Festival News
Our Festival Programme will be published on 18th February, 2012 and will be placed in prime positions around the town including Dereham Library, the office of Dereham Town Council in Assembly Rooms, Ruthen Place, at the EDP office in the High Street and from @The Gallery, Memorial Hall, Norwich St,
On the morning of 18th February we shall also be in Nelson Place distributing programmes. You will also have the first opportunity to buy tickets in person from the ticket team before they go on sale online from 20th February. The next opportunity to buy tickets in person will be on Tuesday 3rd April, from @The Gallery, Memorial Hall, Norwich St. This is the first day of our box office, which will then be open for selling tickets in person on each subsequent Friday, Saturday and Tuesday.
To From the 18th February you will also be able to buy tickets for our Festival Grand Draw which has a prize of a £500 voucher to be spent at Bennetts either at there Norwich Street retail store or from their new Appliance Centre recently opened in Greens Road. Tickets are £1 each, in aid of Festival funds.
We shall also offer for the first time the ability for booking to be made online, as well as via the more established methods. Details of how to book are shown elsewhere on this site, but for your information public booking will commence online on 20thFebruary, 2012. However, to existing Friends of Dereham Festival should by now have received detals of their priority booking arrangements. There will also be a limited number of new Friends memberships with priority booking available during January, 2012. Most of our own events will take place in the newly reopened Memorial Hall which now seats just under 300 people and, since we envisage great demand for our most popular events, Friends membership with its priority booking will be limited.
If you wish to avail yourself of one of the limited new Friends Memberships you can apply for this by phoning our Friends Secretary on 01362 690969 or 699665 before the end of January, 2012.
On the morning of our opening day, May 19th we shall be organising a procession through the town. If you or your organisation would like to be part of that, please let us know. Call 01362 693277.