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.

The Serendipity Folk Arts Grant offers financial support to practitioners in the field of Folk Traditions within the performing arts. Folk traditions in the performing arts refer to the ways in which communities express their culture, stories, and values through music, dance, theater, and other forms of art.

In 2020, the Serendipity Arts Foundation and Les Rencontres d’Arles announced the biggest lens-based media grant, supported by the Institut français en Inde, with the shared purpose of promoting cultural practices in the South Asian region. The winner of the previous two editions of the grant, Sathish Kumar (2022) and Paribartana Mohanty (2024) were awarded the grant to develop and showcase their respective projects Town Boy (2022) and A Fate’s Brief Memoir (2024) at Les Rencontres d’Arles.

The third edition of the Serendipity Arts' Independent Music Production Grant is for all independent music creators across different genres to support the process of creating, recording, producing and releasing and/or presenting new music.

For its third edition, the Enduring Traditions grant continues its mission to document and preserve India’s rapidly vanishing art and craft forms, folk traditions, and festivals. Over the decades, many of these practices have been steadily dwindling, and today, several stand on the brink of disappearance.