Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven

Across talks, workshops and hands-on experiences, the programme for Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven invites you to slow down, look closely and take part. Whether through making, discussion or play, each event reveals the human stories, skills and shared histories woven into textiles across time and place.

Exhibition Preview

Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven Preview

Thursday 9 July
6–8pm
Free, booking required

Join us for a special preview of Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven and be among the first to experience this major international exhibition at the Whitworth. Explore newly commissioned works alongside historic textiles, meet artists and collaborators, and enjoy an evening of conversation, discovery and celebration.
Artist Tour

Threads of Exchange

Friday 10 July
2–4pm
Free, booking required

Join artists and curators from Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven for a guided tour of the exhibition. Offering insights into their practice and the ideas behind the works on display, this artist-led walkthrough explores textiles as carriers of memory, labour and cultural exchange.

Reflecting collaborations across Korea, India and the UK, the tour invites visitors to engage more deeply with the exhibition’s themes of shared histories and global dialogue.

Artist Workshops

Workshop with Somi Ko

Saturday 11 July
10am–12pm
Free, booking required

Work directly with artist Somi Ko in this hands-on session inspired by Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven, exploring the tactile possibilities of hanji paper. Participants will learn to crochet using hand-spun fibre, gaining insight into Ko’s meditative approach to material, time and the body.
Embroidery Workshop with Jounghye Yoo

Saturday 11 July
10am–12pm
Free, booking required

Join exhibiting artist Jounghye Yoo for a special embroidery workshop inspired by Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven, centred on her installation Gilded Veil, which brings together Korean silk embroidery and Indian ajrakh block printing. Participants will embroider onto intricately hand-printed and naturally dyed ajrakh fabric created by master dyer Dr Ismail Khatri, engaging directly with these cross-cultural techniques and taking home a unique textile piece.
What We Carry From Home — Workshop with Vian Hussein

Saturday 11 July
10:30am–12:30pm & 2–4pm
Free, Booking required

Inspired by Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven, this hands-on textile workshop with artist Vian Hussein invites participants to explore identity, memory and belonging through fabric. Using paint, embroidery and mark-making, you’ll create a personal textile piece while contributing to a shared artwork that reflects collective stories and experiences.
Embroidery Workshops with Ibukun Baldwin

Second Saturdays (Aug–Dec)
11am–1pm
Free, booking required

Building on the themes of Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven and artist Jounghye Yoo’s work, these sessions, led by Ibukun Baldwin, offer a relaxed introduction to embroidery through hands-on making. Participants will work on intricately hand-printed ajrakh textiles featured in Yoo’s installation, and create their own piece to take home.

Workshop dates:

Saturday 10 October 2026
Saturday 14 November 2026
Saturday 12 December 2026

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Family Activities

Tours

EVENT CANCELLED: Curator Tour with Victoria Hartley

This event is now cancelled due to staff sickness and will be rearranged in due time.

Thursday 23 July 2026

Assistant Curator Victoria Hartley leads this introduction to Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven, focusing on the connections between contemporary commissions and the Whitworth’s world-class textile collection. Discover how historic and contemporary works are brought into conversation across time and place.
BSL tour with Hope Lambert

Saturday 22 August 2026
2:15pm-3:15pm
Free, booking required

Join Hope Lambert for a British Sign Language tour of Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven. The tour will give an overview of the exhibition, with insights into a selection of the artworks on display. Whether you are a fluent BSL user or learning, this is a great event to engage with others in an entirely BSL environment.
Conservator Tour with Zoë Lanceley

Thursday 15 October 2026
6–7pm
Free, booking required

Explore the behind-the-scenes care of Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven with Textiles Conservator Zoë Lanceley. This tour offers insight into how both contemporary and historic textiles are conserved, displayed and protected, revealing the technical expertise behind the exhibition.

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Curator Tour with Amy George

Thursday 26 November 2026
6–7pm
Free, booking required

Join Senior Curator Amy George for an in-depth tour of Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven, offering insight into the research and development behind the exhibition and its newly commissioned works. This tour reveals the curatorial thinking shaping the dialogue between contemporary practice and historic textiles.

Booking link to be made available closer to the event.

Collection Study Evenings

A special series of evening events offering rare access to works from the Whitworth’s internationally significant textiles collection, presented alongside Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven. Each session combines expert insight with close-up study of textiles not usually on display.

South Asian & Korean Textiles Study Session

Thursday 8 October 2026
6–7:30pm
Free, booking required

Join curators Amy George and Victoria Hartley to explore historic South Asian and Korean textiles connected to Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven. This session offers a unique opportunity to encounter collection works up close while deepening understanding of the exhibition’s global context.

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Young In Hong - Sacred Empires

Thursday 22 October 2026 - *Postponed*
6–7:30pm
Free, booking required

We're sorry, but due to unexpected schedule changes Young In Hong is no longer available on this date. We will update this event soon with new date.

Artist Youngin Hong presents an in-depth look at her commission Sacred Empires from Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven. Hosted in the Whitworth’s Study Centre, the talk is accompanied by related works from the Whitworth’s collection, offering insight into collaboration, labour and storytelling in textile practice.
Fields Unspun: Cotton, Empire, and Textile Practices

Thursday 5 November 2026
6–7:30pm
Free, booking required

Dr Arianna Tozzi, artist Himanshi Parmar and Seema Kulkarni explore the themes of cotton, empire, and agroecology in relation to Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven. Combining artistic practices based on natural pigments, archival and oral history research with women farmers in India—alongside textiles from the Whitworth’s collection—the session explores the role of textile arts in unearthing complex colonial histories and narrating alternative futures.

Booking link to be made available closer to the event.