Volunteer Coordinator Needed!

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As an ever evolving organization, Mosaic Experiment often finds itself in need of new leads, and right now, we're looking to recruit a new Volunteer Coordinator to our team.

Volunteer coordinators (VC) are the ring leaders of the volunteering process. They provide assistance to team leads and volunteers that help make Mosaic successful. The VC should also aim to make gratitude for volunteering as important as acquiring volunteers.

Helpful skills for a VC include intimate knowledge with Google apps, good organization, works well with others, patience, dedication of anywhere from 1-5 hours a week of work (depending on the time of year), and the ability to effectively delegate tasks to teams and volunteers.

SPECIAL ATTENTION: The most critical task of a VC is make sure that volunteer records are as complete and accurate as possible.

Pre-Event:

  • Communicate with MORG about upcoming volunteer deadlines through emails; rarely will the situation require phone calls unless it is requested by a MORG member.

  • Assist MORG and work closely with Promo Lead for community call outs to get dept head, task lead, and volunteers; communicate with volunteers to place them with teams

  • Collaborate and confirm with dept heads about their own volunteer sign up schedules and make sure those schedules make it to the event.

  • Maintain Volunteeripate sign-ups with each department schedule

  • Communicate any budgetary needs to MORG LLC.

  • Secure volunteers to help run hub and to pass out swag/snacks to working volunteers. Effectively communicate with this team what is expected of them and their tools to get the jobs done.

  • Acquire volunteer swag, snacks, and lanyards

Event:

  • Oversee volunteers running the volunteer hub.

  • Be available to assist dept leads with any volunteer scheduling needs.

  • Help to provide education about volunteering during the event and provide an atmosphere conducive to acquiring volunteers on-site.

  • Pass out volunteer swag and snacks to volunteers

Post-Event:

  • Write up afterburn report

  • Encourage and remind leads to send thank yous to volunteers!

  • Send out volunteer surveys

If this role sounds like a good fit for you and you're ready to help plan this year's event with us, visit www.mosaicexperiment.com/lead-positions and fill out the application to join. Not quite up your alley? Check out some of the other open positions there on the same page, we'd love to work with you!

2026 Theme Voting Is Now Open Until Saturday, May 9th, 11:59 pm est

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With theme submissions now closed, the MOrg has looked at all of your ideas for this year's theme and vote for their top five. It's now up to you, dear community, to cast your votes via our convenient ranked-choice voting system to determine what the theme for Mosaic 2026 shall be!

The ballot can be found at https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/2026-theme-voting and will be accepting your votes until 11:59 PM EST on Saturday, May 9th.

DO NOT CHOOSE A THEME OPTION MORE THAN ONCE IN THE VOTING FORM. YOUR VOTE WILL BE DISCOUNTED.

And what themes will you be voting on? Well I'm glad you asked, as below this time-wasting sentence, I've written them up for you to review before going to make your selection!

The Ridiculous Revolution

Come one, come all—clowns, critters, and creatures of day and night. Join us for The Ridiculous Revolution, the living circus where silliness becomes protest and participation is essential- simply by showing up you are part of the problem. Defying, disrupting and dismantling showed us how to use our power and this is our opportunity to keep that rebellious spirit alive.

Clowning in its many forms is a statement of peaceful yet powerful resistance. By unleashing the silly together, we gather in temporary community to voice our unrest and build collective strength through play, creativity, and shared effort. Through this co-creation, we become a living spectacle—where laughter is resistance and absurdity exposes truth.

Respect consent. Care for each other. Be ridiculous on purpose.

Cascade

A cascade is the sacred surrender of many small currents into one shared descent—like a waterfall where separate streams of thought, intention, and vision gather among like-minded souls, then spill together into motion. It is the moment when ideas, once held in individual vessels, tip forward in trust, falling side by side until they become a collective force—sometimes building things of beauty, sometimes plunging into the unknown—yet always shaping something larger than any single drop could imagine.

Wrought With Whimsy

Pause. Breathe.

Set aside the weight you’ve been carrying for so very long for just a few brief moments.

Now stick out your tongue.

