Outcome Grant December 2020

Dance

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 11,000
SlowMo is a dance work where the company travels from Ireland by land/sea to the performance destination: Home for Cooperation, Nicosia, Cyprus. Performances 20th and 21st September 2021. SlowMo is being created by Rita Marcalo's Instant Dissidence (www.instantdissidence.org) and the project team can be found here: https://bufferfringe.org/artists-work/instant-dissidence-2/

CyprusNicosia9,000
Irish Modern Dance Theatre have been invited to perform 'Heroes' choreographed and performed by John Scott at RDA Racconti di Altre Danze Festival of Contemporary Dance, Livorno, Italy, live onstage at Teatro Goldini, for one performance, November 2021ItalyLivorno2,000

Literature

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 4,500
Presentation of Irish writer at 27th International James Joyce Festival, Italy, 14 -18 June 2021
ItalyTrieste3,000
The Hitching for Hope UK Virtual Book Tour presented by Chelsea Green Publishing in partnership with local UK partners. The tour involves a multi-media presentation, readings and discussion based on my no.1 bestselling book Hitching for Hope - a Journey into the Heart and Soul of Ireland. United KingdomNewcastle upon Tyne, Liverpool, London, Milton Keyes , Nottingham, Leeds 1,500

Music

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 30,500
Funding sought for the touring of Hilary Woods' latest album Birthmarks, for 2021.
The tour ‘Birthmarks’, will be presented in Europe, UK, Australia, Canada and the States.
Shows will be promoted by internationally recognised promoters and venues.
All shows will be booked by renowned booking agency’s Tout Par Tout in Europe and the UK, and Ground Control Touring in the US and Australia.
United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, NetherlandsSeattle, Los Angeles, Austin, Portland, Vancouver, Brooklyn, Chicago, Toronto, Montréal, Hobart, Tasmania, London, Prague, Leipzig, Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, Tilburg9,000
 Performances by Irish musicians online in Partnership with Secret Song, at Block Heater Festival, Calgary, Canada, 14 - 20 February 2021CanadaCalgary5,000
We will showcase a generation of new up-and-coming Irish artists. The project will be presented online as a free global live stream concert on 26th March 2021 organised by our Berlin-based record label and mgmt. agency in cooperation with director Chris Schwarz. "Welcome to the New World presents Tolü Makay, delush, Strange Boy & Willzee - Global Live Stream & Video Release"GermanyBerlin4,500
Presentation Online of The Zen Arcade's UK Streaming Tour, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Manchester, Cambridge, Cardiff, Southampton, Birmingham, London and Brighton, UK, 20 February - 17 March 2021 United KingdomGlasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Manchester , Birmingham , Cardiff, Cambridge , Southampton, London , Brighton 4,000
Bitch Falcon will launch their album in Europe by playing shows in London, Brighton, Paris and Hamburg.
The shows have been booked by a suite of leading promoters to tie in with St.. Patricks Day and will recieve extensive promo.
If the shows can be performed live with travel restrictions, the band will travel and if not the band will stream the shows from Dublin.
United Kingdom, GermanyLondon, , brighton, Paris, Hamburg3,000
A new music show Camille sings live/Ghosts at Wilton's Music Hall London 9th - 13th March 2021. Created by Camille singing the dark music of Cohen, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Cave arranged by MD Feargal Murray : piano/Trumpet/Accordion. Pared back to create an intimate theatrical experience with socially distanced audience as she wanders around them, catching glimpses of past ghosts of the venue.
United KingdomLondon2,500
We wish to launch our 2nd album, Awake You Lie (out February 26th 2021) with a high quality livestream at the historic Sendesaal at RBB, Berlin with All Around Music and other German media partners. This venue is part of the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenbug broadcasting centre, home to radio stations such as RadioEins and Radio Fritz.GermanyBerlin2,500

Theatre

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 20,500
Fishamble proposes to work with international partners in the US to show its seminal, site-specific, 2016 production of INSIDE THE GPO online and around Easter 2021. United StatesVarious cities in the US10,500
The Barbican Centre presents performances of Pan Pan’s Cascando, by Samuel Beckett in London, UK, from 22.03.21 to 28.03.21. Cascando is an experience of Beckett’s play through headphones outdoors in promenade. Audience members listen to the recorded play while lead through the location by two performers. The meeting point for audience members is at Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DSUnited KingdomLondon10,000

Visual Art

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 10,100
The Art on Paper Fair (by Art Market Productions) is held at Pier 36 in Manhattan, during the first week of March. United StatesNew York6,000
'M I L K + H O N E Y', at 'Project Lazaretta: Digital Stories from the old and new world' by Eyes Walk Digital Festival, Syros Greece. On Line - March 31st and at Lazaretta, Syros 27th - 31st of July , 2021 GreeceErmoupolis2,500
Gut Feeling is an exhibition & event series taking place at Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam August 2021. The exhibition of visual art & programmed events address themes relating to excess, overflow & intuitive states. It will bring together 3 artists; Jack West (UK), Rodrigo Red Sandoval (MX) and Kate Fahey (IRL). I am applying to Culture Ireland to support my participation in the exhibition.NetherlandsAmsterdam1,600

Multidisciplinary

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 20,000
Funding will go towards the recording and technical costs in the production of 3 online projects: We Are The Makers – a ten-part multidisciplinary arts online podcast presented by Donal Dineen (March-Nov), Across Towns, a digital play written by John King and Jeremy Hunter (April) and Studio Visit: a four-part online short film project with visual artists and curators (Sept-Dec).United StatesWashington20,000

Total for December 2020: €96,600