to support residencies of two Polish artists in Santa Monica in 2011 as part of 18th Street Arts Center's New Media Collaborations VI.

to support performances of 500 Clown Macbeth at the Shakespeare Festival in Gulya, Hungary, and at the Gdansk Shakespearian Theatre in Poland in summer 2010.

to bring native Aleuts from Russia to Anchorage in July 2010 to participate in workshops and other activities related to traditional cultural practices during Urban Unangax Culture Camp.

to bring American dancers, dance teachers, and choreographers to present new work and hold master classes at the TsEKh International Summer Dance School in Moscow in summer 2010.

to support Russian choreographer Elena Slobodchikova's participation in a residency at ADF in Durham, North Carolina, and at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, in summer 2010.

to bring representatives of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut to the Russian-American playwrights conference in Hiiumaa, Estonia, in May 2010.

to send Native American artists to Wroclaw, Poland, in July 2010 to participate in music and dance performances, present traditional crafts, and give lectures at the Brave Festival.

to support participation by American, Croatian, and Romanian visual artists in the Eastern European Residence Exchange Program in 2010-2011.

to support a bilateral training exchange in 2010 and 2011 between DAH Teatar from Serbia and ArtSpot Productions to create and present new collaborative pieces in Belgrade, Novi Sad, and New Orleans.

to bring Bryan Konefsky to St. Petersburg, Russia, in October 2010 to participate in film screenings and other activities as part of the Experiments in Cinema festival.

to enable professional musicians from the United States to travel to Budapest in May 2010 to perform Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin in collaboration with Hungarian singers and musicians.

to provide renewed support in 2010 for CEC's ArtsLink, an exchange program for artists and arts administrators from Eastern and Central Europe, Central Asia, and the United States.

to enable independent curator Sara Reisman and gallery director Josie Browne to travel from the United States to Croatia in spring 2010 to participate in the 45th Zagreb Salon: The Market.

to allow American artist Roni Horn to travel to Warsaw, Poland, in connection with an exhibition of her work as part of the American Season at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in spring 2010.

to support American artist Julia Kunin's participation in a ceramics residency at the Zsolnay Manufactury in Pecs, Hungary, in summer 2010.

to enable the American percussion duo Meehan/Perkins, cello duo Dyophonie, and composer/musician Sufjan Stevens to participate in a festival of American contemporary music in St. Petersburg and Petrozavodsk, Russia, in October 2010.

to enable American musicians Eric Singer and Aaron Taylor Kuffner to present performances of the robotic gamelan orchestra Gamelatron, and to give workshops in Russia in fall 2010 at the Apositsia Music Forum in St. Petersburg, the Long Arms Festival in Moscow, and the Center of Modern Art in Petrozavodsk.

to support American artists' travel to Russia to collaborate with local artists on new art installations in Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg, Ulianovsk, and Yekaterinburg, and to give workshops in Perm and Yaroslavl in 2010 and 2011 as part of the VisArt program.

to enable Russian theater professionals to participate in festivals, coferences, roundtables, seminars, and readings in the United States that will showcase contemporary Russian drama; and to enable American theater artists to travel to Russia to participate in the Golden Mask Festival and other regional festivals in 2010.

to bring American musicians to present violinist Steven Greenman's Stempenyu Neshome at the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland, in summer 2010.

to support a bilateral theater performance exchange between CWT and the National Center of Aesthetics, Small Theatre, in Yerevan, Armenia, in 2010 and 2011.

to support the San Francisco contemporary music group Beth Custer Ensemble's performance of an original live score for the silent film My Grandmother in Batumi and Tbilisi, Georgia, in December 2010.

to allow art historian Natalia Sielewicz and curator Barbara Piwowarska to travel from Poland to New York in March 2010 to participate in the installation and opening of the exhibition Operators' Exercises: Open Form Film and Architecture at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery.

to enable company members to participate in a performance tour to Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia; Riga, Latvia; and Tallinn, Estonia, in May 2010.