When everything seems at its darkest we can let it consume us in a downward spiral or we can look up to the stars and see ourselves in them. Shining little beacons of wonder and hope, burning brightly to hold that darkness at bay.

The act of play feeds our inner child, that little glimmer that lives in all of us, no matter our age. And like the distant stars, the more we feed that child, the brighter that glimmer will shine.

Letting go of the burdens we torment ourselves with from time to time in order to be silly is an act of rebellion against the mechanizations of subjugation.

Ridiculousness is encouraged, the Fool is celebrated. We rejoice in the loony, the farcical, and the nonsensical.

Laugh. Play. Be silly. Be Wrought With Whimsy, for we must remain whimsical to survive the horrors of this world.

The Unsent Invite

The forest is defined as much by its empty clearings as by its standing wood. There is a deep power in the spaces where a seed was meant to fall but the wind carried it elsewhere or where a branch reached out for a neighbor and found only the air. This season we gather under the banner of The Unsent Invite to look at the hidden energy of the unspoken and the unintended. We are exploring the ghosts of our intentions and the letters held close to the chest and the calls for connection that were met with a ringing silence.

It is a theme for those who are ready to sit in the mystery of the gap and look at the structural beauty of what almost was. We are looking at the archives of the unexpressed and the hidden roots of the stories that were never allowed to bloom. This is an invitation to consider the weight of the silence and how we navigate a landscape where the most important information is the bit that went missing.

This is a call to honor the messengers who got lost and the recipients who are still waiting. We are tending to the garden of the unsent and the ignored while trusting that even a broken connection has a place in the larger history of the woods. This year we find the magic in the maybe and the beauty in the things we were told to keep private.

Mind Matters

Our mindset determines our reality. Our perspectives are shaped by our experiences. New experiences broaden the lens through which we view the world. The practice of immediacy invites each of us to grow and change. An understanding of others' perspectives broadens our own and contributes to a shared reality that we can shape together. De-fracture our shared reality through shared understanding! "Change your mind, and you change your world."

Online Ranger and Sanctuary Training This Saturday!

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Hey friends!

Do you want to be a helper? A mediator? A de-escalator? All while getting the opportunity to meet and get to know some great new people? Come be a Ranger!

Online Ranger Training will be taking place on Saturday, April 18th, at 6:00PM EST.

Want to learn the skills needed for holding space for those in emotional need in our Sanctuary?

Online Sanctuary Training will be taking place directly following Ranger Training on Saturday, April 18th, at 7:00PM EST.

Save this link and join us over Zoom this Saturday.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81630932801?pwd=5bVb2x6Vpd39t7Nik2wWpmmt6FMSmR.1

Once trained, you can volunteer with either group, we'd all love to work with you!

2026 Theme Submissions Open Now until April 21st

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It's that time of year again, folks!

Time for you to put on your creative thinking caps and submit your themes for Mosaic Experiment 2026!

Will it be something deep and introspective? Will it be something profound and moving? Will it be absolutely duck-tits bonkers and full of shenaniganery? That's all going to be up to you!

Pop on over to the submission form HERE and fill out the form right there on the page for your shot at picking this year's theme. But make sure you do so sooner rather than later, as the window to put in your themes is only open until Tuesday, April 21st. That's two weeks.

Once submissions close, the MOrg will vote for the top five themes and then turn them back over to all of you in the community on Tuesday, April 28th for ranked choice voting. So stay tuned, lest you get a bad case of the regrets for not having participated in determining this year's theme.

Need-Based Tickets Program Now Accepting Donations

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You know that feeling when you're at a Burn and somehow everything just comes together and clicks? That striking epiphany you have where you realize that this was the Burn you needed, for all the right (and wrong) reasons?

Not everyone gets to have those breakthrough moments. Not because they don't belong there, but because life has thrown them a curve-ball and fitting a ticket to the Burn into the budget just isn't accessible for them.

That's where you come in.

The Mosaic Experiment Need-Based Ticket Program is community-funded, which means it goes as far as we collectively choose to carry it. Some folks need just a small discount to make a ticket accessible. Others need full funding or they simply can't come at all. Every level of need is valid. Every dollar you give gets matched directly to the next person in the queue waiting for help.

