Athena Events Venue
📍 Leicester
Large Art Deco Leicester city-centre events venue for Asian weddings, civil ceremonies and grand receptions.
About
Athena Events Venue is a large Art Deco wedding and events venue in Leicester’s Cultural Quarter. The venue states that it hosts a variety of Asian weddings and is permitted to hold civil ceremonies, with exclusive venue hire, outside caterers, unlimited corkage, in-house event lighting and four private dressing rooms. Its main Cinema Suite can seat up to 1,000 guests theatre-style and 700 banquet-style, with additional spaces such as The Gallery available for larger or multi-room events.
Service areas
- Leicester
- Leicestershire
- East Midlands
Traditions
- Asian
Events supported
- Wedding
- Reception
- Civil Ceremony
- Asian Wedding
- Banquet
- Dinner Dance
- Awards Ceremony
- Conference
- Exhibition
- Festival
- Concert
- Show
- Sporting Event
- Corporate Event
Guest capacity
200 – 1000 guests
At a glance
- Dining capacity
- 700 guests
- Reception capacity
- 1300 guests
- Ceremony licence
- Available
- Exclusive use
- Available
- Disabled access
- Available
- On-site coordinator
- Available
Catering and drinks
- External catering
- Permitted
- Alcohol licence
- Available
- Corkage policy
- Own soft drinks, wine, spirits and champagne permitted free of corkage
Facilities and spaces
- Parking
- Available
- Parking spaces
- 120
- Dancefloor
- Available
- Sound system
- Available
- Bridal changing facilities
- Available
Onsite surface car park on Queen Street; additional NCP parking opposite on Rutland Street can be validated within the venue for £8 for 24 hours
Venue features
- Art Deco venue
- Leicester Cultural Quarter location
- Cinema Suite
- The Gallery
- Deco Lounge
- City View Lounge
- Foyer
- Large stage
- Dance floor
- Large bar
- Ethos 1 Prologic Sound System
- 10m x 5m cinema screen
- Fully equipped lighting rig
- Wireless data
- 100Mb dedicated fibre leased line
- Four private dressing rooms
Packages and pricing
Package inclusions
- Exclusive venue hire
- In-house event lighting
- Sound and lighting package with technician
- Walk-in walk-out hire
- Use of four private dressing rooms
- Events team support
- Optional decor services
- Optional drinks packages
Cultural specialisms
- Asian Weddings