Leesburg Silent Disco Rental

The City’s flagship banquet, reception and meeting facility, and the one room in Leesburg that scales from a committee meeting to a thousand people. The Harris Room is the headline space at 7,155 square feet, published at 1,000 auditorium style and 450 banquet style, with a view out over Venetian Gardens Park and Lake Harris. Behind it sit three smaller rooms, which is what makes the building so useful for a multi-track day: a general session in the Harris Room, breakouts in the Griffin and Canal Rooms, catering staged in the Chain of Lakes Room. Three channels maps onto that layout almost exactly, and because the sound is in the headphones you can run a band, a DJ and a quiet room at once without any of them bleeding into each other.

A 114-acre campus with an events department that takes outside reservations, which makes it one of the few places in town that can absorb a very large crowd indoors. The Everett A. Kelly Convocation Center seats up to 1,100, and the gymnasium floor is exactly the kind of hard, reflective box where amplified music turns to mush and speech turns unintelligible — the problem headphones solve outright. The Magnolia Room is the campus banquet and conference space, and the Health Sciences Center adds a 100-seat auditorium and a 40-seat community room for smaller sessions. The events office asks for requests 30 days out for events under 100 attendees and 45 days out for anything larger, so this is a venue to book early and slot the entertainment into afterwards.

Leesburg’s landmark historic house, on the corner of Magnolia and 12th, sitting on two acres of botanical gardens under forty-foot oaks with open-air gazebos on the grounds. The City rents the house and the gazebos separately, and both are small by design — twenty guests inside with tables and chairs provided, room for about twenty at a gazebo. It is also the most residential setting the City rents: a corner lot in a walkable neighbourhood of houses, where a sound system on the lawn is a conversation with the street. A transmitter in the gazebo and headphones on every guest is the version of that party nobody complains about.

The workhorse community room, and the one most church groups, clubs and family parties actually end up in. The City’s listing puts eight round tables and eighty chairs in with the rental, there is a non-profit hourly rate for weekday bookings, and the building sits inside Rogers Park alongside the splash pad, playground and pavilions — so an afternoon outdoors and an evening indoors can be the same booking. A DIY drop-off suits a room this size: we deliver the headphones and the transmitter, walk your volunteers through it, and come back for the gear.

Venetian Gardens at 109 East Dixie Avenue has seven islands, rentable pavilions, picnic tables and a gazebo you can book, and it is where the City puts its biggest outdoor nights. Ski Beach, at 201 East Lake Harris Drive, adds rentable pavilions, lakefront walking trails, boat ramps and a sand beach. Sleepy Hollow Recreation Complex on Hollow Lane and the Susan Street Recreation Complex both have pavilions and picnic areas attached to their fields, Pat Thomas Stadium hosts the City’s outdoor movie nights, and Leesburg Towne Square and Main Street carry most of the downtown calendar. None of these places has a wall, a ceiling or a door you can close, which is precisely why a headphone system is the only format that gets you a dance floor after dark in any of them.

Leesburg has an unusually deep bench of community clubhouses, because so much of the city is built as gated 55-plus neighbourhoods: Plantation at Leesburg, Royal Highlands, Legacy of Leesburg, Arlington Ridge, Highland Lakes, Pennbrooke Fairways and Scottish Highlands. Plantation at Leesburg alone lists three clubhouses, including the Grand Manor with a performance auditorium that doubles as a ballroom and a catering kitchen attached. Those rooms come with an activities calendar, a board, and neighbours a hundred feet away — much the same clubhouse circuit we work in Clermont and south Lake County. Downtown, the Leesburg Arts Center occupies the old Tropic Theatre at 122 West Main Street next door to the Melon Patch Players, and the city’s churches and fellowship halls round out the list. All of them share one trait: the room is fine, the sound is the negotiation.