This is our Newsletter of 21 March 2019. If you’d like to receive a weekly round-up into your inbox, just sign up here!
This month we bid a sad au revoir to our Studio Manager, Residency Queen, friend, artist, companion, confidante, Maker of Opportunities, Founder of SoundsTown, all-round Mill idol, Stina Puotinen. Stina has headed back to the Big Apple but will be forever connected to Islington Mill. We will see her soon, but we are sad and missing our friend and colleague. An epic send-off was in order of course, and you’ll never listen to East 17 the same way…. Stina, Stina!
News…
Thanks to everyone who joined Islington Mill Art Academy and friends for our reading group on Activism on Paper yesterday evening. Great conversation, energy and ideas. Stay tuned for future potluck dinner events, a great way to meet people, think and express yourself.
Welcome to all of our new tenants at Islington Mill. Readers, be sure to check out new and updated pages on our site from Art with Heart, TV Babies, Christopher Burke, Swansong Coffee, Susan Gunn and Birds Hit Records.
Events…
// Sounds From The Other City have announced the FULL LINE-UP for their Quindecennial party on 5 May. 15 promoters celebrating 15 years of Salford’s most beloved music and art festival.
// Deep stretching and full-on chilling available TONIGHT (21 Mar) as Full Moon Zonal Sound Yoga hits Niamos with live music from AHRKH and yoga from Jojo Crago.
// Our resident ceramic school, 7 Spot Pottery have a great line-up of classes and workshops in store. Lots of ways to begin or develop your pottery skills. Try your hand at DIY Ceramic Coffee Cups on 24 March or 14 April. A 1 Day Ceramic Terrazzo Masterclass takes place on 19 May, with Marbled Porcelain Jewellery skills on 23 June. If you’re brand new, try the Ceramics 101 beginners course (throwing and hand-building) on Monday evenings, for 6 weeks beginning 22 April. Event pages and sign up here.
// 27 March: New exhibition comes to Caustic Coastal. Afterlifes by Hannah Farrell occupies all spaces in the gallery with previews from 6pm on 27 March, and running until 27 April.
// 27 March: Social Art Network event at Unit 4 on Regent Estate. Anyone interested in social art is welcome to come along to meet their peers and network towards the Social Art Biennale for 2020.
// 29 March: An Introduction to Risograph Printing with MARC the Printers. Join the experts to learn successful RISO printing, make a collage and print 2-col RISO as an edition of 30. Materials provided!
