Applications Invited for VM Salgaocar Fellowship Grant 2022.

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About the Organization

Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts is a non-profit arts initiative founded by Dipti and Dattaraj V. Salgaocar. The Centre is a strong advocate for the arts in Goa, providing working and exhibition space, assistance with exchange and grant funding initiatives, infrastructural and creative support for special co-operative projects and networking with state, national and international organizations.

Located in the picturesque Altinho hills of Panjim, Sunaparanta houses several exhibition galleries, a library, a large multi-functional space for workshops and lectures, an open-air amphitheatre, a courtyard that houses Café Al Fresco.

About the Fellowship

Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts invites applications for the VM Salgaocar Fellowship Grants 2022.

In our commitment to building a more inclusive and critically engaged society, a key area of our work at Sunaparanta has been to support cultural operators producing scholarly work that stimulate cultures of change.

As we continue to contribute to the cultural ecosystem in Goa, Sunaparanta is offering grants that will recognise excellent and outstanding achievements of those cultural professionals who have been instrumental in bringing forth critical new projects and whose work can contribute to the enrichment of our creative landscape.

The grants support a year-long project and welcomes proposals that focus on:

• strengthening capacities to preserve, protect and enhance cultural heritage and local knowledge, resources & skill.
• exploring artistic applications of emerging technologies and ideas related to technology and culture.
• rethinking responses to environmental change, while actively engaging local communities.
• Two selected Fellow applicants will be awarded grants of INR 2.5 lakhs each
• The duration of the fellowship will be 12 months

Eligibility

• This opportunity is open to professionals from the following fields: visual artists, theatre practitioners, researchers, art historians, curators, filmmakers, photographers, architects, designers, writers and academicians.
• Applicants must be based in India and be of Indian citizenship
• The proposal needs to be part of an already existing research project. Applicants should clearly indicate what portion of the project will be undertaken as part of the fellowship.

Deadline

 15 September 2022

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