Grants awarded in March 2010
THEATRE |
€ |
Eilin O'Dea participating in the annual "Bloomsday on Broadway" at the Symphony Space, Broadway in conjunction with the Irish Arts Center on the 16th June 2010 |
1,500 |
Alex Cusack performing "Krapp's Last Tape" by Samuel Beckett at the Prague Fringe Festival from the 28th May - 5th June 2010 |
3,000 |
Fishamble Theatre Company presenting "Forgotten" as part of the 2010 International Blacksea Festival, Trabzon, Turkey from the 1st - 7th May and in four venues in Bulgaria from the 24th - 30th April 2010 |
5,000 |
Fishamble Theatre Company presenting a selection of new Irish work at the 2010 International VSA Arts Festival, Washington on the 7th June 2010 |
6,800 |
Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company presenting an outdoor version of "Madam Silk" at the Stockton International Riverside Festival, Stockton, UK from the 28th July - 1st August 2010 |
8,800 |
Cirque de Légume touring to the Bristol Festival of Contemporary Theatre, UK from the 9th - 15th May and the Prague Fringe Festival from the 28th May - 5th June 2010 |
4,100 |
Big Telly Theatre Company performing "Puckoon" by Spike Milligan at Leicester Square Theatre, Derby Theatre, Uppingham Theatre and Loughborough Town Hall, UK from the 20th September - 31st October 2010 |
13,000 |
The Corn Exchange presenting "Freefall" at the Staatstheater, Wiesbaden, Germany from the 17th - 27th June 2010 |
18,000 |
Pan Pan Theatre Company performing "The Octoroon: An Adaptation of The Octoroon based on The Octoroon" co-produced with PS122 in New York, 16th June - 3rd July 2010 |
22,000 |
The Performance Corporation performing "Power Point" by Tom Swift at the Tampere Theatre Festival, Finland from the 2nd - 8th August 2010 |
12,000 |
Druid Theatre Company performing "The Silver Tassie" by Sean O'Casey in Lowry Centre, Manchester and Oxford Playhouse, UK from the 13th - 25th September 2010 |
32,000 |
Druid Theatre Company performing "Penelope" by Enda Walsh at the Stage International Festival, Helsinki, Finland from the 2nd - 3rd September 2010 |
18,000 |
| Gare St Lazare Players performing "Moby Dick" at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in the Long Wharf Theatre, Connecticut from the 16th - 19th June 2010 and at the London Festival of Literature, Purcell Rooms, London from the 5th - 18th July 2010 | 9,000
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| Gare St Lazare Players performing the Beckett Trilogy at the Fugard Theatre, Cape Town, The National Arts Festival, Grahamstown and the State Theatre, Pretoria, South Africa from the 24th June - 3rd July 2010 and at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol, UK from the 30th September - 2nd October 2010 | 7,000 |
| Gare St Lazare Players performing “First Love” in various venues throughout Turkey, UK, USA, Australia, Germany, Israel and Palestine from the 3rd May - 27th November 2010 | 20,000 |
| Total | €180,200 |
DANCE |
€ |
Elena Giannotti participating at the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival at the LaMaMA Theatre in the East Village, Manhattan, New York from the 7th - 24th June 2010 |
750 |
The DanceXchange Ltd present Colin Dunne performing "Out of Time" at the International Dance Festival Birmingham, from the 11th - 12th May 2010 |
2,000 |
Fitzgerald & Stapleton performing "The Work The Work" at the Chocolate Factory Theatre, New York from the 21st - 22nd May 2010 |
2,000 |
Axis Ballymun performing "Hip-Nós" in Cape Town, South Africa from the 21st - 30th August 2010 |
10,000 |
Total |
€14,750 |
FILM |
€ |
Ross McDonnell presenting his film "Colony" at the 12th Docaviv Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival from the 6th - 15th May 2010 |
2,000 |
Total |
2,000 |
MUSIC |
€ |
Deborah Armstrong performing a piano recital of Irish classical music at the American Irish Historical Society, New York on the 12th May 2010 |
500 |
Shamrock Traditional Irish Music Society present Grainne Hambly and William Jackson, James Keane and The Randel Boys and John Doyle performing at Newtown Meeting House and Tresslers Barn from the 25th April - 27th May 2010 |
