Kannada Creative Writing Toto Award 2023: Call for Applications

ಟೋಟೋ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರ 2023

ಕನ್ನಡ ಸೃಜನಶೀಲ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಬರಹಗಳಿಗೆ ಆಹ್ವಾನ

NOTE: The last date to submit applications has shifted to 30 September 2022.

ಸೃಜನಶೀಲ ಯುವ ಬರಹಗಾರರಿಗೆ ಉತ್ತೇಜನ ನೀಡುವ ದೃಷ್ಟಿಯಿಂದ ಸ್ಥಾಪಿತವಾದ ಟೋಟೋ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರವು

ಹದಿನೆಂಟು ವರ್ಷಗಳಿಂದ ಯುವ ಪ್ರತಿಭೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಪ್ರೊತ್ಸಾಹ ನೀಡುತ್ತಾ ಬಂದಿದೆ. ಇದು ಹನ್ನೆರಡು ವರ್ಷಗಳಿಂದ

ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೂ ವಿಸ್ತೃತಗೊಂಡು, ಈಗ ಹದಿಮೂರನೆಯ ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾಲಿಡುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಈ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ಟೋಟೋ ಫಂಡ್ಸ್ ದಿ ಆರ್ಟ್ಸ್ (Toto Funds the Arts – TFA) ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯು  ಸ್ಥಾಪಿಸಿ ನಿರ್ವಹಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ.

ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸೃಜನಶೀಲ ಯುವ ಬರಹಗಾರರಿಗೆ ಮೀಸಲಾದ 2023ನೆ ಸಾಲಿನ ಟೋಟೋ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ,

ಟೋಟೋ ಫಂಡ್ಸ್ ದಿ ಆರ್ಟ್ಸ್ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯು ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಆಹ್ವಾನಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ.

ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಬರಹಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳುಹಿಸುವವರು ಭಾರತೀಯ ಪ್ರಜೆಗಳಾಗಿರಬೇಕು

(ಓವರ್ಸೀಸ್ ಸಿಟಿಜೆನ್ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾ, ಎಂದರೆ OCI ಚೀಟಿ ಉಳ್ಳವರು ಈ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವಂತಿಲ್ಲ)

ಹಾಗೂ 18ರಿಂದ 29 ವರ್ಷ ವಯಸ್ಸಿನವರಾಗಿರಬೇಕು. ಅಂದರೆ, ನೀವು ಜನವರಿ 1, 1993ರ ಮತ್ತು ಜನವರಿ

1, 2005 ನಡುವೆ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ್ದರೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಈ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬಹುದು.

ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಥೆ, ಕವಿತೆ ಮತ್ತು ನಾಟಕ – ಈ ಮೂರರಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವುದೇ ಪ್ರಕಾರದಲ್ಲಿಯಾದರೂ ಕಳಿಸಬಹುದು.

ಈ ಮೂರು ಪ್ರಕಾರಗಳಿಂದ ಒಬ್ಬರನ್ನು ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಮಾಡಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.

 

ಈ ಆಯ್ಕೆಯನ್ನು ಪ್ರತಿ ವರ್ಷದಂತೆ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಹಿರಿಯ ಬರಹಗಾರರ ಸಮಿತಿಯು ಮಾಡಲಿದೆ.

ಟೋಟೋ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರವು 50,000 ರೂಪಾಯಿಗಳ ನಗದು ಬಹುಮಾನವನ್ನು ಒಳಗೊಂಡಿದೆ.

ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳುಹಿಸಲು ಕೊನೆಯ ದಿನಾಂಕ:  15 ಸಪ್ಟೆಂಬರ್,  2023

ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಈ ಈಮೇಲ್ ವಿಳಾಸಕ್ಕೆ ಕಳಿಸಬೇಕು: totokannada@gmail.com. ಸಂದೇಹಗಳಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ಇದೇ ವಿಳಾಸಕ್ಕೆ ಬರೆದು ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ವಿವರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಕೇಳಬಹುದು.

ನಿಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರತಿ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಯ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ಲಗತ್ತಿಸಬೇಕು. ಈ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು

http://totofundsthearts.blogspot.com ಕೊಂಡಿಯಿಂದ ನಕಲಿಸಬಹುದು. ಅರ್ಜಿ ಇಲ್ಲದ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಪರಿಗಣಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. 

ನಿಯಮಗಳು:

ನೀವು 1ನೆ ಜನವರಿ 1993ರ ಮತ್ತು 1ನೆ ಜನವರಿ 2005 ನಡುವೆ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ್ದರೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಈ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು

ಕಳಿಸಬಹುದು.

ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳುಹಿಸಲು ಕೊನೆಯ ದಿನಾಂಕ: 15 ಸಪ್ಟೆಂಬರ್,  2023. ಈ ದಿನಾಂಕದ ನಂತರ  ಬಂದ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಪರಿಗಣಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.

ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು MS Wordನಲ್ಲಿ ನುಡಿ, ಬರಹ ಅಥವಾ ಯೂನಿಕೋಡ್ –

ಈ ಮೂರು ಸಾಫ್ಟ್ವೇರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ಟೈಪಿಸಿ ಕಳಿಸಬೇಕು. ಮುದ್ರಿತಪ್ರತಿಗಳನ್ನು

ಅಥವಾ ಹಸ್ತಪ್ರತಿಗಳನ್ನು ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. MS Word ಅಲ್ಲದೇ ಬೇರೆ ಯಾವ ಸಾಫ್ಟವೇರ್

ನಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸುವಿದಿಲ್ಲ.

ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಈ ಈಮೇಲ್ ವಿಳಾಸಕ್ಕೆ ಕಳಿಸಬೇಕು: totokannada@gmail.com

ನೀವು ಸಲ್ಲಿಸುವ ಪ್ರತಿ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಯ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ವೈಯಕ್ತಿಕ ವಿವರಗಳುಳ್ಳ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ಲಗತ್ತಿಸಬೇಕು.

ಈ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು http://totofundsthearts.blogspot.in/ ಕೊಂಡಿಯಿಂದ ನಕಲಿಸಬಹುದು. ಈ ಅರ್ಜಿ ಇಲ್ಲದ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಪರಿಗಣಿಸುವಿದಿಲ್ಲ.

ಅರ್ಜಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ಖಾತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ದಾಖಲಾದ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು ನಮೂದಿಸಬೇಕು. ಕಾವ್ಯನಾಮ ಇದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ, ನಿಮ್ಮ

ಅಸಲಿ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು ಕೂಡ ಅರ್ಜಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸೂಚಿಸಬೇಕು.

ಸಲ್ಲಿಸುವ ಕಥೆ, ಕವಿತೆ, ನಾಟಕಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಎಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರು ಬರೆದಿರಬಾರದು. ಇದನ್ನು

ಅರ್ಜಿಯಲ್ಲೇ ಬರೆದು, ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಯ ಜೊತೆ ಕಳಿಸಬೇಕು.

ನಿಮಗೆ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯುವಲ್ಲಿ ಅಥವಾ ಇತರ ತೊಂದರೆಗಳಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ totokannada@gmail.comಗೆ ಬರೆದು ಸಹಾಯ ಕೇಳಬಹುದು.

ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಿಸುವ ಭಾರತೀಯ ಪ್ರಜೆಗಳು ಮಾತ್ರ ಈ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬಹುದು.

ಓವರ್ಸೀಸ್ ಸಿಟಿಜೆನ್ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾ (OCI) ಚೀಟಿ ಉಳ್ಳವರು ಈ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವಂತಿಲ್ಲ.

ಕವಿತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳುಹಿಸುವವರು 8 ರಿಂದ 12 ಕವಿತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬಹುದು. ಈ ಕವಿತೆಗಳ ಬಳಿಸಿದ ಒಟ್ಟು ಪದಗಳ ಮೊತ್ತ 7500 ಪದಗಳನ್ನು ಮೀರಬಾರದು. ಕಥೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸುವವರು ಒಂದಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಕತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬಹುದು. ಆದರೆ, ಎಲ್ಲ ಕಥೆಗಳು ಸೇರಿ 7500 ಪದಗಳನ್ನು ಮೀರಬಾರದು. ಹಾಗೆಯೇ, ಸಲ್ಲಿಸುವ ನಾಟಕಗಳ ಒಟ್ಟು ಪದಮಿತಿ 10,000 ಪದಗಳು.

ನೀವು ಎಲ್ಲ ಮೂರು ಪ್ರಕಾರಗಳಿಗೆ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬಹುದು. ಆದರೆ, ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಂದು ಪ್ರಕಾರಕ್ಕೂ ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕವಾಗಿ

ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬೇಕೆಂದು ತಿಳಿದಿರಲಿ.

ಉದಾಹರಣೆಗೆ, ನೀವು ಮೂರೂ ಪ್ರಕಾರಗಳಿಗೂ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬಯಸುತ್ತೀರಿ ಎಂದಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಳ್ಳಿ. ಆಗ, ನಿಮ್ಮ 

ಕವಿತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಮೊದಲ  ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಯಾಗಿಯೂ, ಕಥೆಗಳನ್ನು ಎರಡನೆ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಯಾಗಿಯೂ ಹಾಗೂ ನಾಟಕಗಳನ್ನು

ಮೂರನೆಯ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಯಾಗಿಯೂ ಕಳಿಸಬೇಕು. ಪ್ರತಿ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಯ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕ ಅರ್ಜಿ ಲಗತ್ತಿಸಬೇಕು.

ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಪುಸ್ತಕರೂಪದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಕಟವಾಗಿರುವ ಕೃತಿಗಳನ್ನು ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆಗಾಗಿ ಕಳಿಸುವಂತಿಲ್ಲ. ಆದರೆ, ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಕಟವಾಗಿರುವ ಬಿಡಿ ಕವಿತೆಗಳು, ಕಥೆಗಳು ಮತ್ತು

ನಾಟಕಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬಹುದು. ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಹೇಳಿದಂತೆ ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ಈಮೇಲ್ ಮೂಲಕ ಮಾತ್ರ ಕಳಿಸಬೇಕು. 

ಈಮೇಲ್ Subjectನಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಕೃತಿಯ ಪ್ರಕಾರವನ್ನು ಸೂಚಿಸಬೇಕು. ಉದಾಹರಣೆಗೆ: ‘ಕನ್ನಡ ಸೃಜನಶೀಲ

ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ – ಕವಿತೆ’ ಅಥವಾ ‘ಕನ್ನಡ ಸೃಜನಶೀಲ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ – ನಾಟಕ’ ಅಥವಾ ‘ಕನ್ನಡ ಸೃಜನಶೀಲ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ – ಕಥೆ’.

ಷರತ್ತುಗಳು:

ನೀವು ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿದ ಬರಹಗಳನ್ನು ಹಿಂತಿರುಗಿಸಲಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಅಗತ್ಯವಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ, ನೀವು ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿದ ಬರಹಗಳ 

ಆಯ್ದ ಭಾಗಗಳನ್ನು ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲ ತಾಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಥವಾಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್-ನಲ್ಲಿ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರದ ಪ್ರಚಾರದ ಸಲುವಾಗಿ ಬಳಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಹಕ್ಕು ಟಿ. ಎಫ್. ಎ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗೆ

ಇರುತ್ತದೆ. ಉಳಿದಂತೆ, ಕೃತಿಯ ಎಲ್ಲ ಹಕ್ಕುಗಳು ಬರಹಗಾರರದೇ ಆಗಿರುತ್ತದೆ.

ಈ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ಪತ್ರವ್ಯವಹಾರ ಮಾಡಲಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರದ ಕುರಿತು ಟಿ.ಎಫ್.ಎ ಆಯ್ಕೆ 

ಸಮಿತಿಯ ನಿರ್ಧಾರವೇ ಅಂತಿಮವಾದುದು ಮತ್ತು ಯಾವ ಬಗೆಯಲ್ಲೂ ಪ್ರಸ್ನಿಸಲಾಗದು.

ಈ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಭೂಮಿಜಾ ಟ್ರಸ್ಟ್ ನೆರವು ನೀಡುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಭೂಮಿಜಾ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯಿ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನಕಲೆಗಳ

ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳನ್ನು ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಸೇರಿದಂತೆ ವಿಶ್ವಾದ್ಯಂತ ಹಮ್ಮಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ.

ಟಿ. ಎಫ್. ಎ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯು ಆಂಗೀರಸ ‘ಟೋಟೋ’ ವೆಲ್ಲಾನಿಯ ಸ್ಮರಣಾರ್ಥವಾಗಿ 2004 ಇಸವಿಯಲ್ಲಿ

ಸ್ಥಾಪಿತವಾಯಿತು. ಕಲೆಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಗಾಢವಾದ ಆಸಕ್ತಿಯನ್ನಿರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದ ತರುಣ ಟೋಟೋ ಅಕಾಲಿಕ

ಮರಣವು ಅವರ ಕುಟುಂಬ ಮತ್ತು ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರನ್ನು ಈ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯನ್ನು ಸ್ಥಾಪಿಸಲು ಪ್ರೇರಣೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟಿತು.

ಟೋಟೋ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ಯುವಯುವ ಪ್ರತಿಭೆಗಳಿಗೆ ತಮ್ಮ ಕಲಾತ್ಮಕ ಅಭಿಯಕ್ತಿಗೆ ಉತ್ತೇಜನ ದೊರಕಲಿ ಎಂದೇ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯ ಆಶಯವಾಗಿದೆ.

TOTO Awards Function: January 23, 2016

The wait is almost over!

The winners of the TOTO 2016 for Music, Writing in English and Kannada, Photography, Short Film will be announced on 23rd January, 2016 at Alliance Francaise de Bangalore at 6:30 p.m.

Excerpts of the work of all the shortlisted applicants will be showcased at the event.

A warm welcome to all.

