Outcome Grant Spring 2010

Architecture

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 3,000
Presentation on Irish architecture under the theme "Irish Architecture and Culture of the Edge" and exhibition of AAI's 25 year awards and associated discussion at Nordic Irish Studies Network, Norway December 2010Norway3,000

Dance

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 14,750
performing "Hip- Ns" in Cape Town, South Africa from the 21st - 30th August 2010 South Africa10,000
Colin Dunne performing "Out of Time" at the International Dance Festival Birmingham, from the 11th - 12th May 2010 United Kingdom2,000
performing "The Work The Work" at the Chocolate Factory Theatre, New York from the 21st - 22nd May 2010 United States2,000
participating at the Dance Festival La MaMa Moves! At the LaMaMA Theatres in the East Village, Manhattan, New York from the 7th - 24th June 2010 United States750

Film

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 2,000
Ross McDonnell presenting his movie "Colony" at the 12th Docaviv tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival from the 6th - 15th May 2010 Israel2,000
organising the 6th Directors Finders Series Award at the America Theatre, Los Angeles, USA on the 24th September 2010 United States 

Literature

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 23,150
attending Book Expo America in New York, USA from the 25th - 28th May 2010 United States8,400
participation by Irish writers in LitQuake, San Francisco festival from the 1st - 9th October 2010 United States4,000
performances and readings with music accompaniment titled "Bloomsday and Beyond" extracts from James Joyce in Lisbon, Porto and Setubal, Portugal from the 18th - 22nd June 2010Portugal3,000
participating in the Brighton Literary Weekend from the 1st - 3rd May, Mlada Vilenica International Literary, Slovenia from the 22nd - 23rd May, Mlade Rime Festival, Slovenia, May and the 8th International Poetry Translation Workshop, Slovenia from the 6tSlovenia, United Kingdom2,500
Irish poets participating in the 7th Biennial Conference of the Nordic Irish Studios Network at the University of Tromso, Norway from the 2nd - 4th December 2010Norway1,500
delivering a lecture on the poetry of Seamus Heaney at the Annual conference of IASIL Japan, Tokyo and performing poetry readings from the 9th - 13th October 2010 Japan1,000
performing poetry readings at the 2010 Iasil Japan, Tokyo from the 9th - 13th October 2010 Japan1,000
performing readings at the Festival of Days and Nights of Literature at Galati and Braila, RomaniaRomania750
performing readings at the Poetry Caf, arranged by the Poetry Society of Great Britain on the 16th June 2010United Kingdom500
holding a poetry reading at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles on the 4th May 2010 Belgium500

