Firefly Event Dates
- Firefly 2024 will be held from noon on Tuesday, July 2nd to noon on Sunday, July 7th.
- Regular arrival starts at noon on Tuesday, July 2nd.
- Early arrival starts noon Monday, July 1st. You need to pre-register to arrive early. See the “Early Arrival” section of the “Getting There” for more info.
- Weather depending, the Bug burns Friday night, and the Temple burns at Saturday night.
Event Price
Participants each pay what they are willing and able to make Firefly happen. Children 10 and under do not need tickets (but should still be registered separately).
Parking Passes Discontinued
Separate parking passes are not being used this year.
Firefly Ticket Lottery
Tickets for Firefly 2024 will be offered by way of a randomized Lottery (similarly to 2012-on). If more Fireflies sign up for the Lottery than there are tickets available, we will use a waitlist to handle ticket turnover. Tickets are not transferable person-to-person but can be refunded to be offered to the next person on the waitlist.
After the Lottery, participants can still register, and will be placed on the waitlist in first-come-first-serve order if there are no tickets available.
General Registration Information
Getting a ticket to Firefly starts with creating an account on our private registration system. Each Firefly attendee must register with a unique email address and provide their name and birth date as they appear on their government-issued ID. When you receive a ticket offer, it will be tied to your name and birth date and not transferable to anyone else. Anyone who shows up at Firefly without a ticket associated with their name and birth date will be turned away. Minors under 18 will not need to present ID at gate; see Minors section below. If you do not have a government-issued ID, please contact tickets@fireflyartscollective.org.
The database is cleared between events, so you need to register again this year, even if you’ve done so in previous years.
Gifting a Ticket
Since signing up for a ticket requires a personal account–the same account used to sign up for volunteer shifts at Firefly–it’s not possible to surprise a friend with a ticket. You can still tell them to sign up and offer to pay for their ticket, though.
Registration Dates
To enter the Ticket Lottery, you must register before noon on Wednesday, May 8th. Everyone who registers after this period will be added to the end of the waitlist in order of registration.
Groups
The Group option is for any set of 2-10 people who want to enter the Firefly Lottery in an “all or nothing” manner to avoid a scenario where one person gets a ticket offer and others don’t. Being in group ties you in the Ticketing system to your other group members such that you all have adjacent places on the list in the Lottery. Neither signing up as an individual or in a group gives an “advantage” in the Lottery.
Group members need to register normally as individuals first. Once individual registrations are complete, you can then form a group. More details for forming and joining groups are at the bottom of this page.
Groups are only applicable for the initial Ticket Lottery and do nothing for post-lottery registrations, which go directly to the waitlist.
Minors
All Firefly participants should be registered on the website with their own account. Minors 10 and under are free (and don’t count towards our event capacity). ID is not required for minors, but all minors (including age 10 and below) must arrive at the gate with their guardian. Any minor who does not arrive at the gate with their guardian will be turned away.
All participants under 18 at the time of online registration will need to sign a paper waiver at Gate or have their accompanying guardian do so.
Confirmation of Registration
You will accept the terms of Firefly’s release during the registration process and a copy will be sent to the email address you used to register. No paper forms are required for registration.
Lottery and Waitlist Creation
The Lottery will happen after the close of ticket registration on a 8 May 2024. We will randomly order everyone who registered during the registration window. The top confirmed entries will receive a ticket offer, and the others will create a waitlist. Everyone who registered will receive an email: those with a ticket offer will receive instructions on how to purchase their ticket, and others will be informed of their status on the waitlist. If you do not receive any email from tickets@fireflyartscollective.org by May 10th, something is wrong with your registration and you should contact us. You can also check your status at any time by logging into the Ticketing System.
Ticket Offers
Your ticket offer email from tickets@fireflyartscollective.org will indicate the deadline by which you must purchase your ticket. By default, this is a three-day window from when the ticket offer email is sent, but that window will decrease the closer we get to the event. If you do not buy your ticket by the deadline, your ticket offer will be rescinded and the ticket given to the next person on the waitlist.
If your ticket offer goes to the waitlist and you still want to go to Firefly, there is a button on the Ticket Dashboard to add yourself back to the end of the waitlist. It is likely that some participants will not get tickets by the time the waitlist closes before Firefly.
Refunds
If you decide you cannot attend, log into the registration system and click the “Give Me a Refund” button. Your ticket will be reassigned to the person at the top of the waitlist. If you do not request a refund, the ticket remains associated to YOUR name and birth date and will only be valid at gate to let YOU in. There is no person-to-person transfer or reselling of tickets!
The deadline for unconditional full refund of your ticket price is May 31st. From June 1st on, refunds will only be issued if your ticket is purchased by someone on the waitlist.
Note: once you ask for a refund you have forfeited your ticket, even if it has not yet been purchased by someone on the waitlist.
Email List Enrollment
All ticket registrants are enrolled on the Official Firefly Announcement email list. Firefly will attempt not to spam this list–you should receive one newsletter per week with combined announcements about deadlines, theme camp and art placement, volunteering, and other Festival information.
Strategic Ticket Reserve
One of Firefly’s major concerns is ensuring that vital components of the event are managed properly and that people such as Core leaders, Art Grant recipients, and first aid volunteers are able to attend. As a result, we’re holding back some (<10% of the total) tickets to be offered to select people at the organizers’ discretion. If you think you might qualify for a such a ticket, you must still register for the Lottery. As the event nears, unneeded reserved tickets will be released to be offered to the top of the waitlist.
Third-Party Services
Notable third-party services used in the processing of tickets are stripe.com and various Google products. The Ticket Registration System was created by volunteer Fireflies. If you have any issue with the use of your personal information on these products, please let us know at tickets@fireflyartscollective.org.