Grants awarded in December 2007

Theatre and dance, Film, Music, Visual art, Literature

Theatre and dance
Name Amount in Euros
Irish Heritage performing "The Empress and the Count" at St James Church, Piccadilly, London, 10th April 2007 1,000
Fishamble Theatre Company performing "The Pride of Parnell Street by Sebastian Barry at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in Connecticut USA, 20th - 30th June 2008           25,000
Team Educational Theatre Company performing "Jumping on my Shadow" at the Wales International Festival for Young Audiences, 10th - 14th March 2008 4,000
Corcadorca Theatre Company participation in  symposium/workshops entitled "Is this Theatre" in Cork,
11th - 13th April 2008
2,000
The Abbey Theatre performing "Terminus" at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 27th July - 26th August 2008 82,000
Fishamble Theatre Company, performing "Forgotten" at the Prague Fringe Festival, 24th May - 1st June 2008 6,500
Ballyduff Drama Group, performing "The Cripple of Irishman" at the DBS Arts Centre, Singapore, 11th - 21st July 2008 9,000
Sole Purpose Productions performing "Don’t Say a Word" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 16th - 25th August 2008 3,000
William Galinsky directing "The Three Sisters" play in Theatre Babylon, Beirut, 20th January - 2nd February 2008 2,500
Aindrias Stack performing "The Journey of a Travelling Fiddler" at the New Zealand and Adelaide Fringe Festivals and Melbourne Comedy Festival, 10th February - 15th April 2008 3,000
Druid Theatre Company performing Synge's "The Playboy of the Western World" in 5 venues in the US,  29th September - 27th October 2008 80,000
Druid Theatre Company performing Enda Walsh's "The Walworth Farce" in St Ann's Warehouse, New York,
6th April - 4th May 2008
60,000
Druid Theatre Company performing Enda Walsh's play "The New Electric Ballroom" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
31st July - 25th August 2008
80,000
Nick Bryson, Cristina Goletti Legitimate Bodies Dance Company performing at the Performatica: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporánea y Artes de Movimiento Festival,  22nd March - 06th April 2008 2,000
Maebh Cheasty presenting DISCO-NNECT at the Transmediale Festival in Berlin, 27th January - 4th February 2008 1,000
Irish Arts Centre presenting "Catalpa" and "Bat the Father/Rabbit the Son"  by Donal O'Kelly at the Irish Arts Center, New York, 24th February - 30th March 2008 12,000
Irish Arts Centre presenting Paul Brady at the Irish Arts Center, New York, 16th February - 24th February 2008 5,000
Irish Arts Centre presenting Paul Walker's "Ladies and Gents" at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park,  March 2008 30,000
Fearghus Ó Conchúir performing "Match" at the Irish Arts Festival at the Chaoyang Cultural Centre, Beijing, 15th - 30th March 2008 4,000
St. Patrick's Festival  / IADT Dún Laoghaire participating in the Chingay Parade, Singapore, 7th - 19th February 2008 32,000
One Eye Productions organising Dance on Film events in the Palestinian Territories, March 2008 5,000
Gare St Lazare Players, performing in Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Turkey, 4th May - 3rd June 2008 18000
Ouroboros Theatre Ireland performing Brian Friel's "Making History" in venues in  Belgium, Switzerland and Italy, 7th - 24th March 2008 18,000
Bastable-Warren Irish Dancers, performing in a number of venues in Lithuania, 14th - 18th March 2008 2,500
Rex Levitates Dance Company performing "Bread and Circus" at the Irish Arts Festival, Beijing, 22nd March - 1st April 2008 28,000
Merseyside Dance Initiative inclusion of Irish dance companies in European dance event for Liverpool Capital of Culture 2008, 28th October - 2nd November 2008 22,000
Daghdha Dance Company performing "Your Truth Doesn't Interest Me. I know Nothing of Substance"  and "I am Stumped by what you Call Reality" around Australia from the 10th - 24th March 2008 18,000
CoisCéim Dance Theatre performing a tour with 2luck, 23rd February - 10th March 2008 45,000
Origin Theatre Company presenting a short play for presentation at the 'First Annual Inspire/ExpireFestival' in New York in September 2008. 7,500
Pan Pan Theatre Company performing a European tour of 'Oepidus Loves You' in 2007. 80,000


Subtotal: 688,500

Film
Name Amount in Euros
Gene Siskel Film Center presenting Irish films in the EU Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 7th - 27th March 2007 2,000
David P Kelly Films holding an Irish Film Festival in London at a number of  theatres and cinemas, 11th - 15th March 2007 2,000
Cinematheque Tel-Aviv presenting an Irish festival at Tel-Aviv Cinemateque, 30th January - 2nd February 2008 10,000
Fleadh Foundation presenting a festival of Irish Film and Music to be held in New York, 4th - 11th March 2007 12,000
Zero Em Comportamento - Associacao for Irish participation in IndieLisboa - International Independent Film Festival, Portugal, 24th April - 4th May 2008 1,500
Joe Lawlor (Desperate Optimists) presenting "Civic Life" at film festivals in England and Rotterdam, 2008 15,000
Tom Collins screening of the film 'Kings' in LA, Palm Springs, NYC and Boston from 4th Jan-21st Jan 2008. 5,000


