Hundred Heroines + The WI

Our friends at Image Photography are running an exciting course with some of our Heroines.  For anyone interested in improving their photography or just learning more about the power of photography, this is something not to be missed.

This “Women and Photography” series consists of 5 lectures. This series of five lectures has been designed to empower photographers, art historians and curators by looking at photography through the female lens.The series consists of thought provoking lectures, based on the personal experience of well established and aclaimed photographers and curators.

Image Photography are offering WI members free tickets.  Details of the series can be found here.

Tickets available from Eventbrite

Image © Paola Paredes from the series Until You Change

We’ve heard that yarn bombing is a favourite WI activity!

We’re showing an exhibition on Bus Stops in Oxford (15th October – 15th November) and some knitted artwork would really brighten up the surroundings.  The six Bus Stops are situated around the borough:

• Woodstock Road o/s 72 Oxford OX2 6HP
• Headington Road opp Oxford Polytechnic Oxford OX3 7TS
• Iffley Road opp 25-27 Oxford OX4 1EB
• D3 New Road Opp Castle Oxford OX1 1NF
• New Road Castle Mound Oxford OX1 1AY
• London Road o/s 58 at Latimer Road Oxford OX3 7PB

PS:  For safety and security, we must ensure any installation of artwork does not block the line of sight from security cameras to the inside of the bus stops!

1st to 21st November

The Grange Museum & Art Gallery, The Green, Rottingdean, East Sussex, BN2 7HA

More details to follow soon …

On their recent list of digital content ‘Better than Netflix’, Deutsche Bank ArtMag described Hundred Heroines as: “An overdue voyage of discovery for any art photography aficionado.”

This led us to think about the process of curating our own ‘Voyages of Discovery’ – mini virtual tours around the website.

We’re inviting you to curate – and share – your own personal voyage, based around a theme of your choosing, for inclusion on our website as part of our Compendium of Voyages.

We are particularly interested in showing how Heroines’ work can be used for positive change and how it sits within the framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.  For your own Voyage of Discovery, think about how you can choose one or two of these goals for the theme; for example, the content you curate might revolve around ‘Wellbeing’ (goal 3) or ‘Infrastructure’ (goal 9). The goal might link to your Voyage directly, or in an abstract way. If you’re not sure it links to any of the UN Goals, think about how it links to Gender Equality (goal 5). Women are underrepresented in cultural programming – your Voyage is helping to address this imbalance!