Toto Photography Awards 2016: Long List

Eleven applicants have been long-listed for the Toto Awards for Photography 2016, supported by Tasveer. They are, in no particular order:

1. Sandeep T.K. (Bangalore) 

2. Sarang Nitin Nayak (Mumbai) 

3. Vyush Gupta (Bangalore) 

4. Aparna Mohindra (Gurgaon)

5. Akshay Bhoan (Gurgaon)

6. Sagar Shiriskar (Mumbai)

7. Shamin Kulkarni (Pune)

8. Nikhil Roshan (Pune)

9. Udit Khurana (New Delhi)

10. Swastik Pal (Kolkata)

11. Abhishek C. Ganeshgudi (Gandhinagar)

TFA congratulates all the long-listed applicants. The shortlist will be announced in December.

Toto Awards for Short Films 2016: Call for Entries

TOTO AWARDS 2016

SHORT FILMS

CALL FOR ENTRIES

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA) invites applications for its fourth annual Toto Awards for Short Films from persons between the ages of 18 and 29. Young filmmakers can submit short fiction, non-fiction or animation films or any combination of these. Two winners, to be decided by an eminent panel, will get a cash award of Rs 30,000 each. Entries should reach TFA no later than 18 August 2015. 

Only Indian nationals resident in India are eligible for the awards. Also, since the spirit of the awards is to identify promising young filmmakers, you can apply if you were born on or after 1 January 1986.  No exceptions will be made.

The submission should comprise between 1 and 3 short films in any language with English subtitles.  Please send each film on a separate DVD, three sets of each film.

The films should be submitted in MP4 format and should be single-screen films. They should not be longer than 30 minutes each. Only films completed between 1 July 2014 and 30 June 2015 will qualify. The award will go to the Director of the film. 

Entries should be sent by courier or ordinary post only (and NOT by speedpost or registered post) to the address below (the phone numbers supplied are for courier purposes only):

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA)

H 301, Adarsh Gardens,

47th Cross, 8th Block

Jayanagar,

Bangalore 560 082

Phone 080-26990549/+91-98806 23357

Please state the category for which you are applying on the envelope, e.g. Short Films (Documentary), Short Films (Fiction), etc.

Each entry must be accompanied by a statement, signed by you, confirming your name, date of birth, when the film was completed, whether it has been screened (give details) or won any awards (give details), and affirming that the submitted work is original. Please also give us your postal address, email ID, phone numbers (landline and mobile) and a short bio. A small paragraph on each of the films submitted is essential. 

If you have any further questions please email sarita.tfaawards@gmail.com.  No queries will be answered on phone. 

Note: Submitted material will not be returned. The decision of the TFA jury will be final and cannot be contested in any forum. We reserve the right to use excerpts from your submitted films (if necessary) to publicise the awards either on our website or in any in-house materials such as a newsletter. Otherwise, the copyright rests with the filmmaker and your submission will be put to no other use without your express permission. 

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA) is a not-for-profit public trust set up in memory of Angirus ‘Toto’ Vellani, who was intensely passionate about music, literature and films.

Toto Awards for Photography 2016: Call for Entries

TOTO AWARDS 2016

PHOTOGRAPHY 

CALL FOR ENTRIES

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA), in association with TASVEER, invites applications for its ninth annual TOTO AWARDS for Photography from persons between the ages of 18 and 29. Two winners, to be decided by an eminent panel, will get a cash award of Rs 30,000 each. Entries should reach TFA by 18 August 2015. 

Only Indian nationals resident in India are eligible to apply. Since the spirit of the award is to identify promising photographers, you can apply if you were born on or after 1 January 1986. No exceptions will be made. 

The submission should comprise a maximum of 16 images, in either colour or black and white, or a mix of the two. 

1. The submission should comprise still images. Video photography will not be accepted.
2. The images should be of a size between a minimum of .5 MB and a maximum of 1 MB each.
3. The submission should be made on CD (three copies) along with hard copies of only five photographs of your choice. These should be in reasonable size, i.e., easily visible, but not larger than A-4. DVDs will not be accepted.
4. The photographs should be on one or two themes. Your choice. Please do not send a random assortment.

Entries should be sent by courier or ordinary post (and NOT by registered or speed post)  to the address below (the phone numbers supplied are for courier purposes only).  

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA)

(Category: Photography)

H 301, Adarsh Gardens

47th Cross, 8th Block

Jayanagar

Bangalore 560 082

Phone 080 26990549/098806 23357

Entries must be accompanied by a statement, signed by you, confirming your name, date of birth, whether your work has been exhibited/published in print (give details), and also affirming that the submitted work is original. Please also give us your postal address, email ID, phone number (landline and mobile) and a short bio. Also ensure that your name does not appear either on the hard copy version of your photographs or on the CDs. Your entries will be given code numbers to protect your identity from the jury. 

If you have any further queries please email sarita.tfaawards@gmail.com.  No queries will be answered on phone. 

