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Ruth Mackenzie
Launch director of the BBC's and Arts Council's digital arts platform, The Space, and artistic director Designate of the Holland Festival
Ruth Mackenzie CBE is Artistic Director Designate of the Holland Festival, with her first festival in June 2015, and Launch Director of The Space, the BBC's and Arts Council's digital platform to commission digital arts. She was most recently the Director of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and Curator of its finale, the London 2012 Festival. This official cultural programme for the Olympic & Paralympic Games was the largest UK Festival in the country’s history, involving over 25,000 artists from every country participating in the Games.
She was General Director of the Manchester International Festival and Scottish Opera; Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre, Executive Director of Nottingham Playhouse, Head of Strategic Planning for the South Bank Centre.
She has also been Consultant Dramaturg to the Vienna Festival, Consultant to the BBC, Tate, London Symphony Orchestra, British Film Institute amongst others and Expert Adviser to 5 Secretaries of State for Culture, Media & Sport in the UK Government.
Twitter @ruthmackenzie @thespacearts @hollandfestival