Hi all!
My name is Jen, and I am with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. When our Museum was built, a "theatre" space was constructed, but never finished.
We are looking at finally getting the space up and running, and I had some questions and was hoping to connect with anyone with something similar.
The vision of the space is this:
It will be a mixed use space. Will have the capacity as a seated theatre with seats that retract to have an open space that could accommodate round tables, or just a GA space. Will have permanent AV/sound/audio capable for small theatrical performances, musical acts, meeting space, educational classes, live stream broadcasting, film festivals etc.
We are in the early planning of this, and am looking at how it works for you from an operational standpoint.
Thanks
Jen
Our campusmates The Phoenix Art Museum feature a space like this. They have a theatre space that they use in the capacity you are referring to and we run 3 additional theatre spaces on the same campus with our programming.
Can you speak a little to the operations? What departments handle what?
We currently have an events team that handles all the events in the building and a visitor services team that handles ticketing and customer service...but neither have any experience in theatre operations.
And we also have no technical person on staff as all tech is typically contracted out.
unfortunately I am not able to speak to how they operate. If you want to email me directly I can try to get you a point of contact over there. l.terrazas@phoenixtheatre.com