to enable American artists to participate in residencies at the WYSPA Institute of Art in Gdansk, Poland, in 2008 and 2009.

to enable a Tuvan throat singer from Russia to travel to New York to perform in a collaborative production of Fire Island at 3-Legged Dog in spring 2008.

to enable Polish theater directors, playwrights, and actors to travel to New York in fall 2008 to participate in a festival highlighting contemporary Polish theater entitled Made in Poland.

to enable company members to perform Must Don't Whip 'Um at the Eurokaz Festival of New Theatre in Zagreb and at Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana in summer 2008.

to enable company members to participate in the International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Bytom, Poland, and the Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, in summer 2009.

to support the international travel expenses of ADF executive staff in connection with prepatory research for ADF Russia in 2010 and identifying Russian participants for ADF 2009.

to support international travel and related expenses in 2009 related to ART's Eastern European Theatre Artists Initiative and the training program with the Moscow Art Theatre.

to enable Russian curators and museum professionals to travel to Kansas, New Jersey, and Wisconsin in 2008 and 2009 to participate in programs held in connection with the exhibition The Tsar and the President: Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln.

to support Polish and Macedonian participation in apexart's 2009 International Residency Program in New York.

to enable American theater directors to participate in the Grotowski Institute's The World as a Place of Truth international theater festival in Wroclaw, Poland, commemorating UNESCO's declaration of 2009 as the Year of Grotowski.

to enable company members to perform Plastic Language and to give master classes in modern dance and contact improvisation at the L1 Dance Festival in Budapest in February 2008.

to enable three American and three Eastern and Central European artists to participate in Art in General's bilateral Eastern European Residency Exchange program in 2009, and to support international travel expenses involved in the selection of a third partner institution in the region.

to enable American film specialists to travel to Moscow in summer 2008 to present the ATA Experimental Film & Video Festival as part of an ongoing collaboration with their colleagues at CINE FANTOM.

to enable artists from Teatri Odi in Prishtina to travel to New York in fall 2008 to present a bilingual production in collaboration with artists from Blessed Unrest Theatre as part of the Kosova Project.

to enable scholars, artists, and musicians from Russia to travel to Boston in spring 2009 to participate in public programs and performances commemorating the 100th anniversary of Serge Diaghilev's company Ballet Russes. 

to enable the executive director and a program manager to travel to Central and Eastern Europe in spring 2008 to meet with colleagues in connection with the ArtsLink Awards program.

to enable American artists and arts specialists to participate in the symposium On Fidelity: Art, Politics, Passion, and Event at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw in connection with an exhibition of work by Mary Kelly in spring 2008.

to enable artists from Central and Eastern Europe who have participated in ArtsLink projects to travel to New York in fall 2008 to participate in CEC's performing arts festival FlipFest.

to enable artists from the United States to travel to Budapest in fall 2008 in connection with the opening and related activities of Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better, an exhibition curated by Hajnalka Somogyi.

to support programs of the School of Missing Studies to bring architects and curators from the United States to Novi Sad in 2008 to work with Serbian colleagues on development of a cultural center there and to bring Serbian cultural theorists to New York in 2009 to participate in a roundtable discussion in connection with the exhibition TV Gallery.

to enable American musicians to travel to Russia in fall 2008 to participate in the Long Arms Festival in Moscow and the Apositsia Music Forum in St. Petersburg and to give performances in Nizhny Novgorod and Krasnoyarsk.

to support international travel expenses in 2008 and 2009 of American artists and arts administrators working with local artists in Russia on the development of public art projects and festivals in Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, and Vladikavkaz as part of CEC's VisArt program.

to enable Russian arts managers in the fields of visual art and theater to travel to the United States to participate in CEC Artslink's 2009 Arts Leadership Fellows Program.

to enable the artistic director and actors of the Maly Drama Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, to travel to the United States in early 2010 for the American premiere of their production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.

