How the Creative India Education Fund brings music for all-OxBig News Network

Founder of Creative India Education Fund Lubomir Jabbanda (centre) with Gaurav and their college students
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Bengaluru’s Lubomir Jabbanda has had a circuitous route into establishing Creative India Education Fund (CIEF), a non-profit which goals at offering music, dance, sports activities and humanities schooling to underserved youth within the metropolis and state.

It was when his long-gestated desires of changing into an in-demand artiste got here up in opposition to the uncertainties of the pandemic-enforced lockdowns that Lubomir — who makes music underneath the moniker Beat Hierarchy — turned to instructing fundamental music-making abilities to highschool kids in South India.

After the preliminary CSR outing in 2023, the composer-producer, guitarist and rapper noticed the potential in establishing a non-profit organisation, and the Creative India Education Fund lastly got here into being in late 2024. Since then, Lubomir has had further music academics — multi-instrumentalist Gourav (who switched from a company job to music schooling), flautist Mushkan Rajani, dance artist Priya Mitra and his fellow trustee Swathy Ramanath — be part of him in his endeavour.

Lubomir Jabbanda with college students of CIEF
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After gaining appreciable instructing expertise at authorities colleges throughout South India over the higher a part of a yr, Lubomir channelled that know-how into CIEF. When he started approaching schools and colleges to supply free music schooling — instrument coaching, song-making and digital music tools coaching — few would say no, however it nonetheless took convincing.

“In some villages, a lot of principals don’t consider this an education,” he says.

Set up off Kanakapura Road, CIEF first started providing free music lessons to the scholars of Shree Siddaganga Pre-University College close by. It began with a category of 300 after which, they narrowed it down over the course of some classes to search out 30 college students who needed to be taught music and 18 dance teams. It culminated in an annual day for the school, organised by CIEF, in a throwback to Lubomir’s do-it-yourself ethos as Beat Hierarchy.

They discovered a music retail firm to sponsor the sound setup, received the school to offer them a stage and shortly, everybody from the rappers and dancers to bands have been on stage for a showcase gig. Talking concerning the floor work that went into it, Lubomir says, “We brought in ukuleles, cajons, bongos and a couple of keyboards, so it generated a lot of noise. But it helped people understand what instrument they were interested in learning with us.”

Lubomir Jabbanda with college students of CIEF
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Gourav provides that the annual day showcase was an ideal step forward for college students, who had are available figuring out nothing and discovered their craft by means of after-college lessons. “It was interesting to see how they progressed from not knowing anything about the instrument to getting the confidence to perform on stage and to play coherently and together as a unit,” he says. Not solely was there a capability to play, but in addition a confidence in being on stage as an artiste, the instructor provides.

After that preliminary push, CIEF has been engaged on their subsequent transfer as the tutorial yr received extra exam-focused for a couple of college students. Lubomir says they plan to increase their music lessons to the differently-abled and visually-challenged. From being a full-time however pissed off impartial artiste, to discovering new that means in making music extra accessible throughout financial spectrums, there may be work to be achieved as they hope to scale up, discover extra volunteer academics and different colleges to go to.

“Now that this infrastructure exists, I’m going full steam ahead,” Lubomir says.