IFI announces its new director
The freshly Director of the Irish Film Institute has been announced.
Sarah Glennie will take up the situation in autumn 2008.
Glennie has previously worked as Music director of the Model Liberal arts and Niland Gallery and Commissioner of the Irish people Pavillion at the Venice Biennale 2005.
She has curated projects for PS1 MoMA, Newly York, and Bottle cork 2005 and held positions at the Henry Dudley Moore Foundation and the Irish Gaelic Museum of Modern Art.
Commenting on Glennie's appointment, Eve-Anne Cullinan, Chairman of IFI, said: "Sarah has a wealthiness of receive in strategic cultural preparation and of track and working in populace cultural institutions both in Hibernia and internationally. We are delighted to receive Sarah Glennie to IFI to pencil lead 1 of the country's most popular cultural venues into an exciting period in its history."
Among the new projects to be undertaken by the IFI ar a restoration of the IFI center in Dublin's Eustace Street; a quislingism with the Dundalk Found of Engineering on a new facility for the Irish people Film Archive and a three-year strategy contrive.