The project being undertaken by Gaurav Singh Nijjer, Varoon P. Anand, Winnu Das and is supported by Goethe-Institut Mumbai. All material in this document is confidential and should not be shared without prior consent from the project team.
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Summary
An open-source community-led forum for Indian artists to discover successful funding proposals, receive feedback on their funding applications, find funding opportunities and contribute towards a transparent arts funding ecosystem in the country.
Concept Summary
The India Arts Funding Forum seeks to address siloed knowledge, opaque networks and scattered information in the arts funding landscape of the country.
With a community-led approach at its heart, it is envisioned as a digital portal accessible on the web and mobile with Indian artists across disciplines, locations and experience levels as its primary audience.
On the forum, artists can:
The forum relies on crowd-sourced materials (proposals, opportunities, threads) and peer-led activity (discussions, feedback, submissions) to open up knowledge, networks and information for artists.
How do you intend to contribute to Open Source through this proposal? Describe your intentions with respect to the following: a)Access, b)Legals, c)Financials