Our programmes and their activities are co-created through extensive engagements with stakeholders and are developed to address critical needs. This level of focus organically allows the collective to work on a wide range of issues and processes. Through mobilising over 10,000 folk artists and culture practitioners in Rajasthan, we have executed several Kalakar Samwads - dialogues with administrators to address specific issues such as allocation of grave yards, access to scholarships and issuance of pensions. In Madhya Pradesh, our Cultures Submerged initiative not only documented the lives of displaced Adivasis on the banks of Narmada, but collectiviesed hundreds of them and built capacity in them to access entitlements within the Forest Rights Act. Our work in Tamil Nadu has been focused on addressing various social vulnerabilities such as gender and caste through organising workshops and trainings for a varied range of beneficiaries including school children and community women. The Kadalaadu Kaadai initiative has been successful in collectiving over 3000 fish vending women into the very first all-women fisherfolk association in Chennai. 

 

In 2021 we co-developed a first-of-its-kind collaboration and creation process with elected representatives, administrators and community stakeholders. Korkai is an effort to reimagine women’s empowerment, policy to implementation, through such a collaboration.

 

The impact of our engagements has enabled our steady growth and expansion into different states while also opening doors to more and more marginalised communities and stakeholder groups.