600 |
Pat Egan and The Randel Boys performing at SC Irish Arts Weekend, Columbia, USA from the 4th - 6th June 2010 |
750 |
Judith Mok performing Sephardic music repertoire at the Yale week in Istanbul, Turkey 2010 from the 26th May - 4th June 2010 |
1,200 |
Rhona Clarke performing and attending pre-concert talks at St Paul's Cathedral, London on the 19th July 2010 |
500 |
Clive Carroll attending the 5th Sounding Jerusalem Festival from the 27th June - 11th July 2010 |
500 |
Dermot Crehan attending the 5th Sounding Jerusalem Festival from the 27th June - 11th July 2010 |
500 |
Paul Honey attending the 5th Sounding Jerusalem Festival from the 27th June - 11th July 2010 |
500 |
Michael Sands attending the 5th Sounding Jerusalem Festival from the 27th June - 11th July 2010 |
500 |
Robert White attending the 5th Sounding Jerusalem Festival from the 27th June - 11th July 2010 |
500 |
Gráinne Hambly performing at the 5th International Harp Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in May 2010 |
2,000 |
Participation of Irish musicians, singers, dancers and visual artists in The Galway Sessions in Stirling, Scotland from the 7th - 13th June 2010 |
2,000 |
Rev Gary Hastings, Paddy Keenan and James Kelly performing at the Boxwood Festival, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada from the 25th July - 6th August 2010 |
2,500 |
Mary McPartlan, Lunasa, The Munnelly Band and Mairtin O'Connor/ Hayden & Dowd Band performing at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, UK from the 15th May - 5th June 2010 |
3,500 |
Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola performing 6 concert tour in Canada (Kingston, Brockville, Ottawa, Halifax, Montreal and Dorval) from the 15th - 24th May 2010 |
1,500 |
Irish fiddlers participation in the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in various venues in Aberdeenshire, Scotland from the 14th - 18th July 2010 |
3,500 |
Paul Bermingham performing at North by Northeast Music Festival, Toronto, Canada from the 16th - 20th June 2010 |
2,000 |
Outside Track performing a 26 day tour in Canada (including Cape Breton, Halifax, Joliette and Southern Ontario) from the 16th July - 8th August 2010 |
4,000 |
Irish musicians performing at the Co-Operative Cambridge Folk Festival at the Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds, Cambridge from the 29th July - 1st August 2010 |
1,500 |
Ergodos performing two concerts at the Project Room, Brooklyn, New York in December 2010 |
5,000 |
3epkano presenting a live music accompaniment to the G.W. Pabst silent movie "Diary of a Lost Girl" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the BAMcinemafest 2010, New York, USA on the 19th June 2010 |
8,000 |
Enchiriadis Choir Performing Eric Whitaker's "Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings" at Carnegie Hall, New York on the 15th June 2010 |
8,000 |
Sonya Keogh taking part in the International Youth in Concert at the National Theatre of Pécs, Hungary from the 28th May - 2nd June 2010 |
6,000 |
Ostrovy S.R.O. Irish musicians (Kila and Brendan Begley and Caoimhín O Raghallaigh) performing at the Prague international Music Festival, United Islands of Prague 2010 from the 24th - 27th June 2010 |
4,000 |
Téada performing in summer USA festivals from the 30th July - 18th September 2010 |
4,000 |
Cois Cladaigh Chamber Choir performing "Transformations from sounds to sweet Aires" at the Unesco World Heritage Site, Zeche Zollverein, Germany, from the 5th - 6th June 2010 |
6,000 |
Irish artists participating in the annual Catskills Irish Arts Week in the Greene County, East Durham, New York from the 11th - 17th July 2010 |
3,000 |
Gráda performing at various festivals throughout Europe from the 29th May - 25th July 2010 |
4,000 |
Northern Ireland Showcase at the annual Milwaukee Irish Festival from the 19th - 22nd 2010 |
6,000 |
‘Four men and a Dog’ performing at the Filberg Festival, British Columba, Canmore Folk Music Festival, Alberta, Calgary Irish Society, Alberta and the Edmonton Folk Music festival, Alberta Canada from the 30th July - 8th August 2010 |
