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TWLOHA PIECE BY PIECE: A PICTURE MURAL
To Write Love on Her Arms and Electric Forest present Piece by Piece: A Pixel Mural, a community-building art installation on Main Street.
At Electric Forest 2023, The Forest Family was invited to connect with one another and spend a few mindful moments painting a selection of “pixels” that made up the Mural. Piece by piece, pixel by pixel, together in community, a beautiful tapestry was revealed.
VIEW MORE INFOOver the past few years on Main Street, To Write Love on Her Arms has hosted the Barrier Project. The Forest Family built a wall, painting onto it the words, symbols, and phrases that represented our internal barriers. At the end of the weekend, the wall was broken down piece by piece and distributed to attendees, offered as a token of our intentions for improvement, and a reminder that the walls in our lives are not permanent.
New for Electric Forest 2023, instead of breaking down a wall piece by piece, we embarked on building something together, piece by piece. TWHOLA invited us to spend some mindful moments contributing to this larger tapestry. At first, it felt like our contributions were tiny, but we put trust in the growing process. By the end of the weekend, the Forest Family built a beautiful Mural together.
About To Write Love on Her Arms
To Write Love on Her Arms is a nonprofit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and invest directly into treatment and recovery.
REGISTER TO VOTE WITH HEADCOUNT
Want to make a difference? Visit HeadCount to register to vote, learn about local elections, and paint on the community canvas.
VIEW MORE INFOIn 2023, over 3,000 Forest Family took action with HeadCount, breaking Electric Forest’s all time HeadCount record!
Since 2011, Electric Forest has partnered with HeadCount to register new voters, help the Forest Family check their voter registration status, sign up for local election alerts, and more. Over the past decade, HeadCount has registered 6,914 voters at Electric Forest, and engaged with thousands more.
ROY PRICE MEMORIAL FOOD DRIVE
HQ teams up with Conscious Alliance for the eleventh consecutive year to host The Roy Price Memorial Food Drive! All food donations will benefit the local Price Family Food Bank of Rothbury, Michigan, which has collected record amounts of food for the local community.
In 2023, the Forest Family generously donated over 12,000 meals to the Conscious Alliance Roy Price Memorial Food Drive at Electric Forest.
VIEW MORE INFOSINCE 2011, OVER 402,000 MEALS HAVE BEEN DONATED TO CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE AT ELECTRIC FOREST!
In 2020, The Forest Family That Feeds Campaign generated 10,676 meals via online donations and in 2022, the Forest Family showed up and generously donated over 13,500lbs of food to the Conscious Alliance Roy Price Memorial Food Drive at Electric Forest.
Conscious Alliance is a national nonprofit committed to supporting communities through hunger relief.
Thank you for your continued support in feeding the hungry everywhere music plays!
MICHIGAN CAMP PROJECT
Electric Forest has expanded the Music In Schools Program to better support ALL that The Forest values - Community, Arts, Music, and Preservation. Introducing the Electric Forest Michigan CAMP Project, where HQ seeks to support local projects that align with these various core values. In 2023, the program continues to support local music programs through the Oceana County Community Fund while also funding community arts & parks projects. HQ seeks to continue spreading The Forest ethos and uplifting Michigan’s local music, arts, and nature!
END OVERDOSE
End Overdose is working to end drug-related overdose deaths through education, medical intervention, and public awareness.
Learn how and when to intervene during a suspected overdose, and de-stigmatize the conversation surrounding mental health, addiction, and overdoses.
VIEW MORE INFOAt Electric Forest 2023, End Overdose distributed 2,000 doses of intranasal naloxone. Along with their dose, each person who got certified also received an End Overdose certification card that states the name of the End Overdose trainer, their name, and the date of the training. Throughout the festival, End Overdose had the opportunity to train the Forest Family, vendors, staff, and artists, touching all parts of the Electric Forest community, while raising awareness and education for overdose response.