10,000 Free Tickets for Global Citizen Festival India will be announced next week

The first draw of free tickets for the 2016 Global Citizen Festival India will open for entry on Sunday 18 September on www.globalcitizen.in. A total of 10,000 free tickets are available in the first ever Action Journey ticket draw. Each person who has signed up as a Global Citizen on www.globalcitizen.in and completed actions in their Action Journey for social change must earn a minimum of 16 points to be eligible for the draw. Global Citizen’s will be able to enter this ticket draw until Thursday, 22 September.

On Sunday 18 September, registered Global Citizens with 16 points or more will see a red entry button appear on their accounts. They will be able to click this button to trade in their points for the chance to win 2 tickets to the much-anticipated Global Citizen Festival India. After the draw is run on 22 September, winners will be notified within 72 hours.

Several thousand Free Tickets will be released over the coming weeks through five different ticket draws at the end of each Action Journey.

The Global Citizen Festival India will leverage the voices of Global Citizens to influence world leaders and decision makers to enact policy changes and commit significant resources to help solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. The inaugural Festival will be held in Mumbai on 19 November 2016, and will be headlined by Coldplay, Jay Z, Aamir Khan, A.R. Rahman, Ranveer Singh, Katrina Kaif, Farhan Akhtar, Shraddha Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Arijit Singh, Dia Mirza, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, and Monali Thakur. Several major artists and international guests will be announced at different stages of the campaign.

Farhan Akhtar said that taking collective action was vital to achieve the Global Goals and end extreme poverty: "Global Citizen India is doing something unique. It is offering us a platform wherein our individual efforts and voices can combine together to push for collective action. Offering the Global Goals as a roadmap not only encourages collective action within a country, but also across the world, and it is this collective, merged action that can truly make a difference."

Eighty percent of the tickets to the festival will be given out to Global Citizens who earn them by taking action. For more information about the artists, schedules, and event, please visit www.globalcitizen.in and follow @glblctznIN on Twitter and Facebook, and on Instagram using #GlobalCitizenIndia.