Prepare your artwork entry Workshop with Sadbh de Buitléir-Kearney YOUNG CREATIVES ART COMPETITION   Wednesday 8th July 11.30am-1pm For children aged 8 – 18 years   As we announce our first children’s art competition in Young Creatives Art Competition with the closing date of Sunday 12th July, we invite children to attend a ‘studio-session’ and […]

Prepare your artwork entry Workshop with James Moonan YOUNG CREATIVES ART COMPETITION   Sunday 5th July 11.30am-1pm For children aged 8 – 18 years   As we announce our first children’s art competition in Young Creatives Art Competition with the closing date of Sunday 12th July, we invite children to attend a ‘studio-session’ and informal […]

Bea Orpen and the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection Friday 3rd July at 11.30am   Yvonne Scott discusses her recently published essay on the life and work of artist, Bea Orpen, exploring her painting practice in idea and materiality, as well as Bea and her husband Terry Trench’s founding of the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, 80 […]

Local and regional harping talent presented in two free lunchtime performances.   It is always a treat to host the Rising Stars Series of An Chúirt Chruitireachta International Harp Festival, and this year sees the high calibre and exceptional talent harpers of the region expressed in two free lunchtime free performances.   Tuesday 30th June […]

Patronage and Power: Who Commissioned the Drogheda Paintings by Gabrielle Ricciardelli Friday 26th June at 11.30am   An illustrated lecture presented by Brendan Matthews.   As Highlanes Gallery marks the twentieth anniversary of its opening; this moment offers an ideal opportunity to reconsider two remarkable mid-eighteenth-century views of Drogheda attributed to the Italian painter Gabriele […]

Summer Solstice at Highlanes Gallery Sunday 21st June from 1-2.30pm   Join Drogheda Creative Writers and Just Write Poetry Group as they return to Highlanes Gallery to mark the Summer Solstice.   Come and join them on the longest day of the year, celebrating the nourishing light of the sun, and all that it gives […]

Saturday 20th June 11:30am – 1.00pm Family Workshop – The Natural World   Explore your creativity and join us for another informal Family Workshop where you will look and discuss and explore the ideas and materiality of the exhibition To Land: Living Roots Awaken with facilitator Nela Hadija.   Inspired by the multitude of artworks […]

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 […]

Artist’s Evening Workshop Get closer to plein-air painter Anne Mullen’s practice in this special experimental painting workshop Wednesday 17th June 7.30pm-9.00pm   On the occasion of Ceiliúradh: Treasures of the Boyne Valley exhibition, where artist Anne Mullen is one of the three invited artists, join her to understand her process, and take part in an […]