Subtotal: 47,500

Music
Name Amount in Euros
Tom O'Doherty presenting "Filling Vessels" at the Spark Festival at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 25th February - 3rd March 2008 1,000
Greater London Authority for Irish participation in the London St Patrick's Day Parade, 16th March 2008 15,000
Edinburgh International Harp Festival towards Irish participation in the Festival, March - April 2008 1,300
Shamrock Traditional Irish Music Society - Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, Lunasa, and Sliabh Notes performing 3 concerts in Fairfield Theatre Company, 13th January - 27th March 2008 1,500
Karishmeh Felfeli for a recital at Carleton University in Ottawa, 10th - 20th February 2008 1000
Benjamin Dwyer for residency, workshop, recital and recording for radio at "Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid"  31st January - 5th February 2008 1000
Margaret O'Sullivan for performance of a work  by Niall Vallely marking the 400th Anniversary of the Flight of the Earls, 14th - 16th February 2008 in Louvain Institute, in Belgium 6,000
Embassy of Ireland Riga presenting concerts of Irish Music and Dance, Riga, Latvia, 13th - 18th March 2008 4,000
Daniel Figgis curating a day Long Festival "Snakes and Ladders" at the World Financial Center, Manhatten, 17th March 2008 16,000
Crash Ensemble performing at the "Bang on a Cat Marathon" New York , May 2008 12,000
Mornington Singers performing concerts of contemporary Irish, Estonian and European Music in Estonia, 29th May - 2nd June 2008 9,000
Improvised Music Company organising 12 Points Festival of European Jazz music, in the Project Theatre from the 5th - 8th March 2008 13,000
RTE Vanbrugh Quartet and Carducci Quartet performing a UK tour  8th - 23rd October 2009 7,000
RTE Vanbrugh Quartet performing in the 9th Northern Flowers Festival of Chamber Music in St Petersburg, Russia, 22nd - 27th October 2008 5,000
Derek Gleeson and Conor Linehan participating in a symphonic concert at the Vratza Philharmonic Hall, Bulgaria, 16th - 22nd March 2008 1,000
William Butt for performances in China, March 2008 4,000
Camerata Pacifica for performances in Los Angeles, Washington, New York and London, between  22nd April and 2nd May 2008 5,000
Dervish for US tour, 22nd February - 19th March 2008 7,000
Dervish showcase at the APAP conference, New York, 11th - 14th of January 2008 3,000
Conall Gleeson for a three concert tour in the UK, 25th June - 4th July 2008 3,000
Deutsch Irischer Freundeskreis Bayern for David Norris performing his one man show "Do you hear what I am seeing" at Theatre zum Isartal, Munich, 31st May 2008 500
El Feile organising the 5th El Feile '08 at the Barcelona Irish Cultural Festival from the 13th - 17th March 2008 9,000
Francesca Romania Fabris organising "Rome Irish Fleadh", 27th - 31st March 2008 1,000
Coatbridge St Patrick's Festival Week  "Little John Nee" a one man show at the St Patrick's Festival,Coatsbridge 14th - 16th March 2008 500
Pat Garrett organising a tour of America for Irish band Beoga from 27th February - 17th March 2008. 7,000


Subtotal: 133,800

Visual Arts
Name Amount in Euros
Joe Walker for solo exhibition of work at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery in Reno, USA, February 2008 4,000
Bernadette Cotter exhibiting at the David Cunningham Projects Gallery, San Francisco, 28th March - 18th April 2008 4,000
Varvara Shavrova's solo exhibition "Untouched" at the Three Shadows Photography Arts Centre, Beijing, China,  15th - 30th March 2008 5,000
Farcry Productions a solo exhibition "No ifs, No Butts, No Violence" and Film "Remnants of the Past" in Vyner St, London, 7th March - 2nd May 2008 4,000
Adrian Plant, Dorothy Cross exhibition on the legacy of Charles Darwin at the Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery and the Unitarian Church, 10th June  - 20th July 2007 5,000
James Ryan - 411 Gallery presenting "Is Mise Ireland" a 2-D Fine art exhibition in Shanghai 13th March - 14th July 2008 17,000
James Ryan - 411 Gallery presenting "Made in Ireland" a exhibition of paintings by nine leading Irish painters in the 411 Gallery, Shanghai, China for 2 weeks from the 20th February 2008 7,000
Kerlin Gallery exhibiting selected Irish artists at the Armory Show N.Y 22nd March - 1st April 2008 6,000
Gerard Byrne exhibiting a new work at the 16th Biennale of Sydney, 18th June - 7th September 2008 32,000
John Roch Simons presenting a solo exhibition of his work in the 411 Gallery, Shanghai, China, July and August 2008 5000
Green On Red Gallery participating in Next Art Fair Chicago, 24th April - 2nd May 2008 6000
Finola Jones and David Godbold, Mother's Tankstation participating at the Melbourne International Art Fair, 31st July - 3rd August 2008 5000
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery participating at Art Brussels Fair, Brussels in March - April 2008 4000

 

Subtotal: 104,000

Literature
Name Amount in Euros
Vienna Lit Literaturverein for Irish participation in the Vienna Lit Festival from the 17th - 20th April 2007 900
The O'Brien Press attending the Bologna Book Fair from the 30th March to 4th April 2008 2,500
Conor Biggs performing a concert series at the Rosario arts centre in Bever, Belgium through 2008 1,500
Oilibhéar Ó Braonáin for lecture by Nuala Ní Dhómhnaill in the European School Theatre, Luxembourg, 21st February 2008 2,000
Desmond Egan participating in workshops, book launch and readings in the Irish Cultural Festival in Beijing, China, 13th - 23rd March 2007 2,000
Mary Grehan for participation in the 19th International Conference of the Society of Arts and Healthcare in the Doubletree Hotel Philadelphia, 18th April 2008 1,000
Alliance Francaise organising the annual "Franco - Irish Literary Festival in Dublin Castle, 18th - 20th April 2008 5,000
Embassy of Ireland Berlin for Ireland's participation in the Leipzig Book Fair, Germany 12th - 18th March 2008 2,000
Embassy of Ireland Berlin for poetry readings by selected Irish poets, March and May 2008 600


Subtotal: 17,500