Triangle Talks: Maurice Carlin and Islington Mill

On August 1st 6:30 - 8 PM

Triangle invites Maurice Carlin, an artist and a primary force behind Islington Mill, a 19th century textile mill outside Manchester, UK that has, over the last two decades, been transformed into a sprawling hub of cultural production, artist housing, music venue, experimental school, and bed and breakfast.

Surviving by the skin of its teeth for many years, the Mill has more recently been a focus of economic and cultural development in the Manchester region, receiving significant government support. Maurice Carlin is visiting New York to learn about local efforts to achieve sustainable support for artists, and to share ideas gleaned from the Mill’s years spent shaping and reshaping their cultural and economic identity.

“The Mill has fostered something that is increasingly rare and vital in our current times—a real community. Like Brian Eno’s widely repeated theory of the “scenius” illustrates, great ideas are not the products of individuality, but of people co-existing in groups, and of that, Islington Mill is an emblem.“ -Kamila Rymajdo, Noisey