Why isn’t the festival all free?
The Lotus Festival has sponsors (at many different levels of financial and in-kind support), but the cost of putting on a festival – with artists’ fees, hotels, and meal costs; all of the costs associated with using tents and stages outdoors; sound and other technical requirements; and many, many other budget items – means that we have to charge admission. We keep our prices as low as we can, and we offer a chunk of free daytime programming at Lotus in the Park (and that is possible because of a grant from the City of Bloomington). There are also activities that are free in the streets during the festival’s evening hours and in a visual arts area.
