Who We've Funded

In October 2015, WAI supported the Lighthouse Theatre company on a trip to Chile, Uruguay and Patagonia – where they delivered workshops and trilingual performances with schools and community groups.

http://www.lighthouse-theatre.co.uk

This grant enabled Literature Across Frontiers to develop two projects in Georgia and Eastern Turkey.

http://www.lit-across-frontiers.org

Literature Wales was supported to send Bardd Plant Cymru Aneirin Karadog and Young Peoples Laureate Martin Daws to New York to participate in the Free Word conference and The Bronx Writers Centre and to perform at the Bowery Club.

www.academi.org/

"Literature Wales’ Outreach Manager, Louise Richards, visited Philadelphia and New York to research and study the management of the Brave New Voices Youth Slam Festival and the successful pre-emptive education workshops run by Urban Word in New York.

http://www.literaturewales.org

Richard Llewellyn of Paper Aeroplanes received support to take the band to Toronto and showcase at NXNE in June 2015.

My six-week residency at Leitrim Sculpture Centre was a turning point for new directions in my creative practice that has resulted from an intensely productive and thought provoking experience.

With the support of Wales Arts International, I travelled to Lausanne, Switzerland, between August 21st and September 1st 2015 to take part in the 'Science Fiction Lieder' project.

James undertook a month long residency at Atelierhaus Salzamt in December 2014.

www.jamescmoore.org

Mothersuckers were supported in a collaborative project between them and Art13 in France exploring traditional folk notions of parenthood and contemprary artistic responses, culminating in an exhibition in France.

Mr & Mrs Clark were supported to further develop and present Porno as a site specific piece during the New York Clown Festival organised by Brick Theatre with Denni Dennis.

http://www.mrandmrsclark.co.uk

Music Theatre Wales was invited by the Tongyeong International Music Festival (TIMF) in South Korea to present three performances of GREEK by Mark-Anthony Turnage in April 2015 – the Asian premiere of the opera and first visit to the region for the company.

http://www.musictheatrewales.org.uk

Music Theatre Wales applied for funding to enable one of the Artistic directors of the company, Michael McCarthy, to undertake a research and development visit to Tongyeong and Seoul ahead of taking a performance there.

http://www.musictheatrewales.org.uk

Mandy received support to participate in the International Exhibition of Arts, Heritage and Creativity which formed part of the Muscat Festival in Oman.

mandynash.co.uk

In September 2015 Gavin Porter and Devinda De Silva were invited to attend the National Indigenous Theatre Forum in Brisbane, Australia – a three day forum where Indigenous practitioners from around the world come together with a focus on the advancement of the Indigenous theatre sector in Australia.

https://www.nationaltheatrewales.org/

WAI supported the presentation of NoFit States large-scale tented contemporary circus production BIANCO as part of the Letni Letna Festival programme in August 2015.

http://www.nofitstate.org

Bartosz Nowicki was invited to Poland to exhibit his first solo show in the country as a part of Second Greater Poland Photography Festival in October 2016.

http://www.bartosznowicki.co.uk/

The folk band duos, Olion Byw were supported to collaborate with musicians at the Tagore House in Kolkata and perform the results at the Gorbhanga Festival.

http://www.olionbyw.com

Only Men Aloud’s visit to the US in August 2014 consisted of 5 performances in Chicago, Algona and Minneapolis, providing an opportunity to develop the ensemble’s brand outside the UK and represent Wales on an international platform.

http://www.onlymenaloud.com

Karen Owen participated in the Wales - Latin American Writers Chain across Patagonia with Karen Owen, Richard Gwyn, Nia Davis, Mererid Hopwood and Tiffany Atkinson .

Tom Owen, one of the band members of Save your Breath, applied for funding to help support Save your Breath get to Austin, Texas to play an official music showcase slot at SXSW 2014.