Hello Halo fans! In 2026 the Halo franchise is celebrating 25 years of incredible moments that you, the Halo community, have shared together. In order to properly celebrate the occasion, we are hosting Halo Fest right here in Seattle on December 11-13, 2026.  

You can read our announcement blog here:

•  Halo Fest Announcement

As we did with HaloWC 2025, we’re starting a monthly blog series to keep you up to date on everything you need to know for Halo Fest. And like we did with that blog series, we also want this to be a conversation. What would you want to see or do at Halo Fest? What would make it an unforgettable experience for you and your friends/family? I’ll be asking questions like this each month and we’d love to hear from you! 

Okay, so this month we’re talking about ticketing!

As announced at HaloWC, tickets will go on sale for Halo Fest on Wednesday, December 10, 2025 @ 10am PT. Tickets will be available on TIXR - You can create an account at the link below.

We highly encourage making an account ahead of time to ensure a speedier checkout when tickets go live. (Note: We will have the direct URL to Halo Fest tickets next week before they go live) 

For those uninitiated, Halo Fest is comprised of two parts: 

• Concert: Friday December 11, 2026 @ Benaroya Hall 
• Convention: Saturday-Sunday December 12-13, 2026 @ Seattle Convention Center (Summit) 

When you go to grab your tickets for the concert, you’ll see a seat map where you’ll be able to select which seat(s) you’d like to sit in. Ticketing prices and ranges are based on what’s common for Benaroya Hall – the closer to the stage the more pricey the tickets are.

For the convention, the tickets available are standard general admission which will get you access to the hall on Saturday/Sunday of the event.  

In one fell swoop, you’ll be able to snag your tickets for the concert and the convention in one checkout flow. 

On top of this, there will be a VIP add-on that’s offered to a very limited number of fans. This will include early entry, exclusive access to meet and greets, exclusive goodie bags, and more. Being a Halo Fest VIP means you’re a VIP for the Concert as well as the Convention. We sent out surveys to VIPs after HaloWC 2025 and will be using that feedback to help improve the VIP experience even more!  

There are 2,500 seats at Benaroya Hall, and with our stage configuration and reserved seats for special guests, we’re looking to sell about 2,230 tickets. This is significantly fewer tickets than what will be available for the Halo Fest convention. NOT EVERYONE ATTENDING HALO FEST CONVENTION WILL BE ABLE TO ATTEND THE CONCERT.  

We’re expecting the concert to sell out first, so if the concert is something that’s really important to you – please do not wait to get those tickets first. Once it sells out, there won’t be more seats available!

The blog series will continue in January where we’ll be talking about the various contests that we’ll be hosting. 

If we do a short film contest, what categories should we support? Are there any other types of contests we should consider hosting?  

Ping me on twitter and let me know! 

We have been sincerely blown away by the excitement since the announce of Halo Fest already, and to the fans already changing their twitter names to include Halo Fest already – we love you for that. That gets us even more excited to host a great event for the whole community.  

Tickets are on sale soon – we hope to see you there!