Former names | Leicester Odeon |
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Address | Queen Street Leicester LE1 1QD England |
Location | Leicester |
Type | Early 20th century art deco cinema |
Capacity | 2,000 |
Construction | |
Built | 1936 |
Opened | 1936-1997, 2005 – present |
Renovated | 2005 |
Architect | Robert Arthur Bullivant (architect) |
Website | |
Venue Website |
Athena is a Grade II-listed events venue in the cultural quarter of Leicester City Centre, England. Built originally as an Odeon Cinema in 1936, it closed for most of the 1990s and remained vacant up until 2005, where the building was restored as a multi-discipline events venue.