Deadline: 10 August 2018
Applicants are invited to submit applications for Fellowship under the Arts in Partnership fellowship programme, awarded by Ranga Mandira Trust, Chennai to train under and contribute to Ek Potlee Ret Ki / Kaani Nilamum Mupporumai Aniyum an activist collective working on cultural identities and diversity.
Ranga Mandira is offering fellowships to interested youngster to live, work and learn in the grassroots of Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand with the Ek Potlee Ret Ki / Kaani Nilamum Mupporumai Aniyum collective. The two-year fellowship will provide a consolidated honorarium of Rs. 12,000/month.
The fellow will participate and gain experience in the following:
- Undertaking extensive field work to identify, study and document cultural practices across four States.
- Work on advocacy to push for administrative and policy level interventions into the lives and livelihoods of marginalised communities.
- Participate in community mobilisation and formation of an alternate peoples’ political platform to strengthen assertion of rights and entitlements.
- Work in the collective’s secretariat gaining hands-on experience in administrative and other campaign coordination work.
Benefits
- Hands-on field (grassroots) and advocacy experience.
- Opportunity to meet, interact with, and document several indigenous and hereditary cultural communities, artistes, and artisans.
- Contribute to developing a one-of-a-kind, fully open source, folk achieve.
- Contribute to developing special community libraries and experiential learning centres for children from the margins.
- Network with various other organisations and individuals across India working on similar issues.
- Extensively travel across rural India to identify and connect with communities
- Honorarium of INR 12,000 per month.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants who possess fluency in either Hindi or Tamil (spoken and writing) along with a fair knowledge of English.
- No specific degrees or certificates are expected. All applicants need is interest to work and learn.
- Some basic knowledge of computers (basic typing, word, email, internet searching, etc.) will be very helpful .
- Applicant must be willing to undertake extensive travels (by buses, trains and other public transportation) and live in rural areas with basic/minimum facilities
- Applicant must be an Indian National.
- Ek Potlee Ret Ki / Kaani Nilamum Mupporumai Aniyum is not an NGO. It is an activist collective – they work on socio-political issues and mobilization. Applicant must have a keen interest in engaging with grassroots issues and understanding social structures and political workings.
- Interest in any sort of arts and culture will be welcomed.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
Eligible Country: India
For more information, please visit Call for Applications.
