About

RUPAC  is a Vadodara, India based Not for Profit organisation. It stands for Raagshala, Urmi and PraVa Arts Centre. 

Raagshala is a venture of Shri Dushyant Rupolia which mainly came into being during Covid times to become a hugely popular online platform for young talented musicians and became highly successful in a short time. It eventually began physical editions in his native Sagar, M. P. a tradition we hope to continue.  
Urmi is the heart of the Enterprise, the Registered office where most of the activities are held.  PraVa is named after and in memory of Shri Pralhad and Shri Vaman Moghe, Indian classical music enthusiasts and among the early organisers of Indian Classical music Baithaks (small intimate gatherings) in Baroda. 

RUPAC was informally established in May 2022 when a group of passionate music lovers got together and started a monthly Baithak series to give a platform to new talent in the Indian classical performing arts. 

We made our humble beginnings by creating a modest corpus to start hosting budding artists; giving them an honorarium and a genuinely interested audience.
Our major funding patrons are Dr. Pragna and Mr. Dilip Desai without whom this organisation would not have taken root. We are eternally grateful to their generosity. We also give our heartfelt thanks to all our benefactors.

We are striving to establish a grassroots organisation to promote promising raw talent in the field of Indian Classical Arts, giving them an opportunity to perform in front of an audience; in some cases for their very first time.

We hold informal small scale baithaks in homes, temples and small intimate venues as a  platform for young budding artists. In a year we organise 6-8 Baithaks.   

The structure of each Baithak is an informal Riyaaz or Sadhana session, for young artists to  venture into unchartered territories; exploring new concepts unlike formal performances. This  would make them comfortable presenting extempore material in front of an audience, priming  them for more formal formats. This idea has spontaneously developed into the current format of including the student body  as well. All our performances typically begin with a short student recital followed by the main  artist. With this students too are able to gain experience in performing for an audience while  still studying, thus instilling a sense of confidence in them. Our policy is to remunerate each and every artist, main as well as accompanying.  

Our long term goals are multifold:
 

1. To support a maximum number of young artists by catalysing their incipient struggle to establish themselves in the difficult field of the Classical Arts. Our Flagship project. 
2. To create a prototype structure of a simple informal home baithak that can easily be replicated, to motivate and inspire other interested groups; which could lead to multiple such bodies working at the grassroots for promotion of the Indian classical arts. We dream of a large number of small organisations working at the lowest level to ensure that new artists are never short of platforms to begin their nascent careers with; and also to be able to earn a steady income, however modest. And with the sincere hope that this would ensure their continued presence in the difficult field of classical arts and not be forced to seek other avenues for survival. 
3. To further this concept in the near future by hosting The RUPAC FESTIVAL - a multi day biennale festival at a larger scale with a more formal performance structure which would have Young Artists in Concert. Format would still remain the same. Each recital would begin with a short student performance followed by the main artist. 
4. To take the Baithaks to schools, colleges and other academic institutions as an early introduction. 
5. To bring a lot of cultural activities under RUPAC with collaborative partner organisations. We aspire to support and promote similar like minded activities and organisations. 
6. To eventually create a sustainable Global Grassroots Movement for Indian Classical Arts and Culture by taking our flagship Baithaks Project and other activities to various different venues - both local and global.