Tickets for Ignite Phoenix 5

by Charlene on October 8, 2009

With the event less than a month away, the Ignite Phoenix team is excited to provide ticketing information so you can attend Ignite Phoenix 5 at the Tempe Center for the Arts (TCA) on Tuesday, November 3 from 6pm to 9 pm. We have both advance tickets and a limited number of walk-in tickets available that night, and expect to sell out the 600 seat TCA main theater.

Advance Tickets

Due to the popularity of our event and the logistics of using a large venue (with fire codes) we have to issue tickets. It is difficult for our volunteers to hand out all 600 tickets that night, and a pain for people to show up early in the hopes of getting one, so we are going to be using the TCA’s box office to help us out with most of the load. There is a small fee of $5 for advance tickets, which includes the TCA’s convenience fee. Any money left over goes directly to pay Ignite Phoenix expenses and make the event as amazing as possible.

Advance tickets go on sale on Friday, October 16 at 10 am and remain on sale until Friday, October 30 at midnight (unless they sell out before that date).  To purchase a ticket using the TCA’s online box office, visit the TCA’s website and click Tickets in the upper right corner.  Scroll through the event list to locate Ignite Phoenix and click the Buy Tickets button. If you have any problems or questions about the TCA’s ticketing process, contact them by phone at (480) 350-2822 (2TCA).

For more details, see Ignite Phoenix 5 Tickets.

Free Tickets

We want to always offer an option to attend Ignite Phoenix for free, so we will hold back about 100 tickets available for free to people who show up at our registration table starting at 5pm on Tuesday, November 3. They will be given out one per-person on a first come basis.

Be There

So if you want to attend Ignite Phoenix, make sure to reserve the date on your calendar now. Get a babysitter, get a date, do whatever it takes so you can show up in style at this exciting event with 600 of the coolest, hippest, and most passionate members of the Phoenix community.

– Charlene Kingston and the Ignite Phoenix team

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Halo Head October 16, 2009 at 5:27 pm

Wow…I’ve been driving all day, stop, get on-line to buy tickets (5pm now), only to be greeted with “sold out”. How should I say this…this sucks!!!

Well, I’m not sure I’m up for a Southwest Airlines-like “stand in line and hope for the best” the day of the event (What’s your guess wrt by what time will there be >100 people in the “free” ticket line?) since it involves paying for a babysitter for a “we might be back real soon, or we might be back in a few hours…who knows” crap shot. Maybe I should just head over to Gila River and play the slots instead.

Time for the IP team to get a bigger venue..and maybe start charging “real money” (vs $5 service fee) for the event.

C’est la vie. :-(

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Jeff Moriarty October 18, 2009 at 10:54 am

@Halo – This is an ongoing topic of discussion, and there is no easy solution. We don’t want people standing in line, and if we sell tickets they go quick. We don’t want to charge any more money than necessary to put it on, so raising rates is something we want to avoid if possible.

A bigger venue also comes up, but at some point Ignite then becomes a “show” and not a chance to connect and learn. We already have people spooked by how large Ignite is, and the bigger it is the more people we get trying to give us sales pitches. We will keep evaluating as Ignite evolves to try and provide the best overall event we can.

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