Grants awarded in March 2009

 

Theatre and Dance

Name

Amount in Euros

CircuSorcas performing an outdoor circus show at the International Arts Festival in Aurioac, South France 19th - 22nd August 2009
4,000
Dylan Tighe performing at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, London from the 23rd June - 18th July 2009
1,000
Gavin Kostick performing "The Heart of Darkness" at the London Literature Festival, London from the 9th - 11th July 2009
6,000
Donal O'Kelly Productions performing a tour of "Jimmy Joyced" in Portugal 16th – 19th June and Trieste, Italy 28th June 2009
7,500
Pan Pan Theatre Company performing "The Crumb Trail" at Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin from the 18th - 20th June and TBA Festival, Portland, US from the 9th - 12th September 2009
38,000
LUX e performing "Eudoxia" an illuminated street theatre piece at the Fira Tarrega an international street theatre festival, Spain from the 10th - 13th September 2009
20,000
Fishamble Theatre Company performing "Noah and the Tower Flower" in Bulgaria 27th - 30th May, and at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania 2nd - 3rd June 2009
12,000
Legitimate Bodies Dance Company performing at the Prague Dance Festival from the 17th - 18th June 2009
1,000
Angie Smais performing a new solo work at the Islington Dance Festival, London on the 29th June 2009
800
Elena Giannotti performing at the Islington Arts Festival 2009 "Moving Voices" in London from the 27th June - 10th July 2009
800
Excel Dance Residency performing a tour of South Korea from the 15th May - 2nd June 2009
2,500
Fabulous Beast performing "Giselle" at the Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada in May 2010
30,000
Fishamble Theatre Company performing the "Pride of Parnell Street" at 59E59, New York from the 1st September - 4th October 2009
60,000
Gare St Lazare performing "Moby Dick" at the Rubicon Theatre, Ventura, California in July - August 2009
9,000
Ouroboros Theatre Company performing extracts from "Making History" and "Translations" at Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris 5th – 7th June and in Leuven, Belgium on 9th June 2009
3,000

Total

195,600


Music

Name

Amount in Euros

Dr Cathal Breslin performing in Carnegie Hall, New York on the 26th June 2009
1,800
Niamh Ní Charra performing at the Lowell Folk Festival at Sussex County College, New Jersey from the 23rd - 26th July 2009
2,000
Karen Casey performing a UK tour in various venues from the 20th April - 24th May 2009
2,000
3Epkano performing live soundtrack to "Metropolis" at BAM, New York on the 27th June 2009
8,000
Masamba Samba School performing at the UK Centre for Carnival Arts in Luton in May 2009
1,800
Divadlo O Konvikt os Jape performing at the Flora Theatre Festival, Olomouc, Czech Republic on the 18th May 2009
700
Triocca performing at the National Portrait Gallery, London and Abbey Chamber Recital Series, Oxfordshire from the 3rd - 5th July 2009
1,000
Amen Vocal Trio & size2shoes performing at the Islington Arts Festival 2009 "Moving Voices" in London from the 27th June - 10th July 2009
1,500
Music Network for Irish participation at the 14th Biennale of Young Artists at Skopje, Macedonia from the 3rd - 12th September 2009
4,000
Two Irish bands Concerto for Constantine and Royseven, performing at the United Islands of Prague Festival June 2009
3,500
Frank Corcoran presenting performance of "Octet Quasi Una Sarabanda" in Bern, Zurich, Basle from the 19th - 21st June 2009
800
Dublin City Soul Festival presenting concerts of selected performers in New York from July - September 2009
1,000
Irish Jazz band Togetherness performing at the Young Generation Jazz Festival at Babylon Mitte, Berlin from the 1st - 4th October 2009
1,500
Irish Composers Collective performing two concerts at the University of York, UK on the 20th June 2009
3,000
Association of Irish Composers performing at the Time of Music Festival, Viitasaari, Finland on the 12th July 2009
1,400
Dr Patrick Zuk presenting "The Fleischmanns and their circle" at Durham University from the 12th - 14th July 2010
1,300
Friends of the Irish Harp Centre performing at the 10th European Festival of Youth Music, Linz, Austria from the 21st - 24th May 2009
5,000
Crash Ensemble performing a US tour in May 2010
52,000
KM Friendship Ireland performing "A musical Gift from Ireland" in Japan from the 20th - 30th June 2009
12,000
Irish Artists to perform at Catskill Irish Arts Week, New York, 12th –18th July 2009.
6,000
Shamrock Traditional Irish Festival presenting four concerts in Fairfield, Connecticut, from the 7th April - 12th June 2009
1,000
Shaun Davey performing at the Sibiu Theatre Festival, Romania, 6th – 7th June 2009
17,000
SC Irish Arts Weekend presenting Irish Artists Weekend in Columbia, South Carolina, from the 19th - 21st June 2009
800
Martin Quinn & Angelina Carberry performing concerts at two Celtic Summer Camps in the US from 13th - 19th July 2009
1,500
The Outside Track performing a tour of Canada from the 24th July - 9th August 2009
2,500
Kilfenora Ceili Band performing at the Milwaukee Irish Festival 2009, USA from the 13th - 16th August 2009
6,000
Return to Camden Town Festival presents a selection of Irish artists at the London Irish Centre, UK from the 23rd October -1st November 2009
12,000
Gráda performing concerts in Australia, New Zealand and Japan from June - July 2009
6,000
Celtic Colours International Festival presents a selection of Irish artists in Cape Breton in October 2009
40,000
Lundstrom Arts Managemeny performing at the Tage Alter Musik Regensburg festival, Germany, May 2011
10,000
European Union Youth Orchestra performing a European tour from 25th July - 26th August 2009
20,000
Total
227,100

