theatre/dance
Grants awarded in
June 2011
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
The Abbey Theatre
presenting a co-production of ‘Juno and the Paycock’ by Sean O’Casey with The
National Theatre of England with performances in Lyttleton Theatre, National
Theatre, England, 14th November 2011 to 28th February 2012
€70,000
Elena Giannotti
performing dance work ‘Facimile’ at NGO Truc, Stanica S2 in Zilina, Slovakia and
Olomouc, Czech Republic, 6th and 7th October 2011
€1,500
Dylan Tighe
performing a tour of ‘Journey to the End of the Night’ in Croatia, Montenegro,
Serbia and Bosnia with performances to take place on the 17th October, Zadar,
19th October Budva, 21st October, Novi Sad, 23rd October, Belgrade, 25th October,
Mostar, 2011€1,600
Ciotóg
performing Ríonach Ní Néill’s ‘Tipping Point’ and Fearghus O Conchúir’s
‘Sweet Spot’ at the 1st Ruherstorung-Thuringer Theatre Festival +60’s,
Germany 29th September – 1st October, 2011
€4,500
Robert Bradish
presenting three performances of ‘Connected’ by Will Irvine and Karl Quinn at
Lainsuojattomat (Outlaws) Festival in Pori, and at the Rakastajat Theatre Finland,
7th to 11th September, 2011
€600
Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company
performing a double bill of contemporary dance, ‘This Is’ choreographed by Adam
Benjamin and ‘On The Wall’ choreographed by David Bolger, at saT! Sant Andreu
Theatre, Barcelona, 17th and 18th September, 2011
€3,750
Associação Cultural Panorama
presenting Colin Dunne’s ‘Out Of Time’ in Rio de Janeiro, Brasília as part of Festival
Panorama programme and in SESC São Paulo, Brazil between October 31st and
November 12th, 2011€16,000
Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith, London
presenting Flann O’ Brien celebration on 22nd and 23rd October, 2011
€1,600
music
TOTAL €99,550
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
The Irish Music Society of Oulu
presenting Irish artists including Dervish, Goitse, Guidewires, Alan Burke,
Donal O Kelly’s production of ‘Catalpa’ and poets Paula Meehan and Theo Dorgan
in Oulu Finland from 29th September to 2nd October, 2011
€12,000
Cullen Pipe Band
performing at The Piping Live Festival 2010, at the National Piping Centre, in
Glasgow, Scotland on 12th August, 2011
€1,000
Teada
performing at Samhain Festival, Moscow and St. Petersburg, from 28th to 30th
October, 2011€2,000
Ergodos
presenting ‘Counterpoint’ at LEAP, Berlin with programme performed by clarinetist
Jonathan Sage, 22nd – 23rd July, 2011
€800
Dr. Karen Power
presenting the premiere of her new composition as part of the ‘mmm...Circle of
Friends’ concert series, in Suginami Koukaidou Recital Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 29th
September, 2011€1,000
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
The Palestrina Choir
performing at the Budapest Festival, Hungary 14th -18th September, 2011
€8,000
Dr. Fionnuala Moynihan
performing recital of solo piano works by John Field in the Glinka Museum,
Moscow 24th September, 2011€1,200
music
Florian Fuerst
presenting ‘The Pure Irish Drops’ featuring musicians from Ireland to tour Denmark,
Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in
September, 2011€7,000
Susana Maria Da Silva Oliveira (Ireland) and Christiano
Bomfim - Instituto Crescer Forte - ICF (Brazil)
presenting Irish artists at the Brasil Celtic Festival 20th – 24th September, 2011
€28,000
International music festival in Uzbekistan
featuring Tommy Hayes and Friends, Ronan Browne, Carl Corcoran, Sean Corcoran
and Desi Wilkinson in Samarkand Uzbekistan, 24th -31st August, 2011
€2,000
Wicker Bones
performing at the Heluo Cultural Festival 2011, Luoyang, China from the 16th – 21st
September, 2011€6,000
