021 and the project period will commence in February 2021.

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
in collaboration with the
People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI)
 invites applications for
an IFA-PARI Creative Grant
 Under its Archives and Museums programme
 
Application deadline: Saturday, October 10, 2020
 

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) invites applications for an IFA-PARI Creative Grant, under its Archives and Museums programme.
 
The Archives and Museums programme of IFA has been initiated with a two-fold objective: to provide arts practitioners and researchers with an opportunity to generate new, critical, and creative approaches for public engagement with archives and museum collections. And to energise these spaces as platforms for dialogue and discourse. For more information, click here.

About PARI: The People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) is both a living journal and an online archive to record and bring to national focus the labour, livelihoods, languages, art, crafts, histories and cultures of rural Indians. It covers the most complex part of the planet: rural India, with 833 million human beings, 780 languages, multiple cultures and unrivalled occupational diversity. It captures these many worlds through video, still photo, audio and text articles. PARI will soon be the biggest rural knowledge repository of its kind anywhere. Millions whose stories remain largely unseen in mainstream media get to tell them here. The People’s Archive is also a resource for research scholars and students. Please visit www.ruralindiaonline.org for more information about PARI. Please get in touch with Namita Waikar, Managing Editor, PARI at namita@ruralindiaonline.org for more information about the grant.

About the IFA-PARI Creative Grant: To support arts practitioners across disciplines to engage with the online platform of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) and contribute to the themes and stories there, in innovative, engaging and original ways. As PARI’s focus is on marginalised communities that otherwise get no mention in mainstream media, proposals that help to bring the spotlight back on these communities will be given preference. This could be by way of both enhancing the existing archival content or adding new material to it through illustrations, photographs, graphics, texts, digital art and music with accompanying text when required. The outcome of the grant could be short films, posters, graphics, illustrated stories, music, etc. It could even be designing for the ever-growing branches of the website.
 
Applicant profile: Arts practitioners who are Indian nationals or have been residents of India for five or more years are eligible to apply. To know more about our eligibility criteria, please click here.
 
Application Process: Your application must include:

  • A proposal briefly describing your intended project which should include your vision, approach, methodology, timeline and possible outcomes of the grant.
  • Detailed budget.
  • Your curriculum vitae with details of your portfolio/ projects you have worked on earlier. Please send us links and not attachments.

Financial assistance and other support:

  • You can request for support up to Rs 2,00,000/-.
  • You may budget for an honorarium of Rs 12,000/- per month subject to a limit of Rs 1,44,000/- for the entire duration of the grant. Please note that the total grant amount is inclusive of the honorarium.
  • Our funds will cover only project-related costs and activities and will not pay for infrastructure costs or equipment purchase.
  • Please ensure that each budget category pertains to a specific item of project-related expenditure.
  • Please budget for an accountant’s fee of up to Rs 3,000/- only.

 Key dates:

  • The deadline for receiving applications is October 10, 2020.
  • Interviews with shortlisted candidates are expected to take place in October 2020.
  • The grant will commence in November 2020 for a period of one year.

Please note, considering the current situation, we only accept applications via email.  
Email your application or any queries to Suman Gopinath at suman@indiaifa.org. 

The Archives and Museums programme is part-supported by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi.