Overview
2025 Artists
“Woori 2025 Festival:
The role of collaboration in harnessing the potential of weaving for socio-economic development.”
Woori Festival 2025 brings together artists, weavers, designers, performers, and cultural practitioners whose work is grounded in collective practice and shared knowledge. Held at the Nubuke Foundation Centre for Textiles and Clay in Loho near Wa, the fifth edition of the festival is guided by the theme “The role of collaboration in harnessing the potential of weaving for socio-economic development.” The participating artists approach weaving not only as a material practice, but as a social and economic framework shaped by cooperation, intergenerational exchange, and community resilience.
At the heart of the festival are master weavers and weaving associations from Nadowli, Nandom, and Wa, whose practices span traditional looms, contemporary adaptations, and sustainable approaches to textile production. Through live demonstrations, workshops, and skill-exchange sessions, these practitioners share techniques and knowledge that highlight weaving’s enduring relevance to livelihoods, cultural identity, and local economies in the Upper West Region.
Complementing this are artistic contributions across textile, fibre, installation, performance, film, sound, fashion, and poetry by artists including Jemima Fordjour, Blanche Boni-Mississo, Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku, Simon Bowman Jnr, King David Osabutey, Fran, Dzidefo Amegatsey, and Enoch Laryea Nii-Adjei. Working alongside local communities, children, youth, and members of the visually impaired and deaf communities, the artists of Woori 2025 explore collaboration as both method and message—positioning weaving as a living practice capable of shaping more inclusive and sustainable futures.
View the event gallery here.
Blanche Bonni-Mississo
Karin Altmann
AFROSCOPE
Enoch Laryea
Nana Yaa Asare-Boadu
Salim Wumpini Fuseini
Dzidefo Amegatsey
Simon Bowman Jnr
Emmanuel Tieku
King David Osabutey
Jemima Fordjour
Fran
