Burning Man introduced "scaled" ticketing for 2025 following financial woes
Tickets for this year's event range from $550 to $3,000, with the first in line being given the opportunity to snap up cheaper passes
Burning Man introduced a tiered ticket system for this year's festival with passes ranging from US$550 to US$3,000 — the cheapest were available to those first in the queue to snap up passes.
Tickets for the Nevada-based festival went on sale on Wednesday, February 12, with those registered being offered the opportunity to contribute more for their ticket in order for the festival to offer lower-cost "Ticket Aid" passes and "Honoraria art grants and underwrite key Black Rock City operational costs."
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Prospective attendees bought tickets for US$550, US$650, US$750, US$950, US$1,500 and US$3,000 on a first come first serve basis. Burning Man's "Ticket Aid" programme allowed those on a lower income to apply for a limited number of $225 passes.
Taking over Nevada's Black Rock Desert for six days this August, Burning Man rolled out the new "scaled" ticketing programme off the back of serious financial struggles for organisers following a US$5,7 million shortfall due to lack of attendance in 2024.
Last year, Burning Man didn't sell out for the first time in a decade, and organisers being forced to appeal for donations of around US$20 million in October in order to ensure the festival would be able to go ahead in 2025.
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“The big revenue shortfall causing today’s cash crunch is primarily from 2024 Black Rock City higher-priced tickets not selling as planned,” CEO Marian Goodell said in a statement at the time.
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