Berkeley
CA
USA
The festival is free, including the keynotes, interviews and panels on various downtown stages during the day. But we expect many of those indoor sessions to be full. How to make sure you get in? Stand in line for a couple of hours? Who wants to spend valuable festival time doing that when you could be exploring exhibitors, visiting the 50,000-book Lacuna installation, or having lunch?
Solution: Tickets! By two means:
(1) Best is to get single tickets in advance. Reserve single tickets. There is a button next to each session on the schedule, and you can reserve your place via Eventbrite for a small processing fee for each session.
(2) Get tickets on the day of the festival. A quantity will be held in a Box Office at the event site, first come first served, for free.
Or.. a standby line outside each venue will allow people without tickets access to any seat five minutes before the start of the session.