Community Ticket and A Night for Belfast initiatives make hundreds of festival tickets available across NI

Hundreds of tickets for this year’s Ulster Bank International Arts Festival are being offered to the public free of charge as part of two initiatives from the event’s title sponsor, it is announced today.

The Community Ticket scheme will make 150 tickets available to community groups throughout Northern Ireland while members of the public can apply for 150 free tickets through the A Night for Belfast initiative.

The free tickets can be applied for by registering on the festival website  http://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/ulsterbank/ before the closing date of September 27.

Richard Donnan, Head of Northern Ireland at Ulster Bank welcomed the scheme, saying:, “As title sponsor of the Ulster Bank Belfast International Arts Festival, one of our key focuses is to provide as many people as possible with access to the arts. This year’s programme is packed full of world class performances and we are confident that once people have experienced the buzz of the festival, they will continue to engage with the arts throughout the year.”

“I would strongly encourage community groups and members of the public to take advantage of this opportunity and enjoy what promises to be a very exciting line up.”

Richard Wakely, Director of the Ulster Bank Belfast International Arts Festival also welcomed the move by Ulster Bank saying: “We are always looking for ways to bring new audiences to the Festival and therefore applaud our title sponsors for again helping us make the Festival more accessible and inclusive.”

The 150 general public tickets are available for one of the Festival’s most hotly anticipated performances, the Irish Premier of David Greig’s version of Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Women, which promises to be an extraordinary theatrical event.

The 150 community tickets will be available for both The Suppliant Women and Taylor Mac’s 10-decade musical spectacular in which the glittering New-York artist gives his cultural take on the years before, during and after the First World War.

For full details about the Ulster Bank Belfast International Arts Festival, visit www.belfastinternationalartsfestival.com

Please read all terms and conditions before registering. Winners will be selected on September 30 and contacted by telephone or email.