Grants awarded in September 2009

Theatre and Dance

Name

Amount in Euros

Jocelyn Clarke delivering talks and attendence at events  associated with the premiere of his new play "Finn" at the Skirball Centre for Performing Arts, New York University, in March 2010

750

Fidget Feet Fidget Feet performing "Madam Silk" and "Invoke" at the Fljotsdalsherad Cultural Centre, Iceland from the 21st June - 2nd July 2010

5,000

Gare St Lazare Players presenting "First Love" at the Beckett Festival in Buenos Aires and "Moby Dick" in Sofia, Lovech and Vratsa, Bulgaria from the 1st - 20th November 2009

5,000

Blue Raincoat Theatre Company presenting "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien at the Tron, Glasgow and the Traverse, Edinburgh in April 2010

18,000

Fishamble Theatre Company presenting "Forgotten" at the Irish Arts Center, New York from the 15th February - 5th March 2010

13,000

Deirdre Murphy performing a solo dance piece in the Movement Research Open Performance Night, Judson Church, New York on the 2nd November 2009

400

Julie Lockett Ella Clarke, Cindy Cummings, Emma Fitzgerald, Julie Lockett and Áine Stapleton performing at Siobhán Davies Studios, London 12th - 13th February 2010

4,000

Pan Pan Theatre Company presenting "Oedipus Loves you" at the Sydney Festival and the Brisbane Powerhouse, Australia from the 23rd January - 6th February 2010

50,000

Ballet Ireland touring productions of "Lyric Suite" and "Cinderella" in the UK from the 12th - 21st November 2009

25,000

Solas Nua 2009-10 season, including US premiere of "Danny and Chantelle" in November-December, two outdoor theatrical events by the Performance Corporation, presentation of a public art piece and Irish writers participating in DC Irish Writers Festival in February-March in Washington, DC

20,000

Total

141,150


Film

Name

Amount in Euros

Alexander Niskac organising "Days of Irish Film" to include screening of 20 short Irish films and one documentary in Ljubljana 23rd - 24th March 2010

1,000

Archimedia Cultural Association presenting Irish Film Festa, the third annual Italian Festival dedicated to Irish Cinema at the Casa del Cinema, Rome from the 27th - 29th November 2009

8,000

One Eyed Productions organising a showcase of Irish film, including 3 features, 6 shorts and 9 animation films in Damascus, Syria from the 31st October - 6th November 2009

5,000

Cork Film Festival promoting Irish short film-making at the International Short Film Market, Clermont Ferrand, France from the 1st - 6th February 2010

8,000

The ICON SF Festival towards the screening of ' The Secret of Kells' at the Icon International SF Festival, Isreal,  4-10 October 2007

700

Barley Films/Padraig Fagan attending 37th Annual Annie Awards on 6th February 2010.

1,000

Miriam Cahill to attend the Cleremont Ferrand Film Festival Jan 30th - Feb 6th, 2010

6,000

Cartoon Salon attending the screening of their film the "Secret of Kells" at the 2010 Santa Barbara Film Festival and attending the Annie Awards, 5th - 6th Feb, 2010

1,500

Total

31,200


Music

Name

Amount in Euros

Ian Wilson attending performance and introducting world premiere of new work “heaven lay close” for saxophone quartet and tablas at ToonZaal s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands on the 13th December 2009

400

Shamrock Traditional Irish Music Society presenting Brock McGuire at the Fairfield Theatre in November and James Keane at the House Concert in December 2009 in Fairfield, CT, US

500

Hugh Buckley and Stephen Keogh performing at the Shanghai Jazz Festival from the 16th - 18th October 2009

1,500

The Irish Arts Foundation Leeds presenting Irish artists including traditional band At The Racket at the Leeds Gathering Festival, UK  from the 5th - 15th November 2009

1,500

Malcolm Proud performing three solo organ recitals in Vermont, Massachusetts and Virginia, USA from the 25th - 30th October 2009

