Lower income subsidies are available - for details, see below, but we'd first like to explain the ticket price for those who need these subsidies. (For those who don't, Intention of course remains far cheaper than any similar event we're aware of providing food and accommodation, let alone a conventional holiday. Please consider donating some of what you'd save for subsidies.)
Last year’s 20th Anniversary Winter Intention was a big production, with higher production costs and corresponding raised ticket prices. Unfortunately, the venue that feeds and houses us for the five days have increased their (still uniquely low) cost per participant to $303. So we've had to keep prices the same even though we've cut our budget back to the bone - excluding the lower income subsidies, our budgeted spending on production per attendee is $15.64.
We can't get it lower than that, so when we say we have to keep the raised ticket prices, we mean that literally. The only way we can make them more affordable for those on lower incomes is if people donate to increase the amount of subsidy requests we can meet, which you can do when buying your ticket. If you're concerned that your friends won't be able to make it, please donate to help them.
If you'd like to request a lower income subsidy without which you wouldn't be able to attend, please do so when buying your ticket. There will be a field on the registration form to request a subsidy of up to $125. Please note that we may not be able to give you the full amount that you've requested - we'll send you back your approved amount after sales end. If the subsidy that you will receive is not enough for you to manage to attend, you'll have 5 days to sell the full price ticket you paid for to someone else - based on past experience you'll very likely succeed, as more than enough people look for tickets after we close sales.
Parents, please be aware that youth tickets are already heavily subsidized below cost, so we cannot offer further subsidies for those tickets.