We are creating various creative projects in associations, collaborations and participations of Indian-South Asian artists & creatives around the globe. We have categorized our previous and presently running projects encompassing diverse artistic genres, socio-cultural discourses, educational resources and artist based community centric initiatives.
Community Podcast
YCIS Community Podcast is meant to feature ideas, opinions, creativity, culture, discourses surrounding Indian and South Asian identity, art & culture, through the perspectives of young artists & creatives.
The Brown Book
The Brown Book is YCIS's unique collaborative art-book/magazine, which features young Indian & South Asian artists. art-organizations, creative innovators, non-profits & individual who are making a difference. The Brown Book focuses on creating a project that documents diverse art & creativity of India & South Asia, and its diaspora all over the world.
The Community Show
Our community show is a creative outlet to talk, discuss & relay ideas & nuances associated with Indian & South Asian art, media, film, music, culture, society, history, traditions & much more.
South Asian Creativity Festival
Our unique collaborative festival is a space for promoting and curating unique South Asian digital works through panels, podcasts, web-shows, exhibits & publications. The festival is an unique content & digital media programming aimed at facilitating diverse South Asian artforms across the world.
Previous Projects
Since YCIS's inception from March 2021, we have been involved in initiating, co-creating, facilitation, collaborating & self-starting bunch of diverse project involving 200+ Indian & South Asian origin creatives across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, the US, Canada, & the UK.
Community Marketplace
A unique marketplace featuring works of artists & creatives of Indian-South Asian origin across the globe. We are creating a fair-trade ethically run marketplace aiming to provide young artists, artisans & creatives a partnership based platform to sell their unique craft to audiences across the globe.
production & media studio
We are a new age production house, aiming to produce creative projects of varying genres & forms. We work with artists all over the world to kickstart, incubate & collaborate to produce digital media as well as experimental works. As a media studio, we offer talented creatives & artists, to be part of our podcasting & web-based show network. We intend to create content that can help communicate all the nuances of Indian & South Asian art & culture around the globe.
Creative Catalog
A unique space featuring artists & creatives of varying genres & backgrounds across India, South Asian & the globe. YCIS's creative catalog is a unique directory-of-sorts that enables artists to be part of our growing community. We want to empower artists through unique categorization of their work through an unique portfolio of their work & self, which can be accessed by audiences, like-minded creatives. organizations & interest groups to collaborate, employ, buy works & network.
film, media & art courses
We are offering both in-person/remote film, media & art courses in partnership with various educational entities, government-based accreditation & experienced professionals. Our aim here is to create both short-term accessible courses to aspiring young creatives to better equip themselves with nuances of art practices, film appreciation, technical know-hows & effective communication to better relay their artistic vision. These courses are structured in a way that both creative & non-creative practitioners can participate & engage in robust development of their skills.
apprenticeship program
We also offer media skill training to young college grads. This is a merit-based-year-round service. We believe in apprenticeship, so we offer young creatives opportunities to kick-start their career by learning how to build a portfolio, learn intricacies of media production, film & art appreciation, creative & content writing, and also to become effective communicators about one’s creative vision.
creative incubator
Incubating your ideas. We pride ourselves in making use of our platform to always produce and apply for funds that are out there to produce more & more awesome Indian/South Asian art. If you have a movie idea hanging, a novel was written ready to be published, artwork ready to be showcased. Fill this form, and let us know, if we like your passion & convictions, we will together make your project a reality.
publishing
We offer publishing services. Novels, magazines, photo books, art catalogues, manifestos, audiobooks, digital books, you name it, we wanna do it all. Our team works with the creative to better understand the nature of the work to ensure the necessary artwork, marketing strategy and audience networking. Our publishing service is partnership based, where we work with artists in question to create, publish, produce & distribute in collaborative manner rather one-sided financial exchange.
events
We are also offering cultural event planning & coordination services ― film festivals, art shows, trade fairs, art pop-up events, open-mics (comedy, poetry & music). We work with diverse pool of creatives in creating arts & cultural happenings that can help bring fellow creatives together to appreciate, engage, network & perform in meaningful ways. Our aim is to help young Indian & South Asian creatives to be engaged in creating and accessing meaningful cultural exchanges around the globe.