For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that will look into the performances of women during the Mahila Kabir Yatra. The research will involve a feminist point of view to understand the performer's journey on stage and trace how the stage transforms an artist while looking at the sacrifices that a female artist has to undertake. It will also look at how the Kabir Vaani is transformed based on the gender of the artist and if these performative spaces are also acting as safe spaces for women. The outcome of this project will be a short documentary film of about 20-25 minutes. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA, along with the final reports, will be the documentary film and audiovisual documentation from the field, including stories and songs of resistance. Project funds will pay for contract fees, travel and living, materials, and hire of equipment.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project titled DNT Children’s Lens implemented by IFA will engage a group of 40 students between sixth and eighth grade from denotified tribes Pardhi and Kanjar studying at Jeevan Shiksha Pahal, a school run by Muskaan in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh to document the oral histories, music and specific vocabulary of them through a series of multidisciplinary activities. The project attempts to foster a sense of identity among the children and prepare them to participate in mainstream deliberations. The outcome of the project will be three performances, a publication and a process document. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be photographs, the copies of the publication, the process document and video documentation of the entire project. Project funds will pay for contract fees, travel and living, publication, workshop, documentation, performance and library.
For making a film on women potters, structured as a search for roots by a contemporary studio potter, and focussing on two traditional women potters in Kutch and Manipur. By exploring the ways in which the women have circumvented the taboos associated with the potter’s wheel, the film will foreground a dialogue between tradition and modernity.
For consolidation and dissemination of a clown theatre methodology. Training workshops for theatre groups in the Hindi-speaking belt will result in new productions, a theatre network and additional performance venues. Concurrent workshops will be held with undertrials and disadvantaged children.
