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Venue hire guide

Capacity: 20 pax

Lawson Room

Smart, spacious, and ultra-flexible, the Lawson Room is designed for seamless events. With innovative soundproofing and adaptable layouts, it’s perfect for classes, conferences, workshops, and breakout sessions.
Need more space? The Lawson Room can be combined with the Woolley Room to create a larger, more versatile event space.

Capacity: 20 pax

Woolley Room

Designed for modern business and events, the Woolley Room adapts to your needs with clever spatial design and soundproof partitions.

Host your next seminar, offsite, or collaborative session here. The Lawson & Woolley Rooms can be combined for a larger, more dynamic event space.

Capacity: 40 pax

Windeyer Room

Bright, flexible, and equipped with cutting-edge AV, the Windeyer Room is ideal for board meetings, workshops, and presentations. With modular furniture and free Wi-Fi, it adapts to your needs.

This room can be opened up to combine it with the Lawson and Woolley Rooms for a larger setup.

Capacity: 35 pax

Tom Keneally Centre

The Tom Keneally Centre is a small unique event space in the heart of Sydney’s CBD, offering guests an opportunity to be surrounded by books and memorabilia that form Thomas Keneally’s living legacy.

Ideal for literary events, book launches, classes and intimate events.

Capacity: 20 pax

Boardroom

Private, professional, and built for serious business. The SMSA Boardroom seats 20 guests around a spacious table, perfect for board meetings, AGMs, and team strategy sessions.

Recently refurbished, it features in-house AV, a large screen with video conferencing, speakers, and tea and coffee facilities to keep ideas flowing.

Capacity: 25 pax

Norman Selfe Room

A practical, versatile space that works on its own or alongside the Boardroom or Tom Keneally Centre.

With modular furniture and AV, it’s a blank canvas ready to be tailored to your needs.

Henry Carmichael Theare

Henry Carmichael Theatre

Capacity: 140 pax

Theatre

Our tiered theatre is equipped with high-quality AV, video conferencing, adjustable lighting, and a low-rise stage.

Ideal for screenings, presentations, lectures, and panel discussions, it adjoins the Level 1 Foyer and meeting rooms, which are perfect for registration, refreshments, and breakout sessions.

AV

Use of the hi-res data projector and large screen, computer, lectern, roving and lapel microphones, and  full sound system are included in your venue hire.

Catering

Choose our trusted catering service for delicious morning teas, lunches, or canapes, or bring in your own caterer – it’s up to you!

Learn more about catering at SMSA.

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