Wagner Hall hosts meetings, workshops, screenings, networking evenings, corporate events and garden weddings in central Brighton, with seating for about 150 in the main hall and two meeting rooms for up to 35. The venue is on Regency Road, about ten minutes from Brighton station and less than five minutes from the sea.
Seminars and company events
Two meeting rooms cover small working sessions. The Spire Room seats 14 at a boardroom table, 30 to 35 in theater rows or 20 in a classroom layout with trestle tables. The Fig Room, which overlooks the garden, seats 10 boardroom style, up to 25 theater style or 16 in a classroom setup. Both have fast wifi, large presentation-ready screens and tea and coffee facilities, and hire includes a flip chart. Rooms are booked by the quarter day, half day, full day or hour. For a larger audience, the main hall takes presentations, team-building sessions and networking events, and opens onto the garden for breaks.
Weddings and receptions
The Fig Tree Garden is offered for weddings and celebrations, and the hall can be added for a larger event. The garden has festoon lighting, outdoor power points, space for a tipi and room for a stage or bandstand, which gives a couple room to plan a ceremony and an evening party in the middle of the city. Hall hire includes access to the garden.
Rooms and capacities
Wagner Hall itself is a 16 by 12 meter open space with raked theater seating for 112, which can be pushed back, and floor seating for about 38 more. A 6 by 7 meter stage, with original wooden floorboards, a lighting rig, a sound desk and changing facilities, sits under an industrial ceiling and suits a band, a choir or a speaker. The hall also hosts concerts, cinema nights, art exhibitions, record fairs and silent discos. The Fig Tree Garden is a large, secluded garden with a palm tree, raised beds, bench seating and the fig tree that gives it its name. The minimum hire for the hall is three hours, by day or evening.
Catering
The Fig Tree Kitchen is a new catering kitchen with a double sink, oven, hob, preparation island and a double catering fridge. It can be hired alongside the hall for an event caterer, or on its own for cookery classes or food preparation. The meeting rooms have tea and coffee making facilities. The site does not name an in-house caterer, so organizers bring their own.
History and setting
The hall sits among old and new buildings in the center of Brighton, and its garden offers a quiet space away from the city streets. Its public program of concerts, talks, film screenings and makers' fairs shows how the room adapts from seated audiences to open floor events.
Getting there
Brighton station is about ten minutes away, and the seafront is less than five minutes on foot. The garden has an accessible entrance.
