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Team representing Liverpool Michael Hanna
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Michael Hanna
Crossing the Park
05 Oct 24—21 Dec 24
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​​REHEARSING BODIES
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Lucie McLaughlin, Francis Whorrall-Campbell, Ebun Sodipo
REHEARSING BODIES
05 Oct 24—05 Nov 24
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Strata
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Dorothy Hunter, Marie Farrington, Amy Stephens
Strata
20 Jul 24—21 Sep 24

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I feel like a tourist in my hometown
Derry-born artist Darren Nixon would like to invite you to I feel like a tourist in my hometown – an alternati...
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Lunchtime Seminar: Irish Modernisms Global Contexts | India
02 Dec 24
This lunchtime zoom seminar is revisiting the topic of the Global Contexts of Modernisms following CCA's Irish Modernism...
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CCA Fundraiser: HUSK KARAOKE
30 Nov 24
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday 30 November 2024, 8pm Join CCA and artist Husk Bennett for a night of HUSK KARAOKE! It's art an...
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Seed Saving Celebration / Ag Céiliuruidh na Síoltai 2024
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Window Text: Hing Loong
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Show and Tell
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Window Text: Turn the Tide

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💬 "Are you a football fan?" 👀 Come and see: ⚽️'Crossing the Park' by Michael Hanna 👀 📅 Runs until Saturday 21 December 2024 📍 CCA Derry~Londonderry In 'Crossing the Park', Michael Hanna takes himself as the subject in a project that sees the artist attempt to change his deep-set allegiance from Everton Football Club to their local rivals, Liverpool. 🔗 Read more via the link in our bio. ~~~ #ACNISupported #CCADLD #Football #FootballTeam #EvertonFan #LiverpoolFan #FootballFan #HereForArtsAndCulture #LotteryFunded #WhatsOnDS 📷 Paola Bernardelli @paola.bee 🧱Lunchtime Seminar: Irish Modernisms Global Contexts | India 🧱 📅 Monday 2 December 2024, 1–2.15pm 📍Online via Zoom This lunchtime zoom seminar is revisiting the topic of the Global Contexts of Modernisms following CCA's Irish Modernisms exhibition in 2021 and seminars exploring the global contexts from Ireland, Post Soviet Estonia, Latin America and Eritrea East Africa in the series so far. India has a remarkable history and relationship with Modernism, and its two speakers talk in turn about the origins of modernism to present day. ➡️ Dr. (Ar.) Pankaj Chhabra is Associate Professor and Head, Department of architecture, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. He will introduce the architectural journey of Modernism in India from the fall of islamic period and the impacts of British Colonial rule, with a focus on 1950–1980. Dr. (Ar.) Pankaj Chhabra's interests include analysing the way Indian architects were influence by the works of foreign masters of modernism in India and is author of the book 20th CENTURY INDIAN ARCHITECTURE: Genesis and Metamorphosis of Modernism. ➡️ Our second speaker is Ar. Silia Grover, an Architect and Urban Planner, formerly an Assistant Professor in the Architecture Department at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and now a dedicated researcher. Her expertise lies in the study of Indian architecture from 1980 to 2000, focusing on how modernist legacies have adapted in response to globalization and commercialization in India. Building on the foundational inquiries of Dr. (Ar.) Pankaj Chhabra, she continues to explore the evolving impact of these forces on social structures and values. Tickets are free and a zoom link will be shared ahead of the seminar. See Link in bio to book 🔗 ~~~ Supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City & Strabane District Council, and the British Art Network (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Tate, with additional public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England). 🪟 Window Text: Hing Loong 📅 12—25 November 2024 📍 CCA Derry~Londonderry The next in our series of window text commissions is Hing Loong by Hattie Godfrey and David Campbell. Ten artists/writers were invited to create one page of text; a completely open brief. The texts range from dense, deeply personal accounts to bold slogans, personal, political, observations or a call to action, each capturing the different thoughts and feelings of the author. The texts have been designed by different artists and designers and printed in a risograph edition by Derry Print Workshop. 