#SocialUpgrade: Iron and Wine / Dr. John

It has officially begun! Ravina Festival wants to #SocialUpgrade your summer in 2012. We are excited to see so many people following us on social media, and now we want to do something for you; for the first time ever, we have reserved two (2) seats for EVERY SHOW this season, to be given away exclusively on social media! So whether it is a Pavilion, Martin Theatre or Bennett Gordon Hall performance, there will be two (2) seats with your name on it. Contests will take different forms: simple retweet contests, themed photo contests, caption contests, topic-based tweets and many more. To make it easy for you to find our about all the contests, we created a new page on the blog just for the giveaways. Look up the show you want to see this summer, and find out when you can start looking for a #SocialUpgrade.

Special considerations for this years contests via social media:

• Contests will take place on the following social media sites: Twitter, Instagram*
• Ravinia Festival does not have access to private tweets or private Instagram photos, so tweets and photos will need to be public for the entries to be considered.
• Only one entry per person will be accepted.
• The winner will be announced within two (2) days of contest completion and will have three (3) days to respond. If no response is received,the tickets will pass on the the runner-up.
• Tickets will be left at will call to be picked up on the day of the performance.
• Be sure to follow @RaviniaFestival on Twitter!

Full Ravinia Festival Association contest rules and regulations can be found here.

*Instagram is one option, but you can use Twitpic, yfrog, etc. but there must be a tweet with neccessary hashtags in addtion to a photo for the submission to be valid.

Why not Facebook? Unfortunately, the Facebook's Terms of Service prohibit running contests using the platform, and doing so would jeopardize not only the contest, but our Facebook page as well.

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This giveaway is for the June 10 Iron and Wine / Dr. John concert!

Contest Style: Retweet - click the link below and simpy retweet it to be entered!
Tweet: "@RaviniaFestival Send me to @IronAndWine with @akadrjohn this summer! #SocialUpgrade http://bit.ly/MA43xP"
Hashtags: #SocialUpgrade @IronAndWine @akadrjohn @RaviniaFestival

Contest ends on June 3, 2012! Bookmark this blog post, and/or keep an eye on the #SocialUpgrade tab on the blog above!

Ravinia Classical Youth Initiative

With the assistance of Ravinia Music Festival, Highland Park High School students launched a committee whose mission is to promote increased attendance by high school students to classical music concerts at Ravinia. This year they have helped to developed:

• FREE lawn admission to all classical performances to high school students who present their school ID at the box office.  When students show their student ID at the box office, their school will be awarded points. These points are accumulated throughout the season, and the school with the greatest number of points at the end of the summer wins a grant for their school's music program.

• Host a second annual teen night for high school students on Sunday, July 29, “Cannon Ball 2012”.  In addition to a free performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with live cannons on the lawn, students will be served free snacks and refreshments in a to–be–determined exclusive area on Ravinia's lawn prior to the performance.

• Double points towards the end of summer scholarship will be awarded on both Sunday, July 29 at Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture performance, as well as Tuesday, July 31 at Gustav Holst’s “The Planets”

Stop by their tent today at Customer Appreciation Day and walk away with FREE prizes, potentially including a RaviniaCYI tshirt!

#SocialUpgrade: Concert Dance, Inc. Jun 8

It has officially begun! Ravina Festival wants to #SocialUpgrade your summer in 2012. We are excited to see so many people following us on social media, and now we want to do something for you; for the first time ever, we have reserved two (2) seats for EVERY SHOW this season, to be given away exclusively on social media! So whether it is a Pavilion, Martin Theatre or Bennett Gordon Hall performance, there will be two (2) seats with your name on it. Contests will take different forms: simple retweet contests, themed photo contests, caption contests, topic-based tweets and many more. To make it easy for you to find our about all the contests, we created a new page on the blog just for the giveaways. Look up the show you want to see this summer, and find out when you can start looking for a #SocialUpgrade.

Special considerations for this years contests via social media:

• Contests will take place on the following social media sites: Twitter, Instagram*
• Ravinia Festival does not have access to private tweets or private Instagram photos, so tweets and photos will need to be public for the entries to be considered.
• Only one entry per person will be accepted.
• The winner will be announced within two (2) days of contest completion and will have three (3) days to respond. If no response is received,the tickets will pass on the the runner-up.
• Tickets will be left at will call to be picked up on the day of the performance.
• Be sure to follow @RaviniaFestival on Twitter!

Full Ravinia Festival Association contest rules and regulations can be found here.

*Instagram is one option, but you can use Twitpic, yfrog, etc. but there must be a tweet with neccessary hashtags in addtion to a photo for the submission to be valid.

Why not Facebook? Unfortunately, the Facebook's Terms of Service prohibit running contests using the platform, and doing so would jeopardize not only the contest, but our Facebook page as well.

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Our first giveaway in 2012 will be for the June 8 performance of Concert Dance, Inc.

Contest Style: Topic-based tweet
Topic: Tell us what Ravinia means to you in five (5) words! – Be creative!
Hashtags: #SocialUpgrade #Jun8 @RaviniaFestival

Contest ends on June 1, 2012! Bookmark this blog post, and/or keep an eye on the #SocialUpgrade tab on the blog above!

#SocialUpgrade: Concert Dance, Inc. Jun 7

It has officially begun! Ravina Festival wants to #SocialUpgrade your summer in 2012. We are excited to see so many people following us on social media, and now we want to do something for you; for the first time ever, we have reserved two (2) seats for EVERY SHOW this season, to be given away exclusively on social media! So whether it is a Pavilion, Martin Theatre or Bennett Gordon Hall performance, there will be two (2) seats with your name on it. Contests will take different forms: simple retweet contests, themed photo contests, caption contests, topic-based tweets and many more. To make it easy for you to find our about all the contests, we created a new page on the blog just for the giveaways. Look up the show you want to see this summer, and find out when you can start looking for a #SocialUpgrade.

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Facebook Fundraiser at 25% of Goal; Follow Us Now to Help

The Ravinia Associates Board has put a challenge out to our audience. For everyone who “likes” the Ravinia Festival's page on Facebook or “follows” Ravinia Festival on Twitter, the Associates will donate $1 for Ravinia’s REACH*TEACH*PLAY education programs. Since the challenge was announced two weeks ago, as of May 17, 2012 at 10:24 am Ravinia has raised $2,509. What an outstanding start! Help us to reach our goal of $10,000 by making sure you are following us on both Facebook and Twitter!