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COVID-19 Artists Fund: Support Marginalized Artists

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Margazhi Manch - An online performing arts festival in support of arts, artistes & communities

We are extremely excited to present Sumanasa Foundation’s Margazhi Manch, an unique online platform that presents diverse art traditions, many of which remain outside the digital economy and the December music season. This time of the year has largely been associated with ‘classical’ artforms. Margazhi Manch is an effort to include all artforms in this new virtual Manch (platform) and make Chennai’s music season diverse and inclusive.

Please do support the artists by making a contribution to this ongoing campaign. Supporters will receive an email with access and details to view the festival. 100% of the proceeds will go towards supporting more artists and artisans affected by this pandemic. Thank you and keep supporting Sumanasa Foundation.

COVID Artists Fund
Thousands of artists in India are struggling financially due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Art performances in small towns, urban spaces, villages and temples have completely stopped and artists do not have their primary source of income. The COVID Artists Fund supports artists who have been immensely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic through direct cash transfers to their respective accounts. 100% of your contributions will reach the artists.

Online Performing Arts Festival

We conducted an online festival between 10th June 2020 to 14th June 2020 which showcased diverse performing art traditions of India, many of which still remain outside the digital economy. We believe that it is important to cultivate an ecosystem where we can appreciate and pay for all art, and as a step towards this, only donors received access to view the festival. Due to the overwhelming support we received, we are keeping this campaign open to help continue the work to support the many artists still in need.

About Sumanasa Foundation
Sumanasa Foundation was established in 2005 with the objective of engaging with the arts and the community. Sumanasa supports projects that help in reimagining art and culture, thus enabling communities, in fostering culturally vibrant spaces, engaging in serious conversations across social groups and creating platforms for artists and art forms from marginalised backgrounds. It provides different avenues for artists to engage in socio-cultural dialogue, and in building appreciation and interest in the arts. For more information please visit sumanasafoundation.org

This initiative is supported by Sumanasa Foundation and Bhuvana Foundation. All Indian currency contributions will be deposited in the account of Sumanasa Foundation, a registered Trust working in the areas of arts, culture and community.

All foreign currency contributions will be deposited in the account of Bhuvana Foundation, a registered trust working in the area of Education, Art and empowerment.

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Artists/Artforms Supported by Sumanasa Foundation, Bhuvana Foundation

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3rd February 2021

Dear Supporters,

The campaign has got a phenomenal response and support from you all. Thank you all for showering your support with love. To help us raise the funds faster, Milaap is now offering us a 5% matching on all the payments (till 5th Jan 2021 23:59Hrs). This means ongoing forward, for every 1000 INR, Milaap will now contribute an additional 50 INR to the campaign thereby creating 1.05X the impact.

Please come forward and help!! You can help via the following methods:

1. Clicking on the donate now button:
https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-sumanasa-foundation
2. To pay via Paytm (for Android users only) - https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-sumanasa-foundation/deeplink?deeplink_type=paytm

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Team Milaap.

8th January 2021

Dear Supporters,

The campaign has got a phenomenal response and support from you all. Thank you all for showering your support with love.

To help us raise the funds faster, Milaap is now offering us a 5% matching on all the contributions (till 3 PM Sunday,10th Jan, 2021 ). This means ongoing forward, for every 5000 INR, Milaap will now contribute an additional 250 INR to the campaign thereby creating 1.05X the impact.

Please come forward and help. You can help via the following methods:

1. Clicking on the donate now button:
https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-sumanasa-foundation

Please support and share the campaign with your contacts.

Regards,
Team Milaap.

28th December 2020

Dear Supporters

Thank you for your unconditional support for our festival towards helping artists and artisans who were affected adversely by the ongoing pandemic. Hope you enjoyed our online performing arts festival Margazhi Manch.

Here are the links for viewing both the days of our online performing arts festival.

Link for Day 1: https://youtu.be/q5NIYlcw-iw
Link for Day 2: https://youtu.be/kiEnrZBReK4

100% of the proceedings go towards supporting artists affected by the pandemic!

Campaign link to donate:
https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-sumanasa-foundation

Thank you once again for supporting our campaign and the artists and artisans.

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Sumanasa Foundation