Register for Interwoven Tapestries: Lessons from Arts Education by Tuesday, March 23, 2021 | A two-day national webinar
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
presents
Interwoven Tapestries: Lessons from Arts Education
A two-day national webinar
Day 01 | Thursday, March 25, 2021 | 10:30 AM – 04:00 PM
Day 02 | Friday, March 26, 2021 | 11:30 AM – 04:15 PM
Register here to join us on zoom. Live streaming on Youtube/IndiaIfa
We are delighted to invite you to Interwoven Tapestries: Lessons from Arts Education, a two-day national webinar organised by IFA. Join us for a glimpse into the exciting work of artists, teachers, educationists, policymakers and donors in the field of Arts Education in India.
The webinar brings together over 15 speakers across four panel discussions and a keynote. The speakers will cover a broad range of topics such as the arts pedagogies used by artists and teachers in school education, ways in which teachers and artists forge synergies between national and local narratives within arts education, roles of private funding and government policies in deciding the philosophy of education, content, and delivery mechanisms that impact arts education, and new concerns due to COVID-19 and ways in which educators and artists have been dealing with the situation.
Please register with us here by Tuesday, March 23, 2021 to join us on zoom. You can also join the live streaming without prior registration on our Youtube channel.
Please see below a short summary of the sessions planned at Interwoven Tapestries: Lessons from Arts Education. Click here for more details.
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Day 01: Thursday, March 25, 2021
10:30 AM – 10:35 AM: Welcome Address by Arundhati Ghosh, Executive Director, IFA
10:35 AM – 11:15 AM: Keynote Address by Chandrashekhara Kambara, Writer, Researcher, and Nadoja, Padma Shri and Jnanpith awardee
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM: Introduction to the Webinar by Krishna Murthy TN, Programme Officer, Arts Education, IFA
11:30 AM – 01:00 PM: Session 01: Pedagogy and Process: Artists, Teachers, and Schools
This panel will discuss the ways in which we can leverage the emancipatory potential of arts-integrated learning, to enrich the lives of children.
Moderator: Blaise Joseph, Artist and Art Educator, Kannur, Kerala
Panellists: KV Akshara, Theatre Director and Writer, Sri Nilakanteshwara Natya Seva Sangha (Ninasam), Heggodu, Karnataka, Prema Rangachary, Director, Vidya Vanam, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu and Vidya Shivadas, Director, The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, New Delhi
02:30 PM – 04:00 PM: Session 02: Local and National: Negotiating Dominant Narratives
This panel will discuss the ways in which arts education allows teachers and students to balance ideas of the national and local and the ways in which teachers negotiate and subvert this divide in classrooms.
Moderator: Joyoti Roy, Head, Strategy and Marketing at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Panellists: J Devika, Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala, Ravikumar Kashi, Contemporary Artist, Writer and Teacher, Bangalore, Karnataka and Sohail Hashmi, Freelance writer, Filmmaker and Heritage Activist, New Delhi
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Day 02: Friday, March 26, 2021
11:30 AM – 01:00 PM: Session 03: Funding and Policy: Influencing the Critical Impact
This panel will ponder on some of the useful public private partnership models in arts education.
Moderator: Sriram V Ayer, Founder and CEO - NalandaWay Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Panellists: Asha Mishra, National Vice President, Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti, New Delhi, Rajkumar Rajak, Resource Person, Azim Premji Foundation, Tonk, Rajasthan and Ritika Gandhi, Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility, Titan Company Limited, Bangalore, Karnataka
02.30 PM – 04.00 PM: Session 04: COVID-19 and Post-COVID-19: Imagining the New Normal
This panel will attempt to the shape that education could possibly take in the years to come in the Post-COVID-19 world.
Moderator: Nandini Manjrekar, Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Panellists: Akshata Krishnamurthy, Assistant Teacher, Anashi, Karnataka, Manmeet Devagun, Artist and Educator, New Delhi and Sahil Ahuja, Theatre Practitioner and Filmmaker, Jaipur, Rajasthan
04:00 PM – 04:15 PM: Closing Remarks by Sumana Chandrashekar, Programme Lead, IFA