For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that documents the relationship between boats, boat-making, Bhatiyali, and related song traditions and race cultures among Miya communities of the Char-Chapori regions in Assam. It treats boats as material-cultural lifelines and explores song repertoires, boat craft, and river performance as modes of community memory and resilience. The outcomes of this project will be a short documentary film, an audio collection of Bhatiyali and related river songs, a visual ethnographic essay and exhibition. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA, along with the final reports, will include the edited film, the photo essay, and audio recordings of songs. Project funds will pay for contract fees, travel and living, exhibition, hire of equipment and hire of venue.
