Deadline: 19 July 2019
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is seeking proposals from artists for Arts Projects in government schools in Karnataka.
This is part of the Kali Kalisu initiative of IFA, the aims of which are:
- To enrich curriculum and classroom teaching through artistic interventions.
- To create opportunities for artists and teachers to become joint stakeholders in the school community.
- To set in motion, processes that will develop concrete pedagogical approaches for arts integration in school curricula.
Budget
- Support of up to a total of Rs 2,00,000/- is available.
- Budget for the duration of the grant.
- Each budget category must pertain to a specific item of project-related expenditure.
- Funds will cover only project-related personnel costs, such as the artist’s honorarium (not exceeding Rs 15,000/- per month), additional resource persons’ honoraria (if needed), travel, workshops and materials.
- Budget for an accountant’s fee subject to a maximum of Rs 3,000/-
- Project may have a minimum duration of six months and a maximum duration of one year and six months.
Scope of the Project
Projects undertaken could concentrate on any of the following:
- Bring multiple stakeholders such as parents, students, teachers, the school administration and art practitioners together for an arts project.
- Explore learning environments enriched by regional/local art forms and practices in the classroom.
- Conceptualise and put in place student-centred programmes such as an arts cell within the student community which will meet regularly to experience and explore various art forms (theatre, visual arts, film, literature, photography, music etc).
- Examine possibilities with the arts to sensitise and engage the school community to thinking about local realities such as social justice and environmental issues.
Other long-term or short-term projects that engage with arts education in innovative and creative ways will also be considered.
Eligibility Criteria
- Proposals are welcome from artists with or without prior experience or relevant training in arts education in government schools. However, applicants who do not have the experience of working in government schools must at least have worked with children / young adults.
- Applicants should be able to communicate in the relevant local language.
- Applicants must be Indian nationals or have been resident in India for at least five consecutive years.
How to Apply
Proposals must be submitted at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit http://indiaifa.org/programmes/arts-education/grants-artists/request-for-proposals-april2019.html