From April 2022 to February 2023 you can get involved with Open House through a packed events programme including celebration events, collection show and tells, family album drop ins, and a book club. Through these events the Open House team hear your stories and connect them to the Whitworth’s wallpaper collection.
Take a look at the calendar below…
We are recruiting volunteers to help photograph and document our collection of 10,000 wallpapers. Click here to contact Fiona Cariss, our volunteer manager, and register your interest.
EVENTS
Open House is a project that connects life lived in front of the wallpaper with the 10,000 wall coverings looked after at the Whitworth. Across 2022, we gather your photographs and stories. A volunteer team will photograph the wallpaper collection at the Whitworth and link these patterns to the memories of our daily lives. The Open House exhibition and microsite will grow with your photographs, stories, objects and more. UP
UPCOMING EVENTS
Open House symposium
Thursday 2 February 2023, 12-4.30pm, free
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-house-unlocking-the-whitworths-wallpaper-collection-tickets-48758267189
Reflections on wallpaper and home life from artists, researchers, and project participants.
Closing celebration
Thursday 23 February 2023, 6-9pm, free
Booking details will be posted here closer to the date
Join us to mark the end of the project and the launch of the Open House Family Album book.
PAST EVENTS
Family album drop-ins
Across 2022. Monthly, Fridays, 2-4pm, free, no need to book
We are creating an archive of memories about wallpaper. lore objects from the Whitworth’s 10,000 strong collection of wallpapers and share your photographs and stories. Selected contributions will go on display in the exhibition and into the Open House ‘family album’ book and online microsite.
Book Club
Every other month, Thursdays, 6-7pm, free
Upcoming: 1 December 2022, Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)
Click here to book your FREE ticket for the next group
Get stuck into stories spanning 50 years of home life with our friendly reading group. Sam Selvon, The Housing Lark (1965); Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000); Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990); Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (1985).
Where is Home?
Pop up exhibition, 12 August 2022 – 26 February 2023
Past event | Film screening, poetry, panel, Thursday 22 Sept, 6-9pm, free
We host Where is Home? within the Open House exhibition space. This travelling project shares stories about South Asian migration to the UK and setting up home in a new place, through interviews, objects and archive materials. Find out more about Where is Home? here
More details about all the events are on the Whitworth’s website
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