Boarding passes at the ready! Knotted handkerchiefs and deck chairs are optional.
7 Inch cinema will be starting from 6pm with films being shown at 8pm - it's an early starter!
Food & drinks will served throughout. It's the last summer cinema so hope to see all you folks there!
http://www.7inch.org.uk/events/
There are few remaining mills in Salford and Islington Mill has probably had it most dramtic change of use and occupation ever over the past 10 years. Islington Mill is undergoing a slow and organic transformation and there are current building works going on but these National heritage Open days are a chance to have a wander around, meet some of the current residents, enjoy the urban garden and hear about it architectural past and its hoped for future.
Islington Mill will be open to wander from 11am - 5pm Thurs 9th - Sun 12th
Tours and Talks at 2pm each day(check this page for details of speakers nearer the dates)
Food & drinks will served throughout.
http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/directory/region/North%20West/
Every Friday evening at Islington Mill during August
Gates open at 6pm with food and drinks available.
Film screenings begin at 9.30pm
What would those hot summer evenings be without some avant garde art house cinema in the sumptous mill garden, dripping with flowers? Incomplete, exactly. Prepare yourselves for films educational and stimulating.
There is a backup plan in case of rain, so you have no excuse.
Fri Aug 6th
Alex Pearl, Islington Mill resident artist presents Tour de France by Lelouche
UK artist Alex Pearl makes things and then videos them before they fall apart. His work deals with chance and the things in life he doesn't do very well
www.alexpearl.co.uk
Fri Aug 13th
Juhana Moisander, Islington Mill resident artist presents... (tbc)
In Juhana Moisander’s installations, videos and photographs, a dim space is constructed in which history, memory and fantasy meet. When constructing his fantasy-world meeting venues, Moisander often uses himself as a model, in the manner of American photographic artist, Cindy Sherman. Like Sherman, he conceals his own body in suits, masks and other paraphernalia. For example in his work Mummosusi (granny wolf) (2006, loopvideo), the artist is rocking gently in a rocking chair in a cabin, dressed in a headscarf and long boots, with a wolf mask on his face. In this hybrid character, the theme of relatives and family is combined in combined with images from folklore and mythical knowledge.
www.juhanamoisander.com
Fri Aug 20th
'Herb and Dorothy' by Megumi Sasaki - the incredible story of a postal worker and a librarian who built a world class art collection
Many artists are interviewed in the film, including Chuck Close, Christo, and Robert Mangold.
The film won the Audience Award and the Golden Starfish Documentary Feature Award at the 2008 Hamptons International Film Festival [2], and won the Audience Award at the 2008 Silverdocs Documentary Festival
Also showing will be a talk and short film about the founders of the Working Class Movement Library, Eddie and Ruth Frow.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_and_Dorothy_Vogel
Fri Aug 27th
7inch Cinema presents... AWAY WE GO!
7 Inch Cinema are illustrious mobile film exhibitors and producers of the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham. Before the summer disappears altogether they are going camping, but en route they are making a pit-stop at Islington Mill to present an evening of short films, archive oddities and music devoted to high days and holidays. Boarding passes at the ready! Knotted handkerchiefs and deckchairs are optional.
www.7inch.org.uk
For more info email:
artacademy(AT)islingtonmill(DOT)com
There will be no events at Islington Mill until later in the summer, owing to renovation work.
However the Engine House is open for lunch on Thursdays and Fridays.
We would like to thank Arts Council England, Ann Scrine, David Britch, Central Salford Urban Regeneration Company and everyone invovled with supporting Islington Mill, making it the legend it is, and the vision it will become.
The ground floor of Islington Mill will be transformed over the summer into something even more fantastic than it already is. The Mill we know and love will be having some more alterations made, maybe even, now i know this is the moment you've all been waiting for, maybe even new toilets! amongst other things, but new toilets! let's here it for new toilets! and more disability access! woop woop! a nice floor! yes! that's right! and many other improvements. So go on, after you've come to M:LL 24, enjoy your summer safe in the knowledge that when you return, Islington Mill will be waiting for you, wearing a new frock and butterfly wings. The rest of the Islington Mill complex will continue functioning as normal
Llike many other holometabolist creatures, the ground floor of Islington Mill will be wrapping itself up inside a chrysalis to undergo metamorphosis. Whilst inside the pupa, the insect will excrete digestive juices, to destroy much of the larva's body, leaving a few cells intact. The remaining cells will begin the growth of the adult, using the nutrients from the broken down larva. This process of cell death is called histolysis, and cell regrowth histogenesis.