Staying Connected #1 | Arts and Culture during times of Lockdown | April 03, 2020
As we spend another week under lockdown, we hope you are safe at home, and finding ways to stay active, engaged and joyful.
We need all kinds of sustenance to keep our spirits up during these difficult times. With the hope to bring you some enriching ideas from the world of arts and culture, India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) wishes to share some articles, talks, discussions and other thought provoking resources over the next few weeks.
We start today by bringing to you two reports on the arts and culture which might interest you. IFA is featured along with our Executive Director, Arundhati Ghosh in these reports.
We start today by bringing to you two reports on the arts and culture which might interest you. IFA is featured along with our Executive Director, Arundhati Ghosh in these reports.
- COVID-19 has affected the lives of everybody. Arts and cultural professionals, especially those whose livelihoods depend on live audiences are suffering great difficulties with no easy solution in sight in the short term. On the other hand during any crisis, the arts and culture have always provided humanity with the inspiration and hope to combat despair. Keeping this is mind, on March 20, 2020, Culture Funding Watch in partnership with Rambourg Foundation called for an urgent international virtual conference titled COVID-19 Crisis and Emergency Funding Mechanisms: What Action Plans for the Cultural and Creative Sector? With more than 100 attendees from Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas and Australia, the conference was a first successful step to tackle the COVID-19 crisis from the arts and culture perspective.
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- In the world of theatre when the space for performance is empty for days, a tiny lamp is lit and placed there. It is the light of hope and keeping the place warm for tomorrow, when there will be live audiences and joyous performances. The work IFA does in the arts supporting the journeys of artists and scholars must go on, more now than ever before, when the world is facing severe hardships. And that is why this next report is important for all of us. Released by ArtTactic in partnership with Art Dubai, the report titled South Asia: Art and Philanthropy 2020 includes trends and motivations in individual giving to the arts, along with surveys on how arts organisations in the region are currently funding their activities, and the challenges they are facing as we head into the next decade. It aims to trigger a broader debate around how to encourage more support for the arts and inspire innovation and adaption of new philanthropic models fit for the 21st century.
Click here to read the report