 

Visual Arts

Name

Amount in Euros

Sarah Holly Pereira presenting a solo exhibition at the Muse at 269 gallery, Portobello, London in May 2009
750
Louise Manifold presenting a solo exhibition at the PS122 Contemporary Arts Centre, New York from the 14th May - 12th June 2009
1,200
Mark Clare presenting a solo exhibition at the Galeria xx1, Prague in June 2009
1,200
Atsushi Kaga presenting a solo exhibition in Galeria Leme project in Sao Paulo, Brazil in August 2009
1,000
Anthony Haughey presenting a visual arts installation at the Gallerie Arena for the 40th Les Rencontres s'Ales 09 from the 8th July - 13th September 2009
1,000
Sirius Arts Centre attending the Lodz International Photography Festival, Poland from the 7th - 10th May 2009
2,000
Anthony Kelly presenting "Practical Dreaming" at the Courtyard Arts Centre, Hertfordshire from the 18th June - 25th July 2009
1,000
Daphne Wright presenting an exhibition "Prayer" in three galleries, Quad, (Derry), Picture This, (Bristol) and Bluecoat, (Liverpool) from the 9th May - 28th June 2009
1,000
Christine Mackey, Cliona Harmey and Saoirse Higgins exhibiting work at the European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists in Greece from the 20th May - 10th June and Poland from the 19th October - 9th November 2009
3,000
Antoin O'Heocha presenting an exhibition in Vilnius from the 1st July - 30th October 2009
3,000
Conall Gleeson presenting an exhibition at the Portland Isle, Dorset, UK from May - September 2009
400
Rubicon Gallery exhibiting at Art Brussels Art Fair from 24th - 27th April 2009
7,500
Nina Canell presenting a solo exhibition at the Kunstverein, Hamburg, from the 26th September - 31st December 2009
2,000
Margaret Tuffy presenting an exhibition at the Tuule Makinen gallery as part of the Finnish - Irish Festival, Finland from the 29th September – 18th October 2009
4,000
Molesworth Gallery exhibiting at Next 2009 Art Fair, Chicago from the 1st - 4th May 2009
7,500
Green on Red Gallery exhibiting at Volta Art Fair, Basel from the 8th - 13th June 2008
7,500
Niamh Flanagan presenting an exhibition in Debica, Poland from the 4th - 18th September 2009 and Gorlice, Poland 15th January - February 2010
3,000
Richard Gorman presenting a solo exhibition at the Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo, Japan from the 11th September - 24th October 2010
15,000
Ian Joyce presenting a solo exhibition at the Czech Museum of Fine Art, Prague from 7th October - 29th November 2009
6,000
Mother's Tankstation exhibiting at “Open Space 2009” at Art Cologne 6th – 22nd April and “Art Statements” Art Basel 40, 10th – 14th June 2009
15,000
MART presenting an exhibition “Open Door Policy” at the Shunt Vault Gallery, London, from 16th – 25th July 2009
3,000
Jesse Jones participating at the 11th International Istanbul Biennale with her project ‘Mahoganny’ from 12th September – 8th October 2009.
10,000
Total
96,050

 

Literature

Name

Amount in Euros

John Holten reading at the Midnight Poetry Readings, Berlin on the 8th May 2009
400
John F Deane reading at the University of Massachusetts, Boston from the 18th - 27th June 2009
500
Fintan O'Toole lectures at the Fourth Symposium of Irish Studies in South America at the National University of La Pampa, Argentina from the 7th - 14th September 2009
2,000
John Banville reading in Wuppertal, Kassel and Paderborn, Germany 20th - 24th April 2009
2,000
Selection of Irish writers read at the University of Aberdeen Writers Festival UK from the 15th - 17th May 2009
2,000
Readings by five Irish poets at the International Istanbul-Beyoglu Poetry Festival, Turkey from the 21st - 26th April 2009
9,000
Kieran Furey reading at the Toronto Small Press Group Fair, Canada in June 2009
600
Four Irish writers participate in the Irish Literary Festival in Porto, Portugal, 8th-10th October 2009
3,000
Total
19,500


Architecture

Name

Amount in Euros

Irish Architecture Foundation tour of Lives of Spaces exhibition including Belfast and London in 2009 and 2010
25,000
Total
25,000