Grants awarded in March 2007

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

Theatre and dance
Name Amount in Euros
Bernard Farrell performing the World premier of "The Verdi Girls" in The Laguna Playhouse, California from the 27th May - 6th June 2007 500
Ballymun Arts and Community Resource Centre a production "the Townlands of Brazil" in Wroclaw Poland. 35,000
Mangiare Theatre Company performing "A play on Two Chairs" at the Fringe Festival Prague from the 22nd May - 5 June 2007. 6,000
Cois Ceim Dance Theatre performing "Knots at the Aurora Nova" at the "La Biennale di Venitizia" from the 27th June - 1st July 2007. 40,000
Bedrock Production - Sarah Ling performing a Samuel Beckett Play "A video of Not I" at the Cultural Centre in Paris from 29th April - 7th May 2007. 14,000
Daniel Vais, towards the cost of participating in a dance Festival "Cataplasia" in Frankfurt, 25–27 April and London, 17-19 May 2007. 15,000
Ouroboros Theatre Ireland Ltd. participating in the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the flight of the earls from the 15th - 26th September 2007. 2,600
Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre performing "Giselle" at the Festival Dialog - Wroclaw, Poland from the 15th October - 23rd October 2007. 45,000
Buí Blog Ltd. participating at this years World Festival of Puppet arts in Prague from 28th May - 3rd June 2007. 11,000
Ireland PQ07 Project, ITI looking for additional funding for PQ07 to Exhibit work by theatre designers living and working in Ireland. 20,000
Tall Tales Theatre Company performing 4 new lunchtime plays to be shown at the "Play, Pie and a Pint" festival at the Oranmor Theatre Glasgow from the 25th August until 22nd September 2007. 8,000
The Performance Corporation "Drive By" Birmingham Fierce Festival, Birmingham from 18th May - 5th June 2007. 38,000
Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company performing "Resonance" in the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival from the 26th April - 6th May 2007. 8,500
Interceltique - participation by Irish musicians in the Breton celebrations on Champs Elysee, Paris Septmber 2007 7,000


Subtotal: €235,600

Film
Name Amount in Euros
Aoife O'Sullivan screening the Film "Small Engine Repair" at the Nashville Film Festival from the 19th - 26th April 2007. 6,000
Boomerang productions performing a play "Eyes of the Docks" in Holland. 4,000
Embassy of Ireland Berlin presenting an Irish Film Festival in Berlin from 4th- 18th June 2007. 8,000


Subtotal: €18,000

Music
Name Amount in Euros
Shamrock Traditional Music Society performing traditional Irish music concerts in Connecticut between April, May and June 2007. 1,500
European Union Youth Orchestra participating in an eight concert tour of EU countries and a rehearsal residency from 23rd July until 22nd August 2007 25,000
RTE Vanbrugh Quartet performing two concerts by the RTE Vanbrugh Quartet at the David Oistrakh Festival, Estonia from 19th July - 24th July 2007 6,500
Irene Martin performing at the 18th Rencontre Musicale Irlandais in Tocane st Apre, France from the 20th July - 27th July 2007 2,500
Maria Tecce performing a one women jazz and cabaret show called "Red Hot" and "Tecce" at the Fringe Festival Praha from May 28th - June 3rd, 2007 3,000
Dublin Choral Foundation participating at the 34th International Congress of Pueri Cantores in Krakow, Poland from 10th - 15th July 2007 4,500
Association of Irish Composer performing at the Musical Viva Festival, Portugal from the 18th - 20th Sept 2007 3,800
Gráinne Hambly performing (1) at the "Big Sky Folk Harp Festival" Montana from the 3rd -8th July 2007 and (2) five concerts in Tokyo, 7 – 15 May 2007. 1,400
Sounds Different Culture Ass participating in an event celebrating the 125th anniversary of the birth of James Joyce. 2,000
Foynes Flying Boat Museum participating at the Foynes Flying Boat Festival from 6th - 8th July 2007. 9,000
Ballinteer Male Voice Choir performing at The International Artistic and Cultural Festival in Playben, Finistere, Brittany from 25th May - 28th May 2007 2,500
Galway Ensemble in Residence participation at the Athenaeum Concert Hall in Bucharest on the 23rd May 2007 10,000
Christy McNamara participating in a solo exhibition in the Morrison Hotel Galleries in L.A and San Diego, March 11th - April 15th 2007. 8,000
Paul Dooley attending a conference at the Centre for advanced Welsh music Studies Aberystwyth in June 2007. 1,000
Paul Dooley participating in a one week workshop exploring the Robert ap How Manuscripts at the National Center for Welsh Folk Music 1,700
Greg Kavanagh performing a string quartet and rock instrumentation concert at the Connolly Theatre in New York in Sept 2007. 4,350
Colmcille (Mairi MacLeod) participating in Féill Chaluim Chille including an exhibition developed in connection with Trinity College Dublin and the National Museums of Scotland and a concert in Mull and Iona, Scotland from the 4th June until 11th June 2007. 10,000
Cork Youth Orchestra participating in the 9th Annual International festival of European Youth Orchestras in Florence from 25th - 27th June 2007. 5,000
Imelda Dervin participating in the Milwaukee Irish Fest from the 16th until the 19th August 2007. 2,000
Ikon Gallery performing concerts in Bonn, Germany and Birmingham, UK. 6,000
Donegal Abbey Singers performing in a concert in Prague from the 7th - 10th June 2007. 3,000
Helan Bommarito/ Beoga performing at the Milwaukee Irish Fest 17-19 August and Kansas City Irish Festival, 1-2 September 2007. 12,000
Craogh na HEireann den Comgdháil Cheilteach performing at the International Celtic Conference Festival in the Combined University of Cornwall from the 23rd - 28th July 2007. 1,000
Catskills Irish Art Week participating in a summer school in the upstate New York's Catskills Mountain in the Irish Clancy Summer School in Clare with approximately 500 students from 13th July - 18th August 2007. 10,000
Return to Camden Town Festival, holding a 10 day festival of traditional Irish music, song and dance taking place at the London Irish Festival from 19th October - 28th October 2007. 15,000
The Contemporary Music Centre participating in the annual conference of the International Association of Music Information Centres held this year in Wellington from 15th - 26th June 2007. 2,600
Musik Network performing at the Glasgow Jazz festival at the old Fruitmarket, Merchant City, Glasgow from the 26th June - 29th June 2007. 1,980
Tyneside Irish Cultural Society promoting an Irish Cultural Festival of Trad music with names like Tony MacMahon, Steve Cooney and Teada from June - July 2007 at Tyneside. 1,500
Improvised Music Company performing 12 European Jazz ensembles in Project Arts Centre from 25th-28th April 2007. 23,200


