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ADMINISTRATION:
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Manchester International Festivals
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Manchester
International Festival 2009
2
– 19 July 2009
About
the MIF
The Manchester International Festival (MIF), is a biennial
event which takes place in Manchester. It was launched on
27 June 2007, to peak in July of that year, and focused on
new music by established and new international musicians.
This ambitious international festival is believed to have
been the first of its kind in the world, and drew on the leading
role Manchester holds as a centre of excellence in music and
its long association with innovative and new music.
The 2009
festival promises to maintain its high calibre organisational
management.
Contact
details:
Festival
Office
Manchester International Festival, 3rd floor, 81 King Street,
Manchester M2 4AH.
Tel: 0161-238 7300. Fax: 0161-832 7047. Email: info@mif.co.uk
Registered charity no: 1113902
Press Enquiries
Nadja Coyne, Head of Press, Tel: (Mobile) 07799 532 373. Email:
press@mif.co.uk.
Sponsorship
Enquiries
Helen Bowdur, Head of Sponsorship, Tel: 0161-238 7316. Email:
sponsorship@mif.co.uk
Website
http://www.mif.co.uk
The
2009 Festival Team
Alex Poots
- Festival Director
Simon Mellor - General Director
Christine Cort - Associate Director
Kate Beard - Producer
Caroline Birnie - Volunteer Coordinator
Helen Bowdur - Head of Sponsorship
Jennifer Cleary - Head of Creative Learning
Catherine Corlett - Sponsorship Account Manager
Gemma Cowan - PA to Associate Director
Nadja Coyne - Head of Press
Marie-Claire Daly - Press Officer
Rachel Down - Office Assistant
David Fox - Office Administrator
Cathy Gallagher - Marketing Director (consultant)
Christine Gettins - Producer (consultant)
Ian Griffiths - Sponsorship Account Manager
Jonathan Higgs - Marketing Officer
Jackie Johnston - Production Administrator
Devina Kumar - Creative Learning Manager
Tracey Low - Senior Producer
Kerenza McClarnan - Producer
Jackie McNerney - Administrative Director
Lindsey Moutrey - Personal Assistant to Festival Director
& General Director
Billy Partridge - Ticketing Manager
Sandra Roemermann - Marketing Manager
Sarah Rowland - Head of Artist Liaison
Sapna Sanghvi - Marketing Officer
Emma Stenning - Head of Producing
Jack Thompson - Technical Director
Hannah Woolnough - Sponsorship Account Manager
Yasmin Younis - Finance Manager
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2007 Festival
Staff
Alex Poot
Manchester
International
Festival Director
Tom Bloxham
Non-Executive Chair
Ruth Mackenzie
General Director
Dr Jennifer
Cleary
Higher Education Festival Manager
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Manchester
International Festival 2007
Festival
Directors
London-based Alex Poots, Director of Contemporary Arts at English
National Opera, was appointed as the Festival Director - he
has a respected and well-known reputation as a leading festival
programmer, including successful work for the Barbican, the
Tate Modern and Tate Britain Galleries in London.
Tom Bloxham
MBE was appointed as non-executive Chair and Belinda Kidd as
Executive Director of the Festival, Tom, joint founder and innovative
property developer of Urban Splash Group said at the outset
of the event:
"The
Manchester International Festival will present innovative,
groundbreaking new work and I look forward to working closely
with Alex (Poots) and his team to deliver a world-class event."
Director
Alex Poots said:
"The
Festival exists to bring extraordinary new work by some of
the most exciting creative talent from around the world to
premiere in Manchester."
Ruth Mackenzie
OBE began work as General Director of the Manchester International
Festival in August 2006. Previously Ruth had been Artistic Director
at the Chichester Festival Theatre for 4 years, before working
on a consultancy basis for the Arts Council, BBC, Tate and City
University. She was awarded her OBE for services to theatre
in 1995.
Manchester
International Festival and the City’s Universities announced
the appointment of Dr Jennifer Cleary as the Higher Education
Festival Manager in February 2006. Dr Cleary has extensive experience
of managing projects between Higher Education institutions,
public sector research organisations and industry.
