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We’re an advocacy organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty by 2030. We do this by encouraging people to learn and take action on our platform. These actions apply pressure on world leaders to make commitments around the issues associated with extreme poverty: gender equality, food security, education, the environment, global health, citizenship, and sanitation.

We don't ask people for money, but to take action to end extreme poverty. These actions can be as simple as a tweet, signing a petition, making a phone call, or sending an email.

By taking action, these Global Citizens are rewarded with the opportunity to win tickets to our music festivals and other events around the world.

So far, more than 22 million actions have been taken by Global Citizens, leading to $37 billion commitments being made by world leaders, which are set to affect 2.25 billion lives by 2030.

The Global Citizen Festival is a music festival where fans take actions to end extreme poverty in order to earn free tickets.

This concert is timed to coincide with the UN General Assembly to leverage opportunities to get policy and financial commitments from government, corporate and philanthropic leaders. Tickets to the festival are awarded through points earned by taking actions to fight extreme poverty, such as signing petitions, calling your congressperson, and more.

The inaugural Global Citizen Festival took place on September 29, 2012 with 60,000 in attendance on the Great Lawn in New York’s iconic Central Park. The festival featured live performances by Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, Band of Horses, K’Naan and more. Since then, artists like Rihanna, Beyoncé, JAY-Z, Pearl Jam, Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, and many more have performed on the Global Citizen Festival stage. 

This year’s Global Citizen Festival New York is taking place on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, in NYC’s Central Park on the Great Lawn. The gates at Central Park will open at 2 p.m. and the show will start at 5 p.m.

This year’s lineup includes Queen + Adam Lambert, Pharrell Williams, Alicia Keys, OneRepublic, H.E.R, and Carole King. Our special guests include French Montana, Ben Platt, Jon Batiste and Stay Human.

Our hosts are Deborra-lee Furness and Hugh Jackman. 

Additional co-hosts will be announced soon!

Global Citizen believes in the power of advocacy. Rather than ask individuals to contribute money to support specific programs on the ground, we work with world leaders and the private sector to make large financial commitments to support key issues like girls education, building toilets, robust foreign aid programs, and more. Global Citizens take actions to earn their way into the festival. These actions tell leaders the changes we want to see in the world.

The festival celebrates the progress and commitments Global Citizens have made over the last 10 years while also identifying issues that need additional progress. Showing up in person helps us hold ourselves and others accountable for the work we have to do to end extreme poverty by 2030.

You can visit www.globalcitizenfestival.com to learn more and download the Global Citizen app. You can only take action to gain entry to the festival through the Global Citizen app, available in the Apple and Android app stores if you search “Global Citizen”. First, register to become a Global Citizen, which opens your account. 

Then you can start taking actions like signing petitions, taking quizzes, sending emails, and calling representatives to help end extreme poverty.

You can earn tickets to the festival by taking action on the Global Citizen app to help end extreme poverty.

Starting July 30, Global Citizens will have four different opportunities to earn points toward earning tickets. This year’s actions are organized along four mission-driven themes: health, education, gender equality and the environment. 

When you take action, you’ll earn festival points which can go toward earning a pair of tickets. After taking a series of actions, you’ll be eligible to redeem your points and be entered into a ticket draw. 

Keep an eye on your inbox, turn your push notifications for our app, and follow our social media accounts (@glblctzn) for all of the latest news and updates.

At the end of each ticket draw, we’ll notify winners via email. Winners will have 48 hours to claim their tickets. Add our email, festival@globalcitizen.org, to your “known senders” and check your spam folder to see if you received an email from us.  

Winners will be notified on Aug. 12, Aug. 26, Sept. 9, Sept. 16 and Sept. 22.

We appreciate all of the actions you take on Global Citizen but only points earned through festival actions will be eligible for festival tickets. Make sure you complete festival actions in the mobile app and earn the necessary festival points to enter the draw.

To take actions that will earn you points for the Global Citizen Festival, you must download the app and take action there. The app is available on both Android and iOS platforms here.

As always, you can find opportunities to get involved and earn other rewards at https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/ using any device.

While everyone around the world can participate in taking action to end extreme poverty, only Global Citizens who’ve taken the festival actions and live in the US or Canada can enter to win tickets.

When you’re logged in to your Global Citizen profile, our system keeps track of the actions you take and assigns you points once you complete the action.

