Art & Activism: There are two more Open Access sessions this year for teenage girls to create their own protest art. Stay tuned for the 2024 programme, which we'll be publishing over the holiday.
PlanetHeroines5th December 2023
Born on this day in 1869, Anne Brigman "freed herself and the women she photographed from corsets and clichés". How did she do this?
PlanetHeroines3rd December 2023
Advent Calendar, 1st December - Looking for something interesting to do which has nothing to do with Christmas? Why not come to one of our workshops and contribute to the Great Train Tapestry.
PlanetHeroines1st December 2023
Nan Goldin (b 1953) is an American photographer and activist whose work explores LGBTQ+ subcultures, sexual intimacy, HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Now, a new documentary film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras is set to release in the UK in January 2023. It…
PlanetHeroines23rd December 2022
For those of us in the UK, today marks the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year and according to the Met Office, that means a staggering nine hours more of darkness than we get for the summer solstice.
PlanetHeroines21st December 2022
“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
Two historical pioneers of photography share the same birthday! Both Gerti Deutsch and Gisèle Freund were born on this day in 1908.
Del Barrett19th December 2022