Music

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 244,650
Irish conductors and soloists performing with the Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra during their two week tour of China from the 1st - 12th July 2010. China50,000
Irish artists performing at the Celtic Colours International Festival in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada from the 8th - 16th October 2010 Canada36,000
The Chieftains, John Spillane and Mick Flannery, Karen Casey and John Doyle, Mairtin O'Connor, Cathal Hayden, Seamie O'Dowd and Jim Higgins, Caladh Nua, Seamus Begley and Tim Edey and Luka Bloom performing at the Tonder Festival, Denmark from the 26th - 2Denmark20,000
EUYO performing a ten concert tour in various European countries from the 24th July - 27th August 2010 Austria, United Kingdom, Poland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands18,000
Palestrina Choir performing a tour in New England, USA from the 19th - 28th June 2010 United States15,000
Camden Town Festival presenting traditional Irish music, dance and song at the London Irish Centre from the 21st - 31st October 2010 United Kingdom12,000
3epkano presenting a live music accompaniment to the G.W. Pabst silent movie "Diary of a Lost Girl" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the BAMcinemafest 2010, New York, USA on the 19th June 2010 United States8,000
Performing Eric Whitaker's "Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings" at Carnegie Hall, New York on the 15th June 2010 United States8,000
Beoga performing a tour of Australia and New Zealand from the 20th May - 19th June 2010Australia, New Zealand7,000
Dervish and North Cregg performing at the Poland meets Ireland as part of The Days of Sea from the 10th - 14th June 2010 Poland6,000
taking part in the International Youth in Concert at the National Theatre of Pcs, Hungary from the 28th May - 2nd June 2010 Hungary6,000
performing "Transformations from sounds to sweet Aires" at the Unesco World Heritage Site, Zeche Zollverein, Germany, from the 5th - 6th June 2010 Germany6,000
Four men and a Dog performing at the Filberg Festival, British Columba, Canmore Folk Music Festival, Alberta, Calgary Irish Society, Alberta and the Edmonton Folk Music festival, Alberta Canada from the 30th July - 8th August 2010Canada4,000
Outside Track performing a 26 day tour in Canada ( including Cape Breton, Halifax, Joliette and Southern Ontario, ) from the 16th July - 8th August 2010 Canada4,000
Irish musicians (Kila and Brendan Begley and Caoimhin O Raghallaigh) performing at the Prague international Music Festival, United Islands of Prague 2010 from the 24th - 27th June 2010 Czech Republic4,000
Tada performing in summer USA festivals from the 30th July - 18th September 2010United States4,000
performing at various festivals throughout Europe from the 29th May - 25th July 2010 Czech Republic, Denmark, United Kingdom, Poland, Switzerland, Germany4,000
Davey Arthur and Fionnuala Gill with band performing at the Cleveland, Ohio - Berea Fairgrounds 23-25 July and the Chicago, Illinois - Irish American Heritage Center 30 July 2010 United States3,500
Mary McPartland, Lunasa, David Munnelly Band and Mairtin O'Connor/ Hayden & Dowd Band performing at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, UK from the 15th May - 5th June 2010 United Kingdom3,500
Irish fiddlers participation in the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in various venues in Aberdeenshire, Scotland from the 14th - 18th July 2010 United Kingdom3,500
organising the annual Catskills Irish Arts Week in the Greene County, East Durham, New York from the 11th - 17th July 2010 United States3,000
Rev Gary Hastings, Paddy Keenan and James Kelly performing at the Boxwood Festival, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada from the 25th July - 6th August 2010Canada2,500
performing at the 5th International Harp Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in May 2010 Brazil2,000
participation of Irish musicians, singers, dancers and visual artist in the Stirling Galway Sessions in Stirling, Scotland from the 7th - 13th June 2010 United Kingdom2,000
performing at North by Northeast Music Festival, Toronto, Canada from the 16th - 20th June 2010 Canada2,000
performing 6 concert tour in Canada (Kingston, Brockville, Ottawa, Halifax, Montreal and Dorval) from the 15th - 24th May 2010 Canada1,500
Irish musicians performing at the Co-Operative Cambridge Folk Festival at the Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds, Cambridge from the 29th July - 1st August 2010United Kingdom1,500
performing their Sephradic music repertoire at the Yale week in Istanbul, Turkey 2010 from the 26th May - 4th June 2010 Turkey1,200
Paul Tiernan, Mark Geary and Liam Maonla performing at the Presahy Festival Olomouc, Czech Republic from end of April - June 2010 Czech Republic800
Dr Aylish E Kerrigan and Dearbhla Collins performing "Tides" by Aloys Fleischmann at the University of Durham, UK on the 13th July 2010 United Kingdom800
Pat Egan and The Randel Boys performing at SC Irish Arts Weekend, Columbia, USA from the 4th - 6th June 2010United States750
Grainne Hambly and William Jackson, James Keane and The Randel Bays and John Doyle performing at Newtown Meeting House and Tresslers Barn from the 25th April - 27th May 2010 United Kingdom600
performing a piano recital of Irish classical music at the American Irish Historical Society, New York on the 12th May 2010 United States500
performing and attending pre concert talks at St Paul's Cathedral, London on the 19th July 2010 United Kingdom500
Clive Carroll attending the 5th Sounding Jerusalem Festival from the 27th June - 11th July 2010 Israel500
Dermot Crehan attending the 5th Sounding Jerusalem Festival from the 27th June - 11th July 2010 Israel500
Paul Honey attending the 5th Sounding Jerusalem Festival from the 27th June - 11th July 2010 Israel500
Michael Sands attending the 5th Sounding Jerusalem Festival from the 27th June - 11th July 2010 Israel500
Robert White attending the 5th Sounding Jerusalem Festival from the 27th June - 11th July 2010 Israel500

Theatre

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 158,200
performing "The Silver Tassie" by Sean O'Casey in Lowry Centre, Manchester and Oxford Playhouse, UK from the 13th - 25th September 2010United Kingdom32,000
performing First Love in various veunes throughout Turkey, GB, US, Australia, Germany, Israel and Palestine from the 3rd May - 27th November 2010 Turkey, United Kingdom, Israel, United States, Australia, Germany20,000
performing "Penelope" by Enda Walsh at the Stage International Festival, Helsinki, Finland from the 2nd - 3rd September 2010Finland18,000
presenting Freefall at the Staatstheater, Wiesbaden, Germany from the 17th - 27th June 2010 Germany18,000
performing "Puckoon" by Spike Milligan at Leicester Square Theatre, Derby Theatre, Uppingham Theatre and Loughborough Town Hall, UK from the 20th September - 31st October 2010 United Kingdom13,000
performing "Power Point" by Tom Swift at the Tampere Theatre Festival, Finland from the 2nd - 8th August 2010Finland12,000
performing "Moby Dick" at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in the Long Wharf Theatre, Connecticut from the 16th - 19th June 2010 and at the London Festival of Literature, Purcell Rooms, London from the 5th - 18th July 2010 United States, United Kingdom9,000
presenting an outdoor version of "Madam Silk" at the Stockton International Riverside Festival, Stockton, UK from the 28th July - 1st August 2010 United States8,800
performing the Beckett Trilogy at the Fugard Theatre, Cape Town, The National Arts Festival, Grahamstown and the State Theatre, Pretoria, South Africa from the 24th June - 3rd July 2010 and at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol, UK from the 30th September - 2ndSouth Africa, United Kingdom7,000
presenting a selection of new Irish work at the 2010 International VSA Arts Festival, Washington on the 7th June 2010 United States6,800
presenting "Forgotten" as part of the 2010 International Blacksea Festival, Trabzon, Turkey from the 1st - 7th May and in four venues in Bulgaria from the 24th - 30th April 2010Bulgaria, Turkey5,000
touring Cirque de Lgume to the Bristol Festival of Contemporary Theatre, UK from the 9th - 15th May and the Prague Fringe Festival from the 28th May - 5th June 2010 , United Kingdom4,100
performing "Krapp's Last Tape" by Samuel Beckett at the Prague Fringe Festival from the 28th May - 5th June 2010Czech Republic3,000
participating in the annual "Bloomsday on Broadway" at the Symphony Space, Broadway in conjunction with the Irish Arts Center on the 16th June 2010United States1,500