1,000

Zoe Conway performing three concerts showcasing Irish dance music with John McIntyre at Rheinau - Freistett, Weisses Ross and Nurnberg, Germany from 17th - 24th January 2010

1,500

Raymond Deane, Darragh Morgan, Robin Micheal and Mary Dullea performing a concert at the Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London on the 29th March 2010

1,000

The Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith presenting performances by Mick Flannery, Niall de Burca, Gino Lupari and Janet Behan, November - December 2009

500

Martin Healy and band performing at the Montserrat St Patricks Week events in March 2010

1,500

Project Arts Centre presenting White Rocket, the Jazz Trio  at the India Islamic Cultural Centre, New Delhi on the 5th November 2009

6,000

Laoise Kelly performing at the Third World Harp Festival, Paraguay from the 19th - 21st November 2009

2,500

Rebecca Capova performing a solo tour in China from the 6th - 15th March 2009

3,000

Ceol Productions  presenting 11 concerts of "Irish Christmas in America" involving Séamus Begley, Gráinne Hambly, Tommy Martin, Séan Earnest and Brian Cunningham in various venues around America from the 28th November - 13th December 2009

3,500

Paul Brock McGuire Band performing in Southern and Midwestern USA from 25th October - 6th November 2009

3,000

 

Crash Ensemble performing as part of week-long celebration of Irish and American new music curated by Darragh Morgan at the King's Place, London on the 24th April 2010

 

6,000

Magnetic Music GmbH organising "The Irish Folk Festival" with performances by David Munnelly Band, Niamh Parsons, Graham Dunne, Tommy O'Sullivan and Jennifer Roland Band in various venues in Germany from the 20th October - 15th November 2009

3,000

Travis Just/Object Collection presenting performance of "The Geometry" by Irish composer Jennifer Walshe at the Chocolate Factory, New York in March 2010

2,000

Seamus Begley and Jim Murray performing at Mossvale Music Festival, the National Folk Festival in Canberra, the Yacandandah Music Festival, Victoria, Apollo Bay Music Festival, Victoria, Australia and various concerts in New Zealand from February - April 2010

4,000

Beoga performing concerts in a number of venues in Denmark from the 4th - 10th November 2009

3,000

Muthesius Kunsthochschule presenting performance of composition "The Partenheimer Project"  by Kevin Volans on the 19th November 2009 as part of an interdisciplinary symposium on spatial awareness in the arts in Kiel Kunsthalle in Germany.

 

1,500

Kerry Records LLC  presenting twelve performances by David and Kieran Munnelly band of "An Irish Christmas" in California from November - December 2009

1,500

El Feile presenting '10 Irish Festival, including Mary Coughlan and her band, John Spillane and an Irish film showcase in Barcelona, Spain from the 12th - 21st March 2010

3,500

Irish Chamber Orchestra performing at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana on the 8th November 2009 to include US premiere of jointly commissioned new work by Stephen Mackey

17,000

Irish Arts Center presenting Academos Irish World Academy Strings with Cantoral Irish World Academy Schole at the Society for Ethical Culture, New York on the 4th February 2010

15,000

Seamus Finneran presenting Sharon Shannon band at the Sydney Festival, Australia from the 29th - 31st January 2010

5,000

Jennifer Walshe performing at the Performa09 Biennal, New York  on the 7th and 12nd November 2009

2,000

Camerata Ireland performing concerts in Theatre des Champs Elysees, Paris on 8th June, and Cadogan Hall, London on 9th June 2010

20,000

Sonya Keogh performing with Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra at the Congress Concert Hall, Vilnius on the 17th April 2010

1,500

Irish Chamber Orchestra performing a ten-concert tour of China and Singapore 2010 World Expo from the 9th - 29th June 2010

75,000

St Patrick's Day Parade Committee of Brussels funding towards the participation of 5 Irish artists in St Patrick's Day Festival, 14th - 17th March 2010.

1,000

Total

198,400


Visual Arts

Name

Amount in Euros

Áine Philps and Michelle Browne presenting their work in the "Performing Curation: Live artist as curator exchange", a day-long live art event on the 20th November 2009

350

Niamh O'Malley presenting a solo exhibition at Gaain Gallery, Korea, 23rd February - 30th March 2010.

