CCA Cultural Tenants

CCA plays host to a number of other cultural and artistic organisations, known as our Cultural Tenants. Current Cultural Tenants in the CCA building are:

Aye-Aye Books
Aye-Aye Books has all you need to keep up to date with current developments in art, and much more. 

Books from independent publishers around the world sit alongside an unrivalled selection of publications by and about today’s Scottish artists, limited edition artists’ books, cultural and critical theory, fiction and poetry, magazines and journals, radical books, sound art, music, and world cinema DVDs.  www.aye-ayebooks.com

BAKKAL
BAKKAL is the Turkish word for corner shop. This is the word we have chosen to describe the diversity of graphic design work we undertake for a wide variety of loyal customers. We design graphic identities, books, pamphlets, guides, marketing materials and websites for individuals, companies, organisations, galleries, charities, colleges and shops. www.bakkalisopen.org

Camcorder Guerillas
Camcorder Guerillas is a Glasgow-based voluntary collective of independent, radical filmmakers, activists and artists. It makes and showcases films and documentaries that raise awareness of social justice issues facing our local communities. Camcorder Guerillas’ films aim to start or contribute to campaigns and it sees itself as part of a global movement that is working towards social justice in society. Camcorder Guerillas produce films that are made in collaboration with, and used by, minority or disadvantaged communities and those working with them. Drawing on the resources, skills and experiences of members, the collective equips grassroots activists with the skills to make and use high quality video documentaries for campaigning and awareness raising.  www.camcorderguerillas.net 

Cryptic
Cryptic is an internationally-renowned producing art house, creating a lasting artistic legacy by presenting high-quality, innovative work.

Cryptic ‘ravishes the senses’ with each performance, project and event. It presents today’s most imaginative and creative artists from around the world while also nurturing emerging Scottish artists.

Founded in Scotland by Artistic Director Cathie Boyd in 1994, Cryptic has quality, innovation and internationalism at its core. With a track record of producing award-winning work, commissioning and presenting artists from all over the world, Cryptic tours nationally and internationally, having presented in 17 countries.

Recognising the need for a regular, supportive platform for emerging artists with fresh ideas, Cryptic launched Cryptic Nights in 2009. To date, 114 artists have been showcased at CCA. Crossing creative boundaries with live music, visual and sonic art, film and new media. Cryptic Nights aims to present a selection of the highest quality emerging talent to inspire, invigorate and excite across the UK.
www.cryptic.org.uk

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Electron Club
The Electron Club is a voluntary run space where people interested in things like free open source software, circuit bending, hardware hacking, computer recycling, streaming, audio and video editing, green technologies, and amateur radio can meet, use equipment, and share and disseminate their skills and ideas.
www.electronclub.org

MAP Magazine
MAP Magazine is a quarterly contemporary art publication. Founded in 2005, MAP is a Scotland-based international magazine devoted to contemporary visual art. It is published four times a year (September, December, March and June) and examines the best emerging and established talents from around the world.
www.mapmagazine.co.uk

Paragon Ensemble
Paragon is a music company that commissions, performs, experiments and teaches new music of all kinds with the aim of inspiring audiences to take part in creating and performing their own music. The central objective is to use the medium of music to change people’s lives for the better, broadening their understanding and appreciation of music and engaging with the related disciplines of dance, drama and visual art. Paragon work throughout Scotland and generate learning opportunities for young people, people with learning disabilities, life long learners and a wide variety of groups in the community helping them to create and perform music which reflects their lives and aspirations.
www.paragon-music.org

Playwright’s Studio, Scotland
Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland develops and celebrates the exceptional talents and achievements of Scotland’s diverse playwrights with sustained, good quality support, whatever stage a writer is at in their career.

Playwrights’ Studio works to engage the people of Scotland directly with new playwriting and raise the standard of plays for presentation to the public.

