Serendipity Grants

The SAF Arts Journalism Grant seeks to provide support worth 1 lakh to an early- or mid-career journalist/reporter in an effort to develop a body of reportage around creative communities/ practices in the subcontinent. Situated as we are within an ecosystem that is more saturated with initiatives for critical and curatorial writing, this Grant hopes to address a seeming lacuna in opportunities for accessible arts journalism, to drive greater interest and public stakeholdership in the arts. The awardee will be chosen from a pool of candidates nominated by the Jury.

The Food Matters Grant supports projects that aim to contribute to the discourse around food and create a knowledge network to promote inquiry into food practices in India and South Asia. Through this grant, we hope to create a space for the exchange of ideas around food habits, traditions, and futures.

There is a multitude of art and craft forms, folk traditions and festivals that have been steadily declining for many decades and are now almost on the verge of disappearing completely. The increasedly insular outlook and attitude of the majority of the subcontinent is also posing a new threat to many traditional practices that belong to marginalised faiths and communities. Amidst the accelerated urbanisation in rural parts of India, the circumstances are even worse for the agnostic folk traditions in these areas. Once familiar rituals that were seen often or even daily are now waning into the shadows of memory.

The Serendipity Arts Folk Arts Mentorship Grant offers financial support to practitioners in the field of folk traditions in the performing arts who wish to train under a selected mentor for a period of six months. The goal of the grant is to facilitate the enhancement of the artist’s practice through further pursuance of their discipline or through the acquisition of allied art practices and any related skills from the respective mentors that shall contribute to their artistic journey. The awardee will be chosen from a pool of candidates nominated by the Jury.

Serendipity Arts Production Grant for Independent Musicians is for all independent music creators across different genres to support the process of creating, recording, producing and releasing and/or presenting new music. The grant will be awarded to bands, duos, groups or individual independent musicians with a grant of up to INR 1,50,000.