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Nowhere 2013 tickets
Nowhere 2013 tickets are selling fast, get yours now!
Level 1 tickets for 105 euro till 30 April or till they sell out (there’s 400).
Last year there where about 1000 participants at Nowhere, but if the growth trend of previous years continues, there could be more then 1200 this year. And AFAIK the cap for the current location is 1200. So in theory Nowhere could sell out this year.
Prices for 2013 are:
- Level 1: 105 euros (available until 30 April or sold out)
- Level 2: 115 euros (available until 30 April or sold out)
- Level 3: 125 euros (available until 31 May or sold out)
- Level 4: 135 euros (available until sold out)
- Gate sales: 170 euros (no gate sales after Friday midday)
- Children under 14: Free (click the ‘Buy tickets’ link below to get child tickets – these are free so there won’t be a charge)
- Low-income tickets level 1: 75 euros (available until 30 April or sold out – see Tickets FAQ for how to apply)
- Low-income tickets level 2: 95 euros (available until sold out – see Tickets FAQ for how to apply)
- There are different ticket rates available if you are disabled (email tickets@goingnowhere.org)
Please pay what you can afford, so more money can go towards art projects. Nowhere is a not-for-profit organisation and nobody gets paid or receives free tickets, including artists, performers, volunteers and organisers.
We have had to raise ticket prices slightly this year. This is to cover a substantial increase in VAT in Spain. Nowhere does everything we can to keep ticket prices as low as possible. This year we are also capping the number of tickets available at each price to help us budget. To get the cheapest tickets, buy your ticket early.
VERY IMPORTANT: Tickets are electronic; you won’t get a physical ticket sent to you. We need to scan the barcode on your ticket at the Gate, so make sure you print it out and bring it with you!
All tickets are subject to a booking fee. The booking fee is the charge that Brown Paper Tickets and the credit card companies charge, and is the lowest we can find. Tickets cannot be bought through any other channel.
By purchasing your ticket, you agree to be subscribed to our mailing list, which we use to send out important information about Nowhere. You can unsubscribe from the mailing list at any time.
Please read our Tickets FAQ before buying your ticket
Junk Raft Armada, art boat from Barcelona to Stromboli
Some Nowhere folks (some call them Nooners or Nobodies) are planning a Junk Raft Armada. The idea is to build a boat, more specifically a gunk. Here’s the idea:
This summer, we plan to build a fleet of 2 or more rafts in Spain and travel across/around the Mediterranean to southern Italy (Stromboli).
The rafts will be made from ‘junk’ anything we can find, reuse, recycle or buy very cheap when we have to. see here for some more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_raft
We are inspired by the Floating Neutrinos, Richie Sowa’s Spiral Island project, the ‘Junk’ plastic bottle craft that crossed the Pacific to highlight the ‘trash island’ in the Pacific Gyre, Plastiki, the art rafts at the Venice Biennial, the Ohio River Trip and many other floating art and activism projects.
We would like to have performers aboard so that we can stage performances at towns/ports along the way from Spain to Italy (fire/circus/burlesque etc…)
One of the rafts will be a large floating stage. Another large raft or two will provide cabins for crew, a galley and common area. Anyone who wants to build their own smal raft/boat/floating home is welcome to join the Armada.
The build can start any time, but we are working towards mid-May, building until late July in Barcelona.
The trip should take about 4 weeks, from late July to the beginning of September.
We want to make it to the Stromboli fire performers festival in time to put on a show and join in the festivities. http://www.festadelfuocostromboli.com/?page_id=29
Right now we need people to start getting interested and talking about this project with each other (the reason for starting a Facebook group).
Please get in touch with Ants Hiron ASAP if you are interested in getting involved in any of the following roles (this is just a starting list of volunteer positions, I’m sure there will be more to come later).
Sounds like a crazy idea, but there are some other people who have done it already:
What are these art boats? POST #2 Lost Vegas this Saturday night at CELL SPACE « Chicken John.
What was I thinking?
I wish I was a l33t hacker that could get a sent e-mail out of an inbox again before it is read by the recipient. It’s an all too common feeling. I sent a mail only to feel it was a dumb idea and I should have never sent it.
