Event Venues

Primary Uses: Conferences, banquets, receptions,
lectures, plenaries, meetings, social events. 

Venue Features: Private event lobby, catering space,
loading dock access, handicap accessible. The center
can be converted to four separate, partitioned units,
each with A/V (projector/screen) capacities.

Department Event Portal

Student Organization Portal

External Request Form

Maximum Capacities

• 400 standing (Rm A: 160 & Rm B/C/D each: 49)
• 200 seated
• 150 banquet (8 seats max per table)

Space Dimensions (approximate)

• Convening Center: 2,350 sq ft
• Rm A: 500 sq ft & B/C/D (each): 400 sq ft
• Convening Lobby: 1,582.5 sq ft

The Convening Center can be converted into two, three, or four units. Please contact SPHspace@gwu.edu for additional information, including prices of individual units.

Convening Center lobby, furniture & A/V equipment are included in the booking fee.

* Internal events with 75% of attendees being SPH-affiliated are not subject to booking fees.

Primary uses: Lectures, screenings, webinars, 
panels, presentations, faculty/staff meetings.

Maximum capacity: 227 fixed-seating (theater).

Venue features: Equipped with A/V technologies,
including video, webcasting, projector & screen.

Overflow: 175 seats (non-fixed) can be added
to the Convening Center to serve as overflow.

Department Event Portal

Student Organization Portal

External Request Form

The SPH main lobby serves as registration and reception space for the Auditorium, and is included in the booking fee, as well as furniture & A/V equipment.

* Internal events with 75% of attendees being SPH-affiliated are not subject to booking fees.

Primary uses: Executive meetings, workshops,
academic seminars, high-level meetings, presentations.

Maximum capacity: 75 fixed-seating (theater).

Venue features: Remote access, shared lobby space,
desks equipped with microphone and outlet access.

Department Event Portal

Student Organization Portal

External Request Form

Seventh-floor lobby serves as reception space for the Executive Case Study, as well as furniture & A/V equipment, is included in the booking fee.

* Internal events with 75% of attendees being SPH-affiliated are not subject to booking fees.

Primary uses: Lectures, screenings, webinars,
presentations, department & student organization meetings.

Maximum Capacities: 100 fixed-seating (each).

Venue Features: Lobby, projector & screen, remote access.

Department Event Portal

Student Organization Portal

External Request Form

The B-level lobby (max capacity: 75) serves as reception space, as well as furniture & A/V equipment, is included in the booking fee.

* Internal events with 75% of attendees being SPH-affiliated are not subject to booking fees.

There are 14 classrooms each equipped with a white board and projector/screen. Classroom seating capacities range from 20 to 50.

Contact SPHspace@gwu.edu to request a classroom. Food/beverage, except bottled water, is not permitted in classrooms. Masks required in classrooms.

SPH Events does not manage requests for general classrooms use, but rather when classrooms are needed as additional breakout or meeting space for events.