Join Peruvian Artist, Adriana Torres Escobedos, as she invites families to create wonderful clay art for this year’s Culture Night 2025   Led by Peruvian artist, Adriana Torres Escobedos of Gatothor Ceramica, families are invited to work with clay and imagine sound and their favourite animals in creating a Ceramic Animal Whistle.   Booking required, […]

Drogheda Creative Writers in collaboration with Just Write have organised a poetry reading in Highlanes Gallery on Friday 19th September at 3pm where they will perform poems and reflections on openness, discovery, celebration and belonging.   All are welcome to join us at this free event on Culture Night in Drogheda.   ABOUT Drogheda Creative Writers […]

Join artist Claire Halpin in exploring art from our Exhibition, Maelstrom, by artist Maud Cotter   Join a lively and reflective discussion with artist Claire Halpin, in a participant-centred session, its ambition to create inclusive discussion around artwork. Using Visual Thinking Strategies, the session is more a discussion where you can offer your opinion in […]

Maud Cotter: maelstrom Parent and Toddler Tuesday Morning Workshop   A Gallery-based workshop led by artist Caoimhe O’Dwyer 10.30am -12.00pm   NOTE: Each ticket includes 1 Parent & Child/Children (Family Unit)   Join Caoimhe for a playful and creative workshop designed especially for parents and toddlers, inspired by Maud Cotter’s exhibition maelstrom.   Surrounded by […]

Enrich your practice as an Artist – Teacher – Researcher this September…   Artist-Teacher-Researcher/ Autumn Creative Surge   Saturday 6th September 9am-2pm   Are you an art-teacher at second level or similar, or an artist working in the education sector, with a keen interest to keep up to speed with your own professional development, whether […]

To mark World Alzheimer’s Month, which is a global campaign to raise awareness about Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, we are pleased to host a talk by Drogheda writer, Dawn Staudt.   Dawn’s book, From the Heart of a Caregiver (2020), won glowing praises from the Drogheda Branch of Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland, at […]

Revel in music outdoors as the streetscape of Laurence Street is lifted with the uplifting music of Drogheda Brass Band as they perform in the gallery’s courtyard on Sunday 24th August at 1pm.   This is a standing event, with audiences gathering at the upper level of the gallery courtyard.   About Drogheda Brass Band […]

Other Nations 2: Biodiversity along the Boyne Greenway Drogheda, Co Louth Sunday August 17th at 12noon   Explore the findings of this project that was commissioned by Drogheda Tidy Towns.   Bee-keeper and active environmentalist, Tony Conaghy, shares insight into this project: the aim of this study is to explore and record the biodiversity along […]

Heritage Week 2025 Saturday 16th August 12noon   Setting the Scene Gabrielle Ricciardelli was a Neapolitan landscape painter who arrived in Dublin in the year 1753 and remained in Ireland until 1759. While in Dublin his Patron was Ralph Howard, the first Viscount Wicklow and for whom he painted a number of works of art. […]