The districts

Neighborhoods of the fair

Six districts, one weekend. Pick a yard, a mill or a lantern lane and start building.

Riverside Mills

Nineteenth-century textile mills along the water, now looms, dye baths and slow craft.

Foundries and freight warehouses turned into workshops where metal, wood and electricity meet.

A single street of storefront studios: carvers, printers, leatherworkers and glass.

A cobbled courtyard ringed by forges, stage lights and the weekend night market.

Narrow lanes hung with paper lanterns; ceramics, candle-making and late-night kiln openings.

Retired rail sheds under the viaduct, home to the city's electronics and robotics benches.