Maureen Kennelly announced as new curator of Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2012
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is delighted to announce that Maureen Kennelly has been appointed as the curator of Mountains to Sea, dlr Book Festival which will take place in September 2012.
Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival honours the unique literary landscape of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown by providing opportunities for the public to hear the very best of Irish and international writers read from their work. Literary fiction is at the heart of Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival but events cover an array of genres.
Maureen Kennelly is a freelance arts producer and programmer and she is currently Project Manager with the Crafts Council of Ireland for Year of Craft. She is a co-founder and director with Fergus Cronin of Spool, a company established to promote live literature events and other arts projects. She was Programme Director of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway for 2009 and 2010. She will curate Theatre Forum’s annual conference in June 2012. She was previously director of Kilkenny Arts Festival, artistic director of the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray and she has also worked with Fishamble New Writing Theatre Company, Druid Theatre Company and The Arts Council. In March 2011, she was creative producer of DublinSwell, staged at the Convention Centre, Dublin as the first major celebration of the UNESCO City of Literature designation.
For more information or an image please contact:
Carolyn Brown, Assistant Arts Officer cbrown@dlrcoco.ie or (00 353 1) 271 9532
