Mosaic Experiment 2024 is Right Around the Corner! Make Sure You...

Hey there folks, we are just over a month away from Mosaic Experiment 2024: Lost & Found and just want to remind you of some important deadlines and details before we all head Home to the glory that is the Razorgrass!

First: If you haven't already done so... BUY YOUR TICKETS. No ticket, no entry. Doesn't matter if you pick up a volunteer shift or if you're someone's former roommate's brother's second-cousin twice removed. You must have a ticket to attend. Get them HERE

Sales end September 24th.

Detail the 2nd: If you are planning on Volunteering for a shift before the start of the event (or one at or before gate opens the day of), you need to get signup for that shift by September 3rd. Click here now if this applies to you.

Detail Number 3: That being said, if you have one of those shifts or are part of the effigy team or a large camp that may need extra time to set up, you need to make sure you have submitted your Early Entry Request Forms by September 10th. Registrations for everything from firepits, car/rv camping, theme camps, large art instalations, you name it, are also due by September 10th. Luckily, both of those forms can be found right here.

The 4th Detail: Submissions for the What, When, Where close on September 17th, so if you want your special event listed in the WWW when it's published pre-event, you need to fill out that form here before the deadline: CLICK ME!

Online Volunteer Signups also close on September 17th. You can always sign up for a shift at the event by visiting the hubub but doing so makes all of our lives so much easier and we can all relax a little more when we're there. Please go sign up for a shift and raise the Volunteer Frogometer to maximum hops, we have a lot of shifts to fill and we're running out of time and freaking out about it. PLEASE CLICK AND SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER

Lastly, we are in need of your donations to the Need-Based Tickets Fund. We are currently $1800 short of funding all of the requests we received and the deadline to donate is September 17th. That means if we can all pool together and raise $600 per week from now until then, we can make sure that everyone gets to go this year. Let's get some Communal Effort going on this, yea?

Donate directly via PayPal to NBT@mosaicexperiment.com

2022 ART GRANT RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED!

Big thanks to all of the artists who took the time to apply for a Mosaic Art Grant this year.

The flood of applications that came in between the original deadline and the extended deadline was quite impressive. We ended up with 15 applications and 11k in requests!

After careful review, assisted by our fabulous art grant selection team, and with the cooperation of several artists who worked with us in adjusting plans to reduce their budgets, we're delighted to announce 10 art grant projects for Mosaic 2022!

~MOSAIC 2022 ART GRANTS~

$360 to Sarita and team Spamarita to build the All Cats are Beautiful Temple 

"All Cats Are Beautiful Temple is an immersive, multisensory, devotional temple in tribute to the purrtheon of cats, pusses and kittens, where we honor the majesty and subversive beauty our furry, feline deities in their eternal struggle against human and canine oppression."

$300 to SpaceCase and team a Web of Caseys to bring you Anansi's Twisted Tales

"Do you like to spin a tale? Want to play a part in the collective creation of intersecting narratives? Come weave your words and pictures into Anansi's web of stories at First Fires."

$60 to Lady Bacchus to create For Your Light

"The talent show is always an amazing display of our communities talents. This year each participant will receive a special on again and off again trophy for their efforts."

$200 to Andi "Fluffy" and team SpielBound Creations w/ Syncytium to bring you Iris Rains: A SpiderMonkey Tribute

"Journey under the large kaleidoscopic parasol with a canopy of translucent colored panels, with small, freely spinning mirrors dangling to reflect the world around; by night, it will be lit by rainbow lights and will bear a flame at the top to be seen from afar."

$250 to Liz and team Cuddlefish/Hive to create Off (With Your Head) And On Again

"Participants symbolically "behead" themselves in a French Revolution-style guillotine whose blade is a glittering, immaterial beaded curtain. Reflect on what oppresses us or holds us back from revolutionary change, and symbolically “dethrone” the “ruler” within."

$150 to Princess for their human decorating project Open Your 3rd Eye

"Come adorn yourself and explore untapped wisdom -what will you discover when you open the third eye portal?"

$330 to Jonah and the Stoop Kids to create Stoop of Threeseus

"The third first stoop! Stoops are a universal meeting place, in his explorations stoop creator Jonah has found stoops to be a communal gathering point and place for strangers and neighbors to meet. Come sit stand or lean on the stoop to experience for yourself!"

$100 to Bitch Titless of team Titless for UniTARDIS Project Improvements

"The UniTARDIS Project is pleased to announce a carriage update that will enable us to easily traverse the timespace coordinates of Mosaic Experiment 2022 (linear time). We will be bringing time travel and mobile dance parties to all participants."

