Woori Festival 2025
Nubuke Foundation Centre for Textiles and Clay, Loho near Wa, GHA
06.03. – 30.06.2025

‘Woori: A Festival of our Weaving Tradition’ returns to the township of Loho in the Upper West region of Ghana for the fifth time from 6 March to 30June, 2025. Now entering its fifth anniversary, the Woori Festival, organised by Nubuke Foundation Centre for Textiles and Clay, has evolved from its initial focus on showing the dynamism within the handwoven traditions occurring in the Upper West to a vibrant festival that platforms skill exchanges, art exhibition, fashion show, poetry, food tastings and music performances and film screenings. This year’s festival is under the theme ‘The role of collaboration in harnessing the potential of weaving for socio-economic development’.

Notably, the festival date coincides with International Women’s Day- a reason to appreciate the weaving traditions of the Upper West and Ghana. We celebrate women as cultural preservers and bearers, and the economic transforming role of weaving in the fortunes of their families, community and villages.

The festival responds to ‘Why Collaborate?,’ a question posed by Austrian visual artist and Professor Barbara Putz-Plecko, who participated in the 2021- 2024 editions of the Woori Festival. Putz-Plecko’s urge is for us to pursue mutual learning.

In line with this proposition, the festival will feature a range of performative, process, and participatory contributions from Ghana, USA, Germany and Austria that explore mutual learning. For the first time, the festival will be held in three locations. The discursive, durational and performative aspects of the festival will occur from 6 to 9 March, 2025.

Artists, Jemima Fordjour, Blanche Boni-Mississo, Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku, Simon Bowman Jnr, King David Osabutey, Fran Redeker, Dzidefo Amegatsey, Enoch Laryea Nii-Adjei will present works from their textile and fibre practice with some focussed in making art especially accessible to our public, with ideas and processes engaging with youth, children, visually impaired and deaf community.

The exhibition will continue until the end of June 2025.

For more information visit Nubuke Foundation.