Cast members will now stop off Paisley this Sunday (October 25), at both 3pm and 6pm in the Thomas Coats Memorial Church, High Street.

This performance is also part of two of Scotland’s most prominent and important festivals: Scotland’s creative ageing festival, Luminate 2015 and Scotland’s Mental Health Arts and Film Festival.

For the first time this will also be a signed performance – catering for the hard of hearing and assisting to make sure that as many members of the community as possible, can attend.

Mill Girls On Tour is a refreshingly unique production - a show that intertwines poetry, theatre and music - a poignant tribute to the working women and their friendships; from factory floor and war efforts to dancing and love.

In the Industrial Revolution, the mills and manufacturing were of phenomenal importance, UK wide. The mills would not have run without the people in them – in Paisley, the ‘Mill Girls’. Mill Girls on Tour portrays and celebrates the lives and lifestyles of the thousands of women who worked in Paisley’s great thread mills in the 19th and 20th Centuries – that once produced over 90% of the world’s thread - that helped to build a town.

Theirs is a familiar story, taking its place alongside the great mill towns of Britain and the social history of working people. The Paisley Coats and Clark global thread legacy lives on today, but the last worker clocked off in Paisley, Scotland, in 1993. After their demise, with the end of manufacturing, towns are now turning to culture, creativity and tourism, in order to rebuild. Today Paisley, as with other towns, is working hard on its regeneration. WMT, has created Mill Girls On Tour as a unique platform for regeneration - based on the work of contemporary Scottish poets, writers and songwriter, whose words celebrate these women’s lives.

Tickets are available online: http://www.weavingmusicalthreads.com/events/mill-girls/49-mill-girls-on-tour-paisley-smhaff-rmhaff-luminate-sunday-25-october-2015 or by calling 0141 882 4520 / 07990 981682