Recent Grants Awarded

Anglo-Portuguese Cultural Relations Grants Awarded in 2007

Arts

  1. Brouhaha International
    £9,000 to enable two young performing arts groups from Portugal to participate in the 17th Brouhaha International Street Festival, Merseyside, summer 2007.

  2. DanceEast
    £10,000 to support a programme of dance work in Ipswich, Suffolk, involving Portuguese choreographers and local Portuguese young people.

  3. Dedalus
    (The Author’s Foundation)
    £2,000 towards the costs of publishing a new translation of Eça de Queirós’s The Cities and the Mountains.

  4. Deveron Arts
    £10,000 to engage Portuguese curator Nuno Sacramento from Algarve-based Culture Capital as a Shadow Curator to evaluate the work of this arts organisation in Huntly, North-East Scotland, and to facilitate a cultural exchange between Huntly and Nave do Barão in the Algarve.

  5. European Alternatives
    £5,000 to present an exhibition of selected works by Helena Almeida, a lecture by Richard Zenith on Fernando Pessoa and a screening of video art by contemporary young Portuguese artists as part of the London Festival of Europe 2008.

  6. Galleon Theatre Company
    £10,000 towards the production costs of a world premiere theatre production of Alice de Sousa’s new play on Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

  7. Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre
    £15,000 towards the costs of a major commissioned exhibition by João Penalva.

  8. The New Art Gallery Walsall
    (Walsall Museums and Galleries Development Trust)
    £15,000 towards the costs of a major solo show and a publication on the work of Joana Vasconcelos.

  9. New Moves International
    £5,000 to present the UK premiere of Leaving Room by Rui Horta in the New Territories 2008 festival.

  10. Norwich Puppet Theatre
    £10,000 towards the costs of bringing three Portuguese companies to Norwich to perform at the second International Festival of Puppet Theatre, October 2007.

  11. NOVARS Research Centre for Electroacoustic Composition, Performance and Sound Art, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester
    £3,000 towards the participation of Portuguese compose João Pedro Oliveira in their artist-in-residence programme in the summer of 2008.

  12. Polar Produce
    £5,000 to enable three Portuguese artists to participate in a three-day international workshop in Bristol as part of the touring event New Interfaces for Performances (NIP).

  13. Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast
    £3,000 towards the costs of a residency for trans-disciplinary artist Adriana Sá at the Sonic Arts Research Centre and the preparation and presentation of a sound-light performance.

  14. Spearfish
    (Greenroom Arts)
    £12,000 in order to enable a number of Portuguese artists to perform at Eurocultured Festival 2007.

  15. Stockwell Studios
    £3,000 to support the production of a high-quality colour publication dedicated to showing the work of British and Portuguese artists.

  16. Stonecrabs
    £1,000 to support a rehearsed reading in th UK of a play by Portuguese playwright Armando Rosa, as part of Origins/Origens 2007.

Education

  1. The British Centre for Literary Translation, School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
    £4,000 to cover the costs of a Portuguese writer, a translation workshop leader and a Portuguese language group at the International Summer School in Literary Translation, July 2007.

Anglo-Portuguese Cultural Relations Grants Awarded in 2006

Education and Social Welfare

  1. Ancient House, Museum of Thetford Life
    £3,200 towards the costs of a film project with Portuguese pupils from a local secondary school, who will work with an animator to chart their experiences of moving to Thetford.

  2. Vauxhall City Farm
    £7,500 to develop a permanent artwork in the form of a traditional Portuguese pavement to be installed at the Farm.

Literature and Publishing

  1. I.B. Tauris
    £7,000 towards the costs of Lisbon: City of the Sea, an introductory history of Lisbon by Malcolm Jack.

Music, Dance and Theatre

  1. Aurora Nova
    (Komedia Productions)
    £6,000 towards the costs of presenting João Garcia Miguel's Special Nothing at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

  2. Brighton Early Music Festival
    £700 towards The Splendours of Portugal, a performance of seventeenth-century Portuguese music, in October 2006.

  3. Como No
    (South Bank Centre)
    £3,000 towards the costs of Mí­sia performing in London as part of the La Linea festival.

  4. The Curve Foundation
    £5,000 towards the production and touring costs of a new work by choreographer Rui Lopes Graça.

  5. Galleon Theatre Company
    £10,000 towards the production costs of a world premiere theatre production of Alice de Sousa’s translation of Luis Sttau Monteiro’s Felizmente Há Luar.

  6. London Sinfonietta
    £15,000 towards the costs of recording a number of works by Pedro Amaral for a future CD release.

  7. New Moves International
    £6,500 to enable choreographers Patricia Portela, Cláudia Dias, Sónia Baptista, João Galante and Ana Borralho to participate in the New Territories 2007 festival.

  8. The Place
    £15,000 towards the costs of a UK tour of Setup by Rui Horta.

  9. Spearfish
    (Greenroom)
    £4,000 in order to bring over two music acts and two visual artists from Portugal to perform at Eurocultured Festival 2006.

  10. The Thames Festival Trust
    £10,000 to allow Tocá Rufar and Chapitô to participate in the Mayor’s Thames Festival.

  11. Visiting Arts
    £40,000 to support the Portuguese Performing Arts Awards 2007.

Visual Arts

  1. Aberdeen Art Gallery
    £4,356 towards the acquisition of a Portuguese work of art, Blind Image #92, by João Louro.

  2. ev+a, The Exhibition of Visual+ Art
    £1,000 towards the participation of Paula Roush in the Exhibition of Visual+ Art, to take place in Limerick from March to May 2006.

  3. Liverpool Biennial
    £10,000 towards the participation of Portuguese artist Rigo in the International 06 exhibition, as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2006.

  4. Royal College of Art, Printmaking Department
    £10,000 towards the costs of an exhibition of Paula Rego’s prints at the Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art, in October 2006.

Mariza, Atlantic Waves 2006