CCA Highlights: April 2025
After a winter spent in hibernation, the CCA is reopening its doors and its spring programme looks incredible. We get into the nitty-gritty of some of the best things on over the next few months
Alia Syed: A Ring in the Fish
Opening 16 May
The CCA’s big spring exhibition is Alia Syed’s A Ring in the Fish, which uses moving image work to explore Kabbadi, a traditional South Asian sport, women’s stories, monuments, and the construction of national narratives and storytelling. Her experimental work has been shown in cinemas and galleries globally, and it examines how storytelling, time and memory can illuminate different subjectivities in relation to culture, diaspora, and personal geographies.
Inclinations Film Club: Fragments, wholes and One Minutes
8 Apr, 7.30pm
The new edition of Inclinations Film Club presents a programme of experimental and found footage cinema, interrogating ideas of fragmentation, time and cinematic form. Jessica McGoff’s two minute film Spring Crazy features the work of Joseph H. Lewis’s Gun Crazy and Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, exploring legacies of uncontainable women. Pirate Cinema Berlin’s Get In the Car/Get Out of the Car uses 400 film clips to consider the politics of the automobile, while One Minutes Vol. 12 curated by Kerry Baldry brings together work by dozens of moving image artists.
Welcome Home. Image: CCA.
House Guest
12 Apr
It’s the second edition of House Guest, Glasgow’s new multi-venue festival featuring a wealth of Scottish talent across Nice 'n' Sleazy’s, Garage, CCA, Attic and The Variety Bar, organised by DIY promoters Crowded Flat and SMC. Catch acts like Tina Sandwich, Majesty Palm, Parliamo, Bandit Country and Roller Disco Death Party.
Welcome Home Closing Down Sale
1-5 Apr
The CCA has been hosting Welcome Home store, a creative retail space showcasing craft, design and illustration, for a while, providing a space for a community of makers in the heart of Glasgow’s arts scene. To celebrate its time at the CCA, Welcome Home is throwing a closing down sale in the building, with big discounts on various prints, textiles and ceramics from local and national artists.
Weird Weekend: The People's Joker
1 Apr, 6.30pm
Weird Weekend are hosting a special screening of The People’s Joker, an unauthorised, revolutionary trans coming-of-age film that entirely subverts the DC Comics narrative, reimagining the Joker’s origin story through a surreal and queer lens. The screening includes an exclusive pre-recorded conversation between director, co-writer and star Vera Drew and iconic comic book writer Grant Morrison.