TLDR: MOSAIC S2E3 lands September 25 at The Redwood Theatre with satire, psychedelics, and a portal courtesy of the Department of Coherent Nonsense. We’re also marking the Canadian launch of Elastic magazine, plus new partners and returning sponsors shaping the future with us. Meanwhile, the science keeps rolling: psilocybin shows promise for late-life peace and postpartum depression, and A$AP Rocky’s LSD-fueled studio session doubles as a case study in psychedelic creativity.

Public Notice 7-C: By temporary order of the Department of Coherent Nonsense, a spiral-shaped portal will open at sunset on September 25. The poster is the official memorandum. Please admire the municipal concentric circles, the state-issued bubblegum sunglasses, and the Buddhas-of-Last-Resort who have been meditating since the last time anyone found a user manual for reality. This is a lawful gathering of the quiet and curious.

After several committees attempted to staple fog to a moving train (with predictably damp results), the Department has hired three semi-competent brown men to coordinate. The mission: make meaning without pretending we have a clue.

The Blueberry Buddhas have unionized. Their goggles are for safety. Skepticism will be stamped Paid-in-Full before handing it back to you with a mint. Any corporate prophecy will be gently placed in the compost to see if it grows into something more edible.

Three memos escaped the shredder and reveal guests joining us at the next banal charade:

Bring curiosity, a friend who laughs with their whole body, and shoes you can think in. Certainty will be garnished generously with absurdity.

Specific details on expected disappointments to be announced soon. Keep an eye out on the event page. Tier 1 ticket launch September 4th.

For decades, psychedelic art has been stuck in fluorescent mandalas and mushroom cartoons. Montreal editor and writer Hillary Brenhouse believes it can, and must, be more. With Elastic, she’s building a magazine that reclaims psychedelia as expansive, disruptive, and alive: a place where grief, transition, and ecstasy are rendered in forms that warp time and scramble narrative. Formerly editor-in-chief of Guernica and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, Hillary brings the same rigor and edge to this project. The debut issue on dying reads like a collective hallucination stitched together by daring voices and visionary design. At MOSAIC S2E3, we celebrate Elastic’s Canadian launch, with Hillary joining us to share why psychedelic art needs to break its clichés and what happens when it does.

At MOSAIC, we consider sponsorship and partnership a practice like any other mindfulness practice. We treat it as a question: does this relationship deepen the field? Does it help us build the future we want to live in?

We’ve said no to many. We said yes to our friends below for reasons that go beyond business.

Sero has been with us since day one, before there was a crowd, before rituals and big drums. They believed in the shape of something before it had form.

Now our exclusive microdosing partner, Sero continues to walk with integrity. Their psilocybin blends are clean, measured, sustainably grown. Sero matches its great product with great posture. They understand that psychedelics are not a market trend. They are a cultural threshold. And they carry that responsibility with care. Quietly. Consistently. Much like us. You can use LOVEMOSAIC to get 10% off here.

Our second sponsor, Guided, is building what every facilitator needs but few have — infrastructure that holds without constraining. Booking. Payment. Intake. Flow. The founder, Costa Ntoukas, is a technologist and a student of transformation. A builder who understands that code is culture. Guided launches in late 2025 and the MOSAIC community will first access.

Elastic is a print magazine of psychedelic art and literature. Elastic published visual art and writing that bend time and genre and perspective, blur waking and dreaming life, find sublimity and absurdity in the everyday, magnify the senses, multiply and distort the possibilities of narrative, and interrogate power by breaking form.

The Redwood Theatre, a century-old vaudeville house turned community-powered arts sanctuary at Gerrard and Greenwood. This place has lived many lives from a cinema, to a warehouse, to an underground circus. And now The Redwood Theatre stands as one of the most eclectic and inclusive venues in the city. Women-owned, queer-friendly, vegetarian-only and zero-waste venue, wheelchair accessible, and steeped in creative grit. All the feel-good things. The Redwood is exactly the kind of space MOSAIC was meant to grow into: independent, legacy-rich, and built for gathering weird, beautiful humans to make something unforgettable.

Animal Liberation Kitchen (ALK) is a Toronto-based, family-run plant-based food business grounded in animal rights, social justice, and environmental sustainability. They serve thoughtful, inclusive meals that reflect their values: compassion for all beings, deep local community ties, and a commitment to reducing ecological harm through plant-based cuisine.

Tarun Nayar, also known as Modern Biology, is a Canadian musician, former biologist, and community organizer who specializes in “biosonic” music that transforms the bioelectric signals of plants and fungi into immersive ambient compositions. Formally trained in Indian Classical music and experienced in electronic production, Nayar uses modular synthesizers and self-built analog equipment to create live, improvisational soundscapes directly from nature. His project’s “Mushroom Church” concept is a gathering where people forage mushrooms and plants in outdoor settings, then participate in deep listening and consciousness exploration as Nayar channels the bioelectricity of these organisms into music. Join Modern Biology’s next communal meditation with plant music in Toronto on October 12th.

No website. No ads. No culty group chat. Just good people, doing real shit. If you believe in what we’re building help us keep it strange, sacred, and sustainable.

_{DISCLAIMER: This newsletter is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. The use, possession, and distribution of psychedelic drugs are illegal in most countries and may result in criminal prosecution.}