Benoît Meurens and Paul Licot, Anuna
performing at the ‘Night of the Choirs Festival’ in the domain of Bois-Seigneur-Isaac
on 26th and 27th August, 2011
€5,000
Celtic Harmonies International Festival
presenting CRAN in the Eastern Townships, Quebec, Canada 1st – 10th
October, 2011€3,000
Camille O’Sullivan
presenting ‘The Dark Angel’ touring Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland,
20th Oct -2nd December 2011
€5,000
Crash Ensemble
performing three concerts at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival,
16th -25th November, 2012€40,000
Royal Irish Academy of Music Chamber Ensemble
performing a series of concerts in a number of venues throughout Shanghai,
10th – 18th September, 2011
€9,000
Finnish-Irish Society
presenting Patrick Street, The Alan Kelly Quartet and The Fiddle Case in a number
of towns and cities in Finland 23rd September to 2nd October, 2011
€4,000
Camerata Kilkenny
performing in Stammheim and Affoltern am Albis, Switzerland and Leut,
Maasmachelen, Belgium between 13th and 17th September, 2011 and in Theater
am Gleis Winterthur, Switzerland 23rd – 25th September, 2011
€4,500
film
TOTAL €139,500
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
The ICON-TLV SF Festival
presenting Irish filmmaker Conor Horgan at screening of ‘100 Mornings’ in Tel-Aviv
Cinematheque Israel, 15th - 27th October, 2011
€850
SoGo Dublin Arts Festival
presenting Irish Film Festival in Kas, Turkey 15th - 18th September, 2011
€5,000
Cork Film Festival
presenting Irish Film Showcase at the Liverpool Irish Festival, 27th and 28th
October, 2011€2,000
TOTAL €7,850
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
Mark Joyce
presenting two solo exhibitions – ‘The Hunt for the Z particle’ and ‘Alice’ in NLH
Space, Copenhagen and in SIM Reykjavik, 1st August – 1st September, 2011
€4,000
Wendy Dison
presenting exhibition ‘Slow Turning’ at Brindley Art Centre in Runcorn, UK from
24th September – 12th November, 2011
€1,750
John Kelly
exhibiting a sculptural installation at the Göteborg International Biennale of
Contemporary Art (GIBCA) 10th September – 13th November, 2011
€8,000
visual art
KCAT Arts & Study Centre
participating in Art Forum at the Kunsthaus Kannen, Germany, 6th – 9th
October, 2011€1,000
Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc
participating in SAMKURA, trans-European art and culture exchange and presenting
work in AKOS, Armenia, The Centre for Visual Research, Georgia and The State
Museum of Contemporary Art, Costaskis Collection, Greece
€20,000
Ben Reilly
presenting an exhibition of work at the Munsterland Festival, Germany,
15th September – 20th October, 2011
€1,400
Blueleaf Gallery
presenting the work of Irish artists at Art Toronto 2011, Metro Toronto Convention
centre, Toronto, Canada, from 28th – 31st October, 2011
€5,000
Kerlin Gallery
presenting the work of Irish artists at Frieze Art Fair, 13th – 16th October, 2011
€7,500
Sarah Iremonger, Stephen Brandes, Marianne Keating and Mick O’Shea
presenting work at allerArt public arts space from 8th September – 16th
October, 2011€5,500
Conor Walton
presenting a solo exhibition in Galleri Nexus, Tinglev, Denmark, 9th October – 26th
November and in Galleri PAN, Oslo, Norway, 2nd – 25th February, 2012
€3,500
Bea McMahon
presenting an exhibition in Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Art,
October/December 2011€1,000
Book Works
presenting a solo exhibition by Sarah Pierce at The Showroom Gallery, London as
part of the touring project ‘Again, A Time Machine’, 3rd April – 18th May, 2012
€1,250
Catriona Leahy
presenting an exhibition as part of the Munsterland Festival pArt 6 at the
International Centre for Arts and Culture Kloster Bentlage, Rheine, 23rd