The Festival
was intended to become a biennial event set to be one of the
world's leading international cultural festivals. The Festival
was sponsored by both corporate companies and public sector
organisations who underwrote the huge cost of creating a commissioning
festival.
Music hitmakers 'Gorillaz' performed a series of five
shows in Manchester, to kick-off and promote the festival of
entertainment.
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The above 2
images courtesy of Mark Allan and Manchester International Festival
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World Premieres
World premieres in the 2007 Festival included: Monkey: Journey to the
West, a new opera directed by Chen Shi Zheng with music by Damon Albarn
and design by Jamie Hewlett, Il Tempo del Postino, a group show by 15
of the world's leading contemporary artists including Matthew Barney,
Tacita Dean, Douglas Gordon and Pierre Huyghe, new theatre productions
including a site-specific work by Stewart Lee and Johnny Vegas, debates,
food by Heston Blumenthal and an international music series that featured
Lou Reed, Kanye West, PJ Harvey, The Gossip and The Whip.
2007 Participating
Artists
Artists who participated in the 2007 Manchester International Festival
(* denotes artists commissioned to create new work):
2ManyDJs, Carlos
Acosta (dancer), Doug Aikten* (artist), Damon Albarn* (composer),
Erol Alkan (DJ), Kevin Bales (historian), Matthew Barney* (artist),
Neil Bartlett* (director), BBC Philharmonic, Jonathan Bepler* (composer),
Heston Blumenthal* (chef), Victoria Borisova-Ollas* (composer), Bert
Butler (musician), Bushwacka (DJ), Mira Calix* (composer), Chen Shi-Zheng*
(director), Carl Cox (DJ), Merce Cunningham (dancer), Adam Curtis
(writer), Tacita Dean* (artist), Trisha Donnelly* (artist), Mark Elder
(conductor), Olafur Eliasson* (artist), Fatboy Slim (DJ), Faulty Optic*
Theatre Company, Mike Figgis* (director), Liam Gillick* (artist),
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster* (artist), Paul Gilroy (economist), Douglas
Gordon* (artist), Todd Graft* (VJ), Peter Guinness (actor), Greg Hall*
(filmmaker), Halle Orchestra, Happy Mondays, PJ Harvey (musician),
Carsten Holler* (artist), Jamie Hewlett* (designer), Pierre Huyghe*
(artist), Bert Jansch, (musician), Edward Kemp* (librettist), Koo
Jeong-A* (artist), Stewart Lee* (writer), Arto Lindsay* (composer),
Colin Matthews (composer), Steve McQueen* (artist), New Young Pony
Club, Hans Ulrich Obrist* (curator), Ojos de Brujo, William Orbit*
(composer), Beth Orton (musician), Layo Paskin* (DJ & Music Director),
Lies Pauwels* (director), Tariq Ramadan (academic), Lou Reed (musician),
Mikhail Rudy (pianist), Philippe Parreno* (artist), Sasha (DJ), Anri
Sala* (artist), Tino Sehgal* (artist), Peter Sellars (director), June
Tabor (singer), The Blue Nile, The Fall, The Gossip, The Horrors,
The Whip, Rirkrit Tiravanija* (artist), Polly Toynbee (writer), Johnny
Vegas* (actor), Kanye West (musician), Tony Wilson (journalist &
producer).
Artistic Advisors: David Aukin, Mark Elder and Michael Morris.
What
the Papers said:
‘Manchester is the beating cultural heart of Britain’
The Observer July 2007
‘Manchester
is drawing on a rich cultural tradition, from the Hallé to
Oasis’. The Daily Telegraph Jan 2007.
‘Anything
that celebrates adventure, newness, intellectualism, radicalism has
to be in Manchester. The whole city is about that and this –
the Festival – is the kind of thing that suits it’ .
Paul Morley, BBC2 Newsnight Review – special live broadcast
from the Festival .
A
number of the productions created for the 2007 Festival are now touring
internationally, while the festival team focus on the 2009 Festival,
which takes place in Manchester, Thursday 2 – Sunday 19 July 2009.
The
first commissions will be announced in October 2008, with the entire
Festival programme revealed early 2009. Visit our website and sign up
to our free e-newsletter for sneak previews: www.mif.co.uk .
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