Other Nations 3: Biodiversity along Mell & Oldbridge, Drogheda, Co.Louth Sunday August 23rd at 12:30pm   Explore the findings of this project that was funded by the Peatlands & Natural Community Engagement Scheme 2026 and Drogheda Tidy Towns.   Bee-keeper and active environmentalist, Tony Conaghy, shares insight into this project: exploring the natural and human […]

Nano Reid – A Life in Paint On Friday 21st August at 1pm – spend a precious lunchtime with Brendan Matthews exploring the towscape of Drogheda through the eyes of 20th century maverick-painter, Nano Reid.   In the spring of 1900, above a busy Drogheda public house, a child was born who would become one […]

Gabrielle Alioth: Seapoint Strand The world below water must be filled with a greenish light. In the past, fishermen sometimes found apple blossom in their nets or a golden cup. What fills the space in our mind when we forget the past? Friday 24th July at 11.30am   Swiss writer Gabrielle Alioth has been living […]

Thursday 16th July at 1pm Join us for the GIAF key event of Jackie Nickerson’s exhibition STATESIDE – a Highlanes Gallery national tour, where Jackie will be in conversation with writer and journalist Tom Downey   STATESIDE is Jackie Nickerson’s sweeping, fragmented visual diary of a decade living and working across the USA. From streetscapes […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]