theme announced for The Secret Garden Party 2013

The Arts & Expression theme for next year's The Secret Garden Party 2013 has been announced as "Superstition".

In 2013 the Arts & Expression theme is there to provide inspiration and this year the Secret Garden will be asking festival to join in with exploring their affinity to the supernatural, the inexplicable and the irrational… to indulge the tussle between the left brain's sober analysis and the right's need to conjure it's own reality. The Garden Party relies on the audience participation to rejuvenate and regenerate each year.

The head gardener says, "Ours is a rational world, where science and mechanics control much of how we live and think. Yet many of us feel an instinctive resistance to this world of reason, a primeval attraction to beliefs and actions without logic. Are you afraid of the number 13? Would you bury a broken mirror in the moonlight? Do these behaviours guide our fates, or are they superstitious nonsense?"

Next year attendees can pay homage to the power of the number thirteen, leave reason at the Garden gates, search for the four-leaf clover along the path and see where lady luck takes them. Will festival goers be saluting magpies or courting black cats, touching wood or spilling salt, crossing their fingers or breaking mirrors?

Grants are available for artists who wish to submit their creative proposals to the Secret Garden Party 2013. Whether it is running an action camp, helping on the bars, curating a parade, rowing an art boat, building a tree house, devising a fire show, hosting a workshop, driving an art car or producing an art installation…

The number one rule is any idea must facilitate participation. To ensure that this principle is upheld, Secret Garden Party gives over half of all programming money back to the gardeners, in the form of arts and expression grants.

Last year the Secret Garden Party funded over 40 action camps, games and activities, over 50 art installations and hundreds of performers. Last year saw a record number of festival goers interacting with on site installations, artworks, performances and absurd happenings, all woven between the 17 arenas & stages showcasing over 350 bands across 4 days.

Tickets for the Secret Garden Party 2013 are now being sold on a tiered system. A set number of tickets will are sold in each tier, gradually increasing in price. Tier one and Tier two have already sold out so gardeners are encouraged to buy now at Tier Three Price.

There is also a deposit scheme in operation. This allows a reserved ticket for a deposit of £50; the balance to be paid by 30th April 2013.

Ticket Prices:

Adult Tier 1 Tickets: £137.50 - SOLD OUT
Adult Tier 2 Tickets: £155 - SOLD OUT
Adult Tier 3 Tickets: £165
Adult Tier 4 Tickets: £185
Adult Tier 5 Tickets: £195
Teen Ticket (13 – 17 years): £130
Campervan: £60
Under 12's: £0
Family Camping Pass: £20

There are no acts confirmed yet for The Secret Garden Party held from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th July 2013.

The Secret Garden Party held at Mill Hill Field, Abbots Ripton, in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire is a garden-party-gone-crazy. As well as music there's loads of activities for kids and adults alike, and it is more of a party experience than a live music festival.

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