Events – Page 21 – Highlanes Gallery

28April Thursday

Talks

Poetry Day Ireland 2022 – Drogheda Creative Writers

Time: Thursday, April 28, 2022 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm / Highlanes Gallery, 36 Saint Laurence Street , A92 F7PH Drogheda, Ireland

2022 Poetry Day Ireland will see Drogheda Creative Writers return to the Highlanes Gallery on Thursday, 28 April from 2:30 – 4:00 with a benefit performance for the Irish Red Cross. Booking is free, however, there is a €5 admission charge to be collected by the Drogheda Creative Writers at the door in aid of […]

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14April Thursday

Talks

Online Curator Talk: Tendai John Mutambu – Golden Thread Gallery

Time: Thursday, April 14, 2022 April 14, 2022 - June 14, 2022 / FREE

Thursday 14th April, 8pm to 9pm (Online via Zoom) Don’t miss this Online Talk, 14th April Thursday evening from 8pm -9pm via ZOOM hosted by our ‘WE ARE HERE’ partnership exhibition colleagues – The Golden Thread Gallery – as Tendai Mutambu, the original curator of WE ARE HERE & Songs of the Forgotten Past joins us live from […]

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Families & Children

Children’s Easter Workshop In-Person WE ARE HERE

Time: Thursday, April 14, 2022

WE ARE HERE – Explore the artworks and ideas with artist Claire Halpin in this stimulating practical session involving looking, discussing, and making, (1hour 30 minutes), and where all materials are supplied. Welcome Back! Book available through Eventbrite below: Children’s Easter Workshop In-Person with Claire Halpin About Children’s Workshops at Highlanes Gallery Workshops are for children […]

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06April Wednesday

Talks

Artist’s Talk – Ursula Burke & Tom Fitzgerald – WE ARE HERE (Zoom)

Time: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join WE ARE HERE exhibiting artists Ursula Burke & Tom Fitzgerald as they discuss, The Brazen Head (2016) and Black Rainbow (1980), both on loan from the Collection of the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon part of the exhibition, and their wider practice, live on Zoom from Norway & Ireland, Wednesday April 6th, 7pm. Ursula Burke is an Irish artist who […]

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26March Saturday

Exhibition

Artist’s Gallery Talk – Brian Maguire – WE ARE HERE

Time: Saturday, March 26, 2022

Join WE ARE HERE exhibiting artist Brian Maguire Saturday March 26th, 12:30pm, whose work Children and Self (Remembering), 1986 is on loan from Collection of the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, for this gallery talk on his practice exploring painting and content, fiction and reality, and considering works which were based on events in Mexico, Syria, and […]

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23March Wednesday

Exhibition

Artists’ Talk – Samson Kambalu, Luke Fowler – WE ARE HERE (Zoom)

Time: Wednesday, March 23, 2022

On the occasion of the WE ARE HERE exhibition, join exhibiting artists Samson Kambalu and Luke Fowler as they discuss their works and artistic processes via Zoom. Samson Kambalu is exhibiting I Take the Stairs to 1952, Cathedral, Superfly, I Take My Place in History, (2016), Single Channel SD 4:3 Video Colour, No SoundCourtesy of the artist, Kate MacGarry, […]

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18February Friday

Tour

Nano Reid: The Early/Late Years – Two Walking Tours with Brendan Matthews

Time: Friday, February 18, 2022 February 18, 2022 - February 19, 2022

Join us on the final days of Nano Reid ADAMANTINE & discover more about Nano Reid’s early & late years through two informative walking tours About this event Explore more about artist Nano Reid and her life with community historian Brendan Matthews, as he takes you through some of the streets and lanes of the […]

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08February Tuesday

Talks

Chameleon of My Mind: Encounters with Nano Reid – Leeanne Quinn

Time: Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Join poet, Leeanne Quinn for this zoom talk which will focus on her engagement with Reid and will explore the different versions of Reid that she has encountered in recollections, remembrances and representations of her. Leeanne Quinn’s debut collection of poetry, Before You, was published by Dedalus Press in 2012 and highly commended in the […]

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01February Tuesday

A Painter Among Writers: Nano Reid and the Literary World of the Mid-Twentieth Century by Dr Conor

Time: Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Nano Reid was often a painter among writers in Dublin during the crucial decades of her artistic career from the 1930s to the 50s. Her apartments in Pembroke Street and Fitzwilliam Square became a focal point for poets and authors, along with other artists. Major literary figures championed her painting including Liam O’Flaherty, Seán O’Faoláin, […]

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25January Tuesday

Engineering Visual Identity: The Boyne Viaduct at Drogheda

Time: Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Soaring across the Drogheda skyline the Boyne Viaduct was designed by Sir John Macneill from 1844 and constructed between 1851 and 1855. Born in Co. Louth, Macneill was one of the most prominent railway engineers of the nineteenth century and was engineer in chief of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway. He introduced the principles of […]

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