Thank you for your interest in holding your event at ArtSpring. If you’d like to rent the theatre for a performance, or rent the galleries for an exhibition, workshop, or meeting, we’d love to hear from you. Please see the information below for rental rates, floor plans, equipment, directions to ArtSpring, promoting your event, and FAQs. For availability and bookings, please contact our Operations Manager, Meghan Howcroft 250.537.2125 / meghan@artspring.ca
RENTAL RATES
Rental rates to August 31, 2021
- Theatre Rental Rates (pdf)
- Gallery Event Rental Rates (pdf)
- Gallery Exhibition Rental Rates (pdf)
- Guild Rental Rates (pdf)
FLOOR PLANS
Technical drawings:
- ArtSpring Theatre Dimensions (.pdf)
- Artspring Theatre with soft goods (shown on above) (.pdf)
- ArtSpring Lightplot (.pdf)
- ArtSpring Theatre with Choral Risers (.pdf)
Seating plan:
The lower level multi-purpose, visual arts area contains 5,200 sq. ft. with lobby, concession area and kitchen:
- Lower level layout (.pdf)
- Lower level square footage (.pdf)
EQUIPMENT
Audio and lighting equipment:
- Audio equipment (pdf)
- Lighting equipment (pdf)
- Audio-Visual equipment (pdf)
GETTING TO ARTSPRING
Maps and directions from the three Salt Spring Island ferry terminals to ArtSpring:
PROMOTING YOUR EVENT
Whether you are renting ArtSpring’s theatre or exhibition spaces, good promotion is the key to a successful event. ArtSpring can help you promote your event in a number of ways:
- Event page on the ArtSpring website.
- Online listing on the ArtSpring calendar.
- Email newsletter. Submissions must be received by the 15th of the month prior to your event.
- Social media shared posts. Create a post, or an event, and tag us with the relevant ArtSpring account name (eg. @artspringislandarts) within the text. We’ll share up to three times to our pages:
Facebook – @artspringislandarts
Instagram –@artspringssi
Twitter – @ArtSpring01 - Two posters in the ArtSpring Box Office lobby. Maximum size is 11×17”.
- Optional 8″x 5.5″ inserts into printed ArtSpring Presents programs for a fee of $25.00/each performance inserts are used.
The promotional opportunities listed above should only be thought of as the beginning of your campaign to market your event. The success of your show or exhibition will depend also on how much attention you can draw to it through your own efforts. We recommend:
Local media
Gulf Islands Driftwood
328 Lower Ganges Rd, Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2V3
Tel: 250-537-9933 Fax: 250-537-2613 Email: inquiries@driftwoodgulfislandsmedia.com
The Driftwood publishes Wednesdays – ad deadline Friday, editorial deadline Sunday.
You can also post your event to the Driftwood’s online Salt Spring Community Events Calendar
Salt Spring Exchange
High traffic volume local community website with free listings for local events, updated multiple times daily.
Post your event by logging in (or creating an account). Then, click “Post An Ad” and post your event in the Events, Concerts, Meetings section. They also sell display advertising.
The Fishbowl Magazine
Email: thesaltyfishbowl@hotmail.com
Monthly print magazine for arts and culture on Salt Spring Island.
Islands Marketplace
Tel: 250-537-2905 Email: info@islandsmarketplace.com
Classified ads and free listings magazine.
Gulf Islands Community Radio
Promote your event on-air on Scott Merrick’s daily show. Contact Scott – smerrick12@shaw.ca
Community calendars
There are two key online community calendars that list upcoming events on Salt Spring:
Salt Spring Tourism’s Event Calendar
Gulf Islands Driftwood Community Events Calendar
Social media
Platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter can be excellent ways to get the word out about your event. Posting on your organization’s Facebook wall or setting up a Facebook event encourages your contacts to attend your event. Posting images related to your event on Instagram, or tweeting information, are also effective ways to capture interest.
Posters
Salt Spring Island has many community notice boards, mainly located in the Ganges area. Stores will sometimes consider putting posters in their windows. Posters should be maximum 8.5×11”, and put up not more than two weeks before your event.
E-mail marketing
This can be a very effective way of calling people’s attention to your event. Privacy regulations prevent ArtSpring from making our patron database available to you (except in cases where you have held a ticketed event in the past, in which case we can pass on to you a list of patrons who attended your event and to whom you can send notice of your new project). However, establishing links with various groups who you know to have an interest in your event can often be very effective for spreading the word.
Note: In accordance with the Privacy Act, ArtSpring will not share email or mailing addresses of its patrons or members with other organizations. Renters using the Box Office are entitled to the list of those individuals purchasing tickets to their events.
Direct mail marketing
Canada Post offers unaddressed admail services and The Driftwood offers opportunities to place advertising inserts into their newspapers.
ARTSPRING LOGOS
If you are renting ArtSpring for an event, please include the ArtSpring logo on all of your publicity material. You can download the ArtSpring logo using the links below.
- Please always use original digital artwork files. Never recreate or distort/stretch the logo.
- Ideally, the logo should appear in its corporate colour: PMS 286 or #0033ab blue, and black.
- The black and white version of the logo is to be used only when it is not possible to reproduce the logo in colour.
We recommend that you include ArtSpring’s street address, box office phone number, and web address near the logo:
100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island
Box office 250-537-2102 www.artspring.ca
Click on the links to download the ArtSpring logo:
Transparent background – colour