to support travel expenses in 2010 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 Partnerships Program as part of DTW's Suitcase Fund.

to support Central and Eastern European dance professionals' participation in Dance/USA's annual conference in June 2010 in Washington, D.C., and to enable American dance artists, presenters, and managers to take part in the East European-American Salon at the 2010 Tanzmesse in August.

to support participation by Eastern and Central European performance artists in the Balkan Performance Art Festival in New York in March 2011.

to support a bilateral Russian-American exchange in 2010 and 2011 in connection with creation of a five-part performance cycle based on the paintings and writings of Marc Chagall.

to enable Russian dancers to participate in Doug Varone's 11th Annual Summer Intensive Workshop in Akron, Ohio, in 2010.

to bring representatives of The Drama League to Sofia, Bulgaria, in October 2010 to develop an American-Bulgarian directors exchange program.

to support participation by American artists and curators in the Unsound festival in Krakow, Poland, in October 2010, and to bring electronic music artists from Belarus, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Ukraine to participate in Unsound Festival New York in February 2011.

to support a residency at the National Playwrights Conference in Waterford, Connecticut, for Russian playwright Yaroslava Pulinovic in July 2010.

to support the international travel expenses in 2010 in connection with the Young Visual Artists Awards programs in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

to support a digital media and puppetry residency for American artists Jeff Burke, Jonathan Snipes, Vanessa Holtgrewe, and Cristina Bercovitz at the Rhodopi International Theater Laboratory in Smolyan, Bulgaria, in summer 2010.  

to enable American museum specialists Kathy Southern and David Donath to lead a seminar entitled Working With Visitors: Ways to Cultivate Interest and Win Support in Velikiy Novgorod, Russia, in June 2010.

to support the participation of American artist Amy Franceschini and Polish filmmaker and video artist Anna Orlikowska in the bilateral United States/Poland Artist in Residence Exchange in fall 2010.

to bring senior managers of the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland, to meet and share information with their American counterparts in Amherst, Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C., in October 2010.

to support a series of bilateral curatorial exchanges with professionals in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia in 2010 and 2011 in connection with ICI's Building Central and Eastern European Networks project.

to support Czech, Polish, and Serbian participation in ISCP's 2010 residency program.

to enable a Russian visual artist to participate in a residency at the American Academy of Rome in 2010.

to bring members of Kitka to Armenia and Georgia in fall 2010 to document traditional folk music, give performances, and present workshops.

to support presentation of Chopin-Inspirations by Poland's Bialystok Puppet Theatre and Anna Skubik's Broken Nails at the La MaMa Puppet Series Festival 4 in New York in fall 2010.

to support a series of bilateral exchanges with Russian and Central and Eastern European playwrights, directors, and critics in 2010-2011.

to bring musicians Emir Kustercia and the No Smoking Orchestra from Serbia and Rezo Gabriadze's marionette company the Tbilisi Municipal Theater Studio from Georgia to give performances at the 2010 Lincoln Center Summer Festival.

to support an American-Polish artists residency exchange with the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland, in 2010-2011.

to enable Svetlana Amelekhina, curator at Moscow's Kremlin Museum, to conduct exhibition research at the Met's Costume Institute in New York in February 2010.

to enable curators and other staff from the Met and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg to participate in the 2010-2011 bilateral exchange program.

to enable staff members from the Met and from Romania's National History Museum of Bucharest, Museum Complex in Bucovina, Ethnographic Museum in Brasov, and National Village Museum in Bucharest to participate in a series of bilateral curatorial and management exchanges in 2010 and 2011.

to support participation by artists from the United States in the 2010-2011 American Season residency program at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland, and to allow Polish curators conduct research in the United States.

to support the Romanian-American bilateral choreographic exchange project Moving Dialogue, a partnership between the Gabriela Tudor Foundation, National Dance Centre Bucharest, New York's Dance Theater Workshop, and the Romanian Cultural Institute taking place in fall 2010.

