14 Feb 2011, Posted by admin

Booking Information

Location, location, location

Christ Church Cathedral is located at the corner of Burrard and Georgia in the heart of downtown Vancouver. We are situated on several main Translink bus routes, directly across the street from the Burrard SkyTrain station and two blocks west of the Vancouver City Centre station of the Canada Line.

Concerts, plays, readings

The Cathedral’s Upper Level is an ideal venue for a wide variety of music and artistic events including choirs, chamber groups, symphony orchestras, piano recitals, jazz combos, dramatic readings/plays, seminars, early music ensembles and much, much more. Normal seating capacity is 450. Additional seating can be added up to 650.

Artistic organizations and community groups who have presented events at the Cathedral include:

West Coast Symphony     www.westcoastsymphony.ca
musica intima     www.musicaintima.org
MusicFest Vancouver     www.musicfestvancouver.ca
Coastal Jazz & Blues Society     www.coastaljazz.ca
Chor Leoni Men’s Choir     www.chorleoni.org
Caravan World Rhythms     www.caravanbc.com
Asian-Canadian Special Events Association  www.acsea.ca
Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir     www.goodnoisevgc.com
Surrey Children’s Choir     www.surreychildrenschoir.ca
Vancouver Children’s Choir    www.vancouverchildrenschoir.ca
Le Centre Culturel Francophone de Vancouver www.lecentreculturel.com

Smaller rooms, receptions, meetings

The Park Room is brightly-lit and welcoming

Christ Church Cathedral also has rooms available for use that are suitable for seminars, presentations, meetings and post- or pre-receptions associated with an Upper Level concert.

The Park Room is a bright room with large windows overlooking the waterfall park off Burrard Street. Its capacity is 40-80 depending on the nature of your use.

The Parish Hall is a higher capacity room suited to pre- or post-event receptions, for use as a green room for choirs or full orchestras, large seminars and meetings. Capacity ranges from 100-175.

Pianos, choral risers, AV equipment and more

Christ Church Cathedral has a beautiful Steinway Concert D grand piano, a Kenneth Jones pipe organ, choral risers for up to 100 singers, screens, projectors, and other AV equipment. What we don’t have we can help you get.

Building Use Donations

Christ Church Cathedral requests that user groups make a building donation (rates are in place) for the use of the building and support staff. For concerts and larger scale events we have 4 suggested categories:

Commercial: incorporated producers and enterprises
Non-Profit: groups registered as societies
Partnerships: eligible groups signing on for 2 or more concerts in a calendar year
Emergence Series: subsidized rates for artistic groups who fit certain criteria

Need more info?

For details regarding holding your event at Christ Church Cathedral,
please contact:

Gordon Macdonald, Building Administrator
gordon@cathedral.vancouver.bc.ca
604.682.3848 ext. 22