theme announced for The Secret Garden Party 2011

The Arts & Expression theme for next year's The Secret Garden Party 2011 has been announced as "origins and frontiers".

In 2011 the Arts & Expression theme will be a world of origins and frontiers, sources and horizons. Through the live music, performance stages, spectacles, action camps and art installations the festival will be exploring "where we have come from and where we are going". Half the event will be dedicated to breaking boundaries, reckless advance, endeavour, innovation and the unknown...the passion for new frontiers. The other half will be dedicated to reconnecting with ourselves, our roots, our wild spirits...revelling in our rich and mysterious origins.

The festival promises a major landscaping programme: more grass for camping, more toilets, more water facilities. Each camping field will have its own Info & Welfare Station, where Gardeners can rendezvous, go for advice, shower, fill up with water. Security will be improved with higher fences, monitoring of campsites, and gates will have better access with twenty lanes for the man gate and a second new gate with ten lanes.

Other developments are afoot as Head Gardener Fred Fellowes explained, "The only thing more exciting than the bid for 4.33 (Cage Against The Machine) to make it as the Christmas Number One is the plans for landscaping, treehouse building and overall 'holistic town planning' that we are embarking on for the 2011 party – hi ho hi ho."

Returning in 2011 will be the Artful Badger Woodland will be returning to Nature and The Remix Bubble providing a DJs and the digital. The Debates and Discussion Tents will interested in our origins - DNA, language, the humble atom and the vast universe. And, they will explore the frontiers of the 21st Century - the human mind, ecological harmony, colonising space.

The Fire Circle, The Big Burn and Parade will be themed around our origins - fire, community, and celebration whilst The Sanctuary healing area will offer respite and a return to our source - spirit, simplicity, a slower circadian pace. On site Sculpture and Installation will be exploring the journey that visual art has taken, from the hues and dyes of cave painting to the forefront of modern art.

Tickets are on sale priced at £160 for an adult for the four days, with free tickets also available for children aged under 12. The price includes parking, and camping. Teen tickets are priced at £125. There's a deposit scheme for next year's tickets, where Gardeners will be able to purchase full price tickets in three instalments with the first being £50. Under 12's Tickets will be available with an adult tickets and issued with a family pass, giving priority parking and access to the Family Camping field, a brand new zone for 2011. Family camping passes are priced at £20, with a campervan pass priced at £60.

To buy tickets click here.

There are no acts confirmed yet for this not-for-profit festival without sponsorship which offers an eclectic musical mix of acts. The dates for The Secret Garden Party 2011 are confirmed as Thursday 21st to Sunday 24th July.

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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