Note: Submitted material will not be returned.  The decision of the TFA jury will be final and cannot be contested in any forum.  We reserve the right to use your submitted photographs (if necessary) to publicise the awards either on our or the TASVEER website or in any of our in-house materials. Otherwise, the copyright rests with the photographer and your submission will be put to no other use without your express permission. 

TASVEER is an organisation committed to showcasing the finest in photography.

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA) is a not-for-profit public trust set up in memory of Angirus ‘Toto’ Vellani, who was intensely passionate about music, literature and films. 

Toto Awards for Creative Writing (English) 2016: Call for Entries

TOTO AWARDS 2016

CREATIVE WRITING IN ENGLISH

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) invites applications for its eleventh TOTO Awards for Creative Writing in English from persons between the ages of 18 and 29 in three genres: short plays, short stories and poetry. Two winners, to be decided by an eminent panel, will get a cash award of Rs 30,000 each. Entries should reach TFA by 18 August 2015.  

The awards are meant only for Indian nationals resident in India. Since the spirit of the awards is to identify promising young writers, you are eligible to apply if you were born on or after 1 January 1986. No exceptions will be made.

Each entry should be not more than 7,500 words. If you are submitting poems, please send 6 to 10 poems. If you are submitting short stories, their combined word length should be at least 2,500 words. You can, if you wish, send only a single story of 2,500 to 7,500 words. You can send entries in all three categories — poems, short stories and plays — but you must send in a separate entry for each category. For example, your poems can constitute one entry, your short stories the second entry, plays a third entry. 

Entries should be sent in soft email copy to sarita.tfaawards@gmail.com as well as in hard copy form by courier or ordinary post only (and NOT by speedpost or registered post) to the address below (the phone numbers supplied are for courier purposes only).  

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA)

H 301, Adarsh Gardens

47th Cross, 8th Block

Jayanagar

Bangalore 560 082

Phone 080 26990549 / 09880623357

Please state the awards category for which you are applying on the envelope, e.g., Writing-English (poetry) or Writing-English (short fiction), etc. 

Each entry must be accompanied by a statement, signed by you, confirming your name, date of birth, whether your work has been published in print (give details), and affirming that the submitted work is original. Please also give us your postal address, email ID, phone numbers (landline and mobile) and a short bio. Also ensure that the hard copy version of your submissions does not carry your name on it. Your entries will be given code numbers to protect your identity from the jury. For any entry to be considered, both the soft copy and hard copy of the submission should reach us before the deadline. 

If you have any further questions please email sarita.tfaawards@gmail.com. No queries will be answered on phone. 

Note: Submitted material will not be returned. The decision of the TFA jury will be final and cannot be contested in any forum. We reserve the right to use your submitted writings (if necessary) to publicise the awards either on our website or in any in-house materials such as a newsletter. Otherwise, the copyright rests with the writer and your submission will be put to no other use without your express permission. 

Toto Funds the Arts is a not-for-profit public trust set up in memory of Angirus ‘Toto’ Vellani, who was intensely passionate about music, literature and films. 

TFA 2009 awards

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) announced its fifth annual awards for young photographers, writers and musicians at a function held at the Alliance Francaise, Bangalore, on 12 January 2009. Mr T S Satyan, the renowned photojournalist, was the Chief Guest.

The purpose of the Toto Awards is to recognize potential in the arts and encourage young people to pursue their talent. The awards were instituted in memory of Angirus Toto Vellani who was passionate about the arts.

Creative Writing
The two creative writing awards went to Aditi Machado from Bangalore and Neel Chaudhuri from New Delhi, who received Rs 25,000 each. The jurors for this award were writer, translator and critic Shanta Gokhale, novelist and columnist CK Meena, and professor of English and quiz master Arul Mani.

Aditi Machado, an undergraduate at Mount Carmel College, entered nearly 50 short poems for the award. The jury commented that she “has a talent for sparseness. This is an extraordinarily luminous poetry-sequence.” Neel Chaudhuri, who has been involved with theatre for the past ten years, submitted a play ‘Godspeed’. The jury said that the play “is remarkably well-structured, revealing an imagination that is finely attuned to the stringent requirements of performance”.

Music
The music award was won by Another Vertigo Rush, a Delhi-based rock band. The jurors, Radhakrishnan Nair, editor and publisher of Rolling Stone magazine, and Uday Benegal, writer, filmmaker and one-time frontman of the well-known band Indus Creed, praised the band for their “very, very punchy songs, great sound, great ideas”. The band will be awarded a record deal with Counter Culture Record to bring out their first CD, and also receive an equipment voucher worth Rs 15,000.

