Event Space for Hire

A large event space for hire in Bristol City Centre. This ground floor white wall, gallery and event space is perfect for your own pop-up shop, project, launch, workshop, performance, talk, or exhibition. 

This light and spacious event space is situated at the back of our Cabot Circus store. The location boasts a high passing footfall with lots of visitors from outside of Bristol, as well as members of the local community. Being an accessible multi-use space, we are the new 'go to' venue for promotional launches and networking events, as well as creative events, including performance, art, theatre, music, yoga, meditation and dance, and of course, workshops and exhibitions. 

Exhibitions & Events

This city centre location is Bristol’s newest exhibition space, sporting high ceilings and clean, white painted walls. Our event space can also be hired by artists who would like to exhibit 2D and wall-based artwork, and for micro to large organisations who wish to host an event. 

The exhibition space is a multi-use room are we have various options and tariffs for your event. It is open to the public during the opening hours of the shop and can be opened specifically for your out-of-hours event. 

For more information about the hire options and prices - please click here.

Please read the Venue Hire document and then our Terms and Conditions document (both below).

Terms and Conditions Summary

This is a short summary. Please read the full terms in the documents above.

We have three space hire options available. Please see prices and information here

The individual or organisation who has hired the space is responsible for the installing, hanging and the ‘making good’ of the walls and floor after the hire period.

For the Partial Hire and Whole Space hire, you are invited to use a desk/area for the duration of the hire period to work from, invigilate your exhibition and take commission-free sales via their own payment devices. 

If we sell your work when you are not invigilating, we will take 30% of the sale. 

The space must be left in the same condition it was given, it must be clean and ready for the next show to be installed.

Walls are not to be painted other than white. 

Parking

We do not provide parking but there are numerous car parks in the area. We have a drop-off area where you can pull up in your vehicle to unload before you park elsewhere. We have a trolly to help you with heavy work. More details will be sent with your booking confirmation including the location of the drop off point, the closest car parks and our favourite indie place to grab lunch!  

Facilities

Toilets are situated upstairs and are fully accessible via a service lift. These are not for public use and only for the artist(s). 

There is a small kitchenette upstairs which you can use to make hot drinks or prepare your lunch while you are installing, invigilating or taking down your show.

For events, we have 30 glasses, 30 champagne flutes and 15 mugs for event participants. These must be cleaned by you after use. 

If you require specialist catering equipment please let us know and we will see what we can arrange. 

Furniture and equipment

10 fold-out 6ft tables if required

30 padded restaurant chairs and can arrange hire of a further 50 folding chairs if required.

Laptop, projector and speakers for music. We do not have a multi channel amp or any microphones. 

Opening times

Monday - Saturday: 10am - 6pm

Sunday: 11am - 5pm

*We can open for special evening events

Promotion 

We help you promote your event on our social media channels (14.9K followers on Instagram and 1.2K on Facebook), in our newsletters and exterior and interior notice boards. Cabot Circus and Broadmead social media channels also share our event schedule with their followers.  We can create event listings on Facebook and Google (if you haven't). We also list all events on our website and with external sources: Visit Bristol, Head First, Eventbrite, etc. 

Interested?

Please make sure you have a read both information documents above (Venue Hire and T&C's). We recommend you view our WHAT'S ON timetable to see the slots we have available. 

If you would like to hire our Bristol events space, please enquire via the contact links below.