Following on from the REALLY sad news on 21st April that Prohibition Cabaret Bar, our home for the last eight years, will cease trading on the 31st July this year (details at the bottom of the post), we’re on the lookout for a new venue to house our future events and our glittery curtains.
We’re looking for a bit of a Goldilocks kind of venue really, somewhere not too big, not too small, but somewhere “just right”!
I know that’s a bit of a difficult one to quantify like that but here are some more specific details. Essentially we are looking for somewhere that’s:
- Pretty central in the Toon and good connections to public transport and parking
- Sizewise/capacity, somewhere from 70 to maybe 120 folk (we’re currently at 65 at Prohibition and would like to go a big bigger)
- We’d like the venue to have it’s own PA we can just plug into (my days of humping speakers and amplifiers about are long gone!)
- Accessibility is improtant to us and we are aware that some people have struggled with the stairs in Prohibition in the past
- The venue would need to allow us to host private parties/ticketed events there
- As always, we still want to promote a safe and inclusive space where people feel comfortable to be.
When we first started up in 2016, we had planned to have a pool of venues so we could host different events in places and we weren’t tied down to one particular venue. We never quite managed that as Prohibition was just such a good fit for us. Maybe this is an opprotunity for us to try this approach again.
If you can think of anywhere that meets the bill, please let us know and we’ll get in touch.
Roger and Rosie xx
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