The most sensible thing with mails like this is to write it and then save it and wait a day before sending it or realizing I don’t want to send it after all. And I know while I’m writing it it is one of those mails. And still I send it immediately, exactly because I know that if I don’t do it right away, I probably won’t send it.
The next thing is waiting for the reaction of the person I sent it to. And being stressed the whole time. And knowing the person will probably only read it after a few days. Why do I keep doing this to myself?
Surface Tension
We walk each other by in the supermarket, trying to ignore each others’ gaze.
All the lonely people, where do they all come from ?
It seems like the more people live together, the more we live apart. I can remember the time when the term Living Apart Together (LAT) was still a neologism. That was back in the eighties. Nowadays it seems we are Living Together Apart more then ever.
Walking trough life I see beautiful, tender people. I would like to touch them, be touched by them. But there is this surface tension. It is far to dangerous to be touched, it would burst our bubble, yours and mine. The bubble keeping you and me from melting together and becoming one.
It fills me with love for humanity to see all these fragile souls. To be touched by them nevertheless, somewhere inside. I long to be touched even deeper, with all my body and soul. But the tension that keeps this from happening is also a beautiful arch, like the tension built up in a well told story. Keeping me hooked, fantasizing of what could be.
With an open mind, heart and soul there is much wonder to come. Nothing to fear, not loneliness, no losing of self. I look out and with a clear view I don’t see lonely people anymore. And I see a tension, not to be broken, but to feel, to touch, to explore, to ride like a water strider. Like two bubbles, touching, sticking together, but not becoming one, floating trough the air together.
Burning Man 2013 Ticket Sales
From The Jack Rabbit Speaks (the official Burning Man newsletter):
BURNING MAN 2013 TICKET SALES
We’re excited to announce the sales plan for tickets to Burning Man 2013. Burning Man is making 58,000 tickets available, 3,000 of which were already made available through the Holiday Sale. Details regarding the remaining 55,0000 are outlined below. You’ll notice we’re doing things differently this year. We’ve listened, we’ve learned a lot and we’ve worked hard to come up with a plan that we believe will meet the needs of the greatest number of people possible.
We’ve included the general gist below, but you can find all the nitty-gritty details on http://tickets.burningman.com, and answers to your questions in our Ticketing FAQ (http://tickets2.burningman.com/faq.php) and spiffy new online ticketing forum (http://ticketsupport.burningman.com/).
PLEASE NOTE: Pre-registration is required in order to gain access to any of our sales for 2013. Once you’ve registered you will be able to participate in the first-come first-served sales. So … here’s the plan:
55,000 Tickets for Burning Man 2013 will be sold as follows (details below):
1. Directed Group Sale (10,000 tickets) – January 30 (Pre-registration required)
2. Individual Sale (40,000 tickets) – February 13 (Pre-registration required, February 6-10))
3. Secure Ticket Exchange Program (STEP) – February 28-July 31)
4. OMG Last Chance Sale (1000+ tickets) – August 7 (Pre-registration required, August 2-5))
5. Low Income Ticket Program (4,000 tickets) – Application required)
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Directed Group Sale: 10,000 tickets)
We are once again taking steps to ensure critical theme camp, art installation, and mutant vehicle crews gain access to tickets. In addition to supporting the core social infrastructure of Black Rock City, providing these groups with access to tickets early on will decrease demand (and therefore competition) for tickets in the main Individual Sale. 10,000 tickets at $380 each will be offered to these core crews on Wednesday, January 30. Group leaders will receive an email on Friday, January 11, 2013 with detailed information about how to provide their core group members with access to the Directed Group Sale. These tickets are transferable and eligible for STEP.
Individual Sale: 40,000 tickets)
The Individual sale will make 40,000 tickets available at $380 each, with a maximum of 2 tickets per person. To participate in the Individual Sale, you must pre-register between Friday, February 6, 2013 at 12pm (noon) PST and Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 12pm (noon) PST. Detailed information about how to register for this sale will be available in mid-January at http://tickets.burningman.com. This first-come first-served sale begins at 12pm (noon) PST on Wednesday, February 13th. These tickets are transferable and eligible for STEP.
NOTE: There will not be tiered pricing for this sale – all 40,000 tickets are $380. (If you’re curious about how this compares with the ticket prices for major festivals, please see “Where Does My Ticket Money Go?”: http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/about_burningman/ticketprices.html.)
