In February 2010, India Foundation for the Arts made six grants under our Arts Research and Documentation programme. Badri Narayan Tiwari from Allahabad is exploring the Bhagait folk tradition of the marginalised and Dalit; Paromita Vohra of Mumbai is working on a book on the evolution of the India documentary film and Savia Viegas of Goa traces the trajectory of Angelo da Fonseca’s work and the formation of complex national identities within colonial Portuguese Goa...
The second phase of Kali-Kalisu: IFA’s initiative towards incorporating the arts in education by training schoolteachers across rural Karnataka started this June at Nrityagram with a series of intensive Master Resource Person (MRP) training workshops. Conducted in partnership with the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, there were thirty-five beneficiaries of the training, of which twenty-five were government schoolteacher participants from last year (Phase I) and the remaining ten were freelance arts education activists...
We have quite a bit to share from the last three months of 2010. IFA won the India NGO of the Year Award 2009 (medium category) administered by the Resource Alliance and supported by The Rockefeller Foundation. The award recognises not-for-profit organisations for setting good standards and practices in resource mobilisation, accountability and transparency, and for demonstrating excellent stewardship of philanthropic resources...