How to attend Giant Magnet

Request a reservation

Please do not send payment now. Make a reservation online, or call in your request to the Teachers’ Hotline at 206-684-7336. Here is a checklist of the information you will need to have ready. For the best choice of shows and times, make your request early. Ticket requests are filled on a first-come-first-served basis. Making plans later? Many shows do remain available throughout the spring. Please call the Teachers’ Hotline for availability. Reserve online here.

Receive Your Invoice Packet

An invoice verifying your reservations will be mailed by December 5th, or within seven days of your request, whichever is later. Any changes to your invoice must be approved by phone, at the number on your invoice.

Make Payment

Return a signed copy of your invoice with payment in full, by February 16th, or by the due date on your invoice, whichever is later. Any extension of the payment deadline will be arranged on a case-by-case basis. Prices on this site reflect a cash discount given to groups paying with cash or check. To pay for school group orders by purchase order or credit card, see invoice packet.

Receive Your Materials

You will receive a Teachers’ Guide to the show(s) you are attending, plus a Discovery Packet, with a listing of all activities at Discovery Centers, a site map,and information about seating, lunches, parking, and rush tickets.

Physical Access

All Festival facilities on the Seattle Center campus and Tacoma ’s Broadway Center are accessible to all patrons. Please note special needs when you order.

Economic Access

Tickets at half price are available for all students whose family income qualifies for the federal free/reduced lunch program. If you do not know the number of students in your group who qualify, apply the school-wide average to the total number of students in your order. The subsidized rate is not available for teachers or adult chaperones. Special funding from corporate and foundation donors makes this program possible; the number of subsidized tickets may be limited.

Homeschoolers

Buy a minimum of eighteen tickets for the rates on this website. Tickets need not all be to the same performance. Giant Magnet education programs and resources are available to homeschool instructors.