Visual Art

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 94,450
presenting work at the Art Basel, Switzerland from the 16th - 20th June, Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park, London from the 14th - 17th October, Abu Dhabi Art, Dubai from the 18th - 21st November 2010 Switzerland, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates22,500
attending Next 2010 at the Merchandise Mart, Chicago from the 1st - 3rd May 2010 United States7,500
participating in Liste 15 - The Young Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland from the 15th - 20th June 2010 Switzerland7,500
presenting work at the 25th London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy, London from the 27th April - 3rd May 2010 United Kingdom5,000
presenting "STUFF" at Point B project space, New York from the 5th - 26th November 2010 United States5,000
presenting ARTscape: Ireland at the Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania from the 16th June - 30th July 2010 Lithuania5,000
participating in the second edition of No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern, London from the 14th - 16th May 2010 United Kingdom5,000
attending Art Chicago at the Merchandise Mart, Chicago from the 30th April - 3rd May 2010 United States4,500
presenting an exhibition at a 17th Century villa, Como, Italy from the 15th June 2010 - June 2011Italy4,000
presenting the exhibition "Re-Joyce" in Oslo, Norway from the 11th - 25th June 2010 Norway3,000
presenting an exhibition at the Galerie Les Bains Douches, France in June 2010 France3,000
presenting an exhibition titled "Claddagh 1847 - 1849: A Famine Graveyard Remembered" at the Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith from 9th July - 6th September 2010 United Kingdom3,000
presenting Gerard Byrne's fil installation "A thing is a hole in a thing it is not" at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, USA in January 2011United States3,000
presenting an exhibition at Transphotographiques Festival 2010 at the Maison de la Photographic, Lille, France from the 3rd May - 25th June 2010 France2,500
William Welch curating "Love letters to a Surrogate" at the Torrance Art Museum, USA from the 26th June - 10th July 2010 Canada1,500
presenting an exhibition at the Irish Arts Center, New York from September - December 2010 United States1,500
presenting "Ni Una Mas/ Not one More" the Juarez Murders at the Pearlstein Gallery at the Drexel University from the 15th May - 16th July 2010 United States1,500
presenting work in a group exhibition at Ars Santa Monica, La Rambla 7, Barcelona and Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo, from the 5th April - 23rd May 2010 Spain, Norway1,200
presenting "Roadscore" a three week exhibition at the Carriage House Gallery, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA from the 30th April - 24th May 2010 United States1,000
presenting a solo exhibition at the Marmara University Fine arts Faculty gallery, Istanbul, Turkey from the 26th May - 4th June 2010 Turkey1,000
presenting "Korero: Ceramics in Conversation" at Taiwan Ceramics Biennale exhibition 2010, Korea from the 9th July - 31st October 2010 Korea, Democratic People's Republic of1,000
presenting exhibition "The Insides of Things" at the Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg, France from the 30th September - 14th October 2010 France1,000
presenting an exhibition at the National Institution and Museum, Rome, Italy from the 20th May - 18th July 2010 Italy1,000
presenting a exhibition "Estranged Relations" at the 48 Hour Neukolln Festival, Berlin from the 25th - 27th June 2010 Finland700
presenting an exhibition "The Loan Bush" at the Glastonbury Festival from the 20th - 28th June 2010 United Kingdom600
Aideen Barry performing "Flight Folly" at the LISTE '10, The Young Art Fair in Basel on the 19th June 2010 Switzerland600
presenting a solo exhibition at the MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Serbia from the 1st - 5th July 2010 500
presenting a group exhibition "Where gravity makes you float" including artist Michael John Whelan at the Grimmuseum, Berlin from the 11th June - 8th July 2010Germany500
presenting work at the Lodz Photo festival, Poland from the 6th - 30th May 2010 Poland350

Total for Spring 2010: €540,200