Bal Chavaux can host company parties, plenary sessions, seminars, conferences, trade shows, concerts and weddings, with a stated capacity of up to 700 guests. The venue offers about 1,000 square meters of modular space on several levels, with four rooms and two dressing rooms. It occupies the former Méliès cinema at 2 avenue de la Résistance in Montreuil, directly above the Croix de Chavaux metro station.
Seminars and company events
The venue sells corporate events of every size: seminars, congresses, trade shows, team building days, plenary meetings, product launches and festive evenings. It also hosts film shoots, photo shoots and fashion shows. The spaces can be combined, so a plenary in the main hall can be followed by a cocktail at the bar and a party on the dancefloor.
The technical equipment is that of a concert hall: a large stage, an L-Acoustics sound system, a full lighting rig, a fixed control booth, a large screen, TV screens, a projector, a DJ set, flip charts, furniture, cloakrooms and 5G wifi. Technical and event staff from the live music sector work on site, and one events coordinator follows each project. The venue holds a late-night licence.
Weddings and receptions
Tempo Groupe, which runs Bal Chavaux and La Marbrerie, offers both venues for weddings. Its wedding brochure lists Bal Chavaux for 50 to 550 guests, from an intimate ceremony to a dance party, with a professional sound and light system and DJ sets possible until early morning.
Rooms and capacities
The main room is La Grande Salle, 190 square meters, with 90 square meters of dancefloor, a 100-square-meter balcony and a large stage. The bar has its own team, who can build a drinks list, an open bar formula or custom cocktails for the event. The venue brochure gives a total of 950 square meters, four rooms and two dressing rooms, with figures of 560 and 232 guests depending on the format. The events page states 1,000 square meters and 700 guests. Confirm the figure for your layout with the events team.
Catering
Catering comes from three partners. Tempo, the in-house caterer linked to La Cantine de La Marbrerie, serves homemade dishes as an all-you-can-eat buffet and handles vegetarian, vegan, kosher and halal requests. Formats include seated meals, lunch or dinner cocktails, buffets, afternoon snacks and aperitifs. Maison Miam runs street food stands. Champs Libres, an Écotable-labelled caterer from a farming family in Seine-et-Marne, works with short supply chains. Outside caterers are accepted, subject to a fee.
History and setting
The building was the Méliès, a historic cinema of Montreuil. The conversion kept the inclined ceilings, the original sight lines and the character of a movie theater. Bal Chavaux opened in April 2026 as the sister venue of La Marbrerie, a concert hall that the same team has run for about ten years. It stands in the Croix de Chavaux shopping district, between Zic Place and Bricorama.
Getting there
Metro line 9 stops at Croix de Chavaux; take exit 3, Boulevard Chanzy and shopping centre. Buses 102, 115, 122 and 127 serve the area, and the Noctilien N34 and N16 night buses run after the metro closes. Parking is available nearby. All spaces are accessible to guests with reduced mobility. Paris is just past the city limits.
