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Highlanes Gallery

Press Release: Poetry Invades the Art Gallery…

Experiments in Mood and Meaning at Highlanes Gallery
March 31, April 14, May 7, May 26, 2012

This spring, Highlanes Gallery continues developing its policy of partnering with, and programming other art forms, within the context of the gallery space and the current Collection and temporary Exhibitions, and announces a series of afternoon poetry events over the next three months titled Experiments in Mood and Meaning.

Designed to explore exciting new trends in poetry and to experiment with different ways of presenting it live, the series of four events will also showcase a number of Drogheda poets and other invited bards.

Beginning with poetry as drama with Adventures in the Word Jungle on Saturday 31 March at 3.00pm, when Nuala Leonard, Brian Quinn and Anne Tannam will explore the extra impact possible from multi-voice readings (directed by Brian Quinn), we go on to poetry as story on Saturday 14 April at 3.00pm, in Storylands of Hard Life Experience when the dominance of lyric poetry is challenged by the energy and honesty of longer narrative forms, featuring Patrick Dillon, Terry McHugh and Karl Parkinson.
Then, on (Bank Holiday) Monday May 7 at 3.00pm, during the annual Drogheda Arts Festival, it is poetry and music as ambiencellist Claire Fitch improvises to Roger Hudson’s moody life poems to create Interactions in the Sonic Supersphere.
The series rounds off, on Saturday May 26 at 3.00pm, with Lapwing Poets, a tribute to Lapwing Publications, the fiercely independent Belfast publisher which continues to discover poets establishment publishers ignore with poets Marie MacSweeney, Tommy Murray and Adam Rudden.

Curated by Drogheda-based writer and poet Roger Hudson, who will also take part, he sees the overall aim “to join and celebrate the current breakaway from traditional poetic forms and subjects that is revolutionising poetry and performance in Dublin and other cities.”

Says Hudson, “I’ve been attending and taking part in some of the exciting new spoken word events in Dublin such as the Glór Sessions and Tongue Box, and feel it is high time Drogheda had a chance to share in the excitement of this new flowering of poetry as a popular art.”
This programme has been funded by Create Louth   and Highlanes Gallery

Highlanes Gallery is grateful for the on-going financial support from Drogheda Borough Council, the Arts Council and Irish Cement Ltd.




Current and forthcoming Collection/ Exhibitions Programme at Highlanes Gallery:
March - September 2012

9 March - 26 April
Drogheda Municipal Art Collection including Recent Acquisitions
One + One: Brigid Mc Leer
SURREAL: Primary School Programme Exhibition

 4 May - 5 September
7:42 Thomas Brezing, Séan Cotter, Mary Kelly, Abigail O'Brien, in association with Drogheda Arts Festival, 2012

4 May – 5 June
Famine Times: Drogheda Municipal Art Collection

9 June - 5 September
Women Artists in the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection

Highlanes Gallery Public Programme includes tours, gallery talks, workshops for children, young people and adults, drop in drawing, and other exhibition focused events. Go to www.highlanes.ie for up to date programme information and join the email list by clicking on the home page.

Highlanes Gallery, now in its fifth year, is a municipal art gallery for Drogheda and the North East, home to the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, and exhibiting a programme of temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. Highlanes Gallery’s onsite partner is Andersons Café. Highlanes Gallery is situated in a former Franciscan Church, in the centre of Drogheda on the Boyne, Co, Louth.  Drogheda is a thirty minute train journey from Dublin and 1 hour thirty from Belfast.  

For interviews, high-resolution images or additional information:
Contact: Siobhan Burke, Telephone: + 353 041 9803311, Email: [e-mail]

Highlanes Gallery is open 6 days a week, Monday – Saturday, 10.30am – 5.00pm, closed Sundays except for Sunday May 6 (May Bank Holiday Weekend/ Drogheda Arts Festival)

Highlanes Gallery, Laurence Street, Drogheda on the Boyne, Co. Louth, Ireland
E. [e-mail]; W. www.highlanes.ie  T. + 353 (0) 41 9803311

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    19:30 until 22:30
    19 Parnell Square North, Dublin 1
    FREE!


    
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