Save $ - Buy Your First Night Buttons Early!

Information and prices subject to change - Check back in November for the most current information!

FIRST NIGHT MONTEREY ADMISSION BUTTONS GIVE YOU:

From 3pm until midnight, 20+ venues, 70 Performances, 8 art stations, people's procession!!
9 Hours of fabulous Art, Music and New Year's fun all the way into the New Year!

Admission Buttons can be purchased at a discounted price online through early December, and for a pre-event price online and at our retail locations through December 30, 2011. Buying a button ensures that First Night Monterey offers the best in community arts and performing acts. Your button supports the First Night Monterey celebration and directly supports the performers fees. 95% of FNM venues are indoors, and an admission button is your ticket to these performances! Watch for sales of 2013 buttons to start in November, 2012: Best prices will be for online purchases made before December 10, 2012.

First Night buttons are not refundable - First Night is a rain or shine event!

Children 5 and under are admitted FREE!

Throughout December, buy pre-event price buttons at:

  • Safeway - Monterey County stores at Customer Service
  • Walgreens, Downtown Monterey and Seaside
  • Nob Hill Foods, Monterey and Salinas
  • The Welcome Center, Sallinas
  • The Works, Pacific Grove
  • Monterey Art Museum
  • Museum of Monterey, Custom House Plaza
  • Monterey Sports Center
  • Monterey Art Museum, Monterey

        A special thanks to our Button Vendors and their staff!!


On December 31, buy buttons after 3pm at kiosks located at First Night Monterey:

  • On Pacitic St near Colton Hall
  • On DelMonte Avenue at Portola Plaza in front of the Conference Center
  • On Alvarado Street near Ordway Pharmacy.

Last year's price: Youth: $15, Adult: $22

2012 BUTTON DESIGN

Raissa Figueroa is the designer of the First Night Monterey 2012 poster and buttons; she also designed the Greenfield Harvest Festival poster image for First Night Monterey. A senior at CSU Monterey Bay and a first-generation hispanoamerican, Raissa is majoring in graphic design. She plans to pursue work as a designer or an illustrator after graduation and she is considering applying to a masters program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Raissa loves drawing, hiking, biking, and pursuing life with spontaneity.
Bobbi Long, Associate Professor of Communication Design at California State University of Monterey Bay (CSUMB), teaches the Publication Design and Service Learning. Her students compete to provide the graphics for the First Night Monterey poster design and the Greenfield Harvest Festival.

If You Purchase Your Buttons Online

First Night Monterey DOES NOT ship buttons. Your buttons will be available for pickup at the event Will-Call booth on December 30 and 31, 2011. Bring your receipt with the confirmation number (printed or on your cell phone) and identification. There is a nominal handling fee of $2 per order.
Online sales END December 28 at 8:00 pm.

Pick up your pre-purchased buttons at Will Call located at:

*On December 30th:
Monterey Conference Center Entrance Lobby 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

*On December 31st:
Monterey Conference Center Entrance Lobby 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Portola Plaza 3:00 pm - 7:30 pm at the Portola Plaza Information booth outside of the Conference Center

Bring identification and the confirmation number (you can print the receipt or show it on your cell phone).