# \[APPROVED\] Indian Indie Music Guild **URL:** \ **Category:** Creatives DAO\ **Tags:** kalakendra-dao\ **Created:** [June 6, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599 "2022-06-06T18:36:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shivangarora](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/shivangarora/32/27461_2.png) [@shivangarora](https://gov.near.org/u/shivangarora)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/1 "2022-06-06T18:36:29Z")
**Indian Indie Music Guild** : Proposal + Community Weekly Update Hey everyone, greetings from IIMG, hope all of you NEARians had a great week 🙂 Here’s a link to our Introduction post : > [@\[Introduction\] Indian Indie Music Guild – A Community of Emerging Indie Artists](http://gov.near.org/t/introduction-indian-indie-music-guild-a-community-of-emerging-indie-artists/21556): > > Greetings NEAR community! I am Shivang Arora, an award winning singer-songwriter, music producer, and an audio-engineer with 3+ years of experience in the audio industry. I’ve worked as a producer and mix engineer on multiple short films and singles. Fascinated by the Web3 ecosystem, I’m building the first Web3 community to empower Indian independent musicians and serve as their gateway into this space. Indie Music in India The Indie music industry is constantly growing at 30%+ over th… We’re extending **IIMG** to be a healthy community to nurture emerging artists. Our vision includes educating artists about the Web3 ecosystem and about various aspects of the independent music industry, and encourage them to participate in a variety of performance-oriented online and offline events. We’ve planned artist mental health, marketing and artist resources workshops to help emerging artists smoothly navigate their way into the industry, along with providing them with gateways into the Web3 world. Our team has spent this week on setting up the IIMG Council and building the social media pages for the guild. **Council:** Shivang Arora: Co-founder/Administration ([https://www.instagram.com/shivang.wav/](https://www.instagram.com/shivang.wav/)) @shivangarora Nivedita Lakra: Co-founder/Administration ([https://www.instagram.com/niveditalakraa/](https://www.instagram.com/niveditalakraa/)) Flueeed: Community Manager/Social Media ([https://www.instagram.com/flueeedbeats/](https://www.instagram.com/flueeedbeats/)) @Flueeed We are pleased to have support from KalakendraDAO @Monish016 **Social Media:** Instagram: [instagram.com/theiimguild](https://www.instagram.com/theiimguild/) ![ig](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/gov_near/original/3X/9/b/9b21183a002c0f73b1a48962c380480efc436ad1.jpeg) Twitter: [https://twitter.com/theiimguild](https://twitter.com/theiimguild) ![twitter](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/gov_near/original/3X/3/f/3faaf05184ab348e663d4da45ab200bde251d75b.jpeg) In this post, we have added the details of our first proposal - **Guild name:** Indian Indie Music Guild - **Funding scheme:** Monthly **Requested Budget :** • Artist Scholarship – Two Indie Artists to be funded for the month of June. The scholarship will be used by artists for various activities like marketing or music videos based on their needs. It will be different for each artist. We, as a guild, would just be awarding them the scholarship to recognise their talent and help them with their music. Once that is done, we’ll empower them to mint those songs and music videos as **$NEAR** NFTs : **$1000 USD ($500 each)** • AstroDAO creation + DAO Funds : **$100** • NFT Rewards - Giveaways in the form of NFTs and minting : **$100** • Online event with established indie musician - Includes Web3 education for creators as well as collectors : **$100** • NEAR + Music NFT AMA in North India : **$200** - NEAR Drop - Creation of atleast 100 wallets : $80 - Venue : $120 Total: **$1500** **Goals** for the month of June: 1. To fund **two** Indie musician for the month of June 2. Start a Telegram channel for IIMG council and members 3. To grow the community to **1000+** members: Discord, Instagram and Twitter 4. Live sessions on Discord, Twitter Spaces and Instagram: 1 session with an indie artist weekly 5. AMA sessions: 2 sessions in June **Activities** - Monthly artist scholarship; to be decided through council vote - Web3 education workshops for Indian indie artists - Discord open mics and Twitter spaces with guest artists, coupled with Web3 education to onboard potential NFT collectors - Artist mental health workshops with established guest artists - Artist resources and marketing workshops - AMA sessions ---
**Author:** ![johanga](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/johanga/32/41512_2.png) [@johanga](https://gov.near.org/u/johanga)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 9:44am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/2 "2022-06-07T09:44:43Z")
Great to meet one more music project here! Would you like to participate in Metaverse Awarding party that we’ll perform on the end of our NFT-contest with UniqArt? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ligaya](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/ligaya/32/25724_2.png) [@Ligaya](https://gov.near.org/u/Ligaya)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 10:25am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/3 "2022-06-07T10:25:58Z")
