The Oxford Playhouse (cap. 630) is £1900 per day plus VAT. Since this is
independent even with the OII stamp we wouldn't be able to negotiate this
down.
Seems rather a lot compared to the university facilities. (Exam schools are
around £500 a day and with the OIIs stamp possibly less.)
How much have past Wikimania's spent on auditorium hire?
Tom
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[mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tom Holden
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The university "examination schools" (10 mins walk) I linked to in my last
email "comfortably" hold 450 (and there are two such halls in the building).
I have fired off an email asking if this is a health and safety limit, as
I'm sure you could fit seating for 500 in them.
There's also the Sheldonian Theatre (even closer to Balliol) which holds
1000, though is not particularly comfortable. (I've sent off an email asking
for their day rates.)
Finally there are two large theatres not associated with the university,
both very close to Balliol, the "Oxford Playhouse" (cap. 630) and the "New
Theatre" (cap. 1800). I've sent an email to the former.
Tom
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[mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Cormac
Lawler
Sent: 22 December 2007 08:31
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Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Oxford Wikimania
On 12/19/07, Tom Holden <thomas.holden(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There's a small lecture theatre at the OII (around
40 people), a medium
one
at Balliol next door (currently around 100 due to rows
of tables, could
probably double this if they were taken out, health and safety regs
permitting) and assorted large to gigantic university lecture halls in
walking distance (no more than 15 mins). Other Balliol spaces we could use
include the hall (larger than the lecture theatre, but not ideally suited
to
lectures due to benches and tables), assorted seminar
rooms, the JCR
(large
and informal space with sofas and coffee tables) and
we could potentially
also have a marquee in the garden.
Hi Tom, in terms of the lecture space you've outlined, there doesn't
seem to be a large enough lecture theatre which would be used for
closing plenaries/opening sessions. We would need somewhere that holds
*all conference participants at one time* - in other words, if we are
going to have 500 participants, we need a lecture theatre that holds
500. Is there anything in Balliol or nearby that would hold such
numbers?
Cormac
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