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  • Your Details

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  • To complete the following section, you will need to provide:

    • Contact details of key staff
    • Caterer's details for catered events
    • Liquor License or Partysafe registration if there will be alcohol at your event
    • Details of your approved technical requirements
    • A provisional timeline of your event

    If you are unsure of any of these, please get in touch with the Venues Unit to discuss further.

  • Statement of Acknowledgment

    I acknowledge having received (current terms and conditions document below) and read the Conditions of Hire and Use of the Williamstown Town Hall, and undertake to comply in all respects to such conditions.

    Please note: These terms and conditions of hire and use are subject to change. The most recently published version at the time of your event will apply.

  • Statement of Acknowledgment

    The Williamstown Town Hall Venue Information Guide, FAQs and Client Venues Hub has information to assist with planning your eventand should be read early in your planning stages.

    Williamstown Town Hall - Venue Information Guide

    Williamstown Town Hall FAQ

    Williamstown Town Hall - Client Venue Hub

  • Theatrical Event or Performance

  • Event and Risk Planning

  • Through the booking process you have been sent guides and blank templates for event planning, risk and emergency management.

    These templates and guides can also be found and downloaded on the venue resources page.

    Please utilise these and attach them here to assist with communicating your planning and needs. 

     

    Worksafe Victoria - How To Conduct a Risk Assessment

    Worksafe Victoria - Controlling OHS Hazards and Risks

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  • Person In Charge

  • The person in charge will be in attendance for the duration of the hire period and take responsibility for ensuring the venue is looked after and left in a tidy state. They will be responsible for patrons and contractors.

  • Stage Manager

  • The stage manager provides practical and organisational support to the director, actors, designers, stage crew and technicians throughout the production. This may be the same person as the person in charge on smaller shows, or two separate roles on larger shows.

  • Ticketing

  • Venue Access Time

  • Enter your venue access times. This must take into account all bump in and bump out times. Deliveries outside this time will not be accepted and all equipment must be taken or collected within this hire time.

    Changes from the times provided in Form 1 must be approved as a formal alteration by the Venue Services Offficer prior to competing this form. If this has not occurred, access will not be granted outside the times supplied at the time of booking.

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  • Electrical Safety

  • All electrcial equipment brought into the venue (except laptops and mbile phone chargers) must have current electrical testing tags 

    For further information about electrical testing and why it is needed, please follow this link

    This applies to any stall holders, musicians, DJs, caterers, photographers and videographers. 

    Please see an example of a testing tag below. 

    There are many companies arcross the city that can test appliances for you, some can be found here

     

     

  • Catering, Food and Drinks

  • Please note: 

    Where food is being sold or provided at an event, the provider will need to be registered with Foodtrader, part of the Victorian Government Health Department to provide your statement of trade.

    No roasting spits are allowed in the venue or any outdoor areas in the Town Hall precinct. No outdoor cooking is permitted anywhere in the precinct and no gas bottles may be brought on site.

    Food vans are not permitted at Williamstown Town Hall events. For non-catered events, there are cafés, bakeries, restaurants, supermarkets and other dining options available near the Town Hall on Ferguson St, Douglas Parade and surrounds.

    Meals must only be available for consumption seated at tables. Meals cannot be taken into the ballroom for theatre style shows. Dry snacks, whether pre-packaged cold or warm, can be consumed in a seated theatre style setup. Examples of permissible snacks include crisps, nuts, prawn crackers, arare, chicharon, jerky, biscuits, chocolates, mithai, sandwiches, sushi, pasties, and samosas.

    The Williamstown Town Hall is hired without linen, crockery and cutlery. No food should be served in single-use plastic takeaway containers. Table cloths must be provided for all venue trestles used for food preparation, service and dining. Plastic table cloths are not permitted.

    Please ensure your caterer brings everything needed with them. 

    All food and beverage providers must complete our Registration Form. Failure to complete this registration process in full including compliant insurance, statement of trade, and risk assessment, ten business days prior to the event date, may result in the venue not being able to approve the provision of any food and beverage service and will incur a $500 late-processing fee payable by the hirer of the venue prior to the event. 

  • Service and supply of alcoholic beverages

    Please note any request to supply alcohol or allow BYO will be reviewed by administration.

    Unmixed spirits are not allowed in the facility, premix only. 

    Alcohol must be served with RSA principles in mind by certified bartenders. 

    The presence of straight sipirits, service of minors or intoxicated people may result in termination of your event. 

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  • Environmental Requirements

  • Please be aware that balloons are not permitted in the venue in any context, whether they are used as sculpture, table decoration, children's entertainment or to be released outside. The use of balloons in and around the venue is of particular concern due to our proximity to the bay and rivers and potential impacts on local wildlife including fish and birds.

    Williamstown Town Hall is also phasing out single use plastics where possible, and all attempts should be made to use an alternative solution for decorations, catering supplies and other consumables.