Activities include workshops, development programs, a monthly e-bulletin, a plays library and much more. Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland also acts as an advocate for Scotland's playwrights both within the UK and abroad.
www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk

Playwrights' Studio Writers' Centre

Scottish Ensemble
Versatile, enterprising and ambitious, Scottish Ensemble is a tight-knit band of outstanding musicians from Scotland and across Europe who perform regularly together under Artistic Director, Jonathan Morton. "One of the most exhilarating, joyous and life enhancing evenings we've had for a long time" (Wigmore Hall, October 2008)
www.scottishensemble.co.uk

Scottish Writers’ Centre
The centre aims to support and promote the work of Scottish writers and provide an international showcase space for Scottish literature. It will offer a regular programme of live events and workshops, along with activities such as schools programmes, community publishing workshops, literary consultancy and an annual writing fellowship.
www.scottishwriterscentre.org.uk

Random Accomplice
Random Accomplice is Scottish Theatre’s top-notch touring patter merchant with an aim to entertain and make the audience sit up and pay attention. We want to tell stories that will make you gasp, giggle and greet. Formed in 2002 by Julie Brown and Johnny McKnight, we’ve been touring throughout Scotland as well as taking productions to New York, London and Prague. We’ve produced work in various Festivals including Glasgay!, Prague Fringe Festival, the Magners International Comedy Festival, the Arches Theatre Festival and of course the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! We’ve also co-produced with the National Theatre of Scotland, The Byre Theatre, St Andrews and the Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine.

The List
The List is an independent limited company based in Scotland and founded in October 1985 by Robin Hodge, who remains the publisher. The List's aim was to publicise and promote the wide range of arts, events and entertainment taking place throughout the year in Scotland through publication of a general interest magazine of quality in Scotland. The company continues to follow its original aim and now undertakes a broad range of publishing activities including an award winning website, The List Eating and Drinking Guide, The Larder, and various publications for the Edinburgh festivals, Scottish students and music events. The List also serves visitors to Scotland with The Midgie, which is found in over 100 hostels and other outlets across Scotland.
www.list.co.uk

University of the West of Scotland
In August 2007, the University of Paisley and Bell College merged to create Scotland’s biggest modern university with campuses in Ayr, Dumfries, Hamilton and Paisley. With over 18,000 students and almost 2,000 staff, the university is unique in its geographical coverage across the West of Scotland. It now boasts a wide range of academic, social and sporting facilities, friendly campuses in Ayr, Dumfries, Hamilton and Paisley, an extensive range of programmes from degree and certificate level to MSc and courses in business, computing, engineering and science, media, language and music, health, nursing and midwifery, social sciences and education.
www.uws.ac.uk

Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point creates new theatre for modern audiences. The work begins with a curiosity – an idea or a story the company are interested in diving into. Vanishing Point like the ordinary to become extraordinary and the extraordinary to become ordinary, creating a reality like our own but different – dreamlike, dark, mysterious and beautiful. In these dream worlds, there are echoes of our own existence, our own conflicts and battles, but there are no answers. Vanishing Point’s work focuses on visual, action-based theatre, combining performance with multimedia. Vanishing Point is led by Artistic Director Matthew Lenton.
www.vanishing-point.org

Voice Business
Voice Business has been training people since 1996 in public speaking, presentation and communication skills. More recently, it has also offered training in understanding others perceptions, one-to-one business communication and the crucial art of networking. Voice Business understands the needs of business and recognises the challenges the modern marketplace brings. Its associates are highly skilled in using both group and individual coaching to help participants overcome their fears and to build confidence. Voice Business blends experience from theatre, journalism, business and personal development to provide expert tuition for course participants. What's more, it makes the training fun, through enthusiasm and a dynamic approach.
www.voicebusinesstraining.co.uk

Welcome Home
Welcome Home is situated in the CCA foyer and provides a showcase and creative retail space for craft, design and illustration.  Focused on making design and craft accessible to all, it provides an evolving space for new designers and members of the public to create, learn and educate with a programme of workshops and events as well as the retail platform.  Welcome Home is a place to shop for inspiration as well as great products that are handmade, well designed, useful, beautiful or all of the above.  www.welcomehomestore.co.uk