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# Timeline of Delft

The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Delft, Netherlands.

## Prior to 18th century

* 1075 - Town established by Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine. (Godfrey III died in 1069; perhaps it was his son Godfrey the Hunchback)
* 1246 - Delft granted city rights by William II of Holland.
* 1250 - St. Bartholomew's Church construction begins.
* 1383 - Nieuwe Kerk (Delft) (church) construction begins.
* 1389 - Canal to the Meuse river created.
* 1400 - Eastern Gate (Delft) built.
* 1403 - Agathaklooster (convent) established.
* 1470 - Carthusian monastery established.
* 1477 - Printing press in operation; Delft Bible issued.
* 1536 - 3 May: Delft fire of 1536 [nl].
* 1575 - Museum Het Prinsenhof converted into a residence for the counts of Orange.
* 1583 - Birth of Hugo Grotius, philosopher, political theorist and poet.
* 1584 - William I, Prince of Orange assassinated in Museum Het Prinsenhof.
* 1586 - Scientists Simon Stevin and Jan Cornets de Groot conduct a landmark experiment on the effects of gravity from the roof of the Nieuwe Kerk.
* 1611 - Guild of Saint Luke founded (approximate date).
* 1618 - City Hall (Delft) rebuilt.
* 1621 - Bank of Delft established.
* 1632 - Future scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and future artist Johannes Vermeer born in Delft.
* 1647 - Production of Delft pottery begins to expand.
* 1652 - Fabritius paints A View of Delft artwork.
* 1653 - Royal Delft porcelain factory begins operating.
* 1654 - 12 October: Delft Explosion.
* 1661 - Vermeer paints View of Delft artwork.
* 1692 - Armamentarium built.

## 18th-19th centuries

* 1721 - Delftsche Courant newspaper begins publication.
* 1769 - Stadsleenbank Delft (bank) built (approximate date).
* 1842 - Royal Academy of Delft [nl] (engineering school) established.
* 1859 - Delft City Archive active.
* 1862 - Delft Synagogue built in Koornmarkt (Delft) [nl].
* 1866 - Population: 21,877.
* 1882 - Maria van Jessekerk [nl] (church) built.
* 1884 - Agnetapark workers' housing developed.
* 1886
** Hugo Grotius monument erected in the Markt (Delft) [nl].
** Sint-Hippolytuskerk (Delft) [nl] (church) built.
* 1895 - Watertower (Delft) [nl] built.
* 1900 - Population: 31,582.

## 20th century

* 1905 - Delft Institute of Technology active.
* 1911 - Museum Het Prinsenhof active.
* 1919 - Population: 38,433.
* 1920 - Gerardus van Baren [nl] becomes mayor.
* 1921 - Hof van Delft and Vrijenban become part of Delft.
* 1970 - Roadway speed bump installed.
* 1976 - Tanthof development begins.
* 1977 - City Statistisch Jaarboek (yearbook) begins publication.

## 21st century

* 2004 - Bas Verkerk [nl] becomes mayor.
* 2007 - DOK Delft [nl] (library) built.
* 2015 - Delft railway station rebuilt.
* 2016
** Marja van Bijsterveldt becomes mayor.
** Population: 101,053.
# Mariinsky Theatre (film)

Mariinsky Theatre is a documentary film made for The South Bank Show, written and directed by Margy Kinmonth and produced by Foxtrot Films Ltd with The Valery Gergiev Foundation in association with ITV Productions and Granada International.
It celebrates the 225th anniversary of Saint Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre, and features Valery Gergiev, Plácido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Maxim Shostakovich, Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin.

