Covid-19: Ticket options & 2020 Parallel Edition


Dear friends,

We have been exploring all options to find the best possible solution for everyone, including the future of the Waking Life community.

Since it has probably been a while since you’ve been to a gallery, a club, or a concert, it won’t come as a surprise that the arts have been hit devastatingly hard by the Covid-19 lockdown. Bringing Waking Life to life is a year-long love affair, and most of the costs are backed by friends, family, and ticket sales. We don’t do corporate sponsorship, so this makes life extra tricky for us. We have already poured quite a lot of money into this edition as we thought all was well until mid-February, and we will be able to recuperate very little of this as everyone we collaborate with is in the same boat.

We’ve run three editions of Waking Life so far, meaning that we’re still finding our foothold and don’t have a buffer reserve fund. We rely exclusively on you, our community. We realise that right now, you too are probably under financial strain, but if we don’t somehow share the economic burden, we certainly won’t be able to survive.

While the hard truth of our summer dreams has begun to unfold, we found a spacetime glitch granting us passage to an alternate 2020 where Waking Life by the lake was still in full swing. We tried our best to merge this reality to our own, but something went wrong… everything fragmented and scattered across worlds and we were left stranded in another dimension. We are now embarking upon a rescue mission and we need your help to collect all the pieces and put them back together.

We might not be meeting on the lakeside dancefloor, but the whole Waking Life team is transitioning to a Parallel Edition that will take place beyond merely the virtual realm. We will be involving many of the artists, performers, workshop leaders, activists, collectives, and you, should you decide to join us on this wild, off-road quest.

We welcome you, and sincerely hope that you will join us in co-creating all that Waking Life can be!

Choose your adventure

  1. I want to take part in the Waking Life 2020 Parallel Edition and transfer (part of) my ticket to the rescue mission fund
  2. I’m not ready for that, I would like (part of) my ticket transferred to next year

An average donation of 50 euro per ticket holder is needed to keep Waking Life afloat. We hope you can see this contribution as valuable as we do. Only with your support will we be able to keep meeting around the lake in the summers to come.

I choose to contribute 100% of my ticket:

  • I’ll be able to take part in the Parallel Edition, a mysterious journey and a collaborative approach to a new form of Waking Life (beyond merely the virtual realm). 
  • I’ll receive a rescue pack that will keep me connected and warm, including the first Waking Life collector’s vinyl. This vinyl will be exclusive and will not be for sale.
  • I’ll have the possibility to get a ticket for next year’s Waking Life before the general sale starts, and at the lowest ticket price.
  • I’ll contribute to keep the Waking Life project alive, extending support to the artists and other contributors taking part in the Parallel Edition. (thank you!)

I choose to contribute at least 50% of my ticket:

  • I’ll be able to take part in the Parallel Edition, a mysterious journey and a collaborative approach to a new form of Waking Life (beyond merely the virtual realm).
  • I’ll receive a voucher that I will be able to exchange into a ticket for Waking Life 2021 (the voucher value will equal the value of your 2020 ticket, minus the donation).
  • I’ll contribute to keep the Waking Life project alive, extending support to the artists and other contributors taking part in the Parallel Edition. (thank you!)

I choose to contribute between 10% and 40% of my ticket:

  • I’ll receive a voucher that I will be able to exchange into a ticket for Waking Life 2021 (the voucher value will equal the value of your 2020 ticket, minus the donation).
  • I’ll contribute to keep the Waking Life project alive. (thank you!)

I choose to not contribute any part of my ticket (0%):

  • I’ll receive a voucher that I will be able to exchange into a ticket for Waking Life 2021

Waking Life 2021

Following the guidelines expressed in the decree-law n.º 10-I/2020, which applies to all events in Portugal that can no longer take place on the originally planned place, day and time, within the timeframe from 28 February 2020 up to 90 working days after the day the state of emergency officially ends, the physical edition of Waking Life in Crato will be postponed to 11-16 August 2021.

Decree-law n.°10-l/2020

Portuguese ticketing legislation concerning COVID-19 is referenced in the decree-law n.º 10-I/2020 from 26 March 2020. It outlines temporary measures specific to cultural and artistic events in Portugal that were unable to take place due to forced closures.

Specifically, cancelled shows must be rescheduled within a year from the start date of the 2020 event. If so, the ticket holder may attend the event on the new date. They may not demand a refund if the show was rescheduled rather than cancelled. The promoter cannot increase ticket price for those who had secured a ticket up until the date of the rescheduling.

What if I can’t make it to Waking Life 2021?

After exchanging your voucher into a ticket for Waking Life 2021, you will be able to sell your ticket on Ticketswap. Given the current global situation, we cannot give you a specific date yet on which the ticket sale for next edition will start. We will keep you updated on this topic.

What about my tipi, bus, or caravan ticket?

All tipi, bus, and caravan tickets will be refunded onto the account of the buyer at the net price value (excludes service charges).