the New ticketing system

Over the past few months, we have been working hard to implement a new system that will enable us to work more efficiently. This system has a sleight of capabilities that will allow us to link ticket sales, and volunteering work and enable team leads to have efficient and streamlined workflows.

Access to ALL adult tickets (including public access) requires a burner profile in the new system. Under-18s are warmly welcome to create a burner profile too, but it’s not mandatory for those categories of tickets.

You can create your burner profile in the new system here

Ticket Pricing Structure

• Directed tickets: $295

• Public Access (Tier 1): $430

• Public Access (Tier 2): $480

• Not Quite Adults (Under 18): $150

• Kids (Under 16): $80

• Financially Accessible: $150 

• Kids under 5: $0

• FOMO tickets: Pricing is not yet set but will be eye-wateringly high. Do not wait for these; they will be extremely expensive.

Who gets a Directed ticket, and how many will be available?

Volunteers, Theme Camp members and Artists receive directed tickets.

Volunteer tickets will be assigned by team leads to any volunteer that meets the team’s participation requirements. You can apply to volunteer here. If you’ve applied already and haven’t heard back, please apply again :)

Theme Camps will be allocated directed tickets to distribute to all members.

Any artist who registers their piece with Artery (regardless of whether they receive a grant) will receive a directed ticket.

1750 Directed ticket offers will be available for this cohort initially. We plan to release more.

How do I access tickets?

We’ll send you a personalised ticket checkout link to the email associated with your burner profile.

Theme camp leads will be allocated a number of directed tickets and distribute the offer across their members, any tickets not sold through this link will return into the general pool.

Artists will receive ticket offers after their registration is processed by Artery.

Volunteers will be sent their ticket offer via team leads. Each team will have specific requirements for volunteers, andpon agreement leads will be able to send a directed ticket offer. Volunteers that sign up for shifts and don’t show up may lose their access to direct tickets in the future, so make sure to check in with your shift lead when arriving on shift. You can get help at the Participation Station if you have any trouble.

When do I get my ticket?

Directed ticket offers are currently being sent in small waves. If you haven’t received it yet PLEASE BE PATIENT. Setting up an entire new system requires us to test and fix bugs on the fly. We are releasing Direct ticket offers in small batches to allow for our tech wizards to weed out any potential bugs in a controlled and sustainable environment.

We will provide ample warning via email and social media before making directed tickets available to the public access pool.

General admission (Tier 1): Will become available towards mid April

General admission (Tier 2): Will become available towards mid May if the event hasn’t already sold out.

Why Tickets Cost What They Do

Burning Seed happens in a remote area, requires radical self-reliance, and is participant-driven; which means we create the experience ourselves. In Australia, especially on the East Coast, hosting the event involves immensely scrutinised regulatory compliance, a wide range of infrastructure and site work as well as complex stakeholder engagement, adding unavoidable dynamic costs which have increased exponentially in the recent years.

This is the first time that we are running Seed under this new organisational structure and a completely different regulatory landscape. Many things had to be balanced to support a strong comeback of community while maintaining and enhancing burner culture, guaranteeing the financial viability of the organisations, and above all keeping everyone safe while crews and volleys don’t burn out. We know not everything will be exactly as expected and we believe that we will learn and improve as we move forward. We hope the model for this year encourages more volunteering to sign up, artists and theme camps while we can maintain a manageable cohort of virgin burners and acculturate them properly. This model is not a permanent feature and as we rebuild we will keep working on improving it while balancing new needs.

We are also working on a new option to support unregistered artists, talents and performers. Although we would love to see as much participation via volunteering and theme camps we recognise the importance of supporting these amazing humans that contribute so much to the rich fabric of our community. 

Our aim with the pricing was to balance these realities with creative, efficient solutions to keep tickets as affordable as possible. We also acknowledge and appreciate the work of previous crews in stewarding the event to this point.

Financially Accessible tickets

Financially accessible tickets are designed to support those who would otherwise be unable to attend due to financial constraints.

Burning Seed - including both the organisation and its participants - does not judge anyone’s financial situation. We trust applicants to select this option only if they genuinely cannot afford to attend events without this assistance. Recipients of these tickets are chosen randomly, without assessment of individual financial circumstances as we respect participant’s privacy.

All applicants will be offered at least one type of ticket, so applying does not put you at risk of missing out on the event. Successful applicants will receive an FA ticket offer. Unsuccessful applicants that are Volunteers, Theme Camp members, or registered artists will be eligible for a direct ticket, while others will have the option to purchase a full-priced ticket.

Applying for financial assistance does not affect your chances of attending the event—only the ticket price.

Donation towards Financially Accessible tickets

There will be an option in the ticketing form that allows you to donate money towards the pool that financially accessible tickets will be generated from. This is completely optional (feel free to leave it blank, or set to zero).

It’s there for people who want to help improve the radical inclusion of the event in an extremely practical way.

FOMO Tickets

FOMO tickets will be the only tickets available in the time period right before the event is to start. They will be restricted on the basis of volunteer numbers, site safety and planning. This is not a main option: Do not plan on buying these, they will be eye-wateringly expensive.