## Credits
### Contributors

* Valery Gergiev
* Placido Domingo
* Mikhail Piotrovsky
* Rodion Shchedrin
* Anna Netrebko
* Maya Plisetskaya
* Altnay Asylmuratova
* Ulyana Lopatkina
* Yuri Temirkanov
* Maxim Shostakovich
* Dmitri Hvorostovsky

## Screenings

* 28th Festival International Du Films Sur L’Art, Montreal, March 2010.
# Stereomerus maculatus

Stereomerus maculatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Galileo and Martins in 2003. It is known from Brazil.
# Triplophysa cakaensis

Triplophysa cakaensis is a small species of stone loach in the genus Triplophysa. It is endemic to Ulan, Qinghai Province, China. It grows to 6.8 cm (2.7 in) SL.
# Unwan Chishti

Unwan Chishti (5 February 1937 – 1 February 2004) was an Urdu poet who gained repute as a poet, as a scholar, as a teacher and as a literary critic. He was the disciple of Abr Ahasani Gunnauri.

## Life

Chishti was born Iftikharul Hasan in Manglaur, Haridwar district, Uttarakhand. He was the son of Pirzadah Shah Anwarul Hasan Anwar Manglauri. He completed his early education in Manglaur and Muzaffarnagar. After his graduation he got his M.A. (geography, 1961), M.A. (Urdu, 1963), M.Lit. (1968), and Ph.D. (1973) degrees. He worked as a lecturer in Shoaib Mohammadia College in Agra before joining Jamia Millia Islamia on 15 September 1964. He taught Urdu and rose to be the Head of Urdu Department, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi; he retired in 1997 as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Languages.

## Literary career

Chishti was an Urdu poet, a critic and an historian of Urdu literature, and has many books to his credit. He was the disciple of Abr Ahasani Gunnauri. He has to his credit three published collections of poems – Zauq e Jamaal, Nim baz and Aks o shakhs.
His literary career started in 1950 with the composition of his first ghazal. His first nazm, Salaam ae musafir, was published in 1953 in the Urdu Monthly Shair. His first collection of poems titled Zauq e jamaal was published in 1966 followed by Nim baaz and Aks o shakhs in 1968. He learned the art of writing Urdu poems from his father and Nikahat Ali Adab Siddiqi.
A comprehensive appraisal on the works of Unwan Chishti conducted by Sughra Alam was published in 2003 titled – Unwan Chishti Muhaqqiq, Shair and Naqid. Earlier, Paimana e Sifat, dealing with his life and works, had been published in 1995.
# Theodor Kotsch

Theodor Kotsch (January 6, 1818 – November 27, 1884) was a German landscape painter.
Kotsch was born in Hanover. He went to Munich in 1839, where he developed his style by studying other masters and through landscape painting. In 1845 he returned to Hanover, and then in 1854 moved to Karlsruhe, where he joined the studio of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. In 1870 he established himself in Munich, and died there in 1884.
His landscapes are very realistic and carefully composed, and usually taken from the Harz, Upper Bavaria, and Swabia. He also produced a number of studies of trees in chalk and pencil.

## Selected paintings

* Gebirgslandschaft nach Sonnenuntergang und Waldlandschaft (1847)
* Waldbach (1853)
* Eichenlandschaft bei Karlsruhe, oberbayrische Waldlandschaft (1855)
* Der Regenstein bei Blankenburg (1865)
* Waldweg bei Prien am Chiemsee (1875)
* Holzhof einer Sägemühle (1876)
* Waldweg auf der Dellingerhöhe am Ammersee (1884)
# Stara Gora, Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici

Stara Gora (pronounced) is a small settlement in the Municipality of Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici in northeastern Slovenia. It lies on a small hill just south of the Ščavnica Valley. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria and is now included in the Mura Statistical Region.
The village church is dedicated to the Holy Spirit and belongs to the Parish of Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici. It was built between 1674 and 1697.
# Sporting Mertzig

Sporting Mertzig is a Luxembourgish football club based in Mertzig. The club was founded in 1949 and currently competes in the Luxembourg National Division, the top tier of Luxembourgish football.

## History

Sporting Mertzig was established in 1949 and has since become one of the prominent football clubs in Luxembourg. The club has a rich history and has achieved success at various levels of Luxembourgish football.
In recent years, Sporting Mertzig has been a regular participant in the Luxembourg National Division, the highest level of domestic football in the country. The club has also competed in the Luxembourg Cup, the premier domestic cup competition.

