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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

Is Glasgow losing the spaces that made it an arts powerhouse?

The front of the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow
The shuttered Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts, which has been a cornerstone of the city’s art scene since 1974. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Guardian

By the time Daisy Mulholland arrived, the locks had already been changed. The Glaswegian artist, had been organising the launch event for her new art shop at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) when she got an email telling her the Sauchiehall Street venue – and cornerstone of the city’s art scene since it was founded as the Third Eye Centre in 1974 – was closing with immediate effect.

“The event was the following day: we had 250 tickets sold, we’d done so many rehearsals, and inside there were lighting rigs, performers’ equipment, shop stock. It was truly heartbreaking,” she says.

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