to bring members of Dah Teatar from Belgrade, Serbia, to Atlanta, Georgia, for a five-week residency on the collaborative work Blue Planet to be performed at 7 Stages in fall 2013.

to bring Latvian artists Kaspars Podnieks and Kriss Salmanis to New York for an exhibition in Art in General’s Storefront Project Space in March 2013.

to support digital media artist Janeil Engelstad’s travel to Hungary and Slovakia in May 2013 to conduct research on the intersection of the environmental movement with the arts and culture sectors in former Soviet countries.

to send composer Joel Sachs to Mongolia to conduct the Opera Orchestra of Ulaanbaatar in a concert of music by the Mongolian composer Sansar Sangidorj in March 2013.

to bring Jacek Luminski of Poland’s Silesian Dance Theatre to New York to choreograph a new work for Battery Dance Company’s repertoire in spring 2013.

to present three films and host two filmmakers from Southeastern Europe as part of Disappearing Act V European Film Festival in New York in April 2013.

to support the installation of a new piece by Russian visual artist Irina Korina at BAM in June 2013 and the participation of an American artist in Siberia's Krasnoyarsk Biennial in Septermber 2013 as part of the TransCultural Express program.

to bring American artists to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan to hold workshops, give presentations, and participate in residencies as part of CEC ArtsLink’s Global Art Lab in fall 2013.

to bring Sound (In)Formation exhibition curator Koan Jeff Baysa and American artists Mark Bolotin and Igor Molochevski to Zagreb, Croatia, to install work and participate in events surrounding the exhibition opening in April 2013.

to allow six presenters representing major venues across the United States to travel to Moscow and St. Petersburg for nine days in May 2013 to attend theater productions and meet with directors, administrators, and critics.

to send journalists Robert Avila and Jim O’Quinn to the Hungarian Showcase in Budapest in March 2013.

to bring four Siberian dancers to Brockport, New York, to participate in DOVA’s annual Summer Workshop in June 2013.

to bring Tatiana Gordeeva to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to collaborate with local artists at 9x22 Dance Lab, attend master classes, and create a new work to be performed at The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis in 2013.

to bring NYTW Artistic Director James Nicola, Associate Artistic Director Linda Chapman, and independent journalists Alisa Solomon and Laura Flanders to the Hungarian Showcase in Budapest in March 2013.

to support the participation of twelve American theater professionals in the Hungarian Showcase in Budapest, Hungary, in March 2013.

to support the American premiere of Dmitry Krymov’s Opus No. 7 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in January 2013.

to support workshop performances of The Adaptation of Macbeth with the Bulgarian Plovdiv Dramtichen Theatre at UCLA in 2013.

to support an artistic associate residency for Russian theater director Yury Urnov for the 2013/14 production season.