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Dateline: 7th December, 2006
Edinburgh Director of Festivals Appointed Edinburgh has appointed its first Director of Festivals to help the city keep its place at the pre-eminent festival city in the world, in face of the competition from places as varied as Barcelona and Manchester. The new director is 41-year old Faith Liddell, former marketing manager for the Fringe Festival and director of the International Book Festival. She will work part-time from her home in Leith three days a week and will be paid £20,000 a year by a consortium of ten festivals: the International Festival, Book Festival, Film Festival, Fringe Festival, Science Festival, Military Tattoo, Jazz and Blues Festival, Arts Festival, Children's Festival and the Winter Festival. Her contract is for five years. Her job will be to get the festivals to work together (for example, setting up a unified box office), look at problems which they all face (such as transport), raise their profile, attracting sponsors, and generally keep them ahead of rivals. "But there is an issue over the funding," she told The Scotsman, "and I will have to look at how that can be addressed." But she did add that her role is to find funding for those areas where the festivals overlap, such as marketing, rather than for invidual festivals' events. She was director of Dundee Contemporary Arts, and, in her current role as a freelance arts consultant, works with Suspect Culture and helps promote the National Short Story Prize. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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