Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow

The CCA is a unique contemporary arts organisation at the heart of Glasgow's city centre and vibrant cultural community.

About Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow

	350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow City Centre G2 3JD
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CCA presents experimental contemporary visual art, performance, film, music, spoken word and other events. We are a hub for creative activity, engaging with individuals and communities, aiming to contribute to the vibrancy and vitality of cultural life in Glasgow and beyond.

Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) curates six major exhibitions a year, showing a wide range of Scottish and international contemporary art, as well as being home to Intermedia Gallery for emerging artists. Fast developing a reputation for world class improvised, experimental and electronic music, CCA also screens independent short, foreign and documentary films otherwise unavailable across the city.

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Upcoming Events at Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow

Film

Unique Perspectives

7th November 2025

Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Glasgow City Centre

From snow-peaked mountains to surreal dreamscapes, this programme brings together a bold selection of shorts that explore identity, and offer insight into lives often left at the margins.

Film

DIAGNONSENSE

7th November 2025

Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Glasgow City Centre

For over 15 years, director Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgård was labelled with several serious psychiatric diagnoses. DIAGNONSENSE is a unique cinematic universe based on her experiences.

Film

Grey Milk & Lost Kin

7th November 2025 - 8th November 2025

Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Glasgow City Centre

In Grey Milk & Lost Kin, artist filmmaker Wilma Stone crafts an imaginary world of her hidden ancestral lineage, from the Gypsy/Traveller communities of Scotland.

Film

Home Comforts

7th November 2025

Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Glasgow City Centre

Home Comforts invites us to look closer at the spaces we inhabit and inherit, questioning what they give us, what they take from us - and how they shape who we become.

Film

There’s Comfort in Community

7th November 2025

Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Glasgow City Centre

This short film programme explores human connection and the profound comfort found in community.

Film

Psychogeographies

8th November 2025

Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Glasgow City Centre

Taking you on a journey through physical and imagined geographies, these diverse short films reveal complex landscapes shaped by trauma, grief and conflict.

Film

Palestine Comedy Club

8th November 2025

Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Glasgow City Centre

Following six Palestinian comedians coming from Haifa, Ramallah, Jenin, Hebron,and the Golan Heights who come together to form the first Palestinian Comedy Club.

Film

Chasing The Light

8th November 2025

Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Glasgow City Centre

An idealistic dream becomes a world-renowned centre of Tibetan Buddhist practice on an Irish peninsula in Chasing the Light, a hopeful and inspiring feature documentary from director, Maurice O'Brien.

Film

Disturbances

8th November 2025

Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Glasgow City Centre

This collection of short films blends animation and drama, reframing a series of distinctive interruptions to everyday lives as powerful opportunities for reflection and exploration.

Music

Nora Brown With Stephanie Coleman

25th November 2025

Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Glasgow City Centre

Appalachian banjo and guitar player Nora Brown joins with award winning fiddler Stephanie Coleman for this event at CCA Glasgow on Tuesday 25th November!

Music

Dan Mangan

4th December 2025

Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Glasgow City Centre

JUNO award winning musician and songwriter Dan Mangan will bring his Natural Light Tour to CCA Glasgow on Thursday 4th December!

Music

James Yorkston

5th December 2025

Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Glasgow City Centre

James Yorkston, returns to Glasgow for a very special performance at CCA Glasgow on Friday 5th December!

Theatres

Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre

103 Trongate, Glasgow City Centre G1 5HD

Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre is one of the most popular and unique attractions in Glasgow, entertaining and enthralling its audiences for over three decades since the original opening in 1989.

Theatres

Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre

Kelvingrove Park Kelvin Way, Glasgow West End G12 8NR

The Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre offers a unique open air performance space in the idyllic grounds of Kelvingrove Park!

Theatres

Oran Mor

Oran Mor Byres Road, Glasgow West End G12 8QX

Formerly Kelvinside Parish Church, Òran Mór, Gaelic for 'great melody of life' or 'big song', is a thriving arts & entertainment venue in the heart of Glasgow's West End!

Theatres

SWG3 Glasgow

100 Eastvale Place, Glasgow West End G3 8QG

SWG3 Glasgow is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary arts space in the west end of the city running an annual programme of exhibitions, band nights and events!

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Glee Club Glasgow

11 Renfrew Street, Glasgow City Centre G2 3AB

Comedy in Glasgow has a rich history, and Glee Club are proud to bring our newest venue to such a vibrant city!

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Scottish Event Campus

Scottish Event Campus Exhibition Way, Glasgow West End G3 8YW

Find out what's on at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow and book your tickets online with What's On Glasgow!

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Theatre Royal Glasgow

282 Hope Street, Glasgow City Centre G2 3QA

Theatre Royal Glasgow is home to Scotland's resident companies, Scottish Opera and Scottish Ballet, featuring a Victorian auditorium, Theatre Royal presents first class entertainment for all!

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The Pavilion Theatre Glasgow

121 Renfield Street, Glasgow City Centre G2 3AX

The Pavilion Theatre is Glasgow's favourite variety theatre and an important part of the city's cultural scene.

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Theatre 118

118 Osborne Street, Glasgow City Centre G1 5RP

Glasgow’s newest producing theatre, supporting grassroots theatre making across the city.

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Fort Theatre

Fort Theatre Kenmure Avenue, Bishopbriggs G64 2DW

The Fort Theatre is home to the Antonine Theatre Group who perform at least two full-length plays and a pantomime per season. Cabaret nights are also a regular feature in the theatre group's calendar.

Theatres