{"id":21605,"date":"2023-06-30T08:44:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T08:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=21605"},"modified":"2023-06-30T08:44:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T08:44:59","slug":"inaugural-maitri-cultural-partnerships-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/06\/30\/inaugural-maitri-cultural-partnerships-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural Maitri Cultural Partnerships grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I announce the six recipients of the inaugural Maitri Cultural Partnerships grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cultural Partnerships are one of a suite of Maitri (meaning friendship) initiatives administered by the Centre for Australia-India Relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centre is working across government, industry, academia and the community to build greater understanding within the Australia-India relationship and support business to seize the opportunities of our economic partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of these projects will support new and exciting collaboration with India and enhance the connections between our creative sectors and India&#8217;s thriving cultural industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mona Foma, the Tasmanian festival of music and arts, will lead a two-year Australia-India music collaboration with artistic exchanges and music residencies, culminating in a major concert in 2025.<\/li><li>B\u00e1bbarra Women&#8217;s Centre in Maningrida Northern Territory will work with Tharangini Studios in Bengaluru to engage emerging women artists in textiles development.<\/li><li>Raghav Handa will lead a joint effort between FORM Dance Projects and Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts to be performed at the 2024 India Biennale in Bengaluru.<\/li><li>Western Australia&#8217;s Undercurrent Theatre Company will collaborate with the Kerala-based Void Ensemble on a new production to be performed in Perth and Trivandrum.<\/li><li>Benjamin Knapton, a leading Australian circus and physical theatre director, will work with performers of traditional Indian physical theatre on a production which will premiere at the Royal Opera House in Mumbai.<\/li><li>Melbourne&#8217;s Liquid Architecture and Sarai-CSDS in New Delhi will co-host a symposium, workshop, and exhibition on creative practices that utilise new technologies in sound and media.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Further details on the successful grant projects can be found at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/australiaindiacentre.org.au\/\">australiaindiacentre.org.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon Penny Wong said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe Albanese Government is strengthening creative collaboration between Australia and India to further our cultural understanding and enhance our economic ties.<\/p><p>\u201cThe Maitri Cultural Partnerships will deepen our creative sector engagement from major cultural institutions to smaller, community partnerships.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tim Thomas, CEO, Centre for Australia-India Relations said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe Maitri Cultural Partnerships grants are a key element of the Centre for Australia-India Relations&#8217; work to deepen understanding and connections between Australia and India. Strong cultural ties will increasingly be a feature of our strong relations.<\/p><p>\u201cThe Centre is pleased to support these projects to bring fresh and innovative perspectives to the Australia-India relationship and to foster creativity in our own multicultural ecosystem.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I announce the six recipients of the inaugural Maitri Cultural Partnerships grants. The Cultural Partnerships are one of a suite of Maitri (meaning friendship) initiatives administered by the Centre for Australia-India Relations. The Centre is working across government, industry, academia and the community to build greater understanding within the Australia-India relationship and support business &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/06\/30\/inaugural-maitri-cultural-partnerships-grants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inaugural Maitri Cultural Partnerships grants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21606,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605\/revisions\/21606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}