Services
Venue operating hours
Our venues are available for hire from 7am to 1am.
Discounted venue hire rates
We are committed to providing community organisations and schools with affordable and convenient access to community spaces.
Not-for-Profit rates with a 40%* discount on venue hire are applied to registered not-for-profit organisations and are available for Kingston Arts Centre spaces (Theatre & Chamber) and Function Room A and/or B from Monday to Sunday.
School rates with a 40%* discount on venue hire are available for Kingston Arts Centre spaces and Kingston City Hall spaces from Monday to Thursday.
Kingston City Council has boosted their commitment to registered not-for-profit organisations by offering affordable and convenient venue hire at Kington City Hall.
A further reduction in venue hire will be applied, offering a generous 80%* discount for registered not-for-profit organisations. This offer will now extend to the hire of the Grand Hall and/or Banquet Room on weekends as well as weekdays (conditions apply*).
* This discount is for venue hire only and excludes the cost of additional service for the event, such as equipment, technical support, ticketing, catering, security and event wardens. Discounts apply to new bookings only and all bookings are subject to availability. Applies to new bookings only and excludes Public Holidays and NYE.
Flexible Catering options to suit every event
We can take the hassle out of feeding your guests with our exceptional in-house catering services. Whether it's simply Tea & Coffee for a meeting or catering for a luncheon or dinner event. We have five (5) compliant caterers that can provide catering and menus for breakfast, morning & afternoon tea, lunch or a 3 course meal with drinks.
Alternatively you may choose to use your own Registered Caterer to service your event. Kingston City Hall management have simplified this process so that you can obtain approval more easily in the event you wish to use your own registered caterer for your event.
Please discuss with the Booking Coordinator when you call.
Ticketing made simple
We offer a professional full box office service or bulk printing of tickets for your event.
Full Box Office Ticketing
Bulk Print Ticketing
Production Services
Both Kingston Arts Centre and Kingston City Hall boast a large compliment of state of the art professional audio, lighting and vision systems.
Capable of production services from the smallest of meetings, to large scale rock concerts and theatre shows, Kingston Arts Centre and City Hall are ready to meet your production requirements.
Let our fully qualified, experienced technicians take the stress out of planning the sometimes tedious and tricky task of planning the technical elements of your event.
Have your own qualified technician? No problem. Bring them along (Conditions apply). Our technicians will be happy to show them through our systems and provide a sometimes much needed helping hand.
Need extra crew? We can accommodate all of your staffing needs. Lighting, sound, vision operators, mechanists, designers, production managers, stage managers and event managers are all available on request.
Let us take your event to the next level.
Using your own Equipment or External Hire Company
Please note that any equipment bought into the venue must be tagged and tested. A 3 hour tech call will be allocated and charged to the hirer to ensure that all equipment is suitably tagged and tested.
For hirers choosing to use an external hire company to provide all equipment and technical support, a Risk Management plan will be required from the company. This plan must be supplied to Kingston City Hall management no later than fourteen (14) working days prior to the event date.
Any equipment deemed unsafe will not be permitted for use at the venue at any time.
Kingston City Hall Technical Specifications
Kingston Arts Centre Technical Specifications
"...Thank you for assisting, once again, with our annual concert. I would also like to praise the efforts of your Technical staff, who was extremely helpful to us, during the day rehearsal and the night performance. Very obliging and made every effort to accommodate our requests...We look forward to working with you again next year." Shirley Mirams, Glenhuntly Primary School
Security
Various events held at Kingston Arts Centre and Kingston City Hall may require the services of registered Security. The requirement for security services will be advised by the Booking Coordinator upon application.
Security guards are required to be in attendance at the facility 1 hour prior to the time of public entry and until 1 hour after the vacate time of the event. The vacate time for an event will be supplied by the Booking Coordinator.
The standard guidelines for security services are 2 guards for the first 100 guests and 1 guard for every 100 guests thereafter.
The Booking Coordinator, based on a Risk Assessment of the event, may direct the hirer to engage the attendance of additional security guards, Police, Fire Brigade, Metro or St John's Ambulance, depending on the nature of the event. The hirer will be responsible for all costs associated with such attendance.
Hirer's may source and supply their own registered Security Company (Conditions apply). Please discuss with the Booking Coordinator when you call.
Local Accommodation
If you're looking for a place to stay within close proximity to Kingston City Hall and Kingston Arts Centre, click here to view contact details and links to venues within a 5km to 10km radius.
