Tier 2 Tickets & Art Grant Extensions

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Wowzers, we sold out of Tier 1 Tickets over a week early, but fear not, as Tier 2 Tickets are on sale now until end of day September 29th... or until those sell out, too. So what are you waiting for? Head over to https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/tickets now to make sure you can make it to the Ridiculous Revolution this year!

Effigy, Temple, and Art Grant applications are being extended to August 25th. That way all of you folks that recently got back from Lakes can take all those post-burn creative ideas and make them a reality! Head over to https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/artgrants and fill out that application for funds before it's too late!

The What, When, Where of 2026 is Accepting Your Submissions!

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Have a special event you're hosting at this year's Mosaic? Maybe a community meal, a karaoke night, dance party, or group hydration session? Heck we don't know what you're bringing, that's why we have the What, When, Where.

And it just so happens that the What, When, Where is now accepting your submissions at https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/www until the end of the day on September 22nd. So get your events scheduled to ensure that FOMO is NO-MO.


Also... EFFIGY/TEMPLE/ART GRANT APPLICATIONS ARE DUE IN 2 WEEKS BY JULY 28TH! Get yours in before it's too late! Come on folks, we wanna give you money to be creative! https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/artgrants

Registrations and Early Entry Requests Now Open!

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Registrations are open!

Theme Camps, Art Installations you want featured on the Placement Map, RV/Car Camping, & Fire all need to be registered with us to make sure we reserve enough space for you out on the Razorgrass.

We're also accepting applications for Early Entry if you've got a large theme camp that will take extra time to set up. Participants with mobility needs can also use this form to request early entry as an accommodation.

Volunteers who sign up for shifts before the event to help us set up, will receive Early Entry without needing to fill out the form. Speaking of which, all of our volunteers will receive a voucher for a meal prepared by our amazing Kitchen Possums over in DPW, so if you have any food allergies or dietary needs, make sure to fill out the Allergens and Dietary Needs for Volunteer Shifts form so we can make sure your meal is one that will agree with you.

All forms can be found at https://mosaic.volunteeripate.com/permit-applications and are available to be filled out after you've purchased your ticket to the event, but don't delay, Registrations and Early Entry requests will be closing at midnight on September 16th.

Tickets, NBT Requests, Volunteer Sign-Ups, Art Grants, and THE THEME, OH MY!

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Talk about Promopalooza! We've got a lot of updates in this one, so hang tight!

Tier 1 Tickets are on sale from now until August 4th (unless we sell out first)

https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/tickets

The Need-Based Tickets Program is now accepting requests!

https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/nbt

We're also needing donations to the fund this year, so if you can spare some cash, head over to https://mosaic.volunteeripate.com/donate to help bring every burner Home this year.

Volunteer Sign-ups are starting to open up on Volunteeripate so after you secure your ticket, secure that shift! ONE BURNER, ONE SHIFT!

https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/volunteersignup

Effigy, Temple, and Art Grants are now accepting applications! Apply today and we'll give you money to make your artistic visions come to life!

https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/artgrants

And finally.... the theme.... for Mosaic Experiment 2026.... as voted on by the community... is.... 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.

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.