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Donald Bren Events Center

An arena in Irvine, California. It seats a stated 5,608. This page collects the address, the access and the capacity figures an organizer needs before a site visit.

Price your eventWhat fits here
Stated capacity
5,608
people, as published
Opened
1980
46 years old
From SNA
4 km (2.5 mi)
John Wayne Airport
From the centre
3.1 km (1.9 mi)
of Irvine

Figures as published in open data, retrieved 3 September 2026. Capacities vary by layout — confirm the one you want with the venue.

What the record holds

It stands at 100 Bren Event Center Drive, 92697, 3.1 km (1.9 mi) from the centre of Irvine.

Donald Bren Events Center was opened in 1980 and operated by University of California, Irvine, which puts it at 46 years old.

At a stated 5,608 this takes an entire conference in one room rather than one track of it.

Address
100 Bren Event Center Drive, Irvine, CA 92612
Operator
University of California, Irvine
Owner
University of California, Irvine
Official site
www.bren.uci.edu
Coordinates
33.6494, -117.8471
Classified as
arena

How attendees reach it

John Wayne Airport (SNA) is 4 km (2.5 mi) away — close enough that a delayed speaker can still make an afternoon slot.

3.1 km (1.9 mi) out from the middle of Irvine — close enough to book a downtown hotel block, far enough that people will expect transport laid on after dark.

Irvine has 19 venues mapped in total and a population of 318,683. The Irvine guide covers the airport, the local time zone and what else is bookable nearby.

Programming it

5,608 is enough for a whole programme in a single room, which removes the hardest logistics problem an event has. Ask what the room looks like empty — the seated figure and the usable one are rarely the same.

  • award ceremonies

    A stage, a bowl of seats and a control room already in place.

  • company all-hands

    One room, everybody in it, nobody watching on a screen in an overflow space.

What event67 costs at this capacity

Suppose 950 attendees claim their invite and open the app at a Donald Bren Events Center event sized to the stated capacity of Donald Bren Events Center. Here is exactly what event67 charges, with the free 50 taken off the top.

activated attendees
950activated attendees
billable, after the first 50 are free
900billable, after the first 50 are free
for the whole event, at $5 each
$4,500for the whole event, at $5 each

You are billed for people, not for the room, so this figure does not change if you move the event down the road. event67 has no floor-plan or booking product — the venue handles the space, the app handles the people in it.

1,000
activated attendees at Donald Bren Events Center, and what each dot costsOne dot ≈ 10 attendees

Elsewhere in Irvine

3 other venues in Irvine have enough published detail for their own guide. Worth a shortlist before you commit.

Where these numbers come from

event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

  • Wikidata, CC0
  • OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL
  • Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
  • Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Retrieved 3 September 2026. 11 distinct facts from the record are rendered on this page: street address, postal code, stated capacity, capacity sizing, year opened, operator, owner, official website and more.

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What it costs

Free up to 50
activated attendees, on one live event
$5
per activated attendee beyond 50
$4,750
the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000

Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

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Questions people actually ask

How many people does Donald Bren Events Center hold?

Open data records a stated capacity of 5,608 for Donald Bren Events Center. That figure is what the venue or an encyclopaedia entry published, and it is usually the maximum seated number — theatre, banquet and reception layouts in the same room can differ by half. Confirm the layout you want directly with the venue.

Where is Donald Bren Events Center?

100 Bren Event Center Drive, Irvine, CA 92612. It is 3.1 km (1.9 mi) from the centre of Irvine. The nearest major airport is John Wayne Airport (SNA), about 4 km (2.5 mi) away.

What does an event app cost for an event at Donald Bren Events Center?

950 activated attendees means 900 billable after the free 50, so $4,500 for the event. That example is sized to the stated capacity of Donald Bren Events Center. The rate is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

Is event67 affiliated with Donald Bren Events Center?

No. event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data — OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and public census sources — and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

What else is nearby if Donald Bren Events Center is booked?

Championship Soccer Stadium (5,000), Anteater Stadium (2,500) and Segerstrom Center for the Arts are in the same city and have their own pages here. 19 venues in total are mapped in Irvine.

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