$100 to Daphne and team Teatime, bringing you The Wayward Teahouse

"The Wayward Teahouse is a den of refreshment, relaxation, and whimsical conversation in a beautiful bell tent -- fall down the rabbit hole and come to our tea party!"

$180 to artist Luna Melt for the creation of We Are In Space

"A cosmic tribute to our community's resilience through the last two years' cycles of hope, joy, and grief, changing like the continual dance between the sun and the moon above us - because we are in space, no one knows what's going on, I love you."

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Congrats and gratitude to all our artists and their teams! We can't wait to see your art!

Our Burn Begins Tomorrow

We cannot wait to join each of you for our digital burn starting tomorrow morning.

If you haven't already, stop by our Experiment's basecamp in discord (discord.gg/ZfuEGHQ), get yourself registered and ready, check out our What When Where guide (mosaicexperiment.com/…/what-when-where-2021), add to the experience with your creativity (form.jotform.com/212437412171143) and get ready…

We're about to begin!

What When Where Guide Reopens

Do you have art to share, fun things to experience, talks to unveil, music to create, gatherings to host? We want it all to be part of our 2021 burn so please let us know so we can help spread the word through our WWW (What When Where) Guide. We're jumping back into the action and reopening our guide for your submissions.

We initially rolled it out toward the end of July but we've now retooled it for our digital burn. You can find the updated version by visiting: form.jotform.com/212437412171143

The WWW guide will be a living documents and will be updated regularly throughout the gathering this year. Unlike years past, submissions to the guide do not close, and will remain open until the end of the burn weekend. As we re-share the growing guide later this week, be sure to check back often as you never know what new plans the community may add to your upcoming burn!

Mosaic Experiment No Longer In-Person For 2021

This afternoon, we’d like to address the public health crisis we’ve watched return to our communities over the last few weeks. The rapidly spreading delta variant of COVID-19 proved to be the one guest we didn’t invite, yet here it is knocking at our door demanding our attention. After seeking the counsel of medical professionals, considering new data regarding transmission among vaccinated groups, and weighing every option we could consider, we’re writing to sincerely apologize and acknowledge that the lights must go off once again.

We are deeply saddened to share that we have cancelled our in-person Mosaic Experiment for 2021. Please understand, this was unquestionably the hardest decision we’ve ever made.

We know this isn’t the news anyone wants to read and we’ve struggled with it, but the growing public health risk to our participants, staff and neighbors wasn’t something we could weather. Furthermore, there is a financial side to this decision which we have to acknowledge. Our insurance would have been five times the normal cost and we are reaching a point in our planning where our financial commitments would become locked in place for the event. Were we forced to shut down in mid-September, we wouldn’t be able to afford to burn in 2022, and this would be financially devastating for us in the long term.

We, as a community, have been particularly diligent in embracing Civic Responsibility this year. In that spirit, we simply could not justify taking a risk regarding public safety or our burn’s long term survival as the virus spreads once again. As we’ve watched other events in Ohio cancel or postpone to the fall, we also looked at pushing our dates back into October, but due to scheduling conflicts, this unfortunately wasn’t an option.

We will be issuing further updates over the next few days, including addressing all your ticketing questions. Please understand we’re refocusing our efforts as quickly as we can now. That said, we are excited to return to the digital burn playground we built in 2020 and shift our creative gears toward new ways we can gather virtually, September 16th-19th, 2021. We will still burn together, just in a slightly different way once again. We thank you for staying at our side, being so supportive and showing us that there is hope ahead, even if the lights go on and off sometimes. We will build the world we want together, again and again, in the years ahead.

“Letting Go" Wins Effigy Award for 2021

Who won our effigy award this year? Our art committee has been working hard, narrowing it down and we can now name our winner. That creative burner named Corvus will build our 2021 effigy titled “Letting Go".

Below, Mosaic Experiment's own Everyman sits down with Corvus to discuss his history with burning, his plans for 2021 and his project. It's pretty spectacular.

Also, they tip a hat to our discord experiment (you know, the 2020 virtual burn we never turned off) which you can find via discord.gg/ZfuEGHQ and please say hello to our house bot "Moe Zaic" while you are there.

What about awarding our temple design you may ask? We can't let all our big announcements out at once, right? Check back next week for a new interview featuring that design winner!

Gate’s New Dead Name Policy And Much More

Hey there everyone! Squeezie and EnorMike here with some information about your beloved Gate. It might be a lot to take in, but I promise, it's well worth it.

