Ballachulish Village Hall | Touring Venue

BALLACHULISH VILLAGE HALL

Sept 2018 Mick Andrew

General Information

Address: Loan Fern, Ballachulish, Argyll PH49 4JB

Venue is at east end of village near Information Centre and car park, just off main A82 road. Car park adjacent to venue.
Built 1985 and refurbished in 2012.
Capacity 130 if stage used, up to 100 if performing on floor. Non-interlocking padded stacking chairs.
Mobile reception reasonable. Payphone in foyer.
Ballachulish has hotels, pub, Co-op, Post Office, craft shops, bank (without cashpoint) and a lot of slate. Nearest cashpoint (service charge) & petrol at Glencoe (1 mile). ‘Free-use’ cashpoint and other services at Fort William (14 miles).

Hall Details

Hall Dimensions: 7.92M (26’) wide x 15.42M (50’7”) long. Height above approx 4.57M (15’) – new false ceiling installed.
Stage: 4.8M (15’9”) wide x 2.95M (9’8”) deep. Height of pros arch 3.35M (11’), height of stage 1.27M (4’2”). Wings 1.52M (5’) both sides. Additional staging units available 4.88M (16’) wide x 1.22M (4’) deep. No crossover. Access treads in stage right corridor (no access to stage from hall).
Décor: floor wood laminate with Badminton Court markings; walls grey lower, light grey upper; roof white. FOH tabs black.
Get-in: through hall foyer, 2 sets double doors straight into hall, straight, flat. Approx 20M from van loading area to stage. 1.5M (4’11”) wide x 2.03M (6’8”) high.
Acoustics good.
Blackout good, door glass panels need blacking out.
Heating by ceiling mounted air-pump heat exchange system.
No piano. 2 smoke detectors in hall.
Extending ladder available.

Technical

Power: 100amp 3-phase incomer in switch room adjacent to kitchen. 63amp 3-phase socket & 32amp single-phase socket in same place.
Small stage lighting rig – 6 channel desk, 6 channel dimmer rack, 2 FOH side LX bars, & LX brackets on stage pros arch. 4 x 500watt profile spots, 2 x 300watt fresnels, 4 LED parcans.
Small 2 speaker (Mackie self-powered) portable PA system available.
Houselights are switched roof fluorescents, switched from hall foyer.

Backstage