If you wish to become a Festival Supporter please include your payment for this on your ticket booking form, and send it to us within or before the priority booking period.

The St Magnus Festival has been a force in cultural life for over 30 years, presenting an annual programme of entertaining, stimulating and sometimes challenging performances all set against the background of Orkney at midsummer.

Income from ticket sales provides only 20% of the funds needed to stage the Festival; the remaining 80% has to be raised annually through grants, sponsorships and donations. So the contributions of our Supporters are highly valued and are important in helping us maintain the quality of Festival performances and all the associated community and education projects.

You can help by becoming a Festival Supporter. Three levels of support are available, all of which enable you to enjoy special priviledges, such as priority booking.

Courtesy of Northlink Ferries, we are able to offer Festival Supporters a 30% reduction on passenger and vehicle rates (excluding cabins) on either the Scrabster-Stromness or Aberdeen-Kirkwall routes.  The offer applies to Supporters travelling to and from Orkney for the Festival  between 11th  June and 3rd July.  For information on how to make a booking, please contact the Festival office.

The priority booking period for supporters begins on 29th March for Benefactors, and for Friends and Patrons on 5th April and runs until 15th April.

General booking opens on Monday 19th April 2010, and for telephone bookings on Tuesday 20th April.

Levels of support (per year):

Friend
Individual £25; joint* £40
(outer isles residents: individual £13; joint* £22)

  • Advance mailing of the Festival brochure
  • Priority booking
  • Invitation to the brochure launch
  • Festival newsletters
  • Invitation to previews of Festival exhibitions

During the priority booking period, individual Friends are entitled to buy 1 ticket per event, joint Friends 2 tickets per event.

*Joint rates apply to two people at the same address.

Patron
Individual £50; joint £80*
All the above benefits PLUS

  • Your name credited in the Festival Programme Book

During the priority booking period, individual Patrons are entitled to buy 2 tickets per event, joint Patrons 4 tickets per event.

Benefactor
Individual £150; joint* £250 (minimum donation)
All the above benefits PLUS

  • one week's priority booking in advance of Friends and Patrons
  • Your name credited in the Festival Programme Book as a Festival Benefactor
  • Invitation to the Festival Opening Reception
  • Invitation to a Benefactors' Reception with Festival Artists

During the priority booking period, individual Benefactors are entitled to buy 2 tickets per event, joint Benefactors 4 tickets per event.

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