Rentals and Advertising

Rent the Mayfair

Renting the Mayfair Theatre for your public or private screening or event is easy! Just email Lee Demarbre at [email protected]

Rental prices vary depending on the time of day and day of the week. Let us know what you’re thinking of, and we’ll work with you to help make your event a success!

The Perfect Venue for Your Event

Whether you’re a private or public sector organization, a school, community or church group, or a private citizen, you can host an event at the Mayfair. The theatre is available for:

  • Private screenings of films from our current schedule, or films of your choosing (we can screen any movie that you bring along on Blu-ray!)
  • A screening of your independent film or film festival
  • Video launches
  • Live music, theatre and stand-up comedy
  • Graduation ceremonies, parties – and even weddings!
  • Corporate functions, meetings, AGMs, retreats, workshops and conventions
  • Product launches

For corporate and private rentals alike, we offer:

  • State-of-the-art sound and digital presentation technology
  • One of Ottawa’s largest screens for dynamic, impactful presentations
  • Comfortable seating, with ample leg room, for groups of up to 325
  • Perfect sight lines from every seat in the house
  • Classic cinema refreshments, numerous nearby dining options, and the ability to host the caterer of your choice
  • A one-of-a-kind atmosphere in a heritage landmark

Corporate clients: why not conclude your meeting with a private screening? Turn the Mayfair into your personal screening room and treat your clients, employees or colleagues to a current or classic film!

Theatre Stats

The Mayfair offers:

  • 325 seats
  • 35mm projection with DTS and Dolby Digital sound
  • Video projection: DCP, DVD, .mov/.mp4  or Blu-ray
  • A fully stocked candy and refreshment bar
  • Room for merch tables
  • A stage suitable for theatrical or musical performances, lectures, speaking engagements and more.

Contact us to book your event today!

Advertise with Us

Give your brand or business the big-screen treatment! For information about advertising at the Mayfair, promotion crossovers, marquee rentals, and more, just email Josh Stafford at [email protected].

Your message. Your choice.

There are lots of ways you can advertise with the Mayfair:

  • During our pre-show slideshow (up to 325 people per screening)
  • With a video on our big screen before each film
  • In our weekly newsletter (~7,000 weekly subscribers)
  • On our weekly podcast

Big screen. Big value.

For a four-week ad placement, we charge just:

  • $225 + HST for an ad in our big screen slide-show or in our newsletter.
  • $450 + HST for a 30-second, big-screen video to appear before movies.
  • $450 + HST for a month of ads on the weekly podcast (four shows).

Rent our marquee!

We use our marquee for its intended purpose – to advertise the day’s films. But depending our schedule, we may be able to feature your message on our marquee for a limited period of time. Contact us if you are hoping to book a specific date, and we’ll see what we can do!

The cost of renting our marquee is $175 + HST.

Contact us to discuss your campaign today!

 

Technical Specs

To present video or images on our screen, here’s what you need:

Video

  • 24fps, Stereo or 5.1 Audio normalized to -0.5db for DCP files
  • HDTV – 1920 x 1080 square pixels
  • .mov or .mp4
  • H264codec

The video can either be delivered as a physical copy, or we can download it off a site such as Dropbox or Vimeo.

Slideshow images

A 1920 x 1080 px .jpg or .gif image is the ideal size for our screen.

Newsletter ad

A 1200 px wide .jpg or .gif image is the ideal size for our newsletter, but we can work with you to make your ad fit.

Marquee rentals

The marquee has space for three lines of text. Each line fits approximately 23 characters, including spaces.

 

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