Gate has a new Dead Name procedure this year that we would like to make known. The last thing we want is for you amazing peeps to be turned away and miss out on all the amazing fun! To help Gate out, if you bought your ticket with a name that doesn't match your legal government ID, please reach out to us at gate@mosaicexperiment.com. You are STILL required to bring a legal ID with you to Gate, AS WELL AS a printed (or screen shot) of your ticket confirmation you received via e-mail.

New training shall also take place at Gate this year! We respect all our burner peeps and want you to all feel the love. We will be reminding our Gate volunteers that not everyone goes by the names on their ID presented at Gate and to proceed accordingly. We hope to help start your burn in a wonderful way, but still no hugs. Go to Greeters for that stuff.

We are looking for some excellent volunteers for our late night shifts! We need people who can check IDs, keep records, and respect dead names. If you like to sit around and look at stars, talk while listening to music, or possibly be bribed until you actually have to do something, this shift is for you! Come join us!

Important information about Gate that everyone should know! We are NOT, I repeat, NOT accepting vaccination cards at Gate. You have up to September 12th to prove your vaccination status. If you have not proven your status come time of the event, we WILL send you away.

Also, don't forget your legal government identification! Seriously, don't.

Okay, that was a lot… We're looking forward to seeing all your faces at Gate this year! Don't forget, NO HUGS AND SLOW DOWN!

Gate Times Are Important

As you make your plans to arrive for your Mosaic Experiment, September 16-19th, gate times are important!

Gate will be open from 10 AM to midnight Thursday and Friday. On Saturday, gate will be open 10 AM to 4 PM. Exodus needs to have you back out by 2 PM on Sunday.

For more on what you can expect upon your arrival at our burn after our ever amazing greeters welcome you, please check out the gate section of our survival guide.

What When Where 2021

What When Where 2021

Links to attend events provided near the time of each event here or in #events within our Discord.
All updates to the 2021 WWW Guide Are Now Final.

 
Thursday, September 16 2021

The Early Birb Special, 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Hosted by Corvus
Join a mid-morning zoom for Coffee with Corvus and kick off Mosaic 2021 fully fueled and caffeinated on tar-bean tea or any other breakfast beverages you might enjoy.

Cranky Old Man Mowing The Lawn, 3:00 PM
Hosted by everyman
Literally a cranky old man mowing the lawn.

Reading Silently While Ignoring Everyone, A Practical Demonstration, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Hosted by Bookbeard
In this class Bookbeard will provide a practical demonstration of a valuable life skill: How to sit and read silently while refusing to acknowledge the presence of others.
An E-Burning Course presented by The Department of Radical Self-Education

Birb Song Bowls, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Hosted by Corvus
Singing bowl sound bath performance with a musical accompaniment. Zoom link will be provided in Discord in the #events and #birbs-of-paradise channels.
Participants will need to have access to the Mosaic Discord server and have the capability to attend a Zoom meeting. This is a performance meant for meditative reflection, all attendee microphones will be muted while the performance is taking place

On Suspension, 8:00 PM
Hosted by Squeezie
Come join as I suspend myself to kick off the burn!

Avery's Speakeasy Lounge, 9:00 PM to Whenever
Hosted by Everyman
It's been a long day full of events, so come on in and relax with some cocktails and whiskey jazz after your first burn day for Mosaic 2021! Friendly atmosphere. Low lighting. Plenty of seating available. Starting things around 9M and stopping when things die down.

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Friday, September 17, 2021

Watch Cheesepants Do Corporate Bullshit, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Hosted by: Cheesepants
Cheesepants will leave his webcam on while he does corporate bullshit Friday instead of Rangering things. Observe interminable conference calls. Watch him produce corporate marketing fodder. If he gets bored he might tell a story or two. (Twitch.tv/RangerCheesepants)

Late Morning Obligatory Caffeinated Beverage Chat With Bookbeard, 11:00 AM until Eventually
Who's up for a late morning coffee zoom kicking off Friday at the burn?
Hosed by Bookbeard

Watch the pirates get increasingly more drunk while playing video games, 1:00 PM
Hosted by Captain Castle
That thing we just said. Weekly game stream run by Captain Castle and our new crew member Drew. Come watch us play games and grow increasingly more intoxicated. (Twitch.tv/realinspiregaming)

A Penetrating Glimpse into Big Data, 5:00 PM
Hosted by: Bookbeard & RedBirdBean
Description: Are spreadsheets your kink? Ready to take a deeper dive into Big Data? Come to this talk on data types, ways to handle them, and more. Come to this office meeting where you, as a team member will see spreadsheets like you have never seen them before and will be welcomed to participate in big data discussion.
An E-Burning Course presented by The Department of Radical Self-Education

