CCA Derry~Londonderry

09/10/2026

🗣️Good Relations Week: Curator Tour of ‘The Night Journal’
🗓️ Friday 16 October 2026, 2–2:30pm
📍 CCA Derry~Londonderry

Join Catherine Hemelryk for an informal tour of ‘The Night Journal’, an exhibition by four, intergenerational artists exploring constructed realities of the night at CCA Derry~Londonderry.

This tour is for anyone with an interest in art and will include a welcome to CCA by Director Catherine Hemelryk, and an overview of their activity as well as an insight into the artworks in the exhibition. The artists on show are Reuben Brown, Michaela Razafima Nash, Aisling O’Beirn and Wilhelmina Peace with work spanning drawing, print, film, installation and text.

The tour will move around the gallery spaces, benches are provided in two rooms and chairs can be available for anyone who might need a seat.

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Part of Good Relations Week 2026.

CCA is supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City & Strabane District Council, Garfield Weston Foundation.

Image: Kwok Tsui, ‘Deferral | Echo’ (2023). Photo: CCA & Paola Bernardelli

28/09/2026

💻 🪜 📋 Join the roster: Project Managers

We are updating our roster of Project Managers for occasional short term, temporary projects working with contemporary visual art and artists, audiences, stakeholders and communities.

Please get in touch and send your CV, links to two referees and a letter telling us about your project management experience and skills by emailing [email protected] with the subject heading PROJECT MANAGER ROSTER.

We are particularly interested to hear from project managers with experience in any or all of the following: digital programmes, public arts events, international cooperation, evaluation, logistics, fundraising, research, writing and more. Tell us about you and join our roster.

Arts Council Northern Ireland What's On Derry Strabane

23/09/2026

🦌 CCA Ulster University Graduate Support Award: Natalie Gibson
🗓️ 17 September–17 November 2026
📍 Project Space, CCA Derry~Londonderry

Natalie Gibson is the MFA recipient of the 2026 CCA Ulster University Graduate Support Award. The Award consists of the opportunity to use CCA’s Project Space, stipend and mentoring with CCA Director Catherine Hemelryk.

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Born in Castlewellan, Natalie Gibson is a painter, based in Belfast. Her practice experiments with playful colour palettes and drawing elements to explore ambiguous figures that are instinctively discovering, navigating and interacting with their version of the rural earth alongside the nature and animals that inhabit it for the first time with a curious and innocent intention. Her practice focused on the Irish landscape, mythology and Folk-tales from the country including shape-shifting and the search to find the perfect physical form, which is truly representative of self as a transmigration of souls.

Natalie graduated with First Class Honours in Fine Art from Belfast School of Art in 2022 and MFA in 2026. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions within Belfast and the UK. She was previously a member of the Emerging Artist Program at Flax Art Studio, Belfast (2022–2026). Most notably, Gibson was one of eleven emerging artists across the UK to be awarded The Freelands Painting Prize in 2022, representing Belfast School of Art alongside fifty Universities.
Natalie Gibson

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Supported by Ulster University. CCA is supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City & Strabane District Council and Garfield Weston Foundation.

06/09/2026

In the news! 🗞️

The DCSDC Associate Artist programme has launched. Check CCADLD.org/News for more information on how to apply.

Derry City and Strabane District Council’s Arts and Culture Co‑Delivery Group has launched a new Associate Artists Pilot Programme, supporting stronger, more purposeful collaboration between cultural organisations and individual artists whose work aligns with each organisation’s ethos.

03/09/2026

📢 Submissions now open: DCSDC ASSOCIATE ARTIST 📢
Deadline: 1 October 2026, 23:59pm
🔗 More information on how to apply find the link in our bio and at CCADLD.org

CCA is running a pilot Associate Artist programme for an artist in the Derry City & Strabane District area.

CCA is seeking an emerging (or re-emerging) Associate Artist from Derry City & Strabane District to spend three months developing their practice supported by CCA. This will take form of three dedicated mentoring sessions with CCA’s Director, 24/7 access to use CCA’s Project Space for a month, profile on CCA’s website and social media. Their time in the Project Space will support the development of their practice, with access to CCA’s passing audiences on Artillery Street. The space may be used as a living studio, to remix existing work, to create a fully new installation – it will be self-directed in conversation with CCA’s Director – all aimed at experimentation and the development of the artist’s practice, confidence, skills and profile.

