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Black History Month event Museum Events Archive

Film Screening: Queen and Slim

As part of Arts Diverse-City Black History Month celebrations, we’re hosting a screening of the highly acclaimed film Queen and Slim, directed by award-winning Melina Matsoukas, at the Heroines Quarter in the Eastgate.

PlanetHeroines13th October 2022

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Nydia Blas

Nydia Blas is a visual artist, originally from New York, who now resides in Georgia. Using a variety of media including photography, collage, video, and books to explore her life as a girl, woman, and mother, her photographs create a physical and allegorical space presented through a Black feminine lens.

PlanetHeroines12th October 2022

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Lebohang Kganye

Lebohang Kganye was born in 1990 in Johannesburg, where she currently lives and works. She obtained a Diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Johannesburg in 2014 and is currently studying for a Masters in Fine Arts at the Witwatersrand University.

PlanetHeroines12th October 2022

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Felicia Abban

Ghana’s first professional women photographer, Felicia Abban (b. 1935) spent her sixty year career documenting Ghanain society and history. Noted for her studio portraits, she opened ‘Mrs. Felicia Abban’s Day and Night Quality Art Studio’ in Jamestown, Accra, hiring other women as apprentices and passing on her skills.

PlanetHeroines12th October 2022

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Jerwood / Photoworks: Heather Agyepong

Chosen from 370+ applicants, Heather Agyepong has been selected for the 4th Jerwood / Photoworks award alongside photographer Joanne Coates.

PlanetHeroines11th October 2022

Activity Project

Glostorama!

Gloucester is undergoing great changes and we want to enlist your help to create a photographic archive for the future, an archive that showcases Gloucester in the 2020s.

PlanetHeroines22nd September 2022

Exhibition Forthcoming Event InMuseum Museum Exhibition Archive

Paola Paredes Exhibition, Skin Deep

Join us to unpeel Skin Deep - an interactive photographic experience presenting eight stories that represent the diverse sexualities and gender identities of the queer community in Ecuador.

PlanetHeroines22nd September 2022

Exhibition Forthcoming Event Museum Exhibition Archive

Anita Khemka Exhibition, Laxmi

From Anita's ongoing photographic documentary series of Laxmi, one of India's leading third gender (hijra) and transgender rights activist

PlanetHeroines22nd September 2022

Forthcoming Event InMuseum Museum

The Heroines Collection

From a birdcage salvaged from a skip to antique silk pyjamas, every item is imbued with meaning. The array of riches, both humble and profound, recount the stories of some of today’s most significant artworks. The Collection is an unusual way to learn more about the work of today’s outstanding women artists.

PlanetHeroines22nd September 2022