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Helmsley Arts Centre is an ideal place to host your conferences, workshops, meetings or parties with a difference.
Parties with a difference? The difference we can offer is our well equipped auditorium, ideal for presentations, showing films, staging small scale concerts - all of which we have hosted in the past. For example, a retirement celebration with a film show, a memorial concert and a birthday with a celebratory presentation.
What's more, we can support your celebrations with a delicious buffet lunch at the Centre, catered by our partners, The Feathers Hotel, as well as with morning coffee, afternoon tea, and a licensed bar.
The same, of course, applies to conferences and whole day workshops.
And if your event lasts into the evening or overnight and into the next day, you can have a sit-down hot buffet or dinner at the Feathers Hotel just next door.
And stay overnight at The Feathers Hotel with a
special discount of 10% off the usual room price
See more about
Here are more details of what spaces and equipment we can provide.
Parties with a difference? The difference we can offer is our well equipped auditorium, ideal for presentations, showing films, staging small scale concerts - all of which we have hosted in the past. For example, a retirement celebration with a film show, a memorial concert and a birthday with a celebratory presentation.
What's more, we can support your celebrations with a delicious buffet lunch at the Centre, catered by our partners, The Feathers Hotel, as well as with morning coffee, afternoon tea, and a licensed bar.
The same, of course, applies to conferences and whole day workshops.
And if your event lasts into the evening or overnight and into the next day, you can have a sit-down hot buffet or dinner at the Feathers Hotel just next door.
And stay overnight at The Feathers Hotel with a
special discount of 10% off the usual room price
See more about
Here are more details of what spaces and equipment we can provide.
The Dorothy Morley Room
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| Arts Award advisors at a training seminar |
Chairs and tables are available. Sitting in theatre-style the space will cater for 30 people and 20 if sitting in boardroom style. It is used regularly for meetings and classes in both formats.
It is also used at present for art classes.
There is a cupboard that opens onto storage space, with a sink, with hot and cold water,and tea/coffee making facilities. Another door leads into a dressing room for the theatre, which could provide more space for group working.
Conversely, the Morley Room is a useful extra space for performers preparing to go onstage in the auditorium, especially if the performance involves a lot of people or equipment.
Two WCs are within a few paces from the room.
The Main Theatre
It has an intimate, friendly atmosphere and extraordinarily good acoustics - good enough for some musicians performing there to have asked to use it for recording their work.
The raked seating can accommodate 140 people,
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| A rehearsal in the theatre |
excellent sound systems, one for theatre events or talks and one for cinema( including a hearing loop). The cinema screen is electrically operated and is 5.5m(18ft) x 3m(10ft). The theatre has a 35mm film projector and also excellent dvd/blue ray/HD projecction facilities.Fully equipped for use of laptops (PC or Macs) for Powerpoint/Keynote presentations.
The Studio Bar
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| Audience gathering in the bar before a performance |
excellent wooden floor, suitable for dancing, and so, cleared of tables and chairs, it is turned into a ballet studio or a venue for ballroom dancing. Then again it can be turned
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| Jazz in the courtyard |
into a venue for small-scale theatre or musical events. Or as a meeting room. It is well lit through a series of french doors on its east facing side, that open out onto a courtyard garden, where we have regular summer jazz concerts.
The floor area is 9m(25ft) x 7.25m (24ft)
The Entrance Foyer
This is also a pleasantly spacious area that leads into the studio bar and whose walls are also used for art exhibitions. It is a convenient overflow area when the studio bar fills up. But could as easily be used as a break out area for small group work - as can a number of other spaces in the building.
In fact, all the areas put together make a very agreeable venue for day conferences, courses - or parties with a difference!
For further information about hiring our rooms contact Jean Kershaw
or phone 01439 771700