750

Heaven's Full presenting a solo exhibition of work by Nevan Lahart at Heaven's full (project) gallery, London from the 5th November - 6th December 2009

1,000

Graphic Studio Dublin presenting a group exhibition of work by 13 artists inspired by the National Museum of Ireland’s collection at the Leuven Institute Belgium in 2009 - 2010

1,500

David Beattie presenting a solo exhibition at the Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada from the 2nd March - 10th April 2010

3,000

Stephen Lawlor presenting a solo exhibition at Fred Gallery, London from 4th - 28th February 2010

1,000

Golden Thread Gallery presenting a group exhibition of Irish artists at the Art Centre at the Kao Yuan University in Taiwan from the 22nd February - 31st March 2010

4,000

Galway Arts Centre presenting an exhibition showing the new work of 6 Irish artists at the Red House Arts Center, Syracuse, US in March 2010

4,000

Cill Rialaig Project presenting an exhibition by Irish artists at the Queens Elm Artists Gallery, London from the 15th - 29th October 2009

2,000

The Writing Workshop Jessamyn Fiore, Jessica Foley, Áine Ivers and Susan Thomson presenting an exhibition in a geodesic dome tent on X-Initiative West 22nd St and at P.S.I Contemporary Art Center, New York from the 19th - 25th October 2009

3,000

Mothers Tankstation presentation of work by Mairead O'hEocha at the Armory art fair, New York from the 3rd - 7th March 2010

7,500

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts presenting work by Gerard Byrne at the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art from the 16th April - 3rd May 2010

2,000

Katie Holten presenting a solo exhibition at the LMAKprojects, New York from the 20th February - 27th March 2010

1,500

Stacia Blake presenting an exhibition of Irish and Japanese artists at the Across Fukuoka Exchange Gallery, Fuluoka, Japan from 8th - 13th December 2009

2,000

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Exhibition of work by Tom Molloy at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut from 31st January - 6th June 2010

10,000

Garrett Phelan presenting an installation at the Auckland Triennial, New Zealand from the 12th March - 20th June 2010

8,000

Green on Red Gallery presentation of work by Fergus Feehily, Niamh O'Malley and Gerard Byrne at Art Basel, Miami from the 3rd - 6th December 2009

7,500

Presentation of an exhibition curated by Mark Garry and Georgina Jackson with Irish artists Rhona Byrne, Karl Burke, Bea McMahon and Dennis McNulty at the Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh from the 19th March - 8th August 2010

9,000

Exhibition of Hugh Lane’s Centenary Print Collection at the American Irish Historical Society, New York in March 2010

8,000

Total

 

76,100


Literature

Name

Amount in Euros

Nuala Ní Chonchúir participating in the Derwent Poetry Festival from the 20th - 22nd November 2009

500

Geraldine Mills reading tour, including short story collection "The Weight of Feathers" in a number of venues in Connecticut in the US from the 26th - 29th October 2009

500

Poetry Hearings presenting Irish poets Mary Noonan, Matthew Sweeney and Maurice Scully in the Berlin Festival of Poetry in English, Germany from the 20th - 21st November 2009

750

Stanza (Scotland's International Poetry Festival) 2010 presenting Irish poets Seamus Heaney, Dennis O'Driscoll, Matthew Sweeney and musical trio Dordán, in St Andrews from 17th - 20th March 2010

1,750

International Festival of Authors, Toronto, Canada presenting Irish writers Eoin Colfer, Roddy Doyle, Paul Durcan and Colm Tóibín and Maureen Kennelly participating in Visitors' Programme  from the 21st - 31st October 2009

4,000

Niall De Burca performing at the 13th International Storytelling Festival, Tehran from the 13th - 16th December 2009

2,500

Ireland Literature Exchange arranging readings by Anne Enright, at the Fifth International Literature Festival in Jaipur, India from the 21st – 25th January 2010

3,750

Total

 

13,750