Call for Artists URGENCIES (2027) is the fifth instalment of a biennial group exhibition at CCA Derry~Londonderry, which will take place from 23 January–13 March 2027. The exhibition is selected from an open call, seeking to take the temperature of what artists working today consider to be urgent.

🌝 PROJECT SPACE: Domnall Starkie 🗓️ 22 June – 4 July 2026 📍 10-12 Artillery Street Domnall is spending a focused week working in the Project Space as a studio at CCA Derry~Londonderry, developing new non‑toxic, upcycled paper‑clay seating forms and immersive sculptural components for the project.

🪨 LAUNCH: ‘All I see is the present’ by Christopher Steenson 🗓️ Friday 19 June 2026, 7–9pm 📍 CCA Derry~Londonderry This Friday join us for the opening reception of Christopher Steenson’s solo exhibition ‘All I see is the present’. Further information in the comments

Summer Family Activity: Stone Stories: Building the past in our present 🪨📜 🗓Saturday 15 August 2026, 2–3.30pm 📍CCA Derry~Londonderry Come join us for this family friendly workshop facilitated by artist Éabha Mallett. Further information in comments.

Last week to catch 'Glimmers' by Yasmine Robinson

Welcoming local primary schools to explore Yasmine Robinson's current Exhibition 'Glimmers'. We are looking & discovering shape, colour & abstraction.

🌱 WORKSHOP: MHANI X CCA DLD Seed Library with Conor O'Kane 🗓️Wednesday 13 May 2026 📍 CCA Derry~Londonderry 2–5pm As part of MHANI–Mental Health Arts NI Festival @mentalhealthartsni come to CCA to learn about the CCA DLD Seed Library. Free. Book your place at CCADLD.org/Shop

A date for your diary 🖍National Drawing Day 📍CCA Derry~Londonderry 🗓Saturday 16 May 2026, 1.30–3.30pm As part of Drawing Day 2026, CCA is holding a free, drop-in session to draw together in CCA hosted by artist Colleen McSheffrey. Materials provided or bring your own!

‘Glimmers' is an exhibition of Yasmine Robinson’s new body of work that explores abstraction as an embodied and responsive process whilst highlighting the artist’s use of colour, surface and gesture. Until 06.06.26 yasminerobinsonart.com Yasmine Robinson, Moon River (2025). Oil on Canvas.

🔴 IT'S NOT CLEAR FROM HERE 🗓️ Until 14 March 📍 CCA Derry~Londonderry ‘IT’S NOT CLEAR FROM HERE’, a group exhibition curated by Ashleigh Wilson 📸 1. Thomas Hunter, The Meeting of the Waters, 2024 2. Lucy Tevlin , The Structure of a Second, 2020 3. Sabi Nicholson, Dislocations II, 2025

Visit our current exhibition! Love is blindly reaching out rhizoids and anchoring them to a rock is open until 13 September 2025 Artist duo McGibbon O’Lynn reimagine intimacy through a multispecies dating game, challenging gamified romance and human limits in the contemporary dating world.

Project Space: Ciara Darcy July 2025 📍CCA Derry~Londonderry During the month of July, Ciara Darcy used the Project Space as a living studio to develop her melty bead projects on a large scale. Using plastic beads in bright rainbow, she created wall hangings handbags keychain to reflect fun and play

Here's a sneak peek at an Abridged 0 - 106: Umbra Sumus. This one by David Haughey. It probably reflects the times... The issue will be launched on Saturday night at @ccadld.bsky.social from 7pm and the online version will be, well, online from Sunday.

We're hosting an Art Writing Workshop! ✍️ Longing - a Language is a 3 part workshop devised and led by Research Associate 2024 Sophie Mak-Schram. Who do you long to be in community with and what languaging can we build for that longing? The workshops will take place online via Zoom link in bio 💌

LAUNCH: Take Hold 🤝 🗓28 March 2025 🕰7-9pm Take Hold is a group exhibition curated by Rachel Botha The exhibition shares its title with a publication that invited contributors to reflect on our conditions as humans and artists, to explore interconnectedness. link in bio for more info! 🔗

NEW CURATING 2026 | CCA Derry~Londonderry & Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive CALL FOR EMERGING CURATORS New Curating 2026 provides an opportunity for an emerging curator to develop a new exhibition in CCA & Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive Link in bio for more info!

💐Launch: 'URGENCIES (2025)'💐 🗓18th January 2025, 7–9pm 📍CCA Derry~Londonderry Join us for the launch of our first show of the year which will take place within CCA’s galleries and offsite until 15 March 2025. Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and DCSDC.

👀 Looking back: SEED SAVING CELEBRATION / AG CÉILIURUIDH NA SÍOLTAI 2024 📅 Saturday 23 Nov 2024 Recently, The Seed It Union returned to CCA, following a successful seed saving days in Dec 2022 and Nov 2023. Participants helped process the seeds, including tomato, pumpkin, beans, leeks and lettuce.

🧱Lunchtime Seminar: Irish Modernisms Global Contexts | India 🧱 📅 Monday 2 December 2024, 1–2.15pm 📍Online via Zoom This seminar is revisiting the topic of the Global Contexts of Modernisms following CCA's Irish Modernisms exhibition in 2021. Details & to book: www.ccadld.org/public-progr...