Firefly 2025 ticket registration has not yet begun
If you have any questions, email tickets@fireflyartscollective.org (but we don’t have any more information yet, and this will be the first place we update)
Here’s how ticketing for Firefly 2025 works:
Firefly 2025 may be a bit bigger than 2023, which was 1350-1400 participants. Getting a ticket is very similar to previous years. After the registration window (TBD), we’ll have a lottery to randomize everyone’s position on a list, then we release most of the available tickets to that list in order. If you don’t get a ticket in the initial lottery, you’ll keep your position in line, and if other folks ahead of you don’t buy their ticket, or if they return/refund it, you’ll get closer to the front of the line. When your name gets to the top of the list, you’ll receive a ticket offer and pay the amount you decided on at registration. Every participant has the same chance of getting a ticket in the lottery. We expect everyone who signs up before the Lottery to eventually get an offer to buy a ticket, but some hopeful Fireflies who sign up later will probably not make if off the waitlist.
We’re continuing to have tickets priced according your ability to contribute to making Firefly happen; there are no separate fees for parking, the same as last year.
The detailed Ticket Policies and Information Page is here.
How much do I pay for Firefly?
Since 2019, Firefly has asked everyone to pay what they were willing and able to make Firefly happen. And Fireflies, collectively, covered the costs of art and event production! We’re continuing the same way this year: at registration for the ticket lottery, you will be asked how much you are willing to pay. We’ll ask you to pay that amount after the lottery when you get a chance to buy a ticket. For Firefly to break even in 2024, the average participant would have had to pay about $170 (remembering that there is no extra charge this year for parking). We hoped that some people would have paid more than the recommended average, to cover the costs of some people paying less, but that did not occur and the event lost money, burning through some of its reserve/emergency funds. We have not yet determined the price for 2025. If it looks like Firefly won’t be able to meet its financial obligations as a result of the pay-what-you-can pricing, the Board may decide to set a flat ticket price.
You can see our budget estimates and history for more detail. The upshot is that Firefly had expenses of about $170/participant. For some of you, this is more than your finances can handle; for others, it’s remarkably little for an experience as important to you as Firefly.
Ticket Process
Firefly uses non-transferable refundable tickets, a lottery to allocate initial ticket offers, and an automated waitlist system.
The ticket process is entirely online.
- Each participant needs to register on the Firefly Ticketing website. The link says “You have not yet registered for a ticket! Click here to register!”
- Participants will be put in a random order during the Lottery on <TBD>. The first <TBD> participants will receive ticket offers by email and the remaining start a waitlist.
- If you have a ticket offer, pay for it within three days or the next person on the waitlist will get it!
- Tickets are non-transferable and tied to your name and birth date. If you can’t attend, you can–and should!–return your ticket for a refund so it can be offered to the next person on the waitlist.
Information about all the details of the ticketing process is on the Omnibus Ticket Information Page.
As always, send your questions, comments, concerns, and thematically-appropriate tractor pictures (but please, no bribes) to tickets@fireflyartscollective.org.