to enable five artists and curators from the United States to travel to St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2009 to conduct seminars, give lectures, and make studio visits as part of CEC's VisArt program.

to enable American performing arts presenters to attend theater festivals in Russia in 2008 as part of an exchange entitled New Directions--New Voices: Russian/U.S. Theater Initiative.

to enable American performing arts presenters to attend the 2009 Varna International Theatre Festival and to bring Bulgarian directors to the United States in a series of follow-up exchanges.

to enable American scholars to participate in a symposium entitled Georgian Culture: Past and Present, Part II in Tbilisi in summer 2008.

to support international travel expenses of scholars, artists, and cultural practitioners from Central and Eastern Europe participating in a conference entitled The Future of the Arts in Cuba at the Pocantico Conference Center in New York in fall 2008.

to enable artists from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia to participate in a week-long series in New York in 2009 entitled Undergound Music Behind the Iron Curtain, as part of a larger festival entitled Performing Arts and Revolutionary Change in Central and Eastern Europe.  

to enable a curator and members of the Alloy Orchestra and Open Ended Group from the United States to participate in the Dance Film Festival KINODANCE in fall 2008 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

to enable American dance specialists to participate in Silesian Dance Theatre's International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Bytom, Poland, in summer 2009.

to support travel expenses in 2008 of artists, arts managers, performing arts presenters, and festival directors from the United States and Central and Eastern Europe participating in the East/Central Europe Cultural Partnership Program as part of DTW's Suitcase Fund.

to support international travel expenses in 2008 of dancers and choreographers participating in a bilateral Hungarian-American residency program entitled Meeting Points at DTW in New York and Trafo in Budapest.

to enable Eiko and Koma to conduct workshops and perform Morning with Margaret Leng Tan at the Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, and at the XV International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Bytom, Poland, in summer 2008.

to enable the artistic director and actors of the Maly Theatre in St. Petersburg to be in residence at the Monte Cristo Cottage in New London, Connecticut, to conduct research for an upcoming production in Russia of Long Day's Journey Into Night.

to enable an American documentary film project team to travel to Russia in fall 2008 to screen the film Beyond the Call as part of the Pacific Meridian Film Festival in Vladivostok.

to enable the director of The Flaherty International Film Seminars to participate in the Flahertiana International Documentary Film Festival in Perm, Russia, in fall 2008.

to enable critics, curators, photo editors, and photographers from the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, and the Slovak Republic to participate in The Meeting Place Portfolio Review as part of FotoFest in Houston in spring 2008.

to support international travel and related expenses in 2008 associated with the Young Visual Artists Awards programs in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

to enable Nora Chipaumire to participate in the XV International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Bytom, Poland, in summer 2008.

to support international travel expenses of Russian and American curators and museum professionals in 2008, 2009, and 2010 in connection with the exhibition American Artists from Russia.

to enable members of LeeSaar The Company to hold workshops and give performances of Geisha in Krakow and Bytom as part of the XV Annual International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival and in Lublin at the Summer Contemporary Dance Forum in 2009.

to enable artists from Russia to participate in the Russian Dreams exhibition at the Bass Museum in December 2008.

to support international travel expenses of members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra in connection with a United States performance tour in 2009.

to enable musicians from the United States to participate in the 18th Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow in summer 2008.

to support international travel expenses in 2008 and 2009 in connection with arts management seminars in Russia and Ukraine.

to support a bilateral exchange between Headlands Center for the Arts and the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland, in 2009.

to enable an American dance specialist to travel to Zagreb in 2008 to work with LADO, the State Folk Dance and Song Ensemble of Croatia, on a research and documentation project.

to support curatorial research in spring 2009 in Prague and Brno for the Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens exhibition, to be held in Washington, D.C.

to support Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, and Romanian participation in ISCP's residency program in 2008 and 2009.

to enable company members to participate in an ArtistNe(s)t Residency at the George Apostu Cultural Center in Romania to develop a new work entitled Bear Crown.