How To Make Friends With Crows (a.k.a. Attempted Murder 101), 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Hosted by Bookbeard and Corvus
In this class Corvus will teach you about corvids, how to call crows and attract them to your yard, and then make friends with them. If you’re friends with crows, you’ll find out that their favorite Principle is Gifting! If the crows are out during the talk and aren’t being ornery, there will be a live demonstration.
An E-Burning Course presented by The Department of Radical Self-Education

Hiss 'N Stitch, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Hosted by Dirt Goddess
Hey Possums! Grave Digger and Dirt Goddess are hosting a hiss 'n stitch (it's like a stitch n' bitch). Bring your crochet/knitting/weaving/macrame/rope/any project and come hang out with us. See you there! HISSSSSSSS

101 of the Rope, 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Hosted by Squeezie
Come learn the basics of rope! We'll start with the bite and work our way to the ends.
You'll need at least 30' of rope. Natural rope, such as jute or hemp, would be the best but synthetic rope will work just fine.

The Not-So-Late Show, 10:30 PM
Hosted by Corvus and Everyman
Once again, we return with tonight's "Not-So-Late Show" featuring Corvus and Everyman. Tonight, there will be special guests and storytelling! This event is broadcast on Facebook Live, YouTube Live and Twitch.

Dr. Darko's Bathtub Science Adventures!, 11:11 PM
Hosted by food.
Do you want to take a bath & learn what a reverse transcriptase quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction is? Then join the barely-qualified Dr. Darko for a soothing lecture as they combine the relaxation of a soak in the tub with the high-stress environment of an exam you didn't study for. Topics include: what the hell is a cycle threshold; what does the vaccine do anyway; what is a angiotensin-converting enzyme & why should i care; and whatever else you want to ask a science nerd who's too drunk to be teaching but is doing it anyway. [Please note: Dr. Darko is not a medical doctor, or any other kind for the matter. Nothing in this lecture is meant to be construed as medical advice, and you shouldn't trust everyone who's wearing a lab coat.]

Avery's Speakeasy Lounge, 12:00 AM
Hosted by Everyman
Join me for a nightcap if you'd like! It's been two long days full of events, so come on in and relax with some cocktails and music after your first burn day for Mosaic 2021! Friendly atmosphere. Low lighting. Plenty of seating available. Starting things around 9M and stopping when things die down.

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Saturday, September 18, 2021

Morning Coffee, 10:30 AM
Who's up for a late morning coffee zoom kicking up Saturday at the burn?
Hosed by Corvus

Chest up!, 12:00 PM
Hosted by Squeezie
Learn a very basic chest harness that you can use to move your peep around with!
You'll need at least a 45' of rope for this basic chest harness.

Permission, Shadow & Gratitude: A Burning Man Story, 1:00 PM
Hosted by S-Laughter
Special release! In June, S-Laughter hosted John Halcyon, founder of Hug Nation, as part of their Practices & Principles of Ethical Polyamory conference. Listen & stick around for discussion

Cooking With Cowboizzz, 2:00 PM
Hosted by DeeDee
We here at the Raunch Ranch were real excited to debut our camp at it's first burn and jam a bunch a good grub in yer good gob's but we'll settle for showing ya how the sausage gravy is made. DeeDee's gonna learn ya how to make his favorite food, the food o the gods, MANA FROM HEAVEN! BISCUITS! AND! GRAVYYYYYY!

The Not-So-Late Show, 2:30 PM
Hosted by Corvus and Everyman
Once again, we return with a "Not-So-Late Show" featuring Corvus and Everyman. Today, we’ll update you on the burn and see if we can’t roll in a surprise or three! This event is broadcast on Facebook Live, YouTube Live and Twitch.

Alcohol AMA with Tonic, 3:00 PM
Hosted by Tonic
Day drinking zoom with Tonic where she will answer any and all alcohol related inquiries. From mezcal to martinis she can answer it all. In the default Tonic is a spirit market manager for a large distributor, certified bourbon steward, and certified spirits specialist.

Selected Readings of Edgar Allan Poe, 4:00 PM
Hosted by Corvus
Come and enjoy some of Corvus' favorite selections of Edgar Allan Poe as they read aloud for the community.

Futo r' us, 5:00 PM
Hosted by Squeezie
Come learn a very basic futo that you can use for fun or suspension! It's a great tie to keep your partners down and crawling around.
You'll need to bring at least a 30' rope and possibly a few extra feet!

Off Suspension, 6:00 PM
Hosted by Squeezie
Join me as I do the "official" last suspension of the burn.

