Aoife Concannon
Creative Producer
Aoife Concannon in the Creative Producer at Mother Tongues. She has been programming, producing and promoting festivals and creative projects for almost 20 years, working with organisations as diverse as Improvised Music Company, Poetry Ireland, Bram Stoker Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Zanzibar International Film Festival, PhotoIreland and many more.
Her focus now is on exploring and developing socially engaged creative work with, and within, the community. She holds an MA in Social Art Practice from Limerick School of Art and Design.Â
aoife [at] mothertongues.ie
Celine Baumgartner
Communications Officer
With a Bachelor of Science in Communication Management & Design from Ithaca College, Celine works as a digital marketer and podcast producer. She is in Ireland on a Working Holiday Authorization, focusing on immersing herself in Ireland’s art and culture. As the Marketing Officer, Celine is thrilled to help Mother Tongues with their mission to support bilingualism as she missed out on this opportunity growing up. During her time at Mother Tongues, Celine hopes to inspire raising bilingual children with her communication initiatives.
comms [at] mothertongues.ie
Working since the start
Dr Francesca La Morgia
Director, Mother Tongues
Dr Francesca La Morgia is is the founder and director of Mother Tongues. Francesca has an MPhil in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD in bilingual language acquisition from DCU. She lectured in language development from 2010 to 2021 across various universities, holding posts at the University of Reading, Trinity College, Ulster University and Maynooth University.Â
Francesca’s work within Mother Tongues focuses on Learning, Research and Policy development across education and the arts.Â
Elena Cristofanon
Operations manager, Mother Tongues
Elena Cristofanon is an Italian creative with a growing passion for projects and people management. She oversees all the projects and the marketing of Mother Tongues. Elena has been behind the scenes of Mother Tongues since the very beginning, in 2017, and was the Festival Manager until 2022. With an academic background in Art History and Standards for Education in Museums, she continued her studies in Ireland in the area of Marketing, Management and Web Design. In 2021, she was awarded the Arts Council’s Agility Award to expand the Contatto project on a national scale.Â
Steering group members
Mother Tongues festival relies on a group of dedicated and talented individuals who support our team in delivering all that we do to the highest standard.
Rebecca Blake
Irma Bochorishvili
Tony Fagan
Lianne Quigley
Jo Dukkipati
Sandra Ruiz Moriana
Zoe O’Reilly
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