👀 The texts are visible from CCA's windows, each for two weeks, as well as visible online here and distributed across our region. All ten will be available later in the year as a bundle edition available to buy from CCA's shop as a fundraiser. ~~~ Hing Loong, 2022–24 Author: Hattie Godfrey Designer: David Campbell Printer: Derry Print Workshop Risograph edition of 200 ℹ️ About the author & designer: Hattie Godfrey is an artist and researcher whose work utilises a range of mediums including performance, writing and collaborative practices to create works that consider her own and society’s increasingly complicated relationship with concepts of illness, care and convalescence. Recent displays of Hattie’s work include The Irish Cultural Centre in London, The McManus in Dundee and Platform Arts Belfast. Hattie studied BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, holds an MSc in Psychological Science from Queen’s University Belfast and is about to begin training as a Counselling Psychotherapist. David Campbell is an artist and designer from Derry. He has worked extensively in promoting and supporting the comic book art. #ACNISupported #WhatsOnDS #CCADLD #HereForArtsAndCulture #WindowText #EmergingArtists #DerryPrintWorkshop #ContemporaryArt #VisualArt ✍️ Supports Training Workshop | How to write about work: Your own, and that of others ✍️ 📅Thursday 21 November 2024, 11am–12.30pm 📍Online via Zoom CCA x Jerwood = Supports is offering a series of training sessions to expand artists’ skills sets, increase employability and build confidence. These workshops have been developed based on the responses from our recent Training Survey when we asked you what training you would need to benefit your practice, and what additional training might enable you to earn more income to support your practice. This opportunity is for artists who are not currently in any type of formal education who have begun their professional practice, based nationally or internationally. How to write about work: Your own, and that of others takes place via CCA's Zoom account on Thursday 21 November 2024, 11am–12.30pm. During this training session, arts practitioner Cecelia Graham will share learnings about ways to write about your work and that of others. The session will include a discussion about writing formats, from traditional forms to more experimental approaches, and strategies for finding your writing style. Cecelia will bring examples of different approaches to writing about work, and will ask those who attend to test out short writing exercises. 🔗 You can find out more and book your free place for this training workshop via the link in our bio. It is suited to those aged 18 and above. The session will be recorded and available as a resource via our Supports page. About Cecelia Graham: Cecelia Graham is a practitioner based between Belfast, Derry and Mid-Ulster in the north of Ireland who works with writing, participatory events and curation within her practice. ~~~ #WhatsOnDS #CCADLD #JerwoodFoundation #WritingAboutYourWork #HEREforartsandculture #ACNISupported #LotteryFunded 👀 Looking back at: 👻 Stick it to yer Ghost 🤝 with @indigoazidahaka 📅 Monday 28-Wednesday 30 October 2024 📍 CCA Derry~Londonderry Thanks to everyone who came along during Halloween week to create such ghastly ghoulish ghosts. 🔗 There will be more events for children and families in the new year so stay tuned here or subscribe to our newsletter via the link in out bio. ~~~ #ACNISupported #HEREforartsandculture #CCADLD #LotteryFunded #MuseumOfTheYear #DerryHalloween #FamilyFun 🕰️ Show and Tell 👀 With Johanna Leech 📅 Saturday 23 November 2024 ⏱️ 1-5pm 📍CCA Derry~Londonderry Join us for a unique and informal Show and Tell experience with artist Johanna Leech. Embrace the tradition of sharing cherished items and stories, and delve into Johanna’s collection of fascinating memorabilia from World’s Fairs from around the globe. Bring something special of your own to share—whether it’s a toy, a memento, or an item with a story to tell. Johanna will be on hand to discuss her collection, answer questions, and explore connections between her objects and yours. Drop in anytime between 1–5 pm. This is a casual, family-friendly event, open to all ages. Come curious, come creative, and join the conversation! Part of Testing Ground, CCA x Jerwood = Supports. Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Jerwood Foundation. ~~~ #ACNISupported #NationalLottery #CCAdld #JohannaLeech #TestingGround #WhatsOnDS #HEREForArtsAndCulture #HERENorthWest 🧑‍💻 We’re Hiring: Two positions 🧑‍💻 👋 Marketing Coordinator & Gallery Administrator 👋 📅 Deadline: Wednesday 4 December 2024, 23:59pm 🤝 JOB OPPORTUNITY: Marketing Coordinator CCA is recruiting a part-time Marketing Coordinator (0.2 FTE) to work with the Director and Public Programmes Curator. SALARY : £5000 per annum (£25,000 pro rata) DURATION OF POST: Permanent, subject to funding and successful completion of a six-month probationary period
