Mosaic Experiment 2020 Update

Greetings burners! 

Today we’re reaching out to offer an update on the status of Mosaic Experiment 2020. With all the changes we’ve seen since the start of the year, we are desperately wanting to be together and burn with each of you. You can think of us as standing at your side, art and creativity at the ready, sharing your frustration as event after event cancels. We desperately want to gather, burn and build our intentional world between the trees of Reclaim once again this year. In a perfect world, this would be all we could ask for, but it isn’t a perfect world right now.

Will our burn happen this year? We’re weighing all the possibilities and giving things a bit more time to evolve before making our final call. With our event happening in early October, we’re a bit later than most and have some room to see what happens next. Like many burns, our first concern is to focus on the health and welfare of our attendees. It may be safety third much of the time but this is not a safety third kind of moment. Mosaic Experiment will make a final decision in July and we will share that with you at that time. In the meantime we will soon release a FAQ regarding event preparation delays (registrations, early entry, etc.) and our cancellation policy (refunds, etc) so please hold your questions until we can get that out to you. We're building it now.

When you selected “Through The Looking Glass” as your theme for this year we’re betting none of you saw how much we would all be looking for our burns through a looking glass. We haven’t given up hope yet, but we will keep you informed.

Art Grant Start To Flow Today

Greetings Experimenters!

Tis I Bunny of the art grants team.

It’s that glorious time of year when the art grants start to flow. That’s right. Today marks the day that we start the 2020 art grant cycle for Mosaic Experiment! We will close this years cycle on June 30th at 11:59pm. We have $4000 to give away in grants as well as $1500 for our effigy.

Art Grants:
https://form.jotform.com/90493499626169

Effigy or large burnable:
https://form.jotform.com/90493499626169

Learn more:
FAQ | Art Grants Criteria FAQ | Mosaic Experiment Prohibited Burn Materials

If you have questions, please reach out to artgrants@mosaic.com

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Ticket Sales Are Now Live!

We're thinking about our burn family today. We at Mosaic Experiment are looking forward to watching the community build things, plan weirdness to share, create art and fully return to our lives in the months ahead.

As promised last weekend, we're opening ticket sales today and look forward to seeing you all this coming October!

GET YOUR TICKET TODAY

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2020 Mosaic Experiment Theme Announced

We are thrilled to unveil our 2020 Mosaic Experiment theme. Join as we go "Through The Looking Glass" later this year!

Before announcing, we contacted the very creative burner called Corvus and received permission to unveil the individual who made the initial theme pitch. Corvus agreed and is already excited to share ideas for how we can play with this theme.

The original pitch: "Reflections of reality through subjective perspectives. A chance to walk in the shoes of another and collectively appreciate and understand the struggles we face together." Here is the imagery included with that initial pitch…

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For those wanting the final results (based on well over 100 of you voting):

- 52.6% - Through The Looking Glass
- 25.8% - First Contact
- 21.6% - Different Kind of Human

Ladies and gentlemen... GET BUILDING!

Cast Your Vote For The 2020 Theme

After a narrowing of the field by your Mosaic leads, we have three possible themes for 2020. It is time for YOU to vote on which you would like to see made real in October!

Vote Here:
https://rankit.vote/vote/EoPzhZTGs4TL1xjQwCr3

Your choices:
Pitch... Through the Looking Glass
Reflections of reality through subjective perspectives. A chance to walk in the shoes of another and collectively appreciate and understand the struggles we face together.

Pitch... First Contact
With an overarching alien theme; the idea also lends itself to first time burners, first meetings, and other firsts (wink). I envision an alien spaceship effigy with a useable meeting space for people looking for new faces.

Pitch... Different Kind of Human
The 10 Principles create a community where we all enjoy space to experiment with who we are, to express ourselves, to be included - make art out of being human. So many of us find that attending burns brings about, catalyzes, intensifies or stirs up change in our lives. In short, being a burner has made us different than we were before. This theme also links with intersectionality, embracing and learning about the unique paths all our lives have taken and experiments with setting aside all the mindless ways the wider culture is toxic. From a creative standpoint, there's a huge array of humanoid characters to choose from! Droids, fae, paradigm shifters, avengers, mythology and pop culture! So what do you want to do? How do you experiment with being human?

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Voting will close on Friday, February 7th!

What When Where 2019

It's time to plan your Flights of Fancy!

We’re thrilled to share the 2019 WWW guide for Mosaic Experiment’s Flight of Fancy. Please note that this is a living document which will be updated daily until October 2nd, 2019. If you would like a PDF copy of the guide, please grab it right here.

Both this page and PDF version will be updated each time we add events so be sure to grab a final copy just before you leave for reclaim. See something that needs added or corrected, please email promotions@mosaicexperiment.com!

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Things You Need To Know!

Welcome to your quick guide to things you should know leading up to this year’s Mosaic Experiment. We will be updating this page with any new links we think you would need on the quick right up to the event so check back and PLEASE explore the site for even more resources:

Survival Guide:
mosaicexperiment.com/survival-guide

Directions to Mosaic Experiment:
mosaicexperiment.com/directionsmap

Map of Mosaic Experiment:
mosaicexperiment.com/news/2019/9/21/mosaic-experiment-2019-map-unveiled

Volunteer:
mosaicexperiment.com/volunteer-departments

List an event in the What When Where guide (coming soon):
bit.ly/2kTYTq5

Code of Conduct:
mosaicexperiment.com/code-of-conduct

10 Principals:
mosaicexperiment.com/10-principles

A Note On Gate:
Tickets are will-call only!
Save your email purchase information. You will receive a purchase confirmation from Brown Paper Tickets when you have made a ticket purchase. Save it! You may need the info to confirm a purchase or transfer a ticket.

You must have a valid, non-expired, government-issued ID that matches your name on the will call list at Gate. We are no longer processing tickets by ticket number. Matching Name + ID = Entry to Mosaic Experiment

There will be a cut-off for transferring tickets this year - end of the day 9/29/19.