Photography
Sohrab Hura from Gurgaon and Amit Madheshiya from Mumbai received a cash prize of Rs 25,000 each for winning the two awards for photography. The jurors for this award – well-known photographers Navroze Contractor and Ryan Lobo, and Abhishek Poddar, the inspiration behind Tasveer – remarked that Amit’s “images of children in an often harsh urban landscape have a strong narrative, telling an immensely poignant story truthfully”. Sohrab’s photography was commended for being “personal, honest and powerful. His endeavour is suffused with suffering, loneliness and love”.

Ten short-listed applicants received special jury commendations. Among these, Allegro Fudge (music), Umeed Mistry (photography) and Deepika Arwind, Ram Ganesh Kamatham and Swar Thounaojam (creative writing) were present to receive their certificates from the Chief Guest.
The winners of the writing awards read from their work, while the photography awardees showed and discussed their images.

TFA will invite applications for the 2010 awards in August 2009.

Results? Soon, very soon

Toto Funds the Arts will announce the winners of the Toto Awards 2009 for music, photography and creative writing on January 12 at a public function. 

Venue: Alliance Française de Bangalore, Thimmaiah Road, Vasanth Nagar, Bangalore 

Date: 12 January 2009 

Time: 7.30 pm 

The renowned photo-journalist T. S. Satyan will be the Chief Guest. The award winners will present their work at the function. Applicants wishing to know the results should check this blog on or after 16 January, when all the information will be available.

Some rules for the writing awards

If you plan to make use of the extended deadline for the creative writing awards, read these rules.

TFA is looking for entries in three genres –– short plays, short stories and poetry.

The submissions should not exceed 7,500 words.

You can submit any combination of your writing in the above genres, as long as the entire submission is within the stipulated word limit.

IF you are submitting only poems, then please submit a minimum of 6-7 poems. IF you are submitting only short stories, then two stories would be preferable.

Change of deadline for TFA awards

NEW DEADLINE FOR THE MUSIC ENTRIES: 31 October 2008.

NEW DEADLINE FOR THE CREATIVE WRITING ENTRIES: 20 OCTOBER 2008.

NEW DEADLINE FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHY ENTRIES: 20 OCTOBER 2008.

For additional details go here.

2009 Toto Awards: Call for entries

If you are a writer,photographer or a hot young musician then maybe you should check out the TFA 2009 awards.

TFA Creative Writing Awards
If you are a serious young writer TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA) would like to support some of your work. Send in your best work to the 2009 TFA Creative Writing awards. TFA invites entries for its fourth annual TOTO awards for Indian creative writers in English. Two cash awards of Rs. 25,000 each will be given in January, 2009.

BUT: Entries are only invited from young people -- over the age of 18, and who have not celebrated their 30th birthday before 1 January 2009.

ALSO: The spirit of the Toto Awards is to identify promise and encourage young talent. Therefore, do not submit an entry if you are already an established writer.

TFA is looking for entries in three genres –– short plays, short stories and poetry.

The submissions should not exceed 7,500 words. You can submit any combination of your writing in the above genres, as long as the entire submission is within the stipulated word limit. IF you are submitting only poems, then please submit a minimum of 6-7 poems. IF you are submitting only short stories, then two stories would be preferable.


Entries should reach TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA) by 4 October 2008 at the latest. There will be no extension of the submission date.

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA)
H 301 Adarsh Gardens, 8th Block, 47th Cross, Jayanagar, Bangalore 560 082
Phone: 080-26990549

Entries should be sent in soft e-mail copy to totofundsthearts@yahoo.com as well in hard copy form to the above address. Please address queries to the same e-mail ID.

THE FINE PRINT:
Entries must be accompanied by a signed statement confirming the applicant’s date of birth, whether the applicant’s work has been published in print (give details), and also affirming that the submitted work is original. Please ensure that the hard copy does not carry your name on it. Submitted entries will be given code numbers to protect applicants’ identities from the jury during the judging process.

Submitted material will not be returned.

The decision of the TFA jury is final and cannot be contested in any forum.

Please note: We reserve the right to use your submitted writings (if necessary) to publicise the awards either on our website or in any in-house materials such as a newsletter. Otherwise, the copyright rests with the writer and your submission will be put to no other use without your express permission.

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA) is a not-for-profit public trust set up in memory of Angirus ‘Toto’ Vellani, who was intensely passionate about music, literature and films.


TFA Awards for photography

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA), in association with TASVEER, invites entries for its second annual TOTO awards for young Indian photographers. Two cash awards of Rs. 25,000 each will be given in January, 2009.


The spirit of the Toto Awards is to identify promise and encourage young talent. THEREFORE, entries are only invited from young people -- over the age of 18, who will not have celebrated their 30th birthday before 1 January 2009.

The submissions should comprise a minimum of 12 and a maximum of 36 photographs, either in colour or black and white, or a mix of the two.

1. The photographs should comprise still images. Video photography will not be accepted.
2. They should be high resolution (print quality): 350-600 dpi.
3. The submission should be made on CD (three copies) along with hard copies of five photographs of your choice. These should be in reasonable size, i.e. easily visible, but not larger than A-4.
4. The photographs could be on one theme or an assortment of themes. Your choice.
5. Submitted material will not be returned.

