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

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.

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.

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

Glasgow Film Theatre

12 Rose Street, Glasgow City Centre G3 6RB

What began as a single screen cinema over 80 years ago has become Scotland’s most diverse and best publicly attended independent cinema, and home to the award-winning Glasgow Film Festival.

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Queens Park Arena

Queens Park Langside Road, Glasgow South Side G42

Queen's Park Arena is a unique urban outdoor destination in the heart of Glasgow's Southside. The venue can accommodate many types of events from small community events to headlining acts!

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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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Platform Glasgow

1000 Westerhouse Road, Glasgow East End G34 9JW

Platform is the arts centre at the heart of The Bridge, located in Easterhouse, offering a year-round programme of cutting edge performance, music, visual arts and participation.

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The Tower Digital Arts Centre

79-81 Sinclair Street, Helensburgh G84 8TG

The Tower is a not for profit Indy Cinema and Community Arts hub based in the town of Helensburgh!

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The Old Fruitmarket

The Old Fruitmarket Candleriggs, Glasgow City Centre G1 1NQ

Prepare to be caught under the spell of Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow's Centre for Music, as soon as you walk through its doors!

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The Mitchell Library and Theatre

The Mitchell Library North Street, Glasgow City Centre G3 7DN

The Mitchell Library is one of Europe's largest public libraries with over one million items of stock and is the hub of a city-wide information service, it's also home to the Mitchell Theatre!

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The OVO Hydro

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

Find out what's on at The OVO Hydro in Glasgow and book your tickets online with What's On Glasgow!

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Tron Theatre

63 Trongate, Glasgow City Centre G1 5HB

The Tron Theatre has been a familiar landmark in Glasgow's Merchant City area for centuries and a popular cultural venue for over twenty years!

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Websters Theatre

416 Great Western Road, Glasgow West End G4 9HZ

Websters Glasgow is a performing arts theatre, bar and restaurant situated in Glasgow's West End occupying the building of the 19th century former Lansdowne Parish Church.

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