I Have a New Website! Also a Mycoverse Special Guest Author Announcement!!
Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez author of *Let's Become Fungal!* visits the Mycoverse this month!
Dear Fellow Myconauts,
Do we have a delightful announcement for you!! Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez author of *Let's Become Fungal!* will be visiting the Mycoverse this month! We loved her book and can’t express how excited we are to host her Let’s Become Fungal Workshop on Mycelial Sharing !!!
I launched my website! I am delighted to share a new central location where you can follow my work and all things Exploring the Mycoverse. I will continue to update it with all of our future events. Please share with others to support my work!
Lots of exciting Mycoverse-related announcements I put at the end of this newsletter so read on!
Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez on Mycelial Sharing
Monday, April 29th, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free
Sponsored by Arlington Garden
Tickets will sell out soon!
Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, the author of the recently release Let's Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts will be facilitating a workshop inspired by her book and guiding us through meditation.
We are very grateful for this opportunity to explore the material from Yasmine's work more. The Mycoverse has been fermenting on the inspiration from reading Let's Become Fungal! together this past winter.
Let’s Become Fungal! is more than a book. It’s a methodology and a way of thinking that can be activated in communities, networks, and organizations. The author offers a program of collaboratively crafted mycelial workshops to activate the Teachings with a group. From mycelial meditations to biomimicry exercises, the workshops are suitable for anyone who, after reading this book, wants to become fungal.
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Yasmine is visiting Los Angeles thanks to a micro-residency and series of public programs hosted by Active Cultures, which you can learn more about here.
Potluck & Film Screenings of The Truffle Hunters & The Mycorians [Save the Date!]
Monday, May 13th, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free
We will begin our potluck festivities with a surprise screening of the generative-animated SF thriller featuring The Mycorians… Followed by an encore screening of The Truffle Hunters.
Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind [Save the Date!]
Monday, June 10th, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free
Start reading the incredible manga of this mycoremedation SF epic adventure now! And if you haven’t watched it yet, Nausicaa will be screening on May 19th & 21st in theaters.
Welcome to the Fermentation Station [Save the Date!]
Monday, June 24th, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free
Previously in the Mycoverse…
What a wonderful conversation of Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms – thank you to all who made it such a meaningful discussion on the fungal lessons they teach us about community, care, inspiration, and ambiguity. We talked about becoming critical yeasts again!
Links in the Myconautical Almanac
Fellow Mycoverse Myconaut Danielle Stevenson makes headlines with her work on the front page of Sunday’s Guardian (written by Doug Bierend who made a surprise appearance to the Mycoverse while he was writing this piece!).
RadMyco 7 announced for September 2024! FKA Radical Mycology Convergence AKA RMC. Several us Mycoverse Myconauts made the trip last year and will again this year. I spoke at the last one! I will post a video from it soon…
Santa Cruz Mountain Mushroom Festival May 4-5th just announced. Featuring Michael Hathaway author of What a Mushroom Lives For which we loved & read last year (perhaps his first fungi fest appearance??? / rare public appearance).
Sonoma Mycological Society (SOMA) just announced their scholarship applications are open for this year – they fund non-academic affiliated community science projects too!
Antennae published their latest issue dedicated to Queer Ecology
Spread the spores,
Aaron