Seattle’s favorite holiday tradition of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s NUTCRACKER returns beginning November 27, 2009 and they are offering up a challenge for contestants to test their creativity and win tickets.
THE 12 DAYS OF NUTCRACKER
Are you nuts about Nutcracker? Tell PNB about it and you could be one of twelve lucky writers to win two free tickets to an opening weekend performance of PNB’s renowned holiday extravaganza! Pacific Northwest Ballet is holding a writing contest, so take pen to paper (well, fingers to keypad) and send us your notes about Nutcracker. Get cracking: For twelve days – November 12 through 23 – PNB will be scanning our Nutcracker@pnb.org mailbox for outstanding anecdotes and essays, be they funny or far-out, touching or treacly, and picking a baker’s dozen to be showcased on our website. Winners will receive two free tickets to an opening weekend performance of Nutcracker, a Nutcracker poster, a collectible Nutcracker bobble-head, and a fistful of Nutcracker flair pins!
There are no restrictions on what to write – Nutty or nice, fact or fiction, homily or haiku – but please keep it to no more than 500 words. (And less would be nice: Remember, brevity is the soul of wit.) Entries must include the author’s full name, e-mail and daytime phone number. Extra credit will be given for creative use of the words “Maurice,” “mice” or “maestro.” And be forewarned: Demerits will be doled out to entries that use the words “Ginger,” Sugar Plum” or “Rockette.”
And the Not-So-Fine Print: All entries must be received via e-mail at Nutcracker@pnb.org no later than November 23, 2009. One winner will be chosen each day between November 12 and 23, however all submissions will be considered each day; There is no need to enter more than once, and multiple entries risk irritating the judges. All entries become the property of Pacific Northwest Ballet which may use them for any purpose whatsoever without payment to the author.
Twelve winners will each receive two tickets to an opening weekend performance of Nutcracker, November 27-29.
For more info about the contest, visit www.pnb.org.
