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Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Witness

1 September 2018 - 24 February 2019
From the Barberini Tapestries to the Bayeux Tapestry, monumental textiles in the form of large-scale narrative embroideries, weaving and tapestries have been used to illustrate contemporary…

Art Baby

10:00 - 15:00 26 November 2018
Free, no booking. Mondays 10am - 3pm. (term-time only) Creative journeys start here. Sensory play in the beautiful setting of the gallery designed especially for babies and their…

Bodies of Colour: Breaking With Stereotypes in the Wallpaper Collection

4 May 2018 - 28 April 2019
This latest exhibition uses the Whitworth’s extensive and significant wallpaper collection to focus on how Imperial attitudes to people are reflected in wallpaper. The wallpapers in…

CPD Course: Appraising the evidence from Qualitative Studies - RCP Accrediated

13:00 - 16:00 26 November 2018
RCP Accredited Course The students will be required to read a published peer-reviewed paper and asked what they think the common biases associated with qualitative work may be. They…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 31 August 2018 - 10:00 31 May 2020
Are you and your family hungry to get creative? Pick up a picnic hamper with a difference. Come to our Oxford Road or Parkside entrance and pick up one of our special hampers - free…

Early Years Atelier

10:00 - 15:00 26 November 2018
Weekly multi-sensory, messy play sessions for children under 5 in our new Clore Learning Studio This free, drop-in space is based on the early years philosophy of Reggio Emilia, where…

English Corner

10:30 6 October 2017 - 12:00 31 May 2019
Fourth Friday of each month 10.30am–12pm Monthly conversation classes for people who are learning to speak English. Free, no need to book

Exchanges

24 March 2018 - 2 February 2020
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

Four Corners of One Cloth: Textiles from the Islamic World

23 June 2018 - 3 November 2019
A section of a Kiswa will form the heart of the exhibition. The Kiswa cloth covers the Ka’bah and is replaced each year during Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). Positioned in the direction…

Lawfare: the law against democracy

17:00 - 18:00 26 November 2018
Dr. Rafael Valim is a visiting Professor from the Catholic University of Sao Paulo. His lecture will consider the negative impact of “Lawfare” in Latin-American countries, and particularly…

Literature Live: Joe Dunthorne and Luke Kennard

19:30 - 20:30 26 November 2018
Joe Dunthorne’s first novel, Submarine, was translated into sixteen languages and adapted for film by Richard Ayoade. His second, Wild Abandon, won the 2012 Encore Award. The Adulterants,…

Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil

7 July 2018 - 4 August 2019
Francesco José de Goya Lucientes (1746-1828) and William Hogarth (1647-1764) were the most remarkable artists of their times. Both were famous painters, but their most compelling works…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Rina Arya - Art and Communication, University of Huddersfield

16:00 - 18:00 26 November 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 26th November 2018 Professor Rina Arya - The University Of Huddersfield The significance Of Purity Rites In The Cultural Appropriation Of Hindu…

Tours at Two

14:00 20 April 2018 - 14:45 31 December 2019
Each day our public tours are led by our Visitor Team and are an insightful view into our history, collections, exhibition spaces, architecture and park. Daily tours are designed for…

We are 11: Stanley Grove Primary Academy

6 October 2018 - 5 January 2019
This exhibition has been boldly curated by the children of Stanley Grove Primary Academy. Over the past year, 11 lead curators have selected works from the Whitworth’s collection that…

William Kentridge: Thick Time

21 September 2018 - 3 March 2019
South African artist William Kentridge weaves together global histories of revolution, exile and utopian aspirations, exploring how they are shaped by the creative forces of memory…

Genomic Technologies and Bioinformatics Core Facilities Workshop

09:00 - 16:00 27 November 2018
Morning session: Genomic Technologies 9.00am - ICELL8 Single-Cell System: beyond gene expression. High-resolution full-length whole-transcriptome and ATAC-seq analysis (Daniel Liber,…

Giving Tuesday – Making a Difference Fair, swap shop and CPR training

11:30 27 November 2018
On Tuesday 27 November, the world will celebrate #GivingTuesday, an international day to do ‘good stuff’, to recognise what is already being done and to encourage people to consider…

Tuesday Talks: Richard Wright

11:00 - 12:30 27 November 2018
Tuesday Talks invites leading artists, thinkers and curators to explore the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration within contemporary art. The series is a collaboration…

Victorian Eco Activism, Manchester and the Birth of the RSPB

19:00 - 20:30 27 November 2018
Two forgotten stories have now been brought thrillingly back to life by writers Henry McGhie and Tessa Boase. For one night only, they are joining forces to shed light on a fascinating…

Digital Trust and Security Guest Lecture Series - Lucas Cordeiro

13:00 - 14:30 28 November 2018
In the last two decades, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used in various military and civil applications, such as armed attacks, training targets, aerial surveillance, journalism,…

Inke Näthke seminar: From molecule to tissue dynamics and beyond: the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli protein in epithelial biology

11:00 - 12:00 28 November 2018
Professor Inke Näthke established key functions of the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) protein beyond its role in Wnt signalling. APC is the major tumour suppressor for cancers in…

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