IFI announces its new director
The new Conductor of the Irish Celluloid Institute has been announced.
Sarah Glennie will take up the spatial relation in fall 2008.
Glennie has previously worked as Music director of the Manakin Arts and Niland Veranda and Commissioner of the Irish Pavillion at the Venice Biennale 2005.
She has curated projects for PS1 MoMA, Newly York, and Cork 2005 and held positions at the Joseph Henry Moore Initiation and the Irish Museum of Modern Prowess.
Commenting on Glennie's appointee, Eve-Anne Cullinan, President of IFI, said: "Sarah has a wealth of receive in strategic cultural planning and of running and working in public cultural institutions both in Irish Republic and internationally. We ar delighted to welcome Sarah Glennie to IFI to lead one of the country's most popular cultural venues into an exciting period in its history."
Among the newly projects to be undertaken by the IFI ar a restoration of the IFI center in Dublin's Eustace Street; a coaction with the Dundalk Bring of Technology on a fresh installation for the Irish Gaelic Film Archive and a three-year strategy plan.
