Exhibitions, Literature Live

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…

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…

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…

Exploring Lost Property!

11:00 - 16:00 29 November 2018
Are you a serial loser of keys? Do you always leave your umbrella on the train? Perhaps you once lost something really important to you and have never forgotten about it? Whatever…

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…

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…

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…

Enhanced Humans?

11:00 - 16:00 7 December 2018
‘Enhanced Humans?’ is a collaborative pop-up exhibition created by University of Manchester MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies students exploring medical innovation, health and human…

The Caroline Chisholm Reading: Ross Raisin

18:30 - 20:00 10 December 2018
This event honours the memory of writer Caroline Chisholm (MA Creative Writing, 2013), who was a valued member of the CNW community. Ross Raisin is the author of three novels: A…

LITERATURE LIVE: Michael Hofmann and Igor Klikovac

18:30 - 21:00 28 January 2019
Michael Hofmann was born in Germany, grew up in England, and teaches at the University of Florida. Ingenious and brilliantly entertaining, One Lark, One Horse (2018), his fifth collection,…

LITERATURE LIVE: Andrew Miller & Kamila Shamsie

19:30 - 21:00 4 February 2019
Andrew Miller was born in Bristol in 1960. A winner of the Dublin International Literary Award and the Costa Prize, 'Now We Shall Be Entirely Free' (2018) “his excellent eighth book,…

Train to Teach Manchester

16:00 - 19:00 13 February 2019
Hosted by The University of Manchester. this Department for Education's free Train to Teach event will provide you with a wealth of information on how to get into teaching and how to…

Gestures: Writing that Moves Between

19:30 - 21:00 15 February 2019
Daisy Lafarge is a writer, artist and editor. In 2017 she received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, and her poetry pamphlet, understudies for air, was published by…

LITERATURE LIVE: Cathleen Miller and Horatio Clare

19:30 - 21:00 18 February 2019
Cathleen Miller is a visiting Fulbright Scholar and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at the University of Manchester. She is a bestselling author whose biography of UN leader Nafis…

Exhibition Opening - Facing Out: Life after treatment for facial cancer

18:00 - 21:00 21 February 2019
Thursday 21 February, 6-9pm. Join us for a special evening of music, art and making, at the launch of the exhibition Facing Out: Life after treatment for facial cancer. Facing…

Facing Out: Life after treatment for facial cancer

22 February - 2 June 2019
An exhibition of portraits of people who have experienced facial cancers together with their choice of artworks from The Whitworth collections. The portraits have been created in…

LITERATURE LIVE: MLF Tracey Thorn in conversation with Jeanette Winterson - SOLD OUT

19:30 - 20:30 26 February 2019
Please note, this event is now fully booked. Manchester Literature Festival is excited to welcome back author and singer-songwriter Tracey Thorn. Described as ‘the Alan Bennett of…

LITERATURE LIVE: Max Porter in conversation with Luke Brown

19:30 - 21:00 11 March 2019
One of the rising stars of British literature, Max Porter’s debut novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers won the Sunday Times / Peters, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the…

The Reno at the Whitworth

15 March 2019 - 1 March 2020
For a period of one year Linda Brogan and a group of local residents, who went to the Reno nightclub in the 1970s and 80s, will occupy the Whitworth. The Reno, located in Moss Side,…

Instruments of Change

19 March 2019 - 31 December 2020
Instruments of Change is an exhibition that showcases objects from the Beswick Collection at the Museum of Medicine and Health, telling the stories of the people of Manchester whose…

LITERATURE LIVE: Valeria Luiselli

19:00 - 20:30 20 March 2019
Manchester Literature Festival is delighted to present a rare UK event with Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli. Described as ‘a writer of formidable talent, destined to be an important…

Ancient Textiles from the Andes

29 March - 15 September 2019
This is a rare opportunity to see ancient Andean textiles of this quality and size exhibited in the UK. Through a major loan from the collector Paul Hughes, alongside pieces from the…

Joy for Ever: How to use art to change the world and its price in the market

29 March - 9 June 2019
In 1857 John Ruskin (1819-1900) delivered one of his most important public lectures in response to the Great Art Treasures exhibition in Manchester, the largest art exhibition ever…

Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab Under Siege

11 April - 2 October 2019
Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab Under Siege exhibition, developed in collaboration with The Partition Museum in India. This commemorative exhibit gives voice to the untold stories of…

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