To help ensure fulfilling every request we get this year, we've opened up donations to the program early this year. Visit mosaic.volunteeripate.com/donate or donate directly via PayPal: NBT@mosaicexperiment.com to put in a bit of Communal Effort to help make Mosaic Experiment accessible to someone who needs a breakthrough this year.

Mosaic Experiment 2026 Dates

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Holy smokes, folks, the 2026 Burn season is starting and we decided to kick things off early by sharing the dates with you for this year’s event.

Mosaic Experiment 2026 will be held from Thursday, October 8th to Sunday, October 11th, at the place we call Home, Reclaim.

So mark your calendars, schedule your off-time, and lie to your boss and coworkers again by telling them you’re attending a family reunion.

We Need YOU!

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Can you believe it? We completely sold out of tickets this year to Mosaic Experiment 2025: Defy, Disrupt, Dismantle!

With that many people on site this year it is vitally important that we get our Volunteer shifts filled up, especially for Rangers and Sanctuary.

We're currently needing Ranger Volunteers every night of the event for the midnight to 4am shifts and the 4am to 8am shifts. Rangers are there to help folks out should they need it, and spend the majority of their time just talking to people and getting to know them. What's better than making new friends and helping the community?

New this year as an Official Mosaic Department and resource for the community is Sanctuary, a place for solace when and if things get to be a bit too much or too intense to handle without help. Sanctuary volunteers are caretakers for the community that help bring a sense of calm and safety. It's also a mobility friendly department so if you prefer to sit while you volunteer, Sanctuary is the spot for you! We're needing coverage starting Friday night at 9pm, through Saturday and Saturday night and on into exodus so there are plenty of open shifts to sign up for, and at only 3 hours long, they won't take you away from the rest of the event for very long.

Additionally, Saturday is our Sanctuary Lead, Spoons' birthday, so please help out by gifting her that day off duty with your Volunteering.

Online Volunteer Signups are open until 9pm EST, tomorrow, Friday, September 26th, so head over to https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/volunteersignup and follow the link there to Volunteeripate, where you can access the calendar of all available Volunteer shifts from the menu.

Remember, ONE BURNER, ONE SHIFT! We'll see you next week!

The What, When, Where is Here!

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The What, When, Where is here!

Check out all the what's what and whatnot and when and whereabouts it will all take place by downloading the printable PDF version here: https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/www

Additionally, to finally answer a question that many have asked this year, Mosaic Experiment's WWW and the map have returned to the Dust App! Just follow the link above to get the download link and search for us in upcoming events.

2025 Final Deadlines

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Mosaic Experiment 2025 is less than a month away and with that, there are some final deadlines we felt necessary to send out a reminder on:

Registrations - Tuesday, September 9th

This includes theme camps, large art installations, car/rv camping, fire, and early entry requests. https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/registration for the form.

What, When, Where Submissions - Tuesday, September 16th

Any events, workshops, boutiques, performances, etc., that you are planning to hold that you'd like the community to know about in advance so they can attend. The WWW will be published on September 23rd. Fill out your submissions at https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/www

Need-Based Ticket Donations - Tuesday, September 23rd

We are in need of donations in order to fulfill quite a few remaining NBT requests this year. Anything you can donate will help make our event more radically inclusive. Donate via your Volunteeripate account at https://mosaic.volunteeripate.com/donate or via PayPal at NBT@mosaicexperiment.com

Online Volunteer Sign-Ups - Friday, September 26th

As Mosaic is a 100% volunteer run organization and event, we depend on the participation of attendees to volunteer a small portion of their time at the Burn to help keep things running smoothly. While volunteer sign-ups will be available at the Volunteer Hub at the event, we like to get as many of these shifts scheduled ahead of time so we aren't trying to conscript coverage in a panic. Find out more about the various departments, the available volunteer roles, and the link to Volunteeripate where you can sign up for your shifts (provided you have purchased a ticket to attend) at https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/volunteersignup