Mushroom Walks, Speakers From The Mycelium Underground, & So Many Spores
We have a lot to announce as LA's mushroom season peaks!
Dear Fellow Myconauts,
Welcome to the height of Los Angeles’s mushroom season! Mushroom walks are back!
Befriending Fungi Walk with Aaron – Saturday, February 24th at 10a, Pasadena, CA
Befriending Fungi Walk with Aaron – Saturday, March 2nd at 10a, Pasadena, CA
A big THANK YOU to the Mycoverse volunteers, Rafa, Anne, Vanessa, Gio, and so many others who have been showing up early to help set up, staying late to clean up, bringing tea and mugs to keep us warm, and many thanks to all who contributed to our potluck celebration of Let’s Become Fungal!
What a wonderful community we have fermenting.
Janneke holding her delicious take on the classic Torta de Santiago – Agaricus Almond Cake.
Vanessa’s umami