## Stadium

Sporting Mertzig plays its home matches at the Stade Jos Becker, located in Mertzig. The stadium has a seating capacity of 1,500 spectators. It provides a vibrant and energetic atmosphere for the fans to support their team during matches.

## Rivalries

Sporting Mertzig has developed local rivalries with other clubs in the region. Matches against these teams often generate significant interest and excitement among the fans. These rivalries add to the competitive nature of football in Luxembourg.
# Marcellus, Lot-et-Garonne

Marcellus is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in south-western France.
# Jeff Worthington

Jeff Worthington (April 29, 1961 – June 1, 2023) was an American paralympic athlete. He competed at the 1988 Summer Paralympics.

## Biography

Worthington was born in Atlantic, Iowa. He was studying at Creighton University when he was involved in a car accident leading to a spinal cord injury in 1981. He completed his rehabilitation at Craig Hospital in Colorado. After his injury, he transferred to Arizona State where he got involved in wheelchair sports. He later moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado where he trained for the Paralympics. He had met Paralympian athlete John Brewer in the 1980s and adopted Brewer’s pushing technique.
Worthington competed at the 1988 Summer Paralympics, competing in athletics. He won the gold medal in the men's 400m 1C event, and also won gold in the men's 800m 1C event, with Brewer finishing second. He also won individual gold medals in the men's 1500m 1C event. and the men's 5000m 1C event, and team golds in the men's 4×100m relay 1A–1C and the men's 4×200m relay 1A–1C.
# Mark Bamford

Mark Bamford may refer to:
* Mark Bamford (cricketer) (born 1980), English cricketer
* Mark Bamford (film director), American film director
# Stereomerus lineatus

Stereomerus lineatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1940. It is known from Brazil and Bolivia.
# Sally Laird

Sally Ann Laird (2 May 1956 – 15 July 2010) was a British editor and translator who specialised in Russian literature.

## Education

Laird was born in the London Borough of Barnet and attended Camden School for Girls. She was a student of Russian and philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford. She was editor of The Isis Magazine at Oxford. Laird went on to Harvard University, on a Harkness Fellowship, where she gained an MA in Soviet studies in 1981. As part of her Oxford degree, she spent a year at Voronezh State University.

## Career

Laird worked for Amnesty International during the 1980s. She was USSR editor for the magazine Index on Censorship between June 1986 and November 1988, when she became editor-in-chief. She held the job until August 1989.
After leaving the magazine she worked as a translator and editor, and reviewed books for The Observer. She translated a series of Russian novels. The Washington Post reviewed her translation of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya's The Time: Night: "Sally Laird's version, although a bit British and a bit bowdlerized, conveys the wonderful fluidity and occasional frenzy of the monologue "written" by Petrushevskaya's narrator".
Laird became project manager of the Central European Classics series, brought out by Central European University Press.
She contributed to Till my Tale is Told: Women’s Memoirs of the Gulag, and wrote Voices of Russian Literature: Interviews with Ten Contemporary Writers, the latter based on interviews she carried out between 1987 and 1994.
In 1993, Laird moved to Denmark, living at Ebeltoft. She learnt Danish and worked as a translator between English and Danish.

## Personal life

Laird and her husband Mark Le Fanu had one daughter. Laird died in 2010.

## Writing

* Translation of The Queue, by Vladimir Sorokin (Readers International, 1988; New York Review Books, 2008; ISBN 9781590172742)
* Translation of The Time: Night, by Ludmila Petrushevskaya (Pantheon Books, 1994)
* Translation of Immortal Love: Stories, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Pantheon Books, 1996)
* Voices of Russian Literature: Interviews with Ten Contemporary Writers (Oxford University Press, 1999)
* Till my Tale is Told: Women’s Memoirs of the Gulag, ed Simeon Vilensky, (Indiana University Press, 1999)
# Pleurella

Pleurella is a genus of fungi in the family Tricholomataceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Pleurella ardesiaca, found in New Zealand.
# Stéphane Robert (linguist)

Stéphane Robert is a French linguist based at LLACAN (CNRS) who specializes in Information Structure and cognitive linguistic issues in African languages, especially Atlantic languages.

