{"id":10000,"date":"2015-09-22T07:53:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T06:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=10000"},"modified":"2015-09-22T07:53:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T06:53:19","slug":"ulster-bank-makes-hundreds-of-free-festival-tickets-available-across-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2015\/09\/ulster-bank-makes-hundreds-of-free-festival-tickets-available-across-northern-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"ULSTER BANK MAKES HUNDREDS OF FREE FESTIVAL TICKETS AVAILABLE ACROSS NORTHERN IRELAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em>Community Ticket &amp; Night for Belfast schemes to help increase access to the arts<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/press17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-10001\" title=\"press\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/press17-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a>Hundreds of free tickets for this year\u2019s Ulster Bank International Arts Festival are being offered to the public as part of two initiatives from the event\u2019s headline sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Ulster Bank\u2019s <em>Community Ticket<\/em> and <em>Night for Belfast<\/em> schemes will, respectively, make 200 tickets available to community groups across Northern Ireland and 300 tickets available to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Donnan, Regional Managing Director, Corporate &amp; Commercial Northern Ireland, Ulster Bank, says: \u201cOur aim is to provide as many people as possible with access to the arts, and we\u2019re very confident that once they\u2019ve had a taste of the great acts performing in the festival, they\u2019ll want to come back for more. We would strongly encourage community groups and the general public to take advantage of the opportunity to see what promises to be some exciting and inspiring performances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard Wakely, Director of the Ulster Bank Belfast International Arts Festival, added, \u201cAccessibility and inclusivity are at the very core of\u00a0 Festival\u2019s values and we applaud Ulster Bank, for providing fantastic schemes that enable people to be part of some truly international and world class Festival events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The free tickets can be applied for by registering on the festival website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfastinternationalartsfestival.com\">www.belfastinternationalartsfestival.com<\/a> before the closing date of October 2.<\/p>\n<p>The 200 free tickets for community groups are available across four of the Festival\u2019s highlight performances: <a href=\"http:\/\/belfastinternationalartsfestival.com\/event\/the-kitchen\/\">The Kitchen<\/a> (Grand Opera House), <a href=\"http:\/\/belfastinternationalartsfestival.com\/event\/hallo-martin-zimmermann\/\">Hallo <\/a>(Downstairs at the MAC), <a href=\"http:\/\/belfastinternationalartsfestival.com\/event\/georgie-fame\/\">Georgie Fame<\/a> in Concert (Black Box), and <a href=\"http:\/\/belfastinternationalartsfestival.com\/event\/nicholas-mccarthy\/\">Nicholas McCarthy<\/a> (First Presbyterian Church, Rosemary Street).<\/p>\n<p>The 300 public tickets are available for <a href=\"http:\/\/belfastinternationalartsfestival.com\/event\/the-kitchen\/\">The Kitchen<\/a> (Grand Opera House), a theatrical experience that serves up a ritual fusion of sight, sound, smell and taste all the way from South India.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfastinternationalartsfestival.com\">www.belfastinternationalartsfestival.com<\/a> for full details.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community Ticket &amp; Night for Belfast schemes to help increase access to the arts Hundreds of free tickets for this year\u2019s Ulster Bank International Arts Festival are being offered to the public as part of two initiatives from the event\u2019s headline sponsor. Ulster Bank\u2019s Community Ticket and Night for Belfast schemes will, respectively, make 200 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2015\/09\/ulster-bank-makes-hundreds-of-free-festival-tickets-available-across-northern-ireland\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10002,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions\/10002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}