 PLACE OF WORK: Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry, 10–12 Artillery Street, Derry~Londonderry, BT48 6RG RESPONSIBLE TO: Director The full job description and person specification will be available at the CCA website on the Opportunities page. 🖥 JOB OPPORTUNITY: Gallery Administrator CCA is recruiting a part-time Gallery Administrator (0.4 FTE) to work with the Director and Public Programmes Curator. SALARY : £10,000 per annum (£25,000 full time equivalent) DURATION OF POST: Permanent, subject to funding and successful completion of a six-month probationary period PLACE OF WORK: Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry, 10–12 Artillery Street, Derry~Londonderry, BT48 6RG RESPONSIBLE TO: Director ~~~ 🔗 Check out the link in our bio for more information. ~~~ HOW TO APPLY: Please apply by submitting your CV, completed Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form and a covering letter stating how you meet the person specifications and why you are applying for this role to Info@CCADLD.org by 4 December 2024, 23:59 GMT. Interviews 16 December 2024 for start date in January 2025. #ACNISupported #JobFairy #JobsNI #JobsNorthWest #CharityJobs #CCAdld #LotteryFunded #HEREforartsandculture #DerryCreatives #Jobs 📣 Announcing the artists selected for: URGENCIES (2025) 📣 📅 Launching: Saturday 18 January 2025 📍CCA Derry~Londonderry CCA Derry~Londonderry is pleased to announce the artists selected for URGENCIES (2025): Aidan O’Neill, Cara Donaghey, Emily Waszak, Hannah Casey Brogan, James Mooney/Alex Pollock/Rodhlann Mossop/Sadhbh Sheeran, Katrina Cobain, Kelly Ewing, Leah Corbett, Niall McLaughlin, Sgàire Wood. Selected by CCA Director Catherine Hemelryk and Artist Jennifer Trouton, the URGENCIES (2025) artists represent a snapshot of some of the concerns and interests held today by early-career artists connected to our region. Working across a wide range of media, the topics covered include ecological breakdown, mental health, toxic masculinity, conflict, privilege, power, preservation and healthcare. Many of the works have been inspired by personal experience and specific issues but speak to wider national and global contexts such as medication shortages, violent attacks on identity, library closures, flooding, and the toxic blooms of Lough Neagh. URGENCIES (2025) is the fourth edition of the biennial group exhibition selected through open call. The project will launch on Saturday 18 January 2025 at 7pm and will take place in CCA’s galleries and offsite until 15 March 2025. ~~~ 📷 Hannah Casey Brogan, seeds (2024). Drawing on paper. #ACNISupported #NationalLottery #URGENCIES #CCAdld #WhatsOnDS #HERENorthWest #HereForArtsAndCulture #EmergingArtists 📣 Final days of: 🚾 REHEARSING BODIES 📅 05 October–05 November 2024 📍CCA Derry~Londonderry 🤝 Guest Curated by Lucy Grubb REHEARSING BODIES is an exhibition curated by Lucy Grubb taking over CCA’s bathroom with artworks by Lucie McLaughlin, Ebun Sodipo and Francis Whorrall-Campbell. The exhibition reimagines the WC as a space for remaking, practising and rehearsing. Lucie McLaughlin's work, 'quite distant, flat, but surging' combines fragments of text and drawing gathered in response to exhibitions visited during one calendar month. Exploring the atmosphere of art spaces and the resonances felt when encountering art, the work questions what comes to the surface during the performance of ‘looking’. Amplifying a sense of observation, lines of writing contribute to the unfolding sounds, dissonances and silences reciprocated between viewer, art, and the site in which they are found. Ebun Sodipo's work reveals how queerness and the 'angry Black woman' stereotype intersect across generations through linking work that spans over two decades. The artist links Goldie Williams, a 19th-century American arrested for sex work, with Amanda Seal in 21-st century America. In doing so, Ebun captures defiant expressions between two public-rehearsing bodies that resist and perform disgust, and reveals how a persistent trope can become a powerful act of resistance, binding their strength through repeated performances of defiance. In 'Promise of a Better Perversion,' Francis Whorrall-Campbell engages with transmasc aesthetic theory through the precise imagery of a dart flight. Hand-drawn stills from a 1990s top surgery gif, explores the tradition of representing the human body, using the nude as a 'ground zero' subject. The dart’s trajectory embodies the tension between fixed paths and the fluidity of transmasculine expression, reflecting both the resilience and vulnerability in asserting one’s identity - marking a new point of departure in self-representation. Read more via the 🔗 link in our bio. 