## Education and research

Stéphane Robert received her PhD in 1989 from the Université de Paris VII (félicitations du jury), under the direction of Antoine Culioli, with a dissertation entitled, Système verbal et énonciation en wolof. In 1996 she received her Habilitation (félicitations du jury), at the Université de Paris VII UFR de Linguistique with a Habilitation thesis entitled, Réflexions sur la dynamique du sens et la structuration des énoncés.
Robert has been a researcher at LLACAN (CNRS) since 1992, and has been a Research Director there since 1998. She is best known for her work on the expression of focus in Wolof.

## Honors and awards

* 2018 elected to the Academia Europea
* 2013 Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur

## Selected publications

Hickman, Maya & Stéphane Robert (eds.). 2006. Space in Languages. Benjamins. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.66
Robert, Stéphane. 1991. Approche énonciative du système verbal: le cas du wolof. Editions du CNRS. ISBN 978-2-222-04479-6
Rialland, Annie & & Stéphane Robert. 2001. The intonational system of Wolof. Linguistics 39, 893–939. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.2001.038
Robert, Stéphane. 1993. Structure et sémantique de la focalisation. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 88, 25–47.
# Senator Childres

Senator Childres may refer to:
* Don C. Childers (born 1932), Florida State Senate
* Greg Childers (fl. 2010s), Oklahoma State Senate
* Lawrence Childers (born 1944), Missouri State Senate
* W. D. Childers (born 1933), Florida State Senate
# Marco Milanese

Marco Milanese (born 27 October 1958) is an Italian archaeologist. He graduated in archaeology in 1981 from the University of Genoa. In 1983 he won the 3rd edition of the Bretschneider's Erma International Archaeology Prize in Rome, with the work Scavi nell'oppidum pre-romano di Genova.
In 1987 he obtained his PhD in archaeology at the University of Pisa, Siena and Florence. Since 1992 he has been teaching, as associate professor, in archaeological research methodologies and medieval archaeology at the Universities of Sassari, Genoa, Arezzo and Pisa. Since 2003 he has been full professor in Sassari.

## Publications

* with Giovanni Aliprandi, La Ceramica Europea Introduzione alla tecnologia alla storia e all'arte, Editore: ECIG Edizioni culturali internazionali Genova, (1986) ISBN 978-88-7545-168-4 ISBN 978-88-7545-168-4
* with Riccardo Francovich, Lo Scavo archeologico di Montarrenti e i problemi dell'incastellamento medievale. Esperienze a confronto, Firenze ISBN 978-88-7814-075-2
* Scavi nell'oppidum preromando di Genova (Genova-S. Silvestro 1), Breitschneider, 1987
* Genova romana. Mercato e città dalla tarda età repubblicana a Diocleziano dagli scavi del colle di Castello (Genova-San Silvestro), Ed. L'Erma di Bretschneider, Roma, 1993 ISBN 978-88-7062-802-9 ISBN 978-88-7062-802-9
* Archeologia Postmedievale: l'esperienza europea e l'Italia, Florence: Ed. all'Insegna del Giglio, 1997
* Uchi Maius tardo antica e islamica. Miscellanea di studi 1997-2002, Plus – Università di Pisa, 2003
* Studi e ricerche sul villaggio medievale di Geridu. Miscellanea 1996-2001, QUAVAS - Quaderni del Centro di Documentazione dei Villaggi Abbandonati della Sardegna, 2004 ISBN 978-88-7814-257-2
* Alghero. Archeologia di una città medievale, Sassari. 2013 ISBN 978-88-7138-646-1
# Umanak (mission)