Entries should reach TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA) by 20 October, 2008 at the latest.


TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA)
H 301 Adarsh Gardens, 8th Block, 47th Cross, Jayanagar, Bangalore 560 082
Phone: 080-26990549
If you have any further queries, please write to totofundsthearts@yahoo.com

THE FINE PRINT:

Entries must be accompanied by a signed statement confirming the applicant’s date of birth, whether the applicant’s work has been published in print (give details), and also affirming that the submitted work is original. Please ensure that the submitted CDs and prints do not carry your name on them. Submitted entries will be given code numbers to protect applicants’ identities from the jury during the judging process.

Submitted material will not be returned.

The decision of the TFA jury is final and cannot be contested in any forum.

Please note: We reserve the right to use your photographs (if necessary) to publicise the awards and in any in-house materials such as a newsletter. Otherwise, the copyright rests with the photographer and your submission will be put to no other use without your express permission.

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA) is a not-for-profit public trust set up in memory of Angirus ‘Toto’ Vellani, who was intensely passionate about music, literature and films. Tasveer is an organisation committed to showcasing the finest in photography.


TFA Awards for Music

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA), in association with Counter Culture Records (CCR), invites entries for the fifth annual TOTO awards for young budding musicians and bands. The winner of the award has two options: (i) the Rs 50,000 cash prize (to be used towards your music!) OR (ii) a complete record deal from CCR + a music equipment voucher from On-Stage Music (India’s high quality music equipment store) worth Rs 15,000! The record deal will include recording and releasing your debut album across India.

TFA is looking for entries in contemporary music from all parts of India (bands or individuals). The list of genres extends from rock, jazz, heavy metal, trance, house, instrumental, folk, to any genre which is yet to be "born". The award is open to music in any language.

Over the past five years, the TFA music award has grown as a concept and has become an event that all young musicians look forward to. It's an opportunity to see where you stand among many other Indian musicians, and to get your music heard and judged by veterans in the field. Entries will be judged by a panel of three independent jurors, both on your music and your potential as an artist/band. Professional recording quality is not a requirement.

Past judges have ranged from Luke Kenny (VJ, Actor), Vishal Dadlani (Pentagram, Vishal-Shekhar), to Raghu Dixit (Music Director and vocalist) and Arjun Sankalia (GM, International Repertoire, Sony BMG). Over the years, we've seen this award been presented to bands such as Myndsnare (2005), Demonic Resurrection (2006), Lounge Piranha (2007), and the newest addition to the list, Shefali Alvares (2008).

Eligibility:

• The award is open to all Indian nationals resident in India (no NRIs please)
• You must NOT be over 30 as on January 1, 2009
• The spirit of the TFA Awards is to identify and encourage young talent. Therefore, do not submit an entry if your music has received a commercial contract
• Entries can be in any language
• Submissions should be 100% original

Deadline: 31 October, 2008

Application package should include the following:
• 2 CD copies of the music (audio or .wav formats - no MP3). Please label each CD with the name of the artist/band and a contact no. Please also include track names. You can send in between 3-5 tracks.
• A signed statement confirming: (i) the applicants’ date of birth (ii) the names of any previously released singles/CDs (iii) that the submitted work is original.
• Applicant’s contact information, including telephone and cell number, email and postal address.
Applications should be submitted to:
TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS, H 301 Adarsh Gardens, 8th Block, 47th Cross, Jayanagar, Bangalore 560 082, Phone: 080-26548139
If you have any queries, please contact: counterculture[at]oml[dot]in OR radha[at]oml[dot]in
The Fine Print:
• Submitted material will not be returned.
• The decision of the TFA jury is final and cannot be contested in any forum.
• The submissions should be 100% original. Copyright issues are the responsibility of the applicant, not TFA.
Please note: We reserve the right to use your submitted music (if necessary) to publicise the awards either on our website or in any in-house materials. Otherwise, the copyright rests with the musicians and your submission will be put to no other use without your express permission.

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA) is a not-for-profit public charitable trust set up in memory of Angirus 'Toto' Vellani who was intensely passionate about music, literature and films.
Counter Culture Records is an independent music label that actively pursues new sounds and new music and is dedicated to providing a platform for talented artists and bands to release their music, enabling them to reach wider audiences.
The Onstage Foundation (www.onstagefoundation.org) is an initiative set up by "Onstage Music" to improve the infrastructure in the Indie music scene in India, by setting up a fund of one million INR to seed projects by musicians and people interested in being a part of this ever-growing endeavour.