to support a bilateral curatorial exchange program between the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and MoMA in fall 2010.

to enable NDA director Karen Bernard to participate in the Short Cuts Festival of experimental performing arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June 2010.

to enable an American composer and an American pianist to participate in the HereNow New Music Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria, in fall 2010.

to enable cultural preservation specialists Andrew Wiget and Olga Balalaeva to travel from the United States to Siberia in March 2010 to document the Khanty people's Bear Festival.

to enable the Mariinsky Chorus from St. Petersburg, Russia, to give performances in New York in spring 2010 as part of The Russian Stravinsky festival.

to bring four theater companies from New York to Budapest, Hungary, in November 2010 to perform and teach workshops at the 9th Annual Contemporary Drama Festival.

to support Pig Iron's performances of Chekhov Lizardbrain at the Theater Confrontations Festival in Lublin, Poland, and to give workshops at the Contemporary Drama and Alternative Theatre festivals in Debrecen and Budapest, Hungary, in fall and winter 2010.

to support performances of In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Stefan Zeromski Theatre from Kielce, Poland, at the Time-Based Art Festival in Portland in September 2010.

to enable members of the Croatian curatorial collective WHW to travel to New York in spring 2010 to participate in the exhibition Hungry Man, Reach for the Book. It is a Weapon!

to support performances of Being Harold Pinter by Belarus Free Theatre at New York's Under the Radar Festival in January 2011.

to support performances of Show Your Face by the Slovenian ensemble Betontanc in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York in January 2011.

to enable Romanian artists Stefan Constantinescu, Andrea Faciu, and Ciprian Muresan, along with curator Alina Serban, to travel to Chicago in spring 2010 for activities in connection with the exhibition The Seductiveness of the Interval.

to enable members of the music ensemble Nanos Operetta to travel to St. Petersburg in summer 2010 to collaborate with members of the Russian theater company AKHE Group on a new work, and to bring Teatr Zar from Wroclaw, Poland, to San Francisco for a residency and series of performances in spring 2011.

to support Russian scholars' and filmmakers' participation in screenings and related activities in connection with the project Stories of Russian Province at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in November 2010.

to bring members of the Serbian company DAH Teatar to tour The Story of Tea and Crossing the Line in the United States in fall 2010.

to support American curators' and cultural specialists' travel to Zagreb, Croatia, in fall 2010 to coordinate an exhibition and present lectures as part of the Slought in Transit project.

to support a bilateral exchange of American and Georgian museum experts in 2010 to develop a website devoted to Georgia's archaeological heritage.

to bring members of So Percussion to Estonia and Serbia to give performances and teach classes in October 2010.

to enable filmmakers from Southeastern Europe to participate in screenings and related activities at the SEE Fest in Los Angeles in May 2010 and to allow the director of SEE Fest to participate in the Sarajevo Film Festival in July 2010.

to support participation by textile scholars Dinara Chochunbaeva from Kyrgyzstan and Marinika Babanazarova from Uzbekistan in TSA's 12th biennial textile symposium in Lincoln, Nebraska.

to support a bilateral exchange in 2010 and 2011 with the Glej Theater in Ljubljana, Slovenia, to create and present the new work After Dark.

to support a residency by playwright and former Czech president Vaclav Havel in Philadelphia in May 2010 in connection with presentation of his new work Leaving.

to enable members of The Wooster Group to perform HAMLET at the 7th International Shakespeare Festival in Craiova and Bucharest, Romania, in May 2010.

to support participation by the musical groups Rai Banda from Romania and Tescoi Banda from Ukraine in the New York World Festival: Music Around the Black Sea in fall 2010.

to bring American theater critic Tom Sellar to Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Russia to seek out emerging theater artists and to support their travel to Yale University to participate in readings, lectures, master classes, and symposia in 2011. 

to support performances of The Shipment by Young Jean Lee's Theater Company at the Contemporary Drama Festival in Budapest, Hungary, in November 2010.