4,000 |
European Union Youth Orchestra EUYO performing a ten concert tour in various European countries from the 24th July - 27th August 2010 |
18,000 |
Beoga performing a tour of Australia and New Zealand from the 20th May - 19th June 2010 |
7,000 |
The Chieftains, John Spillane and Mick Flannery, Karen Casey and John Doyle, Mairtín O'Connor, Cathal Hayden, Seamie O'Dowd and Jim Higgins, Caladh Nua, Seamus Begley and Tim Edey and Luka Bloom performing at the Tonder Festival, Denmark from the 26th - 2 |
20,000 |
Return to Camden Town Festival presenting traditional Irish music, dance and song at the London Irish Centre from the 21st - 31st October 2010 |
12,000 |
Palestrina Choir performing a tour in New England, USA from the 19th - 28th June 2010 |
15,000 |
Vladimir Foret, Paul Tiernan, Mark Geary and Liam Ó Maonlaí performing at the Presahy Festival Olomouc, Czech Republic from end of April - June 2010 |
800 |
Irish artists performing Celtic Colours International Festival in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada from the 8th - 16th October 2010 |
36,000 |
Maritime Office Dervish and North Cregg performing at the Poland meets Ireland as part of The Days of Sea from the 10th - 14th June 2010 |
6,000 |
Paul Cassidy, Davey Arthur and Fionnuala Gill performing at the Cleveland, Ohio - Berea Fairgrounds 23-25 July and the Chicago, Illinois - Irish American Heritage Center 30 July 2010 |
3,500 |
Dr Aylish E Kerrigan and Dearbhla Collins performing "Tides" by Aloys Fleischmann at the University of Durham, UK on the 13th July 2010 |
800 |
Irish conductors and soloists performing with the Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra during their two week tour of China from the 1st - 12th July 2010 |
35,000 |
Total |
€240,650 |
VISUAL ARTS |
€ |
Patrick Jolly presenting work in a group exhibition at Ars Santa Monica, La Rambla 7, Barcelona and Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo, from the 5th April - 23rd May 2010 |
1,200 |
Tonya McMullan presenting a solo exhibition at the MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Serbia from the 1st - 5th July 2010 |
500 |
Amelia Stein presenting work at the Lodz Photo Festival, Poland from the 6th - 30th May 2010 |
350 |
Marie Brett presenting an exhibition "The Loan Bush" at the Glastonbury Festival from the 20th - 28th June 2010 |
600 |
Fiona Hallinan presenting "Roadscore" exhibition at the Carriage House Gallery, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA from the 30th April - 24th May 2010 |
1,000 |
Brigitta Varadi presenting a solo exhibition at the Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey from the 26th May - 4th June 2010 |
1,000 |
Silja Leifsdottir presenting a group exhibition "Where Gravity Makes you Float" including artist Michael John Whelan at the Grimmuseum, Berlin from the 11th June - 8th July 2010 |
500 |
William Welch curating "Love letters to a Surrogate" at the Torrance Art Museum, USA from the 26th June - 10th July 2010 |
1,500 |
Isobel Egan presenting "Korero: Ceramics in Conversation" at Taiwan Ceramics Biennale exhibition 2010, Korea from the 9th July - 31st October 2010 |
1,000 |
Jane Hughes presenting an exhibition "Estranged Relations" at the 48 Hour Neukolln Festival, Berlin from the 25th - 27th June 2010 |
700 |
Aideen Barry performing "Flight Folly" at the LISTE '10, The Young Art Fair in Basel on the 19th June 2010 |
600 |
K Bear Koss presenting exhibition "The Insides of Things" at the Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg, France from the 30th September - 14th October 2010 |
1,000 |
David Creedon presenting an exhibition at the Irish Arts Center, New York from September - December 2010 |
1,500 |
Jackie Nickerson presenting an exhibition at the National Institution and Museum, Rome, Italy from the 20th May - 18th July 2010 |
1,000 |
John Fitzgerald presenting the exhibition "Re-Joyce" in Oslo, Norway from the 11th - 25th June 2010 |
3,000 |
