Give the Gift of Meeting Mushrooms
Spots Going Fast For Fungi Walks 🍄🌱 && A Love Poem to Fungi 💌
Dear Fellow Myconauts,
Give a loved one (including yourself!) this holiday season the unique opportunity to meet our local mushroom neighbors on a walk with me. The rains are here and the fungi are mushrooming!
The predicted significant rainfall has given us a rare opportunity in SoCal to plan to meet mushrooms in abundance. Spots are filling up fast!
Come along to learn how to notice, identify, and befriend mushrooms.
Aaron’s Upcoming Fungi Walks :
Saturday, December 23rd, 11a, Altadena – Befriending Fungi Walk with Aaron Tupac
Saturday, December 30th, 11a, Altadena – Befriending Fungi Walk with Aaron Tupac
In other news…
I wrote a love poem for fungi recently and performed it at our fungal conservation Exploring the Mycoverse discussion. This week it was featured by HerbClub LA! It’s my first poem to be shared on a public platform like this so it’s been a bit intimidating but an honor and am grateful for all the feedback.
Next in the Mycoverse…
Reminder next week Friday! Join us to end the year myceliating with fellow myconauts & celebrating fungi at our watch party of the 2023 Fungi Film Fest. It’s almost sold out!
2023 Fungi Film Fest Screening Party
Friday, December 29th, 6pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA
Sponsored by Arlington Garden
Every year we learn so much from the Fungi Film Fest organized by Radical Mycologist Peter McCoy – who’s worked we’ve discussed at length in the Mycoverse.
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!
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
The Sheldrake family announced their next workshop on Cortes Island next summer. I can highly recommended! It was a life-changing experience for me this past summer.
Looking sporeward,
Aaron
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