About Us

Who are we?

Silhouette was established in January 2005 as a programme division of The YP Foundation with the aim of supporting young people’s work in the performing and visual arts. By connecting amateur, upcoming and established artists through collaborative projects across India, Silhouette aims at providing young people an independent arts platform where they can express their creativity, vision and talent and interact with new audiences. Silhouette aims at enabling a dynamic environment that supports artistic endeavours and challenges existing moulds to expand the outreach of the arts.

To know more about The YP Foundation, visit: www.theypfoundation.org

   

Current programs: The Open House Series

(Prateek Arora,Team member, Silhouette)

The Beatles. Jimi Hendrix. Indus Creed. Indian Ocean. Pentagram. Raghu Dixit.

You?

Have you ever felt the frustration of knowing that you've got it takes to be up there with them, but couldn't because your parents would rather see you becoming an engineer/doctor/lawyer because music isn't the "safe" choice? That its so hard to MAKE independent music and then to not even know what to do about it?

So have we. But boy o boy, the times, they are a-changin'. Independent music is finally finding its feet, talent is finding its due recognition, and all of us are finding that we don't need to look towards the West anymore to find a sound that we can relate to.

Where are you in this movement? Here.

 

What is The Open House Series?


The Open House Series is an interactive, multi year workshop series for interested, upcoming and established young artistes that explore information, ideas and models that protect promote and publish Independent Music in India.

Why the Open House Series?


There are multiple challenges faced by amateur artists with trying to establish and build sustainable careers in Independent Music in India, some of which are:

1. Inadequate knowledge to build a sustainable career in independent music.
2. Educational institutions (schools/colleges etc) are often unable to provide students with the resources/training required to support a career in the field of music in India.
3. There is a lack of cost effective training forums, for young people desiring to pursue arts management.
4. Existing performance spaces in the NCR are limited to venues such as pubs and bars, which limits a younger audience's access to music.
   
   

Where do we come in?

The Open House series aims to help young artists/students gain access to training and skill development opportunities in the field of Independent music.

Additionally, the series aims to engage educators, parents, donors and media bodies in a dialogue on the need for comprehensive music education, and to structure a platform providing support to young musicians.


To this end, we've designed a short survey that we'd really like you to fill it out.

Thank you and we hope to see you at the workshops!

Click Here to see the Schedule

Coming soon: The Open House Festival!

PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Shiv Ahuja and Akanksha Deo.

MUSIC BY: Them Clones-'Zephyretta'