The latest offering for Mumbai's musicians and music lovers comes from G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture, who will be launching Indie Music Thursdays next week. This new property aims to not just relook at their own programming structure internally, but also foster a vigorous community of independent music artistes through monthly gigs.

Ishan Benegal, associate artistic director at the not-for-profit space in Mahalaxmi, is quick to clarify that it has always been committed towards supporting independent artistes. The motive behind this property is primarily to give shape and form to that endeavour. "It's a fairly simple idea. Our focus has always been on supporting indie artistes in as many ways as possible, and we have tried to that with other properties. But we thought that since we were taking a relook at our approach towards programming, it would be a good idea to have it in a more formal setting at the Black Box [the main theatre space inside the venue]," he explains.