Menaka Rodriguez, government director of the India Foundation of the Arts (IFA), says that IFA’s Project 560 is an try to have interaction Bengalureans in constructing a deeper reference to their metropolis. “As residents of a city, we often wonder about our relationship with the place we live and work. We need to create spaces and opportunities to stop, pause, connect and engage with each other, the people who make up our neighbourhood and the city,” she believes.
Since 2018, IFA has supported near 50 initiatives, bringing collectively artists, students, and residents and fascinating deeply with the neighbourhoods, cultural areas, and pure ecosystems of Bengaluru, underneath Project 560 ( named after the primary three digits of Bengaluru’s PIN code). These initiatives, which broadly fall underneath three classes — Neighbourhood Engagements, Arts Projects (Research/Practice) and Curated Artistic Engagements, collectively search to create “diverse artistic and cultural interventions, enabling residents to re-imagine their city while creating lasting connections and critical conversations around its evolving identity,” as a press notice issued by IFA places it.
Chandra Keerthi B will likely be main a a stroll by Majestic
To have a good time seven years of Project 560 and to replicate on the highway forward, IFA will likely be organising the Project 560 Festival, a citywide celebration of Bengaluru by the lens of artwork, tradition, reminiscence, and lived expertise. The competition, supported by BNP Paribas India, will likely be held over two weekends and have 36 curated initiatives. These will unfold by walks, workshops, dramatised readings, poetry performances, talks, video games, and exhibitions at varied areas all through town. “Many of these projects have happened at different times, so when they come together, they are talking to each other and the city gets to see them collectively,” says Menaka.
Anmol Tikoo’s venture explores the experiences of caregivers
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Some of the competition’s highlights embrace a stroll by Majestic by Chandra Keerthi B, a speak about a girl’s soccer staff by Isha Harsha Mangalmurti & PASS FC, a multi-lingual poetry workshop by Mamta Sagar, snippets from a venture by Anmol Tikoo, which explores the experiences of caregivers, psychological well being and it’s depiction in Kannada films, and tales about farmers’ market at Byatarayanapura from a venture by Ganapathy BP, she says.
“Putting projects together in a festival is a way of celebrating the journey we have had over the last seven years,” Menaka provides. “We are thankful to be an organisation that calls Bengaluru home and excited to have supported and continue to support projects in the city that engage with it in different ways.”
The Project 560 Festival will likely be held right now and tomorrow and on September 20 and 21, throughout varied areas in Bengaluru. It is free and open to all. To know extra, go to indiaifa.org.