Stoney Road Press presenting work at the 25th London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy, London from the 27th April - 3rd May 2010 |
5,000 |
Pam Harris presenting an exhibition at the Galerie Les Bains Douches, France in June 2010 |
3,000 |
Maud Cotter presenting "STUFF" at Point B project space, New York from the 5th - 26th November 2010 |
5,000 |
The Molesworth Gallery attending NEXT Chicago 2010, at the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, 29th April - 3rd May 2010 |
7,500 |
Blue Leaf Gallery presentation of Irish artists Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, 30th April - 3rd May 2010 |
4,500 |
Mothers Tankstation participating in Liste 15 - The Young Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland from the 15th - 20th June 2010 |
7,500 |
PO Menu Vartai presenting ARTscape: Ireland at the Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania from the 16th June - 30th July 2010 |
5,000 |
Jackie Nickerson presenting an exhibition at Transphotographiques Festival 2010 at the Maison de la Photographic, Lille, France from the 3rd May - 25th June 2010 |
2,500 |
Edith Pieperhoff presenting an exhibition titled "Claddagh 1847 - 1849: A Famine Graveyard Remembered" at the Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith from 9th July - 6th September 2010 |
3,000 |
Thisisnotshop Ltd participating in the second edition of No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern, London from the 14th - 16th May 2010 |
5,000 |
Seán Shanahan presenting an exhibition at a 17th Century villa, Como, Italy from the 15th June 2010 - June 2011 |
4,000 |
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago presenting Gerard Byrne's film installation "A thing is a hole in a thing it is not" at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, USA in January 2011 |
3,000 |
Brian Maguire presenting "Ni Una Mas/ Not one More" based on the Juarez Murders at the Pearlstein Gallery at the Drexel University from the 15th May - 16th July 2010 |
1,500 |
Kerlin Gallery presenting work at the Art Basel, Switzerland from the 16th - 20th June, Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park, London from the 14th - 17th October, Abu Dhabi Art, Dubai from the 18th - 21st November 2010 |
22,500 |
Total |
€94,450 |
LITERATURE |
€ |
Noel King/ Eileen Sheehan performing readings at the Poetry Café, arranged by the Poetry Society of Great Britain on the 16th June 2010 |
500 |
Seamus Cashman holding a poetry reading at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles on the 4th May 2010 |
500 |
Helen Dwyer performing readings at the Festival of Days and Nights of Literature at Galati and Braila, Romania |
750 |
Dennis O'Driscoll delivering a lecture on the poetry of Seamus Heaney at the Annual Conference of IASIL Japan, Tokyo and performing poetry readings, 9th - 13th October 2010 |
1,000 |
Julie O'Callaghan performing poetry readings at the Annual Conference of IASIL Japan, Tokyo, 9th - 13th October 2010 |
1,000 |
Michael Holohan performances and readings with music accompaniment titled "Bloomsday and Beyond" extracts from James Joyce in Lisbon, Porto and Setubal, Portugal from the 18th - 22nd June 2010 |
3,000 |
Nordic Irish Studios Network Irish poets participating in the 7th Biennial Conference of the Nordic Irish Studios Network at the University of Tromso, Norway from the 2nd - 4th December 2010 |
1,500 |
Cuisle, Limerick City International Poetry Festival participating in the Brighton Literary Weekend from the 1st - 3rd May, Mlada Vilenica International Literary, Slovenia from the 22nd - 23rd May, Mlade Rime Festival, Slovenia, May and the 8th International Poetry Translation Workshop, Slovenia, 6th – 13th September 2010 |
2,500 |
The Munster Literature Centre participation by Irish writers in LitQuake, San Francisco festival from the 1st - 9th October 2010 |
4,000 |
Total |
€14,750 |
ARCHITECTURE |
€ |
Urban Agenda presentation of "Irish Architecture and Culture of the Edge" and an exhibition of AAI's 25 year awards and associated discussion at Nordic Irish Studies Network, Norway December 2010 |
3,000 |
Total |
€3,000 |