MOSAIC S2E3 // Culture • Psychedelics • Consciousness
MOSAIC S2E3 // The Department of Coherent Nonsense
MOSAIC has never been about sitting back and watching a “show.” It’s about stepping into something together. It's part performance, part ritual, part experiment in what happens when strangers decide to be less strange for a night.
On September 25, we’re taking over The Redwood Theatre, a century-old vaudeville house that’s lived many lives as a cinema, a warehouse, and an underground circus. This time it becomes the portal for our next chapter.
The theme is The Department of Coherent Nonsense.
Translation: we’re gathering to laugh at the sheer mess we find ourselves in, make meaning where we can, and remember that laughter might not save you from zombies, but it'll definitely keep you alive (at least a bit longer).
Expect fire, satire, clowns, music, conversation, and a panel that will wrestle with the absurdities we all live through but rarely name.
Bring your curiosity, bring someone who loves to laugh with their whole body, and maybe leave certainty at home. MOSAIC works best when you don’t quite know what to expect because that’s where the magic sneaks in.
Panelists
Stephanie Avery is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose murals, installations, and public art projects transform everyday spaces into vibrant invitations for play, curiosity, and collective joy. Winner of “Best in Show” at the 2025 Artist Project, she has exhibited widely at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Nuit Blanche, and the Luminato Festival. Her work embraces absurdity as resistance, turning the disposable detritus of late capitalism into lasting expressions of levity, resilience, and shared connection.
Hillary Brenhouse is a Montreal writer and editor, and the founder of Elastic, a new magazine of psychedelic art and literature that pushes beyond clichés to explore stranger, deeper, and more expansive visions of psychedelia. Formerly editor-in-chief of Guernica, her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker online, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. With Elastic, she spotlights overlooked voices from psychedelic history to the present, blurring boundaries between art, culture, and altered states.
Jay Katz is a seasoned non-profit leader with more than two decades of experience guiding organizations in the arts, social services, and community development. He has served as Executive Director of a symphony orchestra, a community centre, and a seniors’ residence, as well as COO of a community foundation. As an executive coach, he specializes in supporting first-time CEOs and senior leaders across fields from finance to performing arts. Jay has also volunteered on numerous boards, including the Art Gallery of Windsor and the Mark Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.
Artists
Kendall Savage is the founder and former artistic director of the montreal clown festival. A multi award-winning professional, who's current works are being showcased in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Kalen Davidson aka Pyromeo is an interactive artist, using elements of circus, clown and comedy to create an amazing experience. Expect surprises like stilt characters, interactive juggling and fire performance. With many years of performing in live theatre and vaudeville cabaret, Kalen's performances are a unique collection of incredible skills.
Daniel John Campo is a professional writer of things no one asked for but everyone accidentally needed. He writes words that occasionally make sense, are funny, but often require a permit. He once watched Tenet twice and didn't ask for anyone to explain it. He lives in Toronto with several unpaid parking tickets and one fully paid kazoo.
Guru Brothers, Santosh Naidu and Gurtej Hunjan, have been bending rhythm into new shapes for more than two decades. Both grew up on tabla, trained under masters, and cut their teeth with the Toronto Tabla Ensemble before branching into dhol, drum kit, house, hip hop, and electronic soundscapes. Santosh went on to tour the world as percussionist for platinum and Grammy-nominated artist K-OS, sharing stages from Coachella to Letterman, while Gurtej brought live drumming into nightclubs and circuses, even joining Franco Dragone’s India Circus in Germany. Together as the Guru Brothers, they fuse classical South Asian percussion with club energy, rock grit, and electronic mischief. Santosh and Gurtej are also co-producers of the infamous summer jam Chillin and Grillin parties.
Elastic Lands in Canada
At MOSAIC S2E3, we're also celebrating the Canadian launch of Elastic, a new magazine exploring psychedelic art and literature beyond the clichés.
Sponsors
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Guided is building a next-generation platform for transformational wellness: a place where seekers can discover trusted retreats, facilitators can manage their practice, and connect with the people they’re here to serve. Guided's mission is to help humanity return to what matters most - to ourselves, to each other, and to the communities that hold us. Join Guided's beta and help shape the future of transformational wellness.
Partners
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 Psychedelic Association of Canada (PAC) is stewarding an evolution of wellbeing. Psychedelic medicines are more effective than current treatments for numerous hard to treat mental illnesses, like PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders and Substance Use Disorder. The PAC develops community. We collaborate and accelerate to advanceaccess to psychedelics for all Canadians.
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.
Animal Liberation Kitchen (ALK) is a Toronto-based, family-run plant-based food business grounded in animal rights, social justice, and environmental sustainability.