Effigy Workshop, 6:00 PM
Hosted by Pocket Pickle
Kateri, one of the other organizers of this small, vaccinated camping event we're having to beat the burn fomo, is streaming an "effigy workshop" where they plan to tie sticks together in an effort to create some kind of Big Dumb Thing™ to stick in the fire pit. Come join us!

Instructional Art: Together, apart, 6:45 PM
Hosted by Bunikat
We'll create art together following the same set of instructions, but we'll all end up with our own unique finished products.
Materials: Whatever you want to use or have on hand. Seriously. You need some form of pigment (paint, markers, colored pencils, nail polish, ink, highlighters, candle wax, yarn and glue, etc.) and something to put it on (paper, canvas, cloth, a wall, your carpet...probably don’t do that last one).

Effigy Pregame Show, 7:45 PM
Hosted by Everyman and Corvus
Join Everyman and Corvus live on Twitch, Facebook, or YouTube to catch all the details of Effigy Night before the fire. They’ll recap some of the highlights of this year’s Mosaic Experiment and reflect on current events as we get ready to burn!

Burn Night Livestream, 8:30 PM
Hosted by Mosaic Experiment
On Saturday night, the burn is virtual but the fire and magic are real. Join us for our second annual Con-effi-clav-igy mash-up of fire art and performance. Tune into the livestream through Twitch, YouTube and Facebook.

Avery's Speakeasy Lounge, 10:00 PM
Hosted by Everyman
Happy burn day, Mosaic! The conclave spun, the effigies burned, and we just got through 3 long epic days of non-stop creative activities for Mosaic Experiment's second attempt at having a virtual burn.

Avery's Speakeasy is ready to help you relax into the late evening. Come on in enjoy some cocktails and music after your first burn day for Mosaic 2021! Friendly atmosphere. Low lighting. Plenty of seating available. Starting things around 10PM and going into the wee hours of the morning.

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Sunday, September 19, 2021

Hot Bean Water Talk, 11:30 AM
Hosted by Skittles
Morning coffee with your burner friends once again.

Virtual Temple Burn, 12:00 PM
Hosted by Mosaic Experiment
The #temple channel in discord will be closed to new posts at noon, at which time Templeton will light a fire in the channel and begin to "burn" the messages, one at a time, from the bottom up.

Consent Corner, 1:00 PM
Hosted by S-Laughter
Come hang out with the Consent Team members, old and new! It'll be a casual conversation space, so come chat, learn, and enjoy a consent-based space for awhile. :)

Fun With Eyeballs, 3:00 PM
Hosted by Bookbeard and Mouse
A presentation on how to make glass eyes for art projects. Materials needed: Glass pebbles (Like the ones that go in vases at weddings. Clear is better than opalescent), At least 3 nail polishes or paint with at least one being black, and a toothpick.
An E-Burning Course presented by The Department of Radical Self-Education.

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Happening All Weekend

The Burner Games 2021: Livestream Coverage
Hosted by Everyman and Corvus
Everyman and Corvus will be bringing you live streaming coverage of Mosaic, off and on again over Twitch, Facebook, and YouTube. They’ll cover highlights of the Discord, connect you with events that are going on, and take callers from the community on various topics.

Life's a Hitch... Then you Tie
Hosted by Squeezie
This digital theme camp will be open throughout the burn and serves as a welcome space to join in basic learning in knots and other rope shenanigans. Watch art in the form of rope tying and suspension. Classes will be taught and video shares will happen. We will update the WWW guide here as they are announced.

Postcards from Mosaic
Hosted by Tonic
If you send Tonic your mailing address, she will send you a vintage postcard with an out of context Mosaic Quote. Since we can't be together in person she wanted to send some of absurd burner humor to you. If you are ok with NSFW quotes let her know when you send your address.

Animal GIFs Feed My Soul
Hosted by Rikki
What better way to get your daily dose of serotonin than by sharing and enjoying animal GIFs? This theme camp channel gives everyone a place in the Virtual Burn to kick back and collectively say, “Awwwwwwww.”

What When Where Submissions Begin

We have a REAL LIVE BURN coming your way and it will be loaded with experiences to enjoy September 16-19th!

We’re throwing open the gates to welcome your WWW (What When Where) event submissions through this form. We’ve kept it simple, but we do ask that you complete the form for EACH individual event you are hosting.

Can’t you just feel that excitement building? Does it not have you dreaming about the things you’ll soon explore? The friends you’ve been missing who will explore it at your side? It’s time to gather your plans and share them with your community!

Our WWW guide will launch early next week and it will be a living document, growing as you add events here. We'll add them roughly once every 48 hours until Sunday, September 12th when we’ll put a pin in it and call it done.

Things are about to get VERY exciting!