The fourth Lowry Lounge took place at the Bluecoat with a day of talks. Katie McGettigan drew on her PhD research on nineteenth-century American writers' relationships to Liverpool, particularly Herman Melville, whose Redburn novel is partly set in the city, to connect to Lowry who had a fascination with the writer. Ailsa Cox discussed the writing of Lowry's first wife Jan Gabrial.

City Hospital, a soundscape response to Lowry's novella Lunar Caustic by Canadian musician Locsil was played. Colin Dilnot discussed the backdrop of the Day of the Dead to Under the Volcano before introducing Eisenstein’s Qué viva México! film that vividly captures this day which held such significance for Lowry. There was discussion about establishing a local Lowry archive.