Firefly 2024 ticket registration is open now!
Register before noon on May 8th to enter the Ticket Lottery!
If you have any questions, email tickets@fireflyartscollective.org.
Here’s how ticketing for Firefly 2024 works:
Firefly 2024 will be about the same size as Firefly 2023: 1350-1400 participants. Getting a ticket is very similar to previous years. After the registration window (May 1-8), we’ll have a lottery to order everyone on a waitlist. 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 get 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 this 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 to pay about $170 (remembering that there is no extra charge this year for parking). We hope that some people pay more than the recommended average, to cover the costs of some people paying less. If it looks like Firefly won’t be able to meet its financial obligations as a result, 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 has 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.
This number is a fair bit more than the $125 of 2023! This year we’re not charging a separate $30 for parking. Also we’ve increased the number of Art Grants given by about 10% and have greater Medical contractor costs. We’re also making improvements to traffic flow on site, which requires road work. Last year we incurred a lot of unexpected expenses repairing the roads and parking areas after a flood, and we’re paying that off over five years, along with capital improvements such as boardwalks and traction mats which will help us handle future weather.
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. Ticket registration for Firefly 2024 will soon open; Lottery registration will remain open through noon on Wednesday, May 8th, 2024.
- 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 9 or 10. The first 1200 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.