Kolkata International Foundation for Arts, Literature and Culture

Kolkata International Foundation (KIFALC) for Arts Literature and Culture was formed quite some years back by the creative community of Kolkata with a dream to build up a Culture Centre, which the city still lacks. The center was to house an art gallery, museum, little magazine library, poetry book library, art and artifacts shop besides intimate theater space, seminar hall, amphitheater, auditorium, guest house and many such facilities a center of this stature would need. KIFALC aims to serve as an international institution of excellence and support/ promote young talents and create opportunities for interaction among various cross sections of the society. It is to act as an interpolator and catalyst for intellectual endeavor towards a better world.

The principal aim of the Foundation is to serve as an international institution of excellence in supporting and promoting creativity and creating opportunities for interaction among individuals and groups beyond divisions of nations, ideologies, caste, creed, gender or religion and act as an interpolator and catalyst for intellectual endeavor towards a better world.
The focus will be on research, dissemination and promotion of activities in every field of human creativity.

Facilities to be offered at the Centre

The Foundation proposes to set up in Kolkata a Centre offering the following facilities:

1. A well-planned specialized library with reading rooms

2. An archive documenting creativity and art history in the form of writers’ manuscripts, work diaries, rare publications, artists drafts and studies, artifacts from rural and traditional crafts

3. Seminar rooms for roundtable sessions, lectures, slideshow video screenings and presentations.

4. Cubicles for meetings and conversations.

5. An exhibition hall.

6. An auditorium.

7. A bookshop specializing in literature, social sciences, sciences and the arts.

8. A little magazine corner highlighting new trends, documentation and critical discourses.

9. An art shop offering prints, picture postcards and portfolios.

10. A cafeteria with facilities for long relaxed conversations and a site for appointments.

11. A publishing unit bringing out monographs, portfolios, albums, lectures and periodicals.

12. A multimedia unit to access and disseminate information from and through India and the world.

13. Guest rooms for writers, artists and visitors.