🗺️ Testing Ground: Johanna Leech 📅 24 October-23 November 2024 📍CCA Derry~Londonderry, 10 Artillery Street, BT48 6RG Artist Johanna Leech is taking over CCA’s Project Space for a month as part of Testing Ground, to try out new ideas and take risks with her practice. Johanna aims to create a fun and immersive display in CCA’s project space showcasing her discoveries of the often bizarre spectacles of ‘World’s Fairs’. She will blend humour with analysis, showcasing archive film, mockups, objects and images to create a growing installation. The World’s Fairs were meant to showcase the pinnacle achievements of societies and revolutionary technologies, but these imagined futures and grandiose structures were temporary constructs, often just smoke and mirrors. These massive spectacles wowed the World and inspired the public’s imagination, only to crumble months later - how do they hold up today? Drop in to CCA to meet Johanna this Saturday anytime between 1-5pm! @bipgirl 🌊 The next in our series of window text commissions is Turn the Tide by Shannon Delores O’Neill and Tara O’Connor to coincide with Sister Ghost's debut album launching on Halloween 2024, Beyond the Water. Ten artists/writers were invited to create one page of text; a completely open brief. The texts range from dense, deeply personal accounts to bold slogans, personal, political, observations or a call to action, each capturing the different thoughts and feelings of the author. The texts have been designed by different artists and designers and printed in a risograph edition by Derry Print Workshop. 🪟 The texts are visible from CCA's windows, each for two weeks, as well as visible online here and distributed across our region. All ten will be available later in the year as a bundle edition available to buy from CCA's shop as a fundraiser. Turn the Tide, 2024 Author: Shannon Delores O’Neill Designer: Tara O’Connor Printer: Derry Print Workshop Risograph edition of 200 👋About the author & designer: Shannon Delores O'Neill is a Derry based award winning musician and artist, who performs under the name Sister Ghost. She has had press in The Guardian, garnered high profile support slots with Pussy Riot, We Are Scientists, Tom Robinson, Ratboys, Tim Wheeler, Shellac, Petrol Girls, Fontaines DC and Le Butcherettes as well as featured artist slots on BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 1. She is also the founder of the NI chapter of Girls Rock! and is a youth worker specialising in music and art workshops. @sisterghostofficial Tara O'Connor is a comic maker and illustrator currently residing in Belfast. She self-published her first mini-comic, Puddles, in 2010 and since then has worked with Oni Press, boom Studios, IDW/Top Shelf, Scholastic, Andrews McMeel, Aftershock Comics, and Random House Graphic. Her book The Altered History of Willow Sparks was translated into French by Hachette Romans in 2023. She’s currently working on her second book with Random House Graphic. She’s represented by Allison Remcheck at Stimola Literary Studio. taraocomics.com | @taraocomics ~~~ 🤝 This project was made possible thanks to support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, DCSDC. 𓇢𓆸 Seed Saving Celebration / Ag Céiliuruidh na Síoltai 2024 𓇢𓆸 📅 Saturday 23 November 2024, 1-5pm 📍CCA Derry~Londonderry 🌿🍃🍀🌳 The Seed It Union returns to CCA following a successful seed saving days in December 2022 and November 2023. You can take part in a mixture of activities. You will help process the seeds, including tomato, pumpkin, beans, leeks and lettuce. You will also get the chance to weigh and package the seeds for distribution to local community growing organisations. There will be a creative activity whereby you can make pictures using the seed residue. If you bring seeds, you will have the chance to say what you have brought and what they mean to you. Seeds have stories and we will have the chance to hear more about them. 🌿🍃🍀🌳 👨🏼‍🌾 Representatives from community gardens from across the north of Ireland will use this as an opportunity to meet to discuss their next steps as part of The Seed It Union and their year ahead. 🤝This is an in-person event that will take place at CCA Derry~Londonderry, 10-12 Artillery Street, BT48 6RG. It is a free, drop-in session, suitable for all ages. No booking is required. All welcome! ~~~ 📸 Saving Seeds Celebration Day 2023. Photo credit: CCA