to support Russian and Central and Eastern European participation in the 2012 ADF International Choreographers Residency in summer 2012.

to bring Arthur Mitchell to St. Petersburg, Russia, to participate in The Democracy of Dance Project, a series of master classes and public dialogues in April 2012.

to send Christian Parker, Adam Guettel, and Kate Moira Ryan to Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, to conduct a research trip for the creation of an opera production based on the last days of the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II.

to support two networking trips to New York City for the Hungarian not-for-profit organization Summa Artium in spring 2012.

to bring Polish curator Milada Slizinska to New York City for curatorial research in March 2012.

to bring American playwright Tony Kushner and Romanian theater director Andrei Serban to Hungary for a five-week rehearsal of Angels in America at the National Theatre in Budapest in May and June 2012.

to bring members of Teatr Zar from Wroclaw, Poland, to Boston to conduct workshops and public showings at Charlestown working theatre, Emerson college, and Brandeis University in April 2012.

to support San Francisco theater critic Robert Avila’s participation in the Russia Case of the Golden Mask Festival in April 2012 in Moscow, Russia.

to bring DOVA company members to the International Festival of Modern Dance Isadora in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, for performances and workshops in April 2012.

to support performances and public presentations at the 10th anniversary of the Sound Forest Festival for Adventurous Music and Film Art in Riga, Latvia, in fall 2012.

to support the 2012 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar titled Open Wounds at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, in June 2012.

to send filmmakers Minna Zielonka-Packer and Kevin Tighe to Poland for a series of presentations at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecim, Poland, in summer 2012.

to support Georgian participation in the Segal Center’s collaboration with the 2012 PEN/World Voices Festival, Revolutionary Plays Since 2000 and to bring Arpad Schilling and Andrea Tompa from Hungary to New York for a public event in March 2012.

to bring Polish curator Anda Rottenberg to New York to attend the opening of MoMA’s exhibition Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955-1929 and participate in a related symposium in fall 2012.

to bring two Belarusian artists to Chicago to devise and premiere a collaborative work based on Belarusian foolklore surrounding the lost town of Swietz in August 2012.