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Touring and dissemination of work scheme - round 2, 2013


Panel: Council


The Touring and Dissemination of work award supports tours commencing in the second half of 2013. The Arts Council received 81 applications for this scheme and 27 awards were made.

Recipient Description Artform/practice Location Amount Awarded

Access Cinema

Access Cinema tours 'Films from the Southern Mediterranean'. A curated programme of three films that will tour in Limerick, Galway, Bray and Cork in October 2013.

Film

Dublin City Council

€12,000

Barry, Leonard

Leonard Barry and Friends Tour, September-December 2013. Conor Byrne, Andy Morrow, Tony Byrne, Leonard Barry featuring uilleann pipes, fiddle, flute and guitar. Tour will include counties Leitrim, Dublin, Kerry, Donegal, Kilkenny and Waterford.

Traditional arts

Dublin City Council

€11,235

Branar Dramaiochta

Branar Dramaiochta will tour a new production of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' through November/ December 2013. The tour will include venues in Tipperary, Kilkenny, Sligo, Cavan, Roscommon, Limerick, Dublin and Leitrim.

Theatre

Galway City Council

€22,000

Children's Books Ireland

Pictiúr, Contemporary Irish Children's Book Illustration. To tour the work of 20 Irish illustrators for children to Baboro festival, Galway in October and Draoicht, Dublin 15 in October/November 2013.

Literature (English language)

Dublin City Council

€15,000

classicallinks

Chamber Music Tours - Distinguished and internationally successful Irish musicians touring to local audiences in Clifden, Kilkenny, Waterford, Thurles, Co. Limerick and Bantry

Music

Galway County Council

€13,000

Fidget Feet

Fidget Feet are creating a circus/ dance show 'Rumplestiltskin' with clowning and live music for young people and families between October and December 2013. Tour will include counties Sligo, Longford, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Laois, Monaghan, Wicklow and Meath.

Circus

Westmeath County Council

€45,000

First Contact Music

The 2013 First Music Contact tour will take place in November 2013 and tour Galway, Cork, Limerick, Louth, Kildare and Dublin.

Music

Dublin City Council

€22,000

Highlanes Gallery

Highlanes Gallery presents an exhibition 'Cum Panis' and catalogue of a new body of work by Louth-based artist Abigail O'Brien. Tour to include Highlanes Gallery September 2013; The Dock Feruary 2014, and Limerick City Gallery December 2014.

Visual arts

Louth County Council

€30,250

IMRAM

IMRAM brings Túr na nAmhrán/ The Tower of Song - Tionscadal Cohen/ The Cohen Project, a music/literary show, in association with NASC to venues in Letterkenny, Laois, Ennis, Limerick, Dublin, Kerry, Galway and Longford in December 2013.

Literature (English language)

Dublin City Council

€18,000

junk ensemble

Junk ensemble presents The Falling Song National Tour. This will visit Galway, Waterford, Longford and Dublin in October/ November 2013.

Dance

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

€40,000

Kaleidoscope Night

Taking place from July to October 2013, Kaleidoscope: the Camino, will visit festivals in Galway, Kilkenny, Cork, Waterford and Clifden.

Music

Dublin City Council

€21,490

Kids' Own

Kids' Own in partnership with Early Childhood Ireland will develop 'The Lullaby Tour' to take place in September/ October 2013. The project will begin with a fourweek residency in three ECCE (Early Childhood Care and Education) centres in Sligo.

Visual arts

Sligo County Council

€15,900

Landmark Productions

To tour the play 'These Halcyon Days' by Deirdre Kinahan. The tour will take place through July and visit Dublin, Navan, Limerick, Cork and Galway.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

€40,000

Linenhall Arts Centre

Five visual arts spaces in Mayo will simultaneously explore a survey of work by Niamh O'Malley: 'Figuring Space', in September 2013.

Visual arts

Mayo County Council

€19,850

Note Productions

Dublin Guitar Quartet in a tour of contemporary music featuring an artist-in-schools Initiative in each location including Dublin, Cork, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Kildare, Limerick and Belfast. This is taking place in September.

Music

Dublin City Council

€9,050

Ó Conchuir, Fearghus

A five-venue tour of Ferghus O'Conchúir's 'Cure'. Taking place through September/ October 2013 in Ennis, Carlow, Sligo, Kerry and Dublin.

Dance

International

€15,000

O'Toole, Redmond

A tour by renowned cellist Raphael Wallfisch and Brahms-guitarist Redmond O'Toole in a first ever concert featuring these two instruments. Taking place in November 2013 in Kilkenny, Dublin, Galway, Wicklow, Kerry and Waterford.

Music

Wicklow County Council

€7,000

Preissner, Stefanie

A national tour of the show 'Solpadeine is my Boyfriend' from July to October. To tour in Tipperary, Carlow, Longford, Letterkenny and Kildare.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

€5,000

Red Kettle Theatre Company

Red Kettle is to tour the Michael Hilliard Mulcahy play 'Beyond the Brooklyn Sky'. A 17-venue tour in November/ December 2013 including venues in Kilkenny, Tipperary, Clare, Laois, Kildare, Sligo, Cavan, Donegal, Kerry, Limerick, Longford, Galway, Cork, Dublin, Roscommon and Wicklow.

Theatre

Waterford City Council

€88,000

The Gallery of Photography

The Irish - a Photographic Album'. This photo-archive project will invite Irish people to contibute their family photographs and turn them into a curated outdoor projected programme nationwide and archive website. The outdoor projection tour will take place between September and December and will include counties Limerick, Monaghan, Galway, Sligo, Cork and Dublin.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

€14,000

The Gallery Press

Gallery Goes...: Readers and their Audiences' A series of readings by three Gallery authors in Triskel Arts Centre, Cork and Hodges Figgis, Dublin followed by question and answer sessions, discussion and exchanges. These readings will take place in October 2013.

Literature (English language)

Meath County Council

€2,500

Theatre Lovett

Mr Foley, The Radio Operator is a new show by Theatre Lovett which will tour to the NOMAD network which includes venues in Sligo, Donegal, Kildare, Louth, Westmeath, Cavan, Roscommon and Galway. The tour will take place in October/ November 2013.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

€30,000

THEATREclub

THEATREclub will tour 'Heroin' and 'The Family' in a double bill to four venues: Mermaid Arts Centre, Draiocht, Axis Ballymun and Lime Tree Theatre in July and September 2013.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

€31,000

Tigh Fili Arts Centre

Eurochild Moving Worlds Tour 2013 presents readings from the book by participants and guided discussion on poetry and books. The tour will also include workshops. Taking place in libraries in Cork, Galway, Dublin, Longford, Mayo, Roscommon and Kerry from September to November 2013.

Literature (English language)

Cork City Council

€20,000

Waterford Theatre Royal Society

Tour of a Theatre Royal Waterford production of The Memory of Water in October/ November 2013. The tour will include venues in counties Dublin, Carlow, Tipperary, Wexford and Cork.

Theatre

Waterford City Council

€49,000

Wide Open Music

Symphonic Frontiers - a Wide Open Music tour of Nicola Benedetti and the National Symphony Orchestra in four towns that seldom host live orchestral concerts: Tullamore, Navan, Kilkenny and Castlebar. Taking place in December 2013. Including an educational programme involving leading artists working with youth orchestras in each town.

Music

Meath County Council

€44,000

Yurodny

Yurodny Tour of Ireland 2013 takes place in September visiting Wicklow, Limerick, Dublin, Galway and Leitrim. Faciltating a series of regional concerts and providing realtime online streaming of the five concerts and selected promotional footage from the touring period.

Music

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

€10,460