Secure Ticket Exchange Program (STEP))
We’re bringing back STEP to facilitate the secure, safe, hassle-free exchange of tickets. People wishing to purchase tickets may register to enter the STEP queue starting Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 12pm PST at http://tickets.burningman.com. When tickets are put into STEP by ticket holders, the person at the front of the queue will be offered the opportunity to purchase them (maximum of 2 tickets per person). STEP will close on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 12pm PST. Stay tuned to the JRS for details about the STEP process. Tickets bought through STEP are transferable, but they are ONLY available for pickup at Will Call.
OMG Last Chance Sale: 1,000 tickets)
For those who decide at the last minute that they Absolutely Must Go To Burning Man, and to further combat scalpers, we will sell 1000 tickets at $380 each, maximum of 2 tickets per person. In order to participate, you must pre-register between Friday, August 2 at 12pm (noon) PST and Monday, August 5, 2013 at 12pm (noon). Details for how to register will be available at http://tickets.burningman.com. This first-come first-served sale starts Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at 12pm PST. Tickets purchased through the OMG sale are transferable but will not be shipped — they are held for pick up at Will Call only.
Low Income Ticket Program: 4,000 tickets
Our Low Income Ticket program will provide 4,000 tickets ($190/each) to those who provide proof of financial hardship. Our Ticketing department reviews each application and awards tickets to those who are best able to demonstrate need. Applicants should receive a response within 4-6 weeks of submitting their application. Details regarding when and how to apply will be made available shortly. These tickets are non-transferrable and must be purchased and picked up at Will Call in Black Rock City.
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OTHER THINGS TO KNOW …
Ticket Fulfillment – June 03 – July 15
Shipping tickets in the summer allows folks a longer window to buy and sell tickets through our Secure Ticket Exchange Program (STEP), helps put a damper on the scalper market, limits the amount of time scammers have to counterfeit tickets and sell them to unsuspecting Burners, and allows us to include a printed Survival Guide with each ticket. Tickets purchased in the Holiday Sale, the Directed Group Sale and the Individual Sale will start shipping in early June. We cannot give you an exact delivery date since that depends on where they are being sent, the USPS, and other factors outside of our control. But rest assured: you will receive an email when your tickets have shipped.
Don’t Panic! A Word About the After-Market
Each year, we see a lively after-market kick up during the summer, when many tickets change hands as people realize they can’t make the trip to BRC — and others realize they can. If you’re unable to get a ticket through one of the above means, don’t panic! The likelihood of your being able to acquire a ticket is quite good if you keep your ear to the ground and tap into your community. In 2012 tickets to the event became available in August, as they do each year.
What About Scalpers?
A big worry about tickets in 2012 was that scalpers had scooped up a huge number of Burning Man tickets. However, our research shows that less than 1.5% of the total tickets in circulation were available on scalper sites, which is extraordinarily low for an event as large as ours. In order to thwart scalpers this year, we will be weeding out known scalpers through the pre-registration process, and spoiling the market by selling 1000+ tickets on August 7th. But ultimately, stopping scalpers is up to you. As long as there’s no demand, they’ll be stuck with their supply.
Why Not Implement Identity-based Ticketing (Non-Transferable, Name-on-Ticket)?
There are valid points on both sides of this question, and it’s something we’ve thought about and discussed at length. In addition to logistical and administrative challenges (including increased wait times at the gate), non-transferable tickets would put an end to the acts of gifting that frequently happen with Burning Man tickets — we don’t want to see that tradition die. For more information, see this blog post from Larry Harvey: http://blog.burningman.com/2012/12/tenprinciples/why-not-implement-identity-based-ticketing/
Welsh Regional Burn
Ladies and Gentlemen!
I hereby present to you: Nest – a brand new regional burn.
It is taking place in Southern Wales through Spring Bank Holiday Weekend – 24-27 May. The event will run in line with the 5 core principles of Nowhere (Self Expression, Self Reliance, Participation, Leave No Trace, No Commerce).
The site itself has 250 beds spread across 8-12 bed cabins and larger bunk houses. There are indoor spaces for a variety of activities and some large fields to spill into for domes, stages and camping. The total festival capacity is 300-500.