Umanak (Kalaallisut: Uummannaq, "Heart-shaped") was a former Moravian mission in mid-western Greenland, located upfjord from Neu-Herrnhut (modern Nuuk).
It was founded in 1861 and surrendered to the Lutheran Church of Denmark in 1900.
# Tropimetopa

Tropimetopa simulator is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Tropimetopa. It was described by Pascoe in 1856.
# Reed Smoot (cinematographer)

Reed P. Smoot A.S.C. is a United States cinematographer associated with many successful IMAX documentaries and theme park rides. He also did the cinematography for The Great American Cowboy, which won the 1973 Academy Award for best documentary feature.
Smoot is a Latter-day Saint. He received a BA in Advertising from BYU in 1969, and is married to his wife Julia.

## Cinematography

* Are You Listening? (1971)
* The Great American Cowboy (1973)
* The Lost Manuscript (1974)
* Cipher in the Snow (1974)
* The First Vision (1976)
* John Baker's Last Race (1976)
* The Phone Call (1977)
* The Mailbox (1977)
* The Gift (1977)
* Where Jesus Walked (1978)
* Uncle Ben (1978)
* The Great Brain (1978)
* The Emmett Smith Story (1979)
* Take Down (1979)
* The Trophy Case (1979)
* In One Blinding Moment (1980)
* Windwalker (1981)
* Harry's War (1981)
* The Avenging (1982)
* Mountain Charlie (1982)
* Ballet Robotique (1982)
* The Last Leaf (1983)
* When Your Lover Leaves (1983)
* Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets (1984)
* Rainbow War (1985)
* Lots of Luck (1985)
* Door to Door (1985)
* The Long Hot Summer (1985)
* Spirit Lodge (1986)
* Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills (1986)
* The Wraith (1986)
* Russkies (1987)
* The Pump (1988)
* Alamo: The Price of Freedom (1988)
* Gleaming the Cube (1989)
* Legacy: A Mormon Journey (1990)
* Back to Neverland (1990)
* Don't Tell Her It's Me (1990)
* Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter (1991)
* To Be an Astronaut (1992)
* Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
* The Mountain of the Lord (1993)
* Rubdown (1993)
* Yellowstone (1994)
* The Women of Spring Break (1995)
* Zion Canyon: Treasure of the Gods (1996)
* Imagine Indiana (1996)
* Special Effects: Anything Can Happen (1996)
* Not in This Town (1997)
* Divided by Hate (1997)
* Dinosaur (1998)
* No Laughing Matter (1998)
* Mysteries of Egypt (1998)
* Olympic Glory (1999)
* Galapagos: The Enchanted Voyage (1999)
* Out of Annie's Past (2000)
* Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man (2000)
* Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (2001)
* All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live! (2001)
* China: The Panda Adventure (2001)
* The Human Body (2001)
* Ultimate X: The Movie (2002)
* Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees (2002)
* The Young Black Stallion (2003)
* Mystery of the Nile (2005)
* Mystic India (2005)
* Lincoln's Eyes (2005)
* The Work and the Glory: American Zion (2005)
* Journey Across India (2007)
* Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (2007)
* Mysteries of the Great Lakes (2008)
* Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008)
* Wild Ocean (2008)
* Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (2009)
* Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011)
* Titans of the Ice Age (2013)
* Superpower Dogs (2019)
* Dinosaurs of Antarctica (2020)
# University of Ngozi

The University of Ngozi (UNG), also Ngozi University, is a private university in Burundi. It was established on 17 April 1999 by the Constituent Assembly and was approved by Ministerial Ordinance No. 530/264 on 7 May 1999.

## Location

The university campus is located in the city of Ngozi, in Ngozi Province in northern Burundi. This is approximately 126 kilometres (78 mi), northeast of Bujumbura, the commercial capital and largest city in the county. The university campus is located about 88 kilometres (55 mi) north of the city of Gitega, the national political capital.
This location lies off the Kayanza– Gashikanwa Road (RN6) in the north-eastern part of the city of Ngozi. The geograpical coordinates of the university campus are: 2°54'16.0"S, 29°49'52.0"E (Latitude:-2.904444; Longitude:29.831111).

