British Council has announced India-UK Together 2022 – a programme that aims at boosting India-UK creative collaborations. The programme marks India’s 75th anniversary of Independence and promotes opportunities to co-develop cross-cultural creative collaborations, skills and knowledge exchange and new artwork.
India-UK Together 2022 is an open call worth Rs 2.5 crore that invites artists in both countries to jointly submit creative proposals. The call promotes mutual and equitable collaboration between emerging and established organisations, festivals and institutions in India and the UK. Ideas are invited to celebrate the India-UK relationship while inculcating the cross-cutting theme of Together – to influence perception change around global challenges including equality, diversity, inclusion, and environmental consciousness.
“Our strong shared cultural and arts bind India and the UK together from the past to present and is an important pillar of the bilateral future relationship. The intent of the India-UK Together 2022 programme is to mark India’s 75th anniversary of independence, with some of the best creative minds across both nations – to make connections and create together for the wider world,” said Jonathan Kennedy, Director, Arts India, British Council.
The programme offers the opportunity to a wide array of artists and arts organisations to think creatively about newer ways of expression. It encourages inter-and cross-disciplinary practices across all art forms — theatre and dance, visual arts, new media, music, film, architecture, design and fashion and literature. The last date for submission of proposals is October 31, 2021.
Three winning projects will receive grants up to Rs 50 lakh each and the fourth project will receive a grant up to Rs 1 crore. Projects will need to be delivered in India between January 2022 and March 2023 with public-facing activity (digital or hybrid) taking place between September 2022 and March 2023. The winning teams will have the opportunity of touring across India and the UK.
