La Place can host seminars, meetings, product launches, press conferences, fashion shows, film shoots and private evenings. Its nine bookable rooms take up to 200 guests seated. The venue states up to 500 standing across its spaces, and its Grand Studio Léo Ferré is listed for 620 in a clubbing layout. La Place is a cultural center dedicated to hip-hop, at 10 passage de la Canopée in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, above Châtelet-Les Halles.
Seminars and company events
The private hire offer covers seminars, working meetings, conferences, trade shows and product launches, as well as photo shoots, filming and press events. Two rooms carry the larger formats. The Grand Studio Léo Ferré covers 255 m² and is fully equipped for sound, light and video, with a 9 by 3 meter cinema screen and two video projectors. It has 100 retractable tiered seats and takes up to 200 seated, which makes it the natural room for a plenary session or a conference with speakers on stage.
A dedicated team follows each private hire. The venue can also add activities and team-building sessions built around hip-hop culture, which gives a company day a different program from a hotel meeting room. A full technical sheet for the Grand Studio is available on request.
Rooms and capacities
The Concert Hall is the core of the building. It covers 255 m² and is listed for 450 in concert layout, 520 in clubbing layout and 110 seated. It has a modular stage of 8 by 6 meters, an LED screen of 6.34 by 2.88 meters behind the stage, a technical gallery on a balcony, a control room and direct access to the dressing rooms and to the bar. It suits awards evenings, shows, parties and product presentations.
The Grand Studio Léo Ferré, also 255 m², is listed for 100 on retractable tiers, 200 seated at most, 360 standing with the stage area and 620 standing in clubbing layout. It has its own control room and direct backstage access.
The Bar can be booked to go with an event, for a cocktail or as a break area, and a DJ riser or a small stage can be set up in it. It also hosts exhibitions, talks and pop-up events.
The building also has eight creation spaces used for dance, music, recording, video editing and graphic arts, including two DJ studios, and an exhibition space.
Catering
La Place offers tailor-made catering for private events. The site does not name a caterer or publish menus, so ask the private hire team what can be served in each room and how service is organized around a show or a conference.
History and setting
La Place opened in 2016 under the Canopée, the glass roof built over the Forum des Halles. It describes itself as a cultural institution of the City of Paris, with a mission to support every form of hip-hop: music, dance, graffiti, image and video. A new management team took over the project in March 2020 and launched in March 2021 the L2P Convention, presented as the first convention in France dedicated to hip-hop and street culture. Concerts, dance festivals, battles and residencies fill the program when the rooms are not hired out.
For an organizer, the point is that the rooms are working stages with professional equipment, not converted meeting rooms.
Getting there
The address is 10 passage de la Canopée, 75001 Paris, in the Les Halles complex. Châtelet-Les Halles station is directly below, served by RER A, B and D and several metro lines. Gare du Nord and Gare de Lyon are a short RER ride away, which helps for groups arriving by train, and RER B runs to Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport.