Since this is a brand new event, we are starting with ?0 – The happening of this event is totally dependent on us raising the site deposit (through pre-sale tickets) by 4 January. Please buy your ticket TODAY – burningnest.co.uk ! Prices will rise when we officially launch the event in January.
If you’re interested in helping to turn this incredible blank canvas into an eclectic festival starring art, sound stages, workshops, talks and more – please get in touch with involve@burningnest.co.uk with details of your interest, skills or equipment. More information will soon follow – including details of a site trip in January for people interested in taking lead roles.
Wishing everybody best of luck during the apocalypse (and secretly hoping for zombies),
Max
Living in a billboard
I’ve been living in a billboard for about three weeks now. I think this kind of billboard s a typical Belgian thing, it’s mounted on a trailer, in the form of a triangle. You see these kind of boards all over Belgium, usually parked somewhere next to a busy secondary road or near a roundabout. Most of these are illegal or only semi-legal. It’s with this illegality that the artist who made these boards is playing.
The three billboards are called the Good, the Bad and the Ugly and form an art installation/performance by the same name. Karl Philips, the artist behind this project, plays with the boundaries of legality, with the borders of society and how you can live in these margins. His other works include Surplus Cityguide, a map of places where you can dumpster dive, get a shower or internet for free, an art installation with deconstructed Renault Trafic vans in Bois de Boulogne, Paris and Concierge, where a homeless woman lived behind a ClearChannel billboard.
The Good/Bad/Ugly fits in this line, with three people living in three caravans/billboards that are put in unused public spaces. The money form the advertising on the billboards is the budget the inhabitants live from. Because it is art and it is advertising, it is usually possible convince police to allow the caravans to stand somewhere. Something gypsies or other travelers wouldn’t be allowed to do.
“Where is the art in this?” it’s a question some people have asked me. I’m not going to get into a discussion of what is and what is not art, but the installation of the caravans and the people living in them clearly provokes peoples, let’s them think, makes the feel something. To me that is art or is at least what art should be and do. “But isn’t it just advertising?” is another question. Yes it is, and that’s the beauty of it. It is art and advertising and a social statement at the same time. And because of this it provokes people in different ways.
“But what is it like living in a caravan?” is another question I have gotten. To me a less interesting one then the two previous ones. How is it like living in an apartment? Or in a country house? It’s what you make of it. I’ve been looking for ways to live as free as possible, with as little distractions as possible. Most people call comfort what I call distractions. Living a simple life is what I call luxury and living a nomadic life is the way I do that.
To see some pictures and videos about the project and to know where we are right now, check out the Good/Bad/Ugly Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/gbdgoodbadugly
The Story of the Cacophony Society
If you ever wondered how Burning Man came to be in Black Rock City, the short answer is The Cacophony Society.
Honored and excited to announce two European screening dates. Into The Zone – The Story of the Cacophony Society will be shown at 8;30 pm on October 29th as part of TinaB ? The Prague Contemporary Art Festival.
Screening with Harrod Blank’s Art Car Documentary, Automorphosis at 6:30 pm
http://www.kinosvetozor.cz/en/program/filmy/5340/Do-zony-pribeh-kakofonicke-spolecnosti/
ITZ is also invited to play Halloween in Hamburg, as part of the Radar Hamburg International Independent Film Festival.
http://www.radarhamburg.com/en/program/311012.html
Looking forward to additional screening engagements TBA for 2013
Like it on Facebook for updates: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Into-the-Zone-The-Story-of-the-Cacophony-Society/164743650208016
Or Twitter @IntoTheZoneMov
Curious about the world and its people? You have been invited by Dimi to join BeWelcome!
Since I don’t like to send out these spamy invite mails, I’ll just post it here. Check out BeWelcome, it’s a bit like CouchSurfing, but not corporate and in my idea still much more community oriented.
Hi,
There is a new project I want to tell you about. It’s called BeWelcome and that’s how they describe themselves:
“BeWelcome is a hospitality and culture exchange network, founded and managed by dedicated volunteers from all over the world. Our dream is to create a project which allows everybody (whether travelling abroad or near home) to see their destination through the eyes of local people and to experience their unique culture.”
Curious?
I am a member already and like it a lot! It’s free of charge and completely run by motivated volunteers.
Why don’t you have a quick look and check out my profile under the username dimid
Be Welcome!