Terms Of Hire

Kete Aronui provides flexible spaces for people to develop, rehearse and teach, meet and create, connect and collaborate. Our spaces are available 24 hours a day, and provide a blank canvas for you to use for your gathering, meeting or workshop.

Our mission is to make it easy for creatives, performers, practitioners and educators to meet and create together.

When you book the room, you will be given a time-bound code for access to your booked space. We will charge a callout fee ($10) if you require assistance outside of our office hours (9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday to Friday). Once your booking has been accepted, if you need to change the date, time or room you have booked there is a $5 Booking Change Fee.

Please be mindful of others using the space at the same time – you are welcome to bring in speakers, but please keep the volume at a respectful level. When there are shows on at The Factory Theatre, you will be asked to keep noise levels down so as not to impact the performances.

There is a corridor and waiting area outside of each room, with shared seating. Your guests are welcome to use this space, but please be quiet and mindful of the rooms in use. Please note that Kete Aronui is a fully smoke and vape-free venue at all times.

Bookings are made on the hour, with a two-hour minimum. Please ensure you have left enough pack in and pack out time for your booking, including stacking the chairs and cleaning the floor after your session – this needs to be completed within your booked time. Vacuums and brooms are available in each room. This is a zero waste facility – you must take all rubbish with you. If you leave waste behind, we will apply a $50 cleaning fee to your booking.

The low rate is for unfunded communities, NGOs or individuals.

No food or drink is to be consumed in the rehearsal rooms.

If you are a fully funded organisation or charity or charge for your class or workshop, please add the ‘Fully funded rate top up tariff’ to your booking at checkout.

If you are a commercial organisation please add the ‘Commercial rate top up tariff’ to your booking at checkout.

If your booking is within 24 hours please also pay our Urgent booking fee $10.

Unfortunately we cannot be responsible for damage or theft that occurs while at Kete Aronui. If you have lost property, we will make every effort to find it, but cannot take any liability of items left behind. This includes, but is not limited to, vehicles parked in the carpark.

You are not allowed to prop the entrance door open, or leave it open while in the space. This is for your security, as well as that of other users. Any users found to be propping the door open will be asked to leave and will not receive a refund for the session. If the door is left wedged/propped open by you overnight, you will be charged a non refundable $110 Security Call Out fee.

Kete Aronui is for artists and arts practitioners. We reserve the right to decline bookings that do not support the kaupapa of our Charitable purpose, which is to make it easy for creatives, performers, arts practitioners and educators to meet and create together. Please note that we cannot allow social gatherings, birthdays, or other non-arts based activities. Our venue is not suitable for youth groups, social or religious gatherings, fellowship or other non-arts based events.