➡️ Find out more and apply via the link in our bio.

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The DCSDC Associate Artist programme is supported by Derry City & Strabane District Council. CCA is supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City & Strabane District Council, Garfield Weston Foundation.

📸 Janie Doherty & Locky Morris, ‘nothing (but windows)’ (film still), 2021

27/08/2026

🔄 RECAP Q***r Archives Writing Workshop
📍In Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin on Saturday 22 August 2026, as part of Foyle Pride Festival.

✍️Where did our stories go? with writer and activist Séadgh Donohue.
📚 Participants leafed through accounts of q***r existence and activism in books, pamphlets and photos found in the Rainbow Project in Derry, the Linen Hall Library in Belfast and beyond. Séadgh provided the group with writing prompts to use alongside the archival material.

🌈Thank you to Séadgh for providing the archival materials and delivering this workshop for Foyle Pride. Thank you to Foyle Pride for the support to be part of the festival's programme.

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ℹ️ Stay tuned for details on our public programme events for the remainder of 2026. If you’re not currently subscribed to our newsletter, why not register today, and be the first to hear about what’s coming up? You can register on our website at www.ccadld.org

25/08/2026

🔄 RECAP Summer Family Activity

✨ Summer Family Art. A big messy clay event with artist

🏺Our young artists traveled back in time through clay and imagination.
⭕️ After an introduction to the exhibition We explored ancient shapes and sounds in our welcome circle.
💭 Imagined stories behind ancient stone circles and wedge tombs.
🗿 Sculpted "mini monuments" and mysterious clay artefacts.
🐚 Pressed patterns into the clay using sticks, shells, and fingertips, to leave a trace.
🤝 Built a collaborative "future stone circle" together.
👂 Listened closely to imagine the sounds of our new creations inspired by the exhibition’s sound works.

Every participant named their masterpiece and took it home to keep!

Thank you to all the families who came out to get creative and leave their trace. 🎨✨



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21/08/2026

🔄 RECAP
📍Old Library Trust, Creggan

A look at our Relief Print Workshop with artist Gráinne McMenamin 🎨

As part of Féile Derry 2026, Gráinne led a hands-on session at the Old Library Trust in Creggan. The workshop was attended by The Creggan Artists and members of the public.
Participants learned essential relief printing techniques and hand-printed their own designs. Everyone got to create unique art prints, greeting cards, and tote bags.

Thank you to Gráinne for leading the session and to everyone who participated.

Many thanks to Derry Féile for supporting this workshop.

📸 Check out some of the images from the day.



ℹ️ Stay tuned for details on our public programme of events for the rest of 2026. If you’re not currently subscribed to our newsletter, why not register today, and be the first to hear about what’s coming up? You can register on our website at www.ccadld.org

13/08/2026

🎧 In Conversation: Christopher Steenson & Brian Lacey now available online!

On the occasion of ‘All I see is the present’, CCA Derry~Londonderry hosted an In Conversation between Artist Christopher Steenson and Historian Dr Brian Lacey moderated by CCA Director Catherine Hemelryk. The conversation took place on Saturday 20 June 2026 as part of Heritage Month across Derry City & Strabane District.

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Listen in by following the link in our bio, on CCA’s YouTube channel and by searching for CCA Derry~Londonderry across all good podcast platforms.

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All I see is the present is supported by:

CCA Derry~Londonderry, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City & Strabane District Council, Garfield Weston Foundation, The Arts Council of Ireland, The Elephant Trust, Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive.

07/08/2026

⛔️ CCA will be closed on Saturday 8 August 2026 due to the apprentice boys march.

We will be back open as usual from Tuesday, noon–6pm, Tuesday–Saturday.

While we are closed you can visit our online projects CCADLD.org and takeover archives here . You can also listen to our Round Table Podcasts and audio artworks by following the link in our bio 🔗 (new episode coming soon!)