The CatStrand

About the venue

The CatStrand is an exciting, contemporary community and arts centre based in the Glenkens village of New Galloway.

The centre provides a comfortable, accessible and state of the art venue located in the geographical heart of Dumfries and Galloway and is ideal for small to medium scale corporate, training and conference events. In addition to presenting a varied programme of high quality arts and community events and exhibitions the CatStrand offers flexible space available to hire. The CatStrand has a series of well connected rooms. Perfect for presentations, meetings, workshops and socialising. It contains a 90 seat auditorium, a cafe & gallery, entrance hall with presentation facilities, a board/meeting room & shop. Rooms can be hired individually or you can hire the venue as a whole. Each room can be used for a variety or purposes allowing us to tailor the venue to your needs. The CatStrand is available to hire for anything from a short meeting somewhere central in Dumfries and Galloway, to a conference with presentations and breakout workshops, to a private party or album launch