You will have to take the call action through the app from your cell phone. When you push the button to take the action, our system will call your phone and connect you with your representative’s office. Don't worry, the call is free and it allows us to confirm you have made the phone call and award you your points.

Yes. You will not get points for the action until it’s complete.

Tweet actions are still incredibly helpful in getting world leaders to make commitments that help end world poverty. However, due to Twitter policy, we can no longer incentivize tweets with points. We still encourage you to spread the word on social media, but you will no longer get reward points.

Ending extreme poverty is a big challenge. We believe it takes the collaboration of citizens, businesses, non-profits, and the government to help solve the issues that keep people in poverty. Global Citizen works as an advocacy platform, and we work with  partners that align around important initiatives and campaigns. These partners share our vision for a world free of extreme poverty, and also provide us with funding to support those efforts.

The 2019 festival is presented by Citibank and Cisco, with support from MSNBC/Comcast, iHeart Media, Live Nation, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Verizon, and the NYC Parks Department.

We’ll draw 21,500 winners – each winner then has 48 hours to claim two tickets. A total of 43,000 free tickets will be distributed to the 2019 Global Citizen Festival in NYC.

Through the Global Citizen app we’ll give away 43,000 free tickets to the 2019 Global Citizen Festival in NYC. Prize draws will be held on:

• Aug. 12: at least 10,000 pairs will be drawn
• Aug. 26: at least 7,500 pairs will be drawn
• Sept. 9: at least 2,350 pairs will be drawn
• Sept. 16: at least 1,000 pairs will be drawn
• Sept. 22: at least 650 pairs will be drawn

These dates are subject to change.

If you earn tickets, we’ll email to let you know. You must claim your tickets within 48 hours. If you claim your tickets on time, you will get another email 72 hours before the show explaining how to download your tickets.

Tickets are free but cannot be sold on a secondary market for any reason. We know people at all of the big reselling sites, and they’ve agreed to take down any of these tickets. On our side, we’ll cancel any advertised tickets, so if you buy them, you won’t be able to get into the show.
We’ve set out the rules in the Terms & Conditions and will remove people who break the rules from all draws.

Yes! Once you receive the ticket link, you can easily assign them to another name via Ticketmaster. Here’s how to transfer tickets:

1. Log into your Ticketmaster account, and go into ‘My Tickets’
2. Find your pair of Global Citizen Festival tickets, and use the ‘Ticket Transfer’ option to transfer tickets to your friend or family member’s name.

Please note this will only be available after Sept. 20.

Congratulations! Thank you for being a great Global Citizen. If you win a second time, this has no effect on your first pair of tickets. Feel free to transfer (information here) the other pair to a friend, family member, neighbor, or colleague.

Yes! If you need help finding a friend for the day of the show, check out our Global Citizen Facebook group here.

Yes, your guest will still be able to get into the festival if your name is on their ticket.

No, you don’t need a matching ID at the gate.

Yes, you must print your tickets ahead of time before you arrive at the park. If you do not have a paper ticket, you will not be allowed in. Due to NYC Parks regulations, we cannot accept tickets presented on your mobile device. We have plenty of recycling stations throughout the park for you to recycle your paper tickets, once you’ve entered!

Global VIP tickets are available through our ticketing partner Ticketmaster. Go here for more info.

The gates at Central Park will open at 2 p.m. and the show will start at 5 p.m. The show will end around 10 p.m.

There will be no designated parking at the venue. 

For West Gate entry tickets, you can take the A, D, or 1 train to 59th Street-Columbus Circle and walk to the 72nd Street entrance of the park. You can also take the B or C train to the 72nd Street station. 

If you have VIP tickets, please take the B or C train and exit at the 81st Street station.

For East Gate entry tickets, you can take the 4 or 6 train to 68th Street-Hunter College, 77th Street, or 86th Street, and walk to the 72nd Street entrance. 

You could also take advantage of New York City’s extensive bike share network, and save the environment at the same time. 

If you plan to be dropped off in a car, the East ticket line begins at East 72nd and 5th Ave and the West ticket line forms at West 72nd and Central Park West.

We have two main general admission entrances to the Global Citizen Festival. The West Gate is located at 72nd Street and Central Park West and the East Gate is located at 72nd Street and 5th Avenue.

East 84th Street and Central Park East.