Subtotal: €97,630

Visual art
Name Amount in Euros
Finola Jones - Mother's Tankstation participating at the inaugural art fair Duesseldorf, SWAB International Art Fair Barcelona, the Young Art Fair Switzerland, Frieze Art Fair London and New art Dealers Alliance, Miami from the 16th April - 14th December 2007. 20,000
Varvara Shavrova - photography exhibition "Untouched" which focuses on a rapid economic development of 2 different places Ballycastle in Mayo and Beijing in 2008 Beijing Festival 1,000
Tom Molloy participating in a solo exhibition at the Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin, Texas from the 8th until the 13th May 2007. 3,500
West Cork Arts Centre participating in the exhibition “Living Landscape: Ireland and Catalunya – Spain” in Barcelona, Spain from 1st until 10th June 2007. 7,000
Aimee O'Neill participating at the Art Process Trapani 2007 at Trapani, Sicily from the 1st - 11th July 2007. 800
Blaise Drummond a solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures at the Mary Goldman Gallery Los Angeles from May 5th until June 16th 2007. 3,000
Eileen Mac Donagh participating in an Irish French exhibition of sculpture in Lacoste, France from 30th June until - 31st August 2007. 800
Eamonn Maxwell an exhibition focusing on film and video work in the university of the arts London from 8th July until 15th July. 3,500
Hugh McCarthy and Daniel Greaney participating in a solo exhibition "Paradise Now" in Studio 1.1 Gallery London from 29th August - 12th September 2007. 2,000
Siobhán Mc Donald participating in a solo exhibition in Soho New York. 1,000
Ciara Garvey participating in a exhibition of 5 different artists in the Hammersmith and Fulham Irish Centre from 30th May - 15th June 2007. 2,500
Marta Wakula Mac solo exhibition in Gallery Dwor Karwacjanow, Poland from the 17th August - 20th September 2007. 1,000
Clodagh Emoe participating in a series of lectures in conjunction with an exhibition of own drawings in the Market Gallery Glasgow from the 13th - 18th April 2007. 800
Katherine West participating in an artist in residency programme in Watershed, Maine, USA from 21st July - 4th August 2007. 2,500
Katie Holten participating in a group Exhibition in the Foundation D'enterprise Ricard in Paris from 29th April until the 09th May 2007. 1,000
Katie Holten producing a new collaborative work and present it in the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine arts in Philadelphia in May 2007. 1,200
John Keating solo exhibition in Galleria Compagnia Del Oisegno, Milan, Italy. 750
Boomerang Productions Ltd. exhibiting the multi-media installation "Eyes of the Docks" in the harbour in Amsterdam, Netherlands 4,000
Maurice Quillinan and number of Irish painters exhibiting in Beijing and Shanghai November 2007 22,400
Catherine Hemelryk - particiaption in exhibition in Vilnius 2007 3,000
Kerlin Gallery participating in an international Art Fair 'art37 Basel' in June 2007 anf the Frieze Art Fair London in October 2007. 18,000
Rubicon Gallery participation in 9 various Art Fairs around the world over 2007. 10,000
Sharon McCarthy SKART participating in exhibitions around Europe to advertise the Skart website for use round the world. 1,000
Deirdre McLaughlin participating in the 4th World Ceramic Biennale 2007. 515


Subtotal: €108,265

Literature
Name Amount in Euros
Trieste Joyce School participating in the 11th Annual Trieste Joyce School at the University of Trieste from the 1st to the 7th July 2007. 3,000
Gare St Lazare Players Ireland performing Samuel Beckett "Molloy,Malone Dies and Enough" in Bristol, Romania and Bulgaria in May 2007. 12,000
Ledbury Poetry Festival 10 poets performing at the Ledbury Poetry Festival at the Ledbury Poetry Festival from 28th June until the 2nd of July 2007. 9,000
Slovene Writers Association performing at the Valencia International Literary Festival to include literary readings and a concert by the Irish band Téada in Slovenia, 7th and 8th September 2007. 7,955
Laura Patricia Zuntini De Izarra a the Second Symposium of Irish Studies in South America, “Ireland and Latin America: Towards New Perspectives” to include four plenary lectures and three plenary seminars, Buenos Aires, 6th September 2007. 3,000
Livres en Europe participating in the European young readers prize in Strasbourg, 13th & 20th Feb 2007. 800
Adelaide Writers Week, Paul Durcan participating in the 2008 Adelaide Writers Week in Austrialia from 27th February - 8th March 2008. 1,500
Dublin Writers Festival - participating in exchange with Vancouver International Writers Festival - 15-22 October 2007 4,000
   


Subtotal: €74,510

Architecture
Name Amount in Euros
John Tuomey participating in an exhibition of research by design in architectural practice in Canada and the USA. 8,000

Subtotal: €8,000