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04/06/2026

Get a first look at new exhibition 📣 Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven

Join us for a special preview evening exploring textiles, making and shared stories across Cheongju (Korea), New Delhi (India) and Manchester 🗺️

From large-scale installations to delicate embroidery and hand-spun fibres, the exhibition brings together contemporary artists and historic textiles from the Whitworth’s collection in unexpected and powerful ways.

✨ Exhibition Preview
📅 Thursday 9 July
⏰ 6pm - 8pm
🎟 Book your free tickets now: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1989550394788?aff=oddtdtcreator

Artwork Photo: Jounghye Yoo, Gilded Veil, 2025, installation view in Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven, National Crafts Museum & Hastkala Academy. Photo by Garima Bhaskar

02/06/2026

Join our team📣

We're looking for our new fantastic AV and Digital Systems Technician. 🎥

Are you a technical expert with a passion for the intersection of art, culture, and digital innovation? It’s a dream opportunity to join the teams at the Whitworth and Manchester Museum during an exciting time in their respective histories. In this dual-site role, you will be the primary contact for AV infrastructure, ensuring our equipment is expertly maintained and its creative potential is fully realised across galleries, exhibitions, and events. 🌟

🔗For more information and details on how to apply, head to our Jobs page - https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/about/joinourteam/jobs/.

✍️ Applications close at midnight, Tuesday 23rd June 2026.

Image Credit: Isaac Julien, Ten Thousand Waves, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London. © Isaac Julien. The Whitworth, The University of Manchester.

01/06/2026

This Volunteers’ Week, we’re celebrating the brilliant people who give their time, energy and care to the Whitworth.

From welcoming visitors and supporting workshops, to helping in our gardens, collections, events and family programmes, our volunteers are part of the everyday life of the gallery.

We’re especially proud of our family volunteering programme, which gives parents, carers, children and young people the chance to volunteer together. It’s a joyful way to build confidence, share skills, meet others and feel part of a creative community.

A huge thank you to all our volunteers, past and present. The Whitworth wouldn’t be the same without you.

Watch our film https://ow.ly/VIVp50Z6eiW - and read more about family volunteering via Oxford Road Corridor - https://ow.ly/iMtl50Z6eiV

31/05/2026

Last chance to see ✨

Delaine Le Bas: Un-Fair-Ground at the Whitworth this weekend!

This major exhibition Delaine Le Bas: Un-Fair-Ground, offers an expansive survey of the artist’s groundbreaking feminist practice across her career. Bringing together new works by the artist in conversation with key pieces from the Whitworth collection. This captivating exhibition creates a powerful dialogue around identity, resistance, folklore and belonging.

📷: Delaine Le Bas: Un-Fair-Ground (2026) installation, the Whitworth, The University of Manchester. Photo: Michael Pollard.

27/05/2026

✨ Craft Club at the Whitworth ✨

Get hands-on with clay in a new series of ceramics workshop hosted by Blether Craft Club.

Led by artist and facilitator El Garrard, this session invites you to explore mark-making and coloured slips, creating your own unique set of ceramic tile artworks inspired by Michaela Yearwood-Dan: The Practice of Liberation 🎨 now on at the Whitworth.

Blether is a Manchester-based community arts collective running creative events and workshops across the city 💫

📅 Thursday 11 June
⏰ 6pm – 8pm
📍the Whitworth
🎟️ From £32 (concessions available)
Spaces are limited — book now via the link here - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blether-presents-craft-club-at-the-whitworth-tile-workshop-01-tickets-1989815564919

Image Credit (1): Installation view, ‘Michaela Yearwood Dan: The Practice of Liberation’, The Whitworth, Manchester, 2026. Photo: Michael Pollard.

21/05/2026

Only a few weeks left to visit Delaine Le Bas: Un-Fair-Ground at the Whitworth. ⏳

Sev from our Visitor Team has written about Pascal Verbena’s Deserted House, a curious object made from found materials and selected by Le Bas from the Whitworth’s collection.

It looks as if it might have a hidden function, but part of its joy is that it resists easy explanation. 👀

Read Sev’s post, then come and see the work in the gallery before the exhibition closes.

https://ow.ly/RbOh50Z25Gh

https://ow.ly/LE2L50Z25H1

Free exhibition
Until 31 May 2026

15/05/2026

Celebrate blossom season at Whitworth Park 🌸🌼

Join us on Sunday 31 May for the finale of Bloomtown - Manchester's annual festival by and partners.

Enjoy free drop-in activities for all ages, including: badge making, jewellery making, willow weaving, storytelling, drumming circles, choir performances and more🥁🎉

Borrow a bike and join Bee Pedal Ready's 'Pedal Party' for children and families 🚲

You can pick up a Bloomtown map 🗺️ to discover blossom walks and activities across Greater Manchester!

📅 Sunday 31 May
⏰ 11am - 3pm
🍃 Free, drop in
📍 Whitworth Park

09/05/2026

Mark Romani Resistance Day at the Whitworth with artist Delaine Le Bas, Juice Vamosi and Gemma Lees.

Taking place as part of Delaine Le Bas: Un-Fair-Ground, this event brings together conversation, poetry and creative writing to explore Romani history, activism, creativity and cultural resistance.

Delaine Le Bas will be in conversation with Juice Vamosi, co-founder of KaskoSan Roma Charity, and Romany Gypsy performance artist and poet Gemma Lees will perform poetry from her book 1000 years and lead creative writing workshops inspired by GTRSB writers.

Romani Resistance Day with Delaine Le Bas, Juice Vamosi and Gemma Lees
📅 Saturday 16 May
⏰ 1pm-4pm
📍 The Whitworth
🎟️ Free, booking required

Book via Eventbrite https://ow.ly/xvWn50YVfa4

08/05/2026

Huge congratulations to our team! 🥳

We're incredibly proud to celebrate the Recoverist Curators team, on winning the Making a Difference Award for Outstanding Public Engagement Initiative at this week 🎉

The award celebrates the partnership between and the Whitworth, and recognises the powerful impact of this exhibition and the open, honest contributions of the co-curators - Anastasia, Annie, Chanje, Dom, Paul, and Penny (not pictured) and their strength and determination in challenging the stigma surrounding addiction and recovery.

“I’m so pleased for the team receiving this award as it affirms something we’re deeply committed to at the Whitworth. Lived experience is not an addition to research but a vital form of knowledge in its own right. Recoverist Curators has grown through our partnership with Portraits of Recovery, whose work continues to shape the depth, imagination and integrity of this practice. The project is part of a wider, ongoing effort to open up our collections as spaces for shared inquiry, care, and challenge. We see this as long-term work that needs to keep evolving in relationship with the people, histories, and contexts that shape it.” — Ed Watts, Head of Civic Engagement and Education at the Whitworth

⚡Recoverist Curators: Re-imagining the World We Live In
📅 On until 5 July 2026
🎫 Free entry
Find out more about the exhibition: https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/recoverist-curators/

06/05/2026

Slow down. Look closer. Notice the small details. 🌊

Inspired by Beneath the Great Wave and the details often captured by Hokusai, this gentle Care Walk invites you to explore the green and quiet spaces of Whitworth Park.

Guided by Nightingale & Sage, the walk includes simple self-help relaxation techniques, sensory prompts, pauses for rest and moments of silence.

📍 Meeting point: The Whitworth, Oxford Road Entrance
🚶 Less than 1 mile
🌿 Easy walk
♿ Suitable for wheelchairs, mobility aids and prams/pushchairs

Register via Eventbrite. https://ow.ly/XGzf50YVcgZ

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