CCA Derry~Londonderry

CCA is a contemporary art centre in Derry~Londonderry. Supported by @artscouncilni, DCSDC & @artfund. Shortlisted for #MuseumoftheYear 2021. #CCADLD

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🕰️ Show and Tell
👀 With Johanna Leech
📅 Saturday 23 November 2024
⏱️ 1-5pm
📍CCA Derry~Londonderry

Join us for a unique & informal Show and Tell experience with artist Johanna Leech. Embrace the tradition of sharing cherished items & stories.

Details: https://t.co/x3oQTItoi1

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🔌CCA x Jerwood = Supports: AV Set Up for Install with Paul Moore 🔌
📅 Saturday 9 November 2024
⏰ 2-4pm
📍CCA Derry~Londonderry
💰 FREE but registration essential
🎫 Book below:
https://t.co/ThdaxPbn8N

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⚽ Get involved with Danderball 50+ Walking Football Tournament!

Part of the Public Prog for Michael Hanna's solo exhibition Crossing the Park

📅 Wed 6 Nov 2024, 11am–1pm

👋 If you are aged 50+ and would like to join a team or register your existing team email [email protected]

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🍁 Embodied Earth: Soft Play//Hard Clay with Gail Mahon 🍁
Saturday 21 September 2024, 1–3pm
📍CCA Derry~Londonderry

Join artist-researcher Gail Mahon for an immersive workshop that blends playful interactions with gravity and clay.

https://t.co/R05oks937Y

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👋 Film Screening and Discussion: Rights of Nature 👋
21 September, 4.40pm - 5.45pm
📍CCA

Join us for a screening of the film ‘Rights of Nature’, a film that asks what if species, rivers, and nature as a whole had rights?

https://t.co/klvKOkVhzQ

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Sinéad Smyth is next up in our Project Space! She will be exploring risk-taking within her practice throughout her time with us 🔎

🥚As part of this, the artist is asking for egg shell donations to make chalk

To donate, follow the steps outlined here ➡️ https://t.co/LQuerwdQ2g

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👋 It's all go in CCA's Project Space!

Across August, we've hosted Kathryn Graham as part of Testing Ground. The residency has been an opportunity for the artist to experiment with fresh ideas following a 4 week lithography workshop at @TamarindInst 🌱

https://t.co/xsUSGdSqwl

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🪟 CCA Window Texts: It Is & I Am🪟
Until Monday 2 September 2024

Our next window text coincides with @FoylePrideFest 💐 Featuring text by artist Emma Brennan & designed by artist Reuben Brown.

More information can be found here: https://t.co/uMqo1gn0qx

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🌱 Summer Family Activity w/ Eibhlín Morrison 🌱
31 August, 1-3pm

Presenting a workshop by Eibhlín Morrison for children and families where you will make your own fossil reliefs in clay.

Free booking: https://t.co/oosIcdM6vK

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👋 And lastly for now - CCA Introducing with Liam Bradley.

Liam explores moments of noticing and looking, finding appreciation and sensitivity in something as mundane as a bathroom window, amplifying and augmenting these moments.

See more: https://t.co/3lqJlXu82Q

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🔙 Looking back at our recent CCA Introducing takeovers

Derry-based artist Niall McLaughlin took over our Instagram back in July. His work is concerned with the act of looking and the illusionary nature of painting.

More info: https://t.co/4CWS3apuWR

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Next up ➡ CCA Introducing: Indigo Azidahaka.

Indigo a visual and performance artist based in Belfast. During their takeover, Indigo gave an insight into what they are currently working on, sketch book closeups, writing and research.

More info: https://t.co/WxnfdpYAmg

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🪟Window Texts: Paper Knowledge written by K. Morgan & designed by Kathryn Graham
Until 19 August
📍Viewable from CCA’s windows

Paper Knowledge', a brief scraping up of text and drawings that think about different kinds of observing and putting down.

🔗https://t.co/cCNjufApU3

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Foyle Pride 2024 | Queers Won’t be Quiet: Placard workshop with Jack McGarrigle 🪧
🗓17 August, 1pm-4pm

A placard making workshop, making messages of love or protest.

Book here: https://t.co/px3t5b5DRB

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📢 Submissions now open: ‘URGENCIES (2025)’ 📢
Deadline: 8 October, 23.59

We're seeking artists in the early stages of their careers based in Northern Ireland or with a connection to the region, who address urgencies through their work.

Info: https://t.co/NP9yQIecxd

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🌿Writing Sustainability Plans and Statements w/ Shane Malone-Murphy
15 August, 10am-12pm
📍Online

A webinar aimed towards artists, curators, and other cultural workers who wish to more fully understand sustainability.

Book: https://t.co/4rxIZKUPLi

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🌀 CCA Window Texts: ‘what the water whispers’ written by Moran Been-noon and designed by Emily Waszak 🌀

'I am a different stone;
Other stories are carved in me.'

Read 👉 https://t.co/g2ueFz2lY2

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🪟CCA Window Texts🪟

Our Window Text commissions are back! Ten artists/writers were invited to create one page of text – a completely open brief.

Each text is printed in Risograph editions by our neighbours Derry Print Workshop.

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🤝Window Text 2: ‘RDV Porte d’Aid & Carrefour’ written by Gráinne Donohue & designed by Dee Morgan 🤝

‘surrounded by the Keffiyeh
a fish is carved in Bir Saba’,
the chains (to be smashed)
hang around the fish’s neck
it’s body engulfed in the sea.'

Read👉 https://t.co/dg6QoQb8Zb