Citi Premium and Global VIP ticket guests can enter at West 81st Street and Central Park West.

There will be large sections of open field for you to move around, with some separate sections close to the stage. You can check out our venue map here.

We’re not releasing set times or the order of artists. With the amazing lineup, get there early to enjoy the whole show!

You may want to bring money to purchase food, drinks, and merch throughout the day. We accept cash and credit cards, but there are not ATMs available on the site.

Yes, we will have food and drink (non-alcoholic) vendors. Vendors will be accepting cash and cards. Water refill stations will be provided by MSNBC at no cost to you. Remember metal water bottles are not permitted into the festival.

We’ll have vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options available for purchase. We’re not a nut-free festival, but we’ll have nut-free and contamination-free food options.

Yes, you can bring in an empty reusable water bottle and you’ll be able to refill it at water stations provided by MSNBC throughout the park. Note: any metal water bottles, such as Swells or hydroflasks, and glass bottles are not allowed and will be confiscated.

The following items and actions are prohibited from the park: alcohol, audio recording devices, backpacks, bicycles or scooters, blankets, CamelBak backpacks, chains or chain wallets, cameras larger than point-and-shoot (if you can remove the lens, don’t bring it), chairs, coolers, drones, fireworks, flags, Frisbees, glass or metal containers (including reusable water bottles such as Swells), illegal drugs or paraphernalia, laser pens or similar focused light, lighters, musical instruments, pets or animals, selfie sticks, skateboards, vapes, cigarettes, smoking devices, sports balls, tents, tripods, umbrellas, unlicensed vending of any kind, weapons, video recording equipment, water squirt guns.

Cell phones, digital and film cameras (non-pro), disposable cameras, ear plugs, empty reusable plastic water bottles, fanny packs, small beach towels, strollers (with toddler/infant), sun block, sunglasses, walkie talkie, bags that are 12” x 6” x 12” and smaller, single-pocket drawstring bags, and towels smaller than 30''x70'' are allowed.

We strongly suggest arriving at the festival with your friends or family members. Additionally this year, it will be easier to meet up with people in the general admission pen. Check out our map here before you arrive at the festival.

Your safety and comfort are first and foremost. You should come prepared and dress in layers for the possible change in weather during the day. 

Like all big events, cell service can be spotty given the amount of people in the park, and phone batteries can drain quickly. We recommend having a plan to coordinate with friends.

Yes, we’ll have enhanced WiFi at the festival.

Yes, Verizon is providing charging stations in all of the sections.

Yes! Everyone entering the park, regardless of age, will need a ticket.

You can find our ADA info page here.

The safety and security of every attendee of Global Citizen Festivals is our top concern. Every person attending the festival can expect a thorough screening (similar to airport-style) at the gates. Be sure to review the list of prohibited items to learn what is and isn’t allowed in the park to make the screening process move as quickly as possible. Please allow plenty of time to get through security as the process may take longer. Bags that are 12” x 6” x 12” and smaller,  and single-pocket drawstring bags are permitted. Bags exceeding this size will be turned away prior to screening.

We’ve enhanced flow for this year’s festival, and attendees of past festivals who come this year will notice that the Great Lawn will be even more open than in past years, with large, free-flowing spaces. This means it will be even easier to meet up with friends and access our great partner activations.

Attendees will also notice enhanced lighting and signage for exit paths outside of the park. When you get into the park, make sure you are aware of the nearest exit. There will be trained staff throughout the Great Lawn to help direct you and find your way around the festival grounds (bathroom, merch, exits).

All of our Global Citizens are with us at the festival in spirit. If you’d like to follow along with the action of the day, the event will be broadcasted live on MSNBC (US), and on Global Citizen’s YouTube and Twitter channels. iHeart Radio will also carry an audio broadcast of the Festival. You can tune in starting at 4 p.m. EST across all channels.

We would love to connect with you on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @glblctzn.

Please email our press agency Sunshine Sachs at GC@sunshinesachs.com.

We appreciate you wanting to help out at this year’s festival! Email us at festival@globalcitizen.org and let us know what you’re interested in helping us out with. We’ll add you to a list and we’ll let you know if there’s an opportunity open for you.

You can arrive by public transit or bike, bring a reusable plastic bottle for water refill stations, properly dispose of your waste at our Eco Hub waste stations, and participate in our recycling incentive program (and exchange those materials for merch!).