September – 23rd October, 2011
€1,000
La Biennale de Lyon/Lyon Biennial
presenting work by Sarah Pierce, 15th September – 31st December, 2011
€5,000
The Model
presenting a solo exhibition by Isabel Nolan in collaboration with Le Musee d’Art
Moderne de Saint Etienne, France, February - April 2012
€10,000
Philip Hession
presenting his work in Botkyrka, Sweden in early September, 2011
€900
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
presenting a solo exhibition at Domobaal Gallery, London in September, 2011
€1,500
Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST)
presenting Irish visual artists Mick Wilson, Sarah Pierce, Gareth Phelan and Annie
Fletcher in a collaborative art project at the University of Tasmania’s School of Art,
September – October, 2011€15,000
Block T (Dublin)
presenting work of Irish artists with Chateau de Servieres, Marseille,
23rd September – 2nd October, 2011
€5,000
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
VOX, Centre de L’image Contemporaine
presenting the video installation ‘A Thing is a Hole in a Thing it is Not’ by Gerard
Byrne, Quebec, Canada, 25th November 2011 – 29th January, 2012
€2,000
visual art
Exhibition and presentation of ‘Re-Drawing Dublin’
by Paul Kearns and Motti Ruimy in the Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art, October 2011 €5,000
Le Cheile
exhibition of work from the collaborative project between the Leinster Printmaking
Studio and the Regional Print Centre, Wrexham, Wales in the Gallery and Art Centre
at Oriel Ynys Môn, Wales, 26th September – 6th November, 2011
€2,000
Paul Ringrose
presenting an exhibition at Place Palazzo Conti Toppo Wasserman Trevisio, Italy,
10th September – 10th October, 2011
€1,000
Mark Curran
presenting solo installation of the multi-media project, ‘Extracts from EDEN’ in the
Museum da Imagem/Museum of the Image as part of ‘Encontros da Imagem 2011’
in Braga, Portugal, 16th September – 30th October, 2011
€1,200
James Ryan
presenting work of Irish artists at SH Contemporary 2011, Shanghai Exhibition
Center, 7th – 10th September, 2011
€7,500
TOTAL €117,000
PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT
Evelyn Conlon
participating in readings and panel discussions at Byron Bay Writers’ Festival
Australia, 3rd -11th August, 2011
€2,500
Maurice Scully
participating in readings at the Canolfan Ucheldre Centre in Holyhead, UK,
17th September, 2011€200
literature
Alan Jude Moore
reading at the Troubadour, London as part of Salmon Poetry’s 30th Anniversary
events, 17th October, 2011
€200
Nessa O’Mahony
reading at the Troubadour, London, as part of Salmon Poetry’s 30th anniversary
events, 31st October, 2011€150
Noel Monahan
reading from a collection of poetry with other Salmon Poets in Troubadour,
London, 17th October, 2011€200
Patrick Chapman
reading in the Poetry Cafe, London as part of a group of featured poets published
by Salmon Poetry, 24th October, 2011
€200
Gerard Hanberry
reading at The Troubadour in London as part of Salmon Poetry’s 30th anniversary
events, 31st October, 2011
€200
Fernando Trilli, Immagini d’Irlanda in Umbria
presenting readings in venues in Magione and Perugia by Umbrian poet
Michelangelo Pascale and his translator Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Irish poet
Harry Clifton and an Italian translator, 28th September – 1st October, 2011
€1,000
Patrick Cotter
reading at Velestova Poetry Nights, Velestova, Macedonia on 19th and 20th August
and at Struga Poetry Evenings at Struga, Macedonia, 25th – 28th August, 2011
€500
Sarah Clancy
participating at the 26th Valencia International Literary Festival organised by
Slovene Writers Association and the Valencia Cultural Society, 7th – 11th
September, 2011€700
TOTAL €5,850