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 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 provide renewed support in 2008 for ArtsLink, an exchange program for artists and arts administrators from Central and Eastern Europe and the United States.

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 Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw in connection with an exhibition of work by Mary Kelly in spring 2008.

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Appartaus 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 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 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.