## Overview

According to its website, the University of Ngozi was established partly to address admission pressures at the University of Burundi, in Bujumbura at that time. In 1999, it is estimated that there were about 7,000 university students attending the University of Bujumbura, the only university in Burundi then, which was designed to accommodate no more than 4,000 students then.
In addition, there was an active civil war going on in Burundi. The planners' of Ngozi University, calculated that with more university positions available in the country, young people would be encouraged to pursue further education, instead of joining the civil conflict.

## Faculties

The university maintains the following faculties:
* Faculty of Law, Economics and Management
* Faculty of Letters, Languages, Communication an Arts
* Faculty of Medicine an Health Sciences (University Institute of Health Sciences of Ngozi)
* Faculty of Agronomics and Veterinary Sciences
* Faculty of Science and Technology

## Alumni

1. Eveque Mutabaruka: Chief Information Officer at Bank of Kigali, since September 2022. Graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree with honors, in Computer Science, from University of Ngozi.
# Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation

33°08′30″N 107°11′56″E﻿ / ﻿33.141791°N 107.198925°E﻿ / 33.141791; 107.198925
Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation (Chinese: 陕飞集团; pinyin: Shǎnfēi Jítuán) is a Chinese aircraft manufacturer and supplier to the Chinese military based in Hanzhong, Shaanxi province. It is a subsidiary of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC).

## Products
### Transports

* Shaanxi Y-8 medium size medium range transport, near copy of the Antonov An-12
** Y-8 ESM ESM aircraft
** Y-8 C3I airborne command post aircraft
** Y-8 battlefield surveillance
** Y-8 radar test bed
** Y-8 maritime patrol aircraft
** Y-8 avionics test bed
** Y-8-F600 transport
* Y-9 multi-purpose transport, developed as a stretched version of the Shaanxi Y-8F with greater payload and range. The Y-9 is considered China's attempt to build a C-130J class transport aircraft.
* Y-5 transport, copy of the Antonov An-2
* Y-7 transport, copy of the Antonov An-24
# Staphylococcus microti

Staphylococcus microti is a Gram-positive, coagulase-negative member of the bacterial genus Staphylococcus consisting of clustered cocci. This species was originally isolated from viscera of the common vole, Microtus arvalis. It is genetically similar to Staphylococcus rostri.
# Senator Cisneros

Senator Cisneros may refer to:
* Carlos Cisneros (1948–2019), New Mexico Senate
* Roger Cisneros (1924–2017), Colorado State Senate
# Maria Christina

Maria Christina may refer to:
* Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania (1574–1621), Princess, briefly sovereign Princess regnant, of Transylvania, by marriage to Sigismund Báthory
* Maria Christina Alexandra, or Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689)
* Maria-Christina Oliveras, American actress
* Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1735–1782), daughter of Augustus III of Poland and Maria Josepha of Austria
* Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (1742-1798)
* Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1770–1851), daughter of Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland and Franciszka Korwin-Krasińska
* Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily (1779–1849), Queen Consort of Piedmont-Sardinia
* Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (1806–1878), Queen Consort and then Regent of Spain, by marriage to Ferdinand VII of Spain
* Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain (1833–1902), daughter of Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain and Princess Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily, and wife of Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain
* Maria Christina of Austria (1858–1929), Queen Consort and then Regent of Spain, by marriage to Alfonso XII
* Infanta María Cristina of Spain (1911-1996), daughter of Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg
* Maria Elfira Christina (born 1986), Indonesian former badminton player
* Maria Christina, the 19th century name for the village of Tamuning, Guam
# Mark Ball (artistic director)

Mark Ball is a British artistic director based at the Southbank Centre. He took up the position in January 2022. He was previously the Creative Director at Manchester International Festival (MIF).