to enable a curator from the United States to travel to Russia in spring 2008 in preparation for the exhibition Marc Chagall and Jewish Theater in the Soviet Union and to enable a violinist from St. Petersburg to travel to New York in fall 2008 for performances of the Green Violin staged in connection with the exhibition's opening.

to support the international travel expenses of a Russian artist participating in a three-month residency at the American Academy in Rome in 2008.

to enable members of Divadlo z Pasaze to participate in a three-week, three-city residency tour in the United States in spring 2009.

to support international travel expenses in connection with performances of The Rusalka Cycle in Poland and Ukraine in spring 2009.

to enable a member of the National Ballet Company of Kosovo to travel to New York in summer 2008 to participate in a production of The Raven at La MaMa. 

to enable Bosnian performing artists to travel to New York in spring 2008 to rehearse and present a collaborative production entitled Brothers at La MaMa.

to support international travel expenses in 2008 and 2009 of American and Romanian theater specialists participating in the Lark's bilateral American-Romanian Theater Exchange.

to support international travel expenses in 2008 and 2009 in connection with a bilateral project entitled Chicago-Zagreb Exchange: abandoned practices involving the Chicago-based theater Every House has a Door and Teatar &TD in Zagreb.

to support international travel and related expenses of Russian and American participants in the Hermitage Museum/Metropolitan Museum Exchange Program in 2008.

to enable staff members from the Met to conduct workshops on gallery design and conservation of ceramics, wood, and textiles at the University of Suceava in Romania in 2008.

to support international travel and related expenses of Russian and American participants in the Kremlin Museum/Metropolitan Museum Exchange Program in 2009.

to support international travel expenses in 2008 and 2009 of American musicians, dancers, and theaters artists participating in international festivals in Central and Eastern Europe as part of USArtists International.

to enable American artists and arts specialists to participate in exhibitions, residencies, and symposia as part of the American Season at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw in 2008.

to enable five American filmmakers to travel to Prague throughout 2009 to give screenings of their work as part of the project American Experimental Film in Prague 4, which is being organized by the Academy of Performing Arts, Film, and TV School (FAMU).

to support international travel expenses in 2008 of American and Russian museum professionals participating in an exchange between the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and The Museum of Modern Art.

to support international travel expenses in 2009 of American and Russian museum professionals participating in an exchange between the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and The Museum of Modern Art.

to enable American consultants and members of the museum's exhibition planning team to travel to Poland in connection with development of the museum's primary exhibition and design concept.

to enable company members to perform No Dice as part of a showcase of American theater at the Eurokaz Festival in Zagreb in summer 2008.

to enable choreographer Sasha Pepelyaev and members of Apparatus Dance Group from Russia to present their new work Doors and to enable playwrights from Hungary, Poland, and Romania to participate in Global Scenes as part of the 2008 New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas.

to enable members of the Katona Joszef Theater from Budapest, Hungary, to present their production of Chekhov's Ivanov as part of the 2009 New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas.

to support participation by American new media artists in Upgrade! International: Chain Reactions New Media Festival in Skopje, Macedonia, in fall 2008.

to support international travel expenses in 2008 in connection with curatorial research in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland for the Library for Performing Art's exhibition Performing Revolution: Performing Arts & Revolutionary Change in Central and Eastern Europe.

to support the international travel expenses of Polish theater artists participating in Tracing Grotowski's Path--The Year of Grotowski in New York, a series of public panel discussions, small-group meetings, exhibitions, work demonstrations, workshops, and film screenings held at various venues throughout New York in 2009.

to enable two Polish composers to participate in the Other Minds Festival of New Music in California in March 2009.

to enable company members to perform at the Opera and Ballet State Academic Theater in Yerevan, Armenia, in fall 2008.

to enable new music artists from the United States to participate in Dis-patch 08 in Belgrade in fall 2008.