TFA 2008 awards

Writer Githa Hariharan speaking at the 2008 awards



Writer Amitav Ghosh speaking at the awards


2008's winners with Amitav Ghosh

TFA award winners in previous years

Unlike most traditional awards TFA does not seek or reward full accomplishment or commercial success. Instead, we are interested in raw talent, in potential that we can nurture and encourage - in that sudden flash of pain that lifts a teenager’s verse into the realm of poetry, in the sensitivity with which a young photographer captures the elusive romance between two strangers at a market, in the pure energy of a 23-year-old’s drumming from the heart.

Over four years we have received increasing numbers of applications from such writers, photographers and musicians, and each year our juries have been challenged by the variety of skills your applications have demonstrated.

TFA began giving awards in 2005, with an award for music; in 2006 we expanded our reach to include creative writing; and in 2008 we added an award for photography to our list. As the number of awards grew, we became more and more aware of a community of young artists from across India, eager to explore their own talents and share them with a larger audience.

The TFA awards are by no means the end of this quest, merely the beginning; we hope, through them, to give you a fledgling sense of a larger world of opportunity, to say to you, in effect, ‘Don’t stop now’.

For details of the awards in different categories, please read on.

Music
Toto’s first love and TFA’s first award recognises exceptionally talented bands and individuals making any kind of music, in any language, from rock to folk or metal to jazz. The only constraint is that applicants must be under 30 years of age, and their submissions must be original compositions.

In 2008, TFA tied up with Counter Culture Records, and winners of the TFA Music Award now get the unique opportunity to record a full album at the CCR studio, which will then be released by this independent music label.

Myndsnare (2005)
Demonic Resurrection (2006)
Lounge Piranha (2007)
Shefali Alvares (2008)

Previous Juries
All TFA awards are judged by external juries composed of leading practitioners of and experts in the particular arts. All submissions are sent to them anonymously, and TFA does not, in any way, influence their final decision. So far, the Music Award has been judged by Luke Kenny (VJ, Programming Head Channel V), Vishal Dadlani (Pentagram, Vishal-Shekhar), Jitin Abraham (Programming Head Vh1) and Arjun Sankalia (Sony BMG). Add rest of names.

Overall the juries have agreed that it is “good to see so much talent. The number of entries was astounding and most of them were of a very high quality. We now have a serious talent bank that can be tapped in the future.” [TFA Music Award Jury, 2007]

Creative Writing

Talent is hard to judge in any art form, but perhaps most so in writing, which demands objectivity and distance as much as it does immediacy and passion. Since 2006, TFA has divided an award of Rs. 50,000 between 2 writers who are between 18 and 30 years old, and whose entries reflect something of this mysterious combination. The volume of entries has grown exponentially over the years, as has the diversity of styles and themes - from performance poetry to science fiction - explored in the submissions.

Previous Winners
The quality of submissions in 2006 was so high that the jury decided to award three instead of two writers. These were: Nisha Susan, Shakti Bhatt, SS Prasad. Since then, the Writing Awards have gone to Monica Mody, Sneha Rajaram (2007), and Anindita Sengupta, Arka Mukhopadhyay (2008).

Previous Juries
All TFA awards are judged by external juries composed of leading practitioners of and experts in the particular arts. All submissions are sent to them anonymously, and TFA does not, in any way, influence their final decision. So far, the Writing Award has been judged by Gieve Patel (painter, poet and playwright), Adil Jussawalla (poet and literary critic) and Girish Shahane (art, film and literature critic, and poet). The 2008 awards were presented by the novelist Amitava Ghosh Add rest of names.

All the juries have reacted differently to each year’s entries: some have found the poetry, on average, a cut above the prose, others have felt that trying to display too much diversity or range can weaken a submission. We hope that the extracts from their comments below will help you gauge the general criteria by which your work will be judged.

TFA Writing Award Jury (2007)
”Our decision was made difficult by the fact that there was a greater variance within entries than between them. In other words, very often one of the three or four submissions by a writer would appeal to us, but its effect was undercut by other submissions which appeared amateurish. Where there were more than two submissions from a single entrant, there was frequently a very large gap in form between one and the other. Perhaps the candidates wanted to display the variety of styles at their command, but the impression it gave in each case was of a writer who hadn’t found his or her voice. This is not necessarily a bad thing considering the age of the participants, but it left the judge’s with a dilemma. We decided to concentrate on the crests rather than the troughs, in other words, to pick out entries where something really excited us rather than ones which were uniformly proficient but lacked a certain spark.”

Photography
The youngest of the TFA Awards, the TFA-Tasveer Photography Award was introduced in 2008. To be eligible, you must be between 18 and 30 years old, and have an eye for images that evoke moods or tell stories, whether taken from the balcony of your flat or from the peak of a mountain in the wild. Each year, two winning entries receive a cash prize of Rs. 25,000 each.

Previous Winners
The 2008 TFA-Tasveer Photography Award was given to Siddharth Jain, Zubin Pastakia.