Open 10:30–5:00, Tuesday – Saturday
Not Another Queer Cinema Club
Drogheda by Night 2026
Friday 19th June at 7pm
Screening – But I’m a Cheerleader selected by Venus Patel
Free, booking required
AMPLIFY present a curated screening event Not Another Queer Cinema Club. On Friday June 19th queer cult classic But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) will be presented by Venus Patel. The screening will begin at 7pm, and will be followed by a discussion with the artist.
Not Another Queer Cinema Club is a queer collective with a goal of fostering community through art and film. Founded through Highlanes AMPLIFY Young Creatives Group, our mission is to facilitate social screenings to connect the queer community with contemporary artists.
AMPLIFY is excited to collaborate with artist Venus Patel on this special evening event.
Venus Patel is a monster – part woman, part cardboard, part Indian, part Salvadorian, part cat, and part trash. Across performance, film, and sculpture, she proposes the deconstruction of boundaries and the unleashing of hidden and erased histories. She embraces failure, DIY aesthetics, and hybridity to puncture the structures that uphold society. Her work relies on the absurd, the fantastical, and the abject to create speculative realities for Queer/POC liberation.
She has exhibited and performed across Ireland and N.Ireland with Catalyst Arts, IMMA, Rua Red, Pallas Projects, Sirius Arts Centre, and Live Art Ireland, and has screened film work across Europe and the US. She won the RDS Taylor Art Award in 2022 for her graduate performance film, and has been funded through the Bursary and Project Award with Arts Council Ireland.
She is currently working on her new film, Roxy.io, a sci-fi fairytale musical that follows a chatbot who falls in love with a prince and tries to become human with the help of her animal friends and a trickster goddess, which is to premiere in 2027 and exhibit with Sirius Arts Centre.
AMPLIFY is Highlanes Gallery’s Young Creatives Panel aged 18-30 years.
This event is free with refreshments served, with booking required.
Please book responsibly.
If you book and find out you can’t attend, please contact us at scolfer@highlanes.ie or telephone the gallery on 041-9803311
