The Coalition / Festival Of Creativity

SYNOPSIS

The Coalition brings together India’s creative community over a weekend unlike any other in the region. With 300 industry leaders and innovators from across 13 creative streams (including music, content creation, food, and fashion) and a growing number of aspiring creative entrepreneurs and professionals in attendance, The Coalition has become a place for people to learn from and interact with some of the brightest creative minds from across the world and aims to transform the future of the creative industries in India by providing young creative businesses with inspiration, knowledge, support, and access to mentors and investors. The Coalition kicked off with a major event in March 2014 called TC/1. It was attended by 300 young and aspiring creative entrepreneurs with a speaker list comprising some of the most exciting, innovative, and successful creative business leaders in the country.

5 Years

In 2014, we connected with over 4000 young entrepreneurs, engaged with 5000 young creative minds through our online platform, and finally took 30 young businesses through the TC/ignite screening process to pitch to investors or incubators.

3 Cities

Across Delhi, Mumbai & Bangalore - in Year One, engaging through 12 events/workshops and a nine-month mentorship program for six select startups. Over the years, The Coalition has witnessed a growth in the number of attendees, speakers & businesses across various creative communities.

7 Sponsors

A truly incredible experience working with brands like RedBull, British Council, AIB First Draft, HIKE Messenger, Insider.in, SKRAP & WeWork to help attendees with guidance and workshops.

what people say

Sarah Chawla

co-founder, WildCity

The Coalition is an incredible opportunity, not just to meet, network and absorb, but it offers a space for young businesses and individuals to be introspective and consider their bigger picture. It's all to easy to be busy being busy - The Coalition offers a space to take time to assess where you are, monitor your own growth and reflect on why you're doing what you're doing.

Rega Jha

Editor-in-Chief, BuzzFeed India

One of the most necessary and most difficult stepping stones to "making it" is to get face-time with people who already have. I hope The Coalition serves the purpose of making that easier.

Mohor Ray

co-founder, Codesign

What's incredibly nice about the word coalition is that it is clearly an alliance on the basis of action. Most meeting of minds are inspirational in one way or the other, but the real challenge is to create stimuli for immediate action. That's what excites me about TC3—the opportunity (and therefore the challenge).

Amishi Parekh

With TC3, the Coalition has incorporated a range of creative fields into its fold, and I hope this move towards inclusiveness will create opportunities for ideas to collide with one another. When I think about it, we are charged with an immense responsibility to provide equal parts inspiration and tools to build a new creative class. I want to shatter some of the myths about design and bring in practical, actionable ways in which it can be used by anyone.

Kaneez Surka

Improv, Stand Up and Sketch comedian

The Coalition will allow people from all creative streams in India to meet each other, interact, learn different skills and hopefully collaborate. That's what I would like to see from The Coalition - collaboration.

Malika V Kashyap

Founder, Border and Fall

Ours is an industry with many large players, though most of the compelling work is contributed through smaller independent brands and individuals. An opportunity to connect and engage these creatives, who often work on their own within smaller networks is incredibly exciting.

Guneet Monga

Indian film producer, Academy Award winner, a BAFTA nominee and the founder of Sikhya Entertainment

I've been part of TC since two years and its been an incredible experience to be in the middle of young and aspiring entrepreneurs from the creative field.

Tanmay Bhat

Writer, Comedian, Entrepreneur. Co-Founder All India Bakchod

Being at The Coalition feels like being at N H7 Weekender - minus the music. The vibe, the people, the atmosphere is the happiest I've seen people be at seminars and workshops.

Elise Foster Vander Elst

founder of Asia Arts Project and co-founder of FOCUS Photography Festival Mumbai

Its an exciting time to be working in the arts and creative industries in India, and platforms like The Coalition are an important part of the sector's growth - providing training, guidance and mentorship to the younger generation of arts professionals is essential to building a healthy ecosystem.

Neysa Mendes

Every time I think of it, it amases me that we've reached a point where we're tossing around the word 'creative entrepreneur' so lightly. That working with the arts is now a legitimate profession. That The Coalition manages to pull all these creative entrepreneurs across India together, and put them in one room, is incredible - the conversations are exciting, the energy is palatable, and the collaboration is necessary for where we are, with the arts in India.

The Coalition / Festival Of Creativity

5 Years

3 Cities

7 Sponsors

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what people say