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Over 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.

Now, as we look forward to Electric Forest 2023, instead of breaking down a wall piece by piece, we would like to build something together, piece by piece. It is time to start planting seeds of growth, to create together in harmony, and to dream of a more complete and connected future. Changing ourselves, our community, and our world can be daunting – we can easily be overwhelmed by the end goal before we even get started. How do we overcome this? We start small. With time and repetition. And most of all, we work together. Piece by piece we will build something beautiful.

TWHOLA is inviting us to spend some mindful moments contributing to this larger tapestry. At first, it will feel like our contributions are tiny, but we must trust in the growing process. By the end of the weekend, we will have built a beautiful Mural together. 

Come out to Main Street and add to Piece by Piece, our community Pixel Mural. We can’t wait to see what we will create 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.

In 2022, over 2,300 Forest Family engaged with HeadCount, and 293 new voters registered to vote!

In 2019, HeadCount registered over 750 Forest Family as voters, and during the 2020 Festival Challenge, Headcount registered 2,491 voters and verified an additional 12,525… bringing the total count of voters registered with Electric Forest to 6,525 since 2011.

SINCE 2011, OVER 390,000 MEALS HAVE BEEN DONATED TO CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE AT ELECTRIC FOREST!

Donate 20 non-perishable food items or make a suggested monetary donation and receive a limited edition poster. As always, donations collected at the festival will benefit members of the Rothbury community through our long-standing partnership with the Price family and their food distribution network.

In 2019, the Forest Family donated over 26,800 meals to The Roy Price Memorial Food Drive, and in 2020, The Forest Family That Feeds Campaign generated 10,676 meals via online donations.

Conscious Alliance is a national nonprofit committed to supporting communities through hunger relief.

Food donations should be low-sodium and health-oriented products. Organic food donations are especially encouraged. Ramen Noodles and expired items will not be accepted for the poster.

Thank you for your continued support in feeding the hungry everywhere music plays!

Electric Forest’s Music In Schools program has supported local music education since 2012. Each year, thousands of dollars are donated to help keep music part of the curriculum in Michigan public schools.

By donating money and instruments to local school music programs, Electric Forest is bridging the gap between diminishing school budgets and music program resource needs. Since its inception in 2012, Electric Forest’s Music in Schools program has donated six figures to local schools to enhance the resources available to their music departments. The Music In Schools program also offers hands-on experiences to music students, including performance opportunities at the festival, as well as on-site mentorship opportunities where students interested in music production “shadow” Electric Forest professionals during the event.

After all, Electric Forest’s home should be a place of musical discovery year-round!