Firefly 2025 ticket registration is OPEN. Register on or before May 26 to enter the Ticket Lottery. The Lottery will send out initial ticket offers May 28.
If you have any questions, email tickets@fireflyartscollective.org.
Here’s how ticketing for Firefly 2025 works:
Firefly 2025 will be a bit bigger than 2024, which was 1400-1450 participants. Getting a ticket is very similar to previous years. After the registration window (May 19-May 26), 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. The average price per person to meet the budget for 2025 is $185. For more information about our ticket price, please read our 2025 Ticketing Note from the Treasurer.
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 May 28. The first ~1500 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.