Will support this Initiative ❤ goodluck Bro ---
**Author:** ![UniqArt](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/uniqart/32/18523_2.png) [@UniqArt](https://gov.near.org/u/UniqArt)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/4 "2022-06-07T12:31:13Z")
Would love to see Indie Artists minting NFTs on UniqArt! We have a bunch of music NFTs on the platform and would be pleased to help out 🙂 Good luck with your proposal! ---
**Author:** ![semwal](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/semwal/32/24208_2.png) [@semwal](https://gov.near.org/u/semwal)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/5 "2022-06-07T13:02:27Z")
That sounds like a great idea @johanga Let’s get in touch @shivangarora if you’d be interested ---
**Author:** ![shivangarora](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/shivangarora/32/27461_2.png) [@shivangarora](https://gov.near.org/u/shivangarora)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/6 "2022-06-07T14:18:33Z")
That sounds amazing! Let’s discuss this. I’ll DM you. ---
**Author:** ![shivangarora](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/shivangarora/32/27461_2.png) [@shivangarora](https://gov.near.org/u/shivangarora)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/7 "2022-06-07T14:19:14Z")
Thank you! Glad to have your support ❤ ---
**Author:** ![shivangarora](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/shivangarora/32/27461_2.png) [@shivangarora](https://gov.near.org/u/shivangarora)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/8 "2022-06-07T14:20:03Z")
Thank you! It would be a pleasure to work with UniqArt 😄 ---
**Author:** ![shivangarora](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/shivangarora/32/27461_2.png) [@shivangarora](https://gov.near.org/u/shivangarora)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/9 "2022-06-07T14:20:31Z")
Yes! We’ll definitely get in touch ---
**Author:** ![Flueeed](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/flueeed/32/28041_2.png) [@Flueeed](https://gov.near.org/u/Flueeed)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/10 "2022-06-08T15:13:12Z")
As a music producer myself I am very proud to be a part of this initiative . 🥺 ❤ ---
**Author:** ![shivangarora](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/shivangarora/32/27461_2.png) [@shivangarora](https://gov.near.org/u/shivangarora)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/11 "2022-06-08T15:34:22Z")
Glad to have you onboard!! ❤ ---
**Author:** ![Monish016](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/monish016/32/14878_2.png) [@Monish016](https://gov.near.org/u/Monish016)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/12 "2022-06-08T17:10:49Z")
We are happy to Support IIMG through KalakendraDAO ---
**Author:** ![shivangarora](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/shivangarora/32/27461_2.png) [@shivangarora](https://gov.near.org/u/shivangarora)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/13 "2022-06-08T19:55:49Z")
Thank you so much! Your support really means a lot. So grateful ❤ ---
**Author:** ![Albhion](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/albhion/32/14150_2.png) [@Albhion](https://gov.near.org/u/Albhion)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 6:23am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/14 "2022-06-10T06:23:40Z")
I am Happy to Support you !! ---
**Author:** ![niveditalakra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f08c70/32.png) [@niveditalakra](https://gov.near.org/u/niveditalakra)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/15 "2022-07-06T13:43:57Z")
Happy to be a part of this 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 ---
**Author:** ![shivangarora](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/shivangarora/32/27461_2.png) [@shivangarora](https://gov.near.org/u/shivangarora)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 8:00am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-indian-indie-music-guild/22599/16 "2022-07-07T08:00:43Z")
Welcome to IIMG and the NEAR family 🥂