{"id":72727,"date":"2016-11-22T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T06:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inthemix.junkee.com\/?p=147805"},"modified":"2016-11-22T06:32:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T06:32:10","slug":"maitreya-festival-is-officially-back-from-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/?p=72727","title":{"rendered":"Maitreya Festival is officially back from the dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just\u00a0over a\u00a0month after telling punters it “may never” come back, Maitreya has officially announced its return.<\/p>\n

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\n Read More\n <\/div>\n \n \n <\/a>\n \n \n Maitreya say they won't be offering any refunds for cancelled festival  <\/i>\n <\/span>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The festival will take place at a site near Byron Bay over the Labour Day weekend (March 10-13). It will be free to punters whose tickets to the 2016 event had not been refunded. \u00a0Maitreya organisers had previously said there were “less than 1800 people” who had not been refunded.<\/p>\n\"Screen\n

Organisers pulled the pin on Maitreya 2016 after failing to secure a permit to a site at Lake Wooroonook in rural Victoria. In May,\u00a0organisers said\u00a0they were \u201cunable\u201d to offer refunds to those who purchased tickets to the event, despite being legally obligated to. Maitreya\u2019s ticketing company TryBooking later said they were suing organisers<\/a><\/strong> for the alleged $1 million worth of tickets that had been sold prior to the event.<\/p>\n

To make good to disgruntled ticket-holders, organisers had previously planned a \u201cgrand final\u201d weekend event, which was scheduled to take place in September. But those plans were scuppered by the local Buloke Council, who refused to issue a permit for any further events at Maitreya’s Lake Wooroonook site.<\/p>\n

For tickets and further information on the Byron Bay event click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n