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The people of Manchester, England keep finding more and more nice things to say about the late, great Tony Wilson. However, the legacy of the Factory Records head/journalist/larger-than-life personality will be but one of many, many topics at hand at the city's Tony Wilson Experience, a 24-hour "intelligent conversation" taking place at Cathedral Gardens in Manchester City Centre on June 21-22.

Gathering together at that place and time for a series of workshops will be the likes of New Order members Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, and Peter Hook, Joy Division documentary filmmaker Grant Gee, designer and Wilson's Factory Records co-owner Peter Saville, actor Steve Coogan (who portrayed Wilson in the movie 24 Hour Party People), Creation Records label head Alan McGee, and Control screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh, among other luminaries.

They will pay tribute to both Wilson and Manchester's artistic community past, present, and future by chatting with a select group of 200 young people involved in the arts, hoping to inspire and mentor them. Organizers hope the event serves as the first step towards founding a creative arts summer school in the city, and plan to bring the day's chatter to folks outside of Manchester via podcasts. Very, very long podcasts.