Next Wave is now using booking platform SpacetoCo to facilitate venue hires!

You can view live availability of our spaces, make booking requests and manage your bookings—all through the platform.

Check out Next Wave – Brunswick Mechanics Institute on SpacetoCo.

This is a new system, and we know that new things can be challenging sometimes. If you have any issues, contact us at mechanics@nextwave.org.au

Who can hire Brunswick Mechanics Institute and what for?

Next Wave’s home base is Brunswick Mechanics Institute—a former lending library and now multipurpose arts venue located in Merri-bek City Council.

We provide venue hire to support artists/creative practitioners as well as not-for-profits and small-to-medium arts organisations to undertake creative developments and/or deliver community arts initiatives in our space.

When you book venue hire with Next Wave, you help us continue to support early career artists through our mentorship programs and deliver artist-led workshops, events and activities.

Learn more about our hire scope.

Download a .docx file of our venue scope

About our rates

The prices shown on SpacetoCo are our reduced rate and include GST.

Long-hire discounts are available for bookings of over a week. To make these bookings, you’ll need to apply to become a regular (verified) hirer.

We have some capacity to support hires from larger organisations and corporate/commericial hires, which incur an additional fee (full rate).

Full-rate hires not only help us continue to support early career creative practitioners, they also helps us continue to provide venue hire at a reduced rate (and sometimes in-kind) for those who need it.

Download our 2025 venue hire rate card.

Download a .docx file of our 2025 venue hire rate card.

Accessiblitity at Brunswick Mechanics Institute

Getting here:

Download the Brunswick Mechanics Institute transport and parking information .docx
Download the Brunswick Mechanics Institute transport and parking information.pdf

Brunswick Mechanics Institute is a step-free venue (except for the mezzanine) with accessible bathrooms.

Check out the following resources for more information:

Video tour of Brunswick Mechanics Institute
Download the Brunswick Mechanics Institute visual story.docx
Download the Brunswick Mechanics Institute visual story.pdf

If you have any queries relating to this event, please contact nextwave@nextwave.org.au

and more.

Next Wave operates Brunswick Mechanics Institute with the support of Merri-bek City Council.