Angel Ticket Program

Angel Tickets Event List

The Fine Arts Center created the Angel Ticket Program in 2000. This unique program provides human service agencies in the Tri-County area with complimentary tickets to select performances at the Fine Arts Center. The Center Series, Asian Arts and Culture Program, New WORLD Theater, Solos and Duos, and Magic Triangle all make performances available to this program.

Our Mission: The Angel Ticket Program of the Fine Arts Center exists to provide complimentary performance tickets to residents of Hampshire, Hampden and Franklin Counties whose financial and/or social situation would otherwise prohibit them from experiencing live performances of the performing arts by national and international touring artists. Tickets are granted to the clients of eligible non-profit human-service organizations.

How to get involved: Tickets are distributed solely through non-profit, human-service organizations who then coordinate their visit to the Fine Arts Center with their clients. Tickets are not granted directly to individuals. To participate, interested organizations must register for the Angel Ticket Program. To register on-line click here.

All registered organizations receive a list of Angel events and a ticket request form. To see a listing of this year's Angel events click here. A deadline to request tickets is set approximately four (4) weeks prior to each event. No request will be considered until after this deadline. This assures all organizations an equal chance of receiving tickets no matter when they first registered for the program.

Distribution of tickets is determined by demand, availability, and an organization’s previous requests. Every effort is made to provide each organization with some number of tickets.

In our 2005– 2006 season we received a total of 3,000 requests for tickets. We were able to distribute 1,377 tickets.

How are Angel Tickets made possible?

The Fine Arts Center, the Friends of the Fine Arts Center and our sponsors make the Angel Ticket Program a reality. Most organizations can only make complimentary tickets available on short notice – typically 48-24 hours prior to an event – once they know how ticket sales are going. The Fine Arts Center is able to commit tickets well in advance because our sponsors generously provide support to cover partial cost of each ticket. This in turn gives our participating organizations a wide choice of events from which to choose and ample time to plan their visit to the Center.

Our 2007– 2008 season sponsors (Angels) of $100 or more to date include:

Partial funding for the Angel Ticket Program has been provided by Hasbro, Inc., and the Xeric Foundation along with individual donors.

Donations are gratefully accepted. You may donate towards this year's tickets or to The Joyce E. and Benedict J. Smar Endowment for Angel Tickets, which ensures the future of this program. To donate click here.

Who participates?