A Week at the IFA Archive | June 08-12, 2026 at IFA, Bangalore
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
invites you to
The IFA Archive, Sanjay Nagar, Bangalore
June 08-12, 2026
Film Screenings | Walkthroughs | Workshops | Discussions
We are delighted to invite you back to our Archive to mark the International Archives Week (IAW). The theme for this year’s IAW is #ArchivesForJustice: Rights, Memory & Futures. We have a week of public engagements that hope to stimulate interest in archives, how they work, and for you to engage with the material of 950+ projects that we have supported and implemented in the last 30 years. We explore projects engaging with community histories, justice and memory across our programmes. These projects have had varied outcomes such as books, films, performances, games, websites, archival and educational material, and more. Drop by during the week, explore and participate in the events planned and take a look at our work spanning three decades as we mark 30 years of grant and project implementation.
We have five kinds of curated experiences at the IFA Archive for you:
- Open Archive Hours: Explore the archive space, browse through materials from 30 years of projects, and engage with the collection at your own pace.
No registration needed (but take a look at the timings below) - Walkthrough: We take you on a guided tour of the Archive to tell its story, how it came into being, what it holds, and why it matters.
Entry by registration only - Workshop: Archiving the Personal: A hands-on workshop that invites participants to bring an object holding personal meaning—a photograph, letter, keepsake, or anything closely connected to memory and lived experience. Explore how everyday objects can be thoughtfully preserved as personal archives through simple archival practices and conversations around memory, identity, and storytelling.
Entry by registration only - Film Screening: Attend screenings of two films supported by IFA that have used archives in different ways and explore community histories and movements.
RSVP required - Discussion: Date with the Archive: Archives for Future Justice: The panel discusses how archives can support emerging forms of justice and community memory. Mira Brunner of QAMRA Archival Project at NLSIU and Faisal Rehman of Keystone Foundation in conversation with Arvind Narrain, Alternative Law Forum.
RSVP required
SCHEDULE
Register here for walkthroughs, workshops, film screenings and talk
June 08, 2026:
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM: Open Archive Hours
June 09, 2026:
11:00 AM - 01:00 PM: Open Archive Hours
03:00 PM - 04:30 PM: Guided walkthrough
06:30 PM - 07:30 PM: Film: Iqraar-naama (The Agreement) by Priyanka Chhabra
June 10, 2026:
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM: Open Archive Hours
03:00 PM - 04:30 PM: Workshop: Archiving the Personal
June 11, 2026:
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Guided walkthrough
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM: Open Archive Hours
03:00 PM - 04:30 PM: Workshop: Archiving the Personal
06:30 PM - 07:30 PM: Film: Songs of our Soil - పని పాట పోరాటం (Pani Paata Poratam) by Aditi Maddali
June 12, 2026:
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM: Open Archive Hours
03:00 PM - 04:30 PM: Guided Walkthrough
06:30 PM - 08:00 PM: Date with the Archive: Archives for Future Justice
Free and open to all. Please join us for refreshments.
ABOUT THE FILMS:
Songs of our Soil - పని పాట పోరాటం (Pani Paata Poratam) by Aditi Maddali
52 minutes
Telugu with English subtitles
Through Uyyala songs, an agricultural tradition rooted in the political expression of women in Telangana, Songs of our Soil traces the histories of their resistance and memories of disillusionment. By looking at women’s participation in major political movements, from the Telangana People’s Movement to the demands of justice from the contemporary Mallana Sagar Irrigation project, this film attempts to complicate the relationship between memory and history. In its tracing, the film introspects the region’s politics of cultural production to ask how we remember the stories of women who sang while they worked and resisted.
This grant was supported by Titan Company Limited.
Iqraar-naama (The Agreement) by Priyanka Chhabra
55 minutes
Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu with subtitles
In the grand narrative of the Partition of Punjab (1947), Iqraar-naama is a film about the ‘refugee’, ‘migrant’, ‘displaced person’ as the protagonist of their own story. The film is told through a collection of documents from the personal archive of Charandas Bangia, a Partition refugee from Lyallpur, Pakistan who finally settled in Amritsar, India. It decenters historical narratives from the state to the citizen, from state archives to personal archives, and looks at history from the perspective of those who experience it.
This grant was supported by Illana Cariappa and Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company.
We look forward to hosting you!
The IFA Archive is built with support from SP Lohia Foundation India.