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Darebin Arts Centre

** Darebin Arts Centre's 2025 Bookings Calendar will open on Monday 1st July 2024. Please click on Spaces at DAC below for more information on all of our hirable spaces and to submit a booking application**.

Darebin Arts Centre is Preston’s premier arts venue and is the home of choice for artists, creators and innovators in Melbourne’s north.

Our mission is to provide an accessible, affordable and fit-for-purpose arts facility. The venue offers exciting opportunities for artists to engage with each other, their audiences, and the community. We have a welcoming foyer including box office service 1hr prior to all ticketed performances, and a licensed bar which also offers barista coffee, snacks, freshly-made popcorn and non-alcoholic beverages from local Darebin suppliers. Our bar now offers cocktails and has recently introduced tap wines, which are delicious and will provide significant reductions in our recycling waste. During the cooler months of 2024 we will also be offering mulled wine to warm the cockles!

Darebin Arts Centre 2024 has kicked off the year with a new live music program, which will continue throughout financial year 2024/25. With recent gigs including Maple Glider, Bart Willoughby with Canisha, Liquid Architecture and Mindy Meng Wang, and a brilliant mix of genres on the horizon, please visit the What's On page of our website and come join us for a night of cutting-edge contemporary music.

Facilities

Fully equipped proscenium arch theatre seating 385 people, with full fly-tower and orchestral pit

leading in-house audiovisual equipment and technical support staff

ticketed venue with professional in-house box office management system

generous, renovated foyer with a reception desk and refurbished bar, both with accessible height counters

flexible spaces available for hire for meetings, training days, rehearsals and classes

over 100 square metres of gallery and exhibition space

fully equipped commercial kitchen available for hire

co-working spaces available for short, medium, and long-term licenses

accessible entrance, reception, and theatre seating

assistive hearing system

136 free onsite car parking spaces including four accessible parking spaces.