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Advent Calendar 2022

16th December

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...  
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16th December 2022
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Margaret Gross Michaelis-Sachs

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…
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15th December 2022
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14th December

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.
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14th December 2022
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13th December

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.
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13th December 2022
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9th December

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.
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9th December 2022
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4th December

It's the time of the year when the world just seems to be a little kinder, a little warmer in Spirit and a little cosier at home.  The lights, the decorations add to the ambience, but there's nothing quite like a Christmas music playlist to set the tone.
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4th December 2022
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2nd December

What is creativity? I love this question it conjures up a different answer for everyone. Essentially it is the use of our greatest gift, the imagination. Many of us never fully unwrap it. We leave it under the tree of real life for when we have more time.
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2nd December 2022