Welcome to IFA‟s first newsletter which comes to you at an exciting point in our history. We have supported 174 projects across the country over the last eleven years and are ready to venture into areas new to us. The core of our work remains grant-making, however, and in recent months we have
continued to fund projects under the two unique programmes we launched last year – Extending Arts Practice and New Performance...
The highlight at IFA in recent months was a colloquium on arts education that we coorganised with the movement arts centre Attakalari and co-funded with the Sir Ratan Tata Trust. Titled Accessing Arts Education: Possibilities and Challenges, this brought together policymakers, artists and arts educators. Having NCERT director, Krishna Kumar discuss the question of "How we have managed to keep the arts out of schools for 150 years?" alongside close-to-the ground accounts of working in the field of arts education was an eye-opening experience. Renowned performer Shubha Mudgal...