    Please note, glitter is not permitteed to be used in Hobsons Bay venues

  • Technical Requirements

  • Use of standard audio and lighting equipment is complementary for community groups and not for profit organisations when using a venue booked technician.

    Venue equipment can only be provided when a venue technician is booked.

  • Use of venue equipment requires technicians to be booked through the venue. The a/v packages and add-ons listed in the guide on the Venues Hub are available to be selected below. You will also need to identify specific microphone, DI and fold back requirements below.

    Technicians will be booked according to the needs and times determined by the relevant officer after consultation with the hirer. This will include time for a production briefing and time to setup prior to soundcheck and time at the end of the event to pack down. Cancellation fees apply where changes are made within one week of your event.

    Only the event tech liaison, venue technicians and approved touring technicians are permitted at the front of house operating position. No other volunteers shoud be in this space at any time. Any non-event critical personnel will be asked to leave the area and must relocate. 

    If technicians are cancelled within one week (7 days) of the booking, you will be liable for 50% of the cost for technicians and equipment.  If technicians are cancelled within 72 hours of the booking, you will be liable for 100% of the cost for technicians and equipment.   

     

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  • The standard lighting rig can be downloaded from the Venue website. Any changes to the standard rig will require approval, additional time and will attract a re-hang fee. Any proposed changes need to be discussed with the Venue Operations Officer. 

    If you are not proposing to change the rig, nothing needs to be uploaded here. 

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  • If you have a lighting cue sheet or script, please attach it here. 

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  • Technicians will be booked according to the needs and times determined by the relevant officer after consultation with the hirer. This will include time for a production briefing and time to setup prior to soundcheck and time at the end of the event to pack down.

  • Floor Plan

    Please confirm which standard floor plan you are using or upload your proposed floor plan below.
  • Supper Room Floor Plan

  • Please note: all dining for meals in supper room must take place at tables. Where ballroom event is  using a theatre style floorplan for over 250 people and the supper room is used for dining, the 128 capacity floorplan will be used. Conference/ Corporate style is only used for standalone events or as a conference breakout room and will require staging and other equipment.

  • Supper Room - Dining Hall - 128 patrons
    Please note no additional tables or chairs may be added for patrons, all meals to be consumed at tables. A second food servery may be added as required

  • Supper Room - Dining Hall - 128 Patrons
  • Supper Room - Buffet - no patrons
    Please note this floorplan may only be used for catered events at tables in the ballroom. This floor plan will no be approved for theatre style events wanting to run a dining hall.

  • Supper Room - Dining Hall - 128 Patrons
  • Supper Room - Conference - 150 patrons
    Please note this setup requires an AV Package and can opnly be used for conferences, presentations or performances

  • Supper Room - Dining Hall - 128 Patrons
  • Supper Room - Green Room - No patrons
    Please note this setupis where the supper room is used as a green room and has no public access

  • Supper Room - Dining Hall - 128 Patrons
  • Supper Room - Empty/ No Setup
    Please note this setup is where the supper room is not being used or where the hirer is bringing in all infrastructure

  • Supper Room - Dining Hall - 128 Patrons
  • Venue floor plans for Williamstown Town Hall are available for download at the Venue Hub. Please review and choose which floorplan will suit your event.

    Please note: custom floor plans will need to be approved and will attract an additional setup fee. 

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  • If we have not yet prepared a floor plan, please provide information here so that we may build you a floor plan. 

    Important information to include

    Ballroom
    Total number of patrons
    Do you require theatre-style seating or will you guests be seated at tables?
    Number of VIP sections and number of patrons in each VIP section
    Do you require one or two aisles?
    If seated at tables, do you require a dancefloor?

    Supper Room
    Do you require tables set up for dining?
    Do you require tables in the centre for food service?
    Do you require tables set up along the walls for tea/coffee service (crockery and consumables not supplied)?

  • Timeline

  • Please complete the timeline below. A runsheet of the whole day and of the performance running order can also be uploaded below 

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  • Artist Meet and Greet

    While the venue can facilitate artist meet and greets and other VIP experiences, these must not occur during bump out, must not be planned for on stage or backstage, but rather in the supper room, foyer or main ballroom. 

    Adquate time needs to be allocated for meet and greet priot to bump out so that all your guests and artists are clear of the spaces prior to production, furniture and ifrastructure being packed down. 

    If an artist will not come from backstage for meet and greet, meet and greet will not proceed

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  • COVID Safe Plan

  • COVIDSafe Plan

    Your COVIDSafe plan will need to be provided to the Venues Unit prior to your event. 

    Depending on the type of event you are hosting, many organisations can provide COVIDSafe plan templates and guidance.

    For example, guidance can be found at

    Ausdance

    Music Victoria

    Victorian Government

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  • COVIDSafe Liaison

    All events must provide a COVID Liaison to assist with guest and contractor (eg caterer) compliance with Hall Keeper directives on the day that will be available from arrival of the first contrctor to the departure of the last contractor and guests.  

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