“This small volume is a whole lot of fun! Having taken up mixology as my lockdown hobby, I take the contents very seriously (I shall be toasting the New Year with a Marlene Dietrich), but even if the cocktails aren’t for you, the bios and illustrations of 60 iconic women from Alison…
PlanetHeroines19th December 2022
After a difficult year it’s important to find bliss in the everyday, whether that’s calling an old friend, sneaking some snacks that were supposed to be saved for Christmas day or pouring yourself a drink...
PlanetHeroines16th December 2022
Margarethe (Margaret) Gross was born in 1902 into a Jewish family in Dzieditz, near Cracow, in what was then Austria (now Poland). Her liberal upbringing led her to studying photography at the Institute of Graphic Arts and Research in Vienna, followed by apprenticeships in some of the leading Viennese studios of the…
PlanetHeroines15th December 2022
My recommendation for the advent calendar is the film I enjoyed the most this year – Everything Everywhere All At Once, dir. by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
PlanetHeroines15th December 2022
As part of the Photo Oxford Festival, Hundred Heroines proudly presented Women on Women: Relationships, Identity and Power - Explored Through Photography, a bold collection of work by six contemporary photographers.
PlanetHeroines14th December 2022
Liselotte studied painting and graphic design at her local art academy – Badische Landeskunstschule, Karlsruhe (BLK) – and took up the then–new course in advertising photography at the School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart.
PlanetHeroines13th December 2022
At the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic we enlisted the help of Heroine Lisl Ponger to fend off the boredom. We have had the honour of a weekly online film festival for 52 weeks during 2020/21. We travelled the world, visited many cultures and heard many stories.
PlanetHeroines13th December 2022
Join us on Tuesday 20th December as we open Chapter 1 of 100×100: 100 Gloucester women photographed by 100 women photographers in the Community Gallery at the Museum of Gloucester.
PlanetHeroines9th December 2022
