CORPUS: Networking in the ear, dining in the intestines
A drink in the ear, a dinner in the gut or a walking dinner through the entire 'journey through man': it is possible at CORPUS Congress Centre. The event location recently decided to make not only the complete Congress Centre, but also the 'journey through the human body' and its interactive rooms available for business events. Michelle Nieuwenburg, project coordinator Congresses & Events: 'We were regularly asked if we had any more rooms available for sub-sessions. Besides, the 'journey through man' always appeals to the imagination: weren't there more possibilities there? The answer was yes, so in addition to our conference centre, clients can now hire our interactive rooms and the 'journey through the human being'. You then have the whole building for your event!
"We can really offer something unique!" - Michelle Nieuwenburg, CORPUS Congress Centre
The giant human figure on the A44 motorway near Leiden is an iconic building that many people regularly drive past. Michelle: 'Clients often already know our building and have heard of the 'journey through man'. The multifunctional congress centre - with a large 568m2 congress room - is therefore well liked, also for multi-day congresses. But more can be done!'
‘journey through the human body’ and interactive spaces exclusively for your event
'Clients who really need a lot of space can now also rent the entire building,' Michelle explains. 'In addition to our conference centre, they then also rent the ‘journey through the human body’ and the associated interactive rooms exclusively for their event. This gives them 12 extra (sub)rooms. We can host 800 guests in the entire building, of which 540 are plenary.'
In the 'journey through the human body', visitors move through the human body. You walk through the womb, through the intestines and so you visit different parts of the body. After the 'journey', you descend through interactive floors. 'If you rent the whole building, we can now offer an extra room on each floor for sub-sessions,' Michelle clarifies. 'The interactive rooms are large and functional like a hall, people have nice space there.'
Drinks or dinner in the ear
In addition, if you want to make an unforgettable impression on your guests, you can make a special combination with the ‘journey through the human body’. Michelle: 'This way, we offer something completely different from a standard room and can really get creative in devising unique tailor-made concepts. For example, we can do a walking dinner in 'journey through the human body’. Guests are then given something linked to the theatre of the human body where they are at that moment on each floor of the ‘journey through the human body’. In the mouth, for example, they get something to eat that crackles. But we also have a drink in the ear and dinner in the gut. So we can do really fun things on demand.'
'We can really offer something unique!'
The new options are already proving an immediate success. Michelle: 'The building has already been fully booked several times, because clients wanted to use several sub rooms. So we had an event where yoga was given in our Penthouse on the 8th floor, a cooking workshop on the 7th and each floor was used for something different. While we have always been quite flexible with the rooms, we now have even more options. Of course, the best would now be a combination of both: a conference with various sub-sessions in the interactive rooms and then at the end of the day a spectacular drink or dinner in one or more of the rooms in the 'journey through the human body'. By combining the different rooms and spaces, we can really offer something unique. This opens up all kinds of creative possibilities!'
This article is a copy of the original article, published on 13 February 2024 on Events.co.uk. Text: Mahlee Plekker
Dit artikel is een kopie van het originele artikel, verschenen op 13 februari 2024 op Events.nl. Tekst: Mahlee Plekker