Programs
The programs at IFA respond to demand for assistance, while also giving encouragement to new perspectives and directions in the arts, particularly promoting work in Indian languages other than English.
The Arts Research program engages scholars, researchers, and practitioners to research various histories and expressions of artistic practices in India. It aims to foster wider perspectives, understandings, interpretations and engagements in the arts.
The Arts Practice program seeks to implement projects that enable artists to expand their present range of practices in new directions. These could question accepted conventions, push new frontiers in content, form and medium, explore new modes of engagement with space, audience and communities, foreground a spirit of experimentation. The program implements projects under the following categories:
- Explorations
- Productions
- Workshops/ Residencies
- Arts Platforms
The Arts Education program is one of the organisation's flagship program. It announced itself in 1998-99, with the conviction that it is only through the arts that students and youngsters would inculcate a quest for lifelong learning. The program was reviewed in 2008-09 and the recommendations from it led to the next avatar of the Arts Education program that was titled Kali Kalisu ('learn and teach' in Kannada). It maintains a continuous dialogue with the National Council of Educational Research and Training, the Directorate of Public Instruction, Karnataka, and the Department of State Education, Research and Training, Karnataka to intensify its capacity building program.
The Archives and Museums program has a twofold objective: to provide arts practitioners and researchers with an opportunity to generate new, critical and creative approaches for public engagement with archives and museum collections; and to energize these spaces as platforms for dialogue and discourse. [3]
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