Fungi Walks 🌧️=🍄 + Fungi Film Fest 2023
Fungi Walks 🌧️=🍄 + Fungi Film Fest 2023
End the year myceliating with fellow myconauts & celebrating fungi through film.
Dear Fellow Myconauts,
Rains are incoming this week! You all are invited to join me on a walk to say hi to our fellow fungal neighbors. This is a rare opportunity in SoCal where we know there will be a significant amount of rain to bring mushrooms a few days thereafter.
Aaron’s Upcoming Fungi Walks (Just Announced!):
Saturday, December 23rd, 11a, Altadena – Befriending Fungi with Aaron Tupac
Saturday, December 30th, 11a, Altadena – Befriending Fungi with Aaron Tupac
Over at FUNDIS, we wrapped up the first year of the CA Fungal Diversity Survey Project and published our first year report you can read here! The project is on track to make CA the first U.S. state to know its macrofunga (e.g. mushrooms) locally and regionally. This is a huge step in conservation mycology. When I get a chance, I will compile some of the exciting collections I’ve made for the project to share with you all (I am still waiting on DNA sequencing data for a lot of my collections).
Next in the Mycoverse…
Join us to end the year myceliating with fellow myconauts & celebrating fungi at our watch party of the 2023 Fungi Film Fest.
After our first discussion it’s safe to say the Mycoverse is loving Let’s Become Fungal . Be sure to join us in January, these are some special discussions about international solidarity with the mycelial way of living.
2023 Fungi Film Fest Screening Party
Friday, December 29th, 6pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA
Sponsored by Arlington Garden
Join us watching the one, and only, 2023 Fungi Film Fest celebrating fungi on an international scale. It is our third time gathering to watch this incredible annual film fest, featuring a diversity of film genres – educational documentary, comedy, science fiction, and more!
Note we’re starting a little earlier than usual at 6p to accommodate the screening time and time for socializing. We’re asking folks for a $5 donation to cover the group screening fee. Bring your favorite film-watching snack to share with the group.
We will also be raffling off one of fellow myconaut Tobias’s mycelial paintings donated to the Mycoverse pictured below! Thank you for sharing your artistic talent of creating mushroom worlds with us, Tobias!
How Can Our Imagination Shape New Worlds?
Monday, January 8th, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free
Sponsored by Arlington Garden
We will be discussing the book Let's Become Fungal! over three months (Dec, Jan, Feb) – the book can be read in any order, non-linearly, so please join us for any and/or all of these discussions. Discussion questions will be sent out in advance to those who RSVP.
We will also be raffling off yet another one of Tobias’s mycelial paintings pictured below!
Before this discussion, we invite you to:
Read the following chapters of Let's Become Fungal! (note again, the book can be read in any order)
(4) How to Re-Think Decay And Decomposition?
(5) How to Understand The Closeness of Toxicity?
(6) How Can Our Imagination Shape New Worlds?
(7) How to Escape Categorization?
Please see the Eventbrite event details for more info and to RSVP!
We will also be raffling off (for free) Tobias’s latest mushroom painting donated to the Mycoverse pictured below! Outerspace mycelium astromycology!
Myco-Makers Workshop TBA
Monday, January 22nd, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free
Save the date for our next Myco-Makers workshop! More TBA next Sporinator…
What Are Fungi Teaching Us About Multispecies Models of Collaboration?
Monday, February 12th, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free
Sponsored by Arlington Garden
Join us for our finale discussion of Let's Become Fungal! to "find your fungal alter ego" (as titled in the preface of the final chapter). The book can be read in any order, non-linearly, so please join us for any and/or all of these discussions.
Myconaut Mushroom Links
Taking a Long View of Time, and Becoming “Critical Yeast” - On Being with Krista Tippett
The Sheldrake family announced their next workshop on Cortes Island next summer. Highly recommended, was a life-changing experience this year.
Looking sporeward,
Aaron