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A grant was awarded to BIENVENIDA MATAS, filmmaker, to travel to the Philippines for four weeks in order to research media representation of Filipinos during and after the Spanish American War. She will trace its influences on the present media representation of people of color in the US.

DANZAISA, New York City, received $10,000 in support of the creation and production of a new work.The organization operates under the direction of choreographer Gabri Christa. It received support for the development and production of Memoria, to be produced in early 2008. Memoria is a multimedia performance project, inspired by the work of the writer Hanif Kureishi. Christa's themes are lost dreams, the isolation of living and probably dying in a country or a place where one wasn't born, the distance from relatives and family and the creation of a new community that becomes a family. With Memoria, Christa will continue to address the immigrant experience, an ongoing theme for her.

BILLY GOLFUS, Minneapolis, MN, received support for Sex & the Single Gimp, a romantic comedy about a paraplegic who tries to learn to swing dance in his wheel chair in order to meet women.

Jonathan David Martin, Zoey Martinson, and Lianne Arnold will travel to Berlin, Germany as part of the Smoke and Mirrors Collaborative to conduct research and develop relationships with potential collaborators for a new multimedia work of performance.

Poet Jim Moore was awarded $2,400 to spend three weeks in Calcutta, India. He'll research and draft work for a persona poem in the voice of a woman who was born in India, but adopted and raised in the United States. Moore's personal experiences fuel his passion and desire for the journey.

The Directors authorized a grant of $12,000 to ILAND, New York City, in support of the iLAB Artist-in-Residence Program. Founded in 2004 by choreographer Jennifer Monson, iLAND investigates the power of dance to illuminate a kinetic understanding of the world. It is a dance research organization with a fundamental commitment to environmental sustainability as it relates to art and the urban context, and cultivates cross-disciplinary research. iLAB supports the creative collaborative process between movement-based artists and scientists, environmentalists, landscape architects and others. The goals of the residency program are to encourage emerging/innovative artists, to invigorate and re-imagine relationships between the public and urban environment through kinetic experience; to engage artists and practitioners across the disciplines of dance, art and the ecology of physical interrelationships; and to support the development of process over product such that process is itself a product for artistic and public action.