to enable members of the theater ensemble Akhe Group from St. Petersburg, Russia, to present Catalogue of the Hero at the 2009 San Francisco International Arts Festival.

to enable Russian filmmakers and scholars to participate in a symposium as part of a series entitled Treasures from the Russian Film Archive, to be held at the Walter Reade Theater in New York in winter 2010.

to enable members of Opus Posth and the Pokrovsky Ensemble from Russia to participate in SCP's program From Moscow to the Silk Road in January 2009.

to enable an exhibition design specialist to travel to the Kremlin Museums to work with staff members there developing customized mounts for the Kremlin's upcoming exhibition The Sublime Gifts of the Porte. 

to support international travel expenses of artists and a curator from Serbia participating in the group exhibition Beyond Theory in San Diego in fall 2008.

to enable Eastern and Central European electronic music artists to participate in the Bent Festival in New York in spring 2009.

to enable theater specialists from the Czech Republic, Poland, and Serbia to participate in TCG's International Working Group Meeting in New York in spring 2008.

to support international travel expenses in 2008 associated with American and Eastern and Central European theater specialists participating in the TCG/ITI Travel Grants program.

to enable members of Dah Teatar from Belgrade, Serbia, to travel to San Francisco in 2009 to develop, rehearse, and premiere their collaborative work, Dogsbody, with Theatre of Yugen and to enable Theatre of Yugen to perform and give workshops as part of Dah's International School for Actors and Directors in Belgrade and to conduct research for Dogsbody in Serbia and Bosnia.

to enable members of Trajal Harrell Dance Style to participate in the XV International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Bytom, Poland, in summer 2008.

to enable Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov to participate in the opening and related activities of the exhibition Prospect1.New Orleans in fall 2008.

to support international travel expenses in 2008 of American conservators and Ukrainian heritage specialists participating in a bilateral exchange entitled Monitoring Cultural Heritage in the Historic Center of Lviv.

to enable members of the theater company TR Warszawa from Warsaw, Poland, to present the United States premiere of Grzegorz Jarzyna's Giovanni at UCLA Live's Eighth Annual International Theatre Festival in fall 2009. 

to enable a team of architects, designers, and urban planners from the United States to travel to Travnik and Pocitelj in spring 2008 as part of Shared Identity: An Inland Workshop for Bosnia-Herzegovina.

to enable theater professionals from the United States to participate in the Rhodopi International Theatre Collective in summer 2008.

to enable ensemble members to travel to Serbia in summer 2008 for performances of VioLens and Traveling Songs in Belgrade and Novi Sad.

to enable Macedonian musician Severdjan Amzoski to participate in the Herdeljezi Festival and related activities in connection with International Roma Day in California in spring 2009.

to support international travel expenses of Slovenian and American artists in connection with performances of a collaborative production entitled Blindness in New York at PS 122 and in Ljubljana at Cankarjev Dom in 2008.

to support bilateral conservation exchanges with colleagues in Bulgaria and Serbia in 2008 in connection with historic preservation efforts in those countries.

to support international travel expenses in 2009 of American and Mongolian conservation professionals participating in a bilateral exchange between the Williamstown Art Conservation Center and the Cultural Heritage Center in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

to enable company members to perform Dancing vs. the Rat Experiment at the Man.In.Fest International Festival of Experimental Theatre in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

to enable company members to perform Vicious Dogs on Premises and teach workshops at the International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Bytom, Poland, and at the Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, in summer 2009.

to enable company members to present POOR THEATER at the Eurokaz International Festival of New Theatre in Zagreb in summer 2008.

to support international travel expenses in 2009 of American and Mongolian musicians and curators participating in a bilateral collaborative music exchange organized by the Khoomei-Taiko Ensemble.

to enable Ukrainian artists and a Buryat photographer to travel to New York for the collaborative production of Still the River Flows at La MaMa in fall 2008, and to enable Yara's director to travel to Ukraine to work with participating artists there.