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.

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."

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.

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

Effigy Needed! *URGENT*

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Folks, the deadline for submitting applications for Effigy has been extended to Friday, August 8th at Midnight (so technically Saturday, August 9th), because we didn't receive ANY submissions for the entirety of the time that Art Grants have been open this year.

Now, we love waiting til the last minute as much as the next person, but there are artists who have been patiently waiting to hear back from us on if their grants are going to be approved, so we need to get this wrapped up so we can get people their money and they can do what they do best, create amazing art!

Whatever your idea is for this year's Effigy, even if it is just a big wooden version of a dumpster with the words, "Everything is fine," cut out on one side, we want to see it. Submit your Effigy Application before the deadline on Friday night by visiting https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/artgrants

Other updates in this edition of the MitM:

Tickets are nearly half gone! https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/tickets

Need-Based Ticket Requests close Tuesday, August 19th: https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/needs-based-tickets-program

Donations are needed for the NBT Program: https://mosaic.volunteeripate.com/donate

Volunteer Sign-Ups are open through Volunteeripate. ONE BURNER, ONE SHIFT! https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/volunteersignup