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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/06/2026 20:29:00

Housed in a flamboyant former Odeon cinema, Athena is a multi-discipline events venue in the Cultural Quarter of Leicester, standing on the corner of Queen Street and Rutland Street. The building was designed in the Streamline Moderne style by Robert Arthur Bullivant for Oscar Deutsch's Odeon Theatres and opened on 28 July 1938 with a screening of A Slight Case of Murder, originally seating more than 2,100 patrons across its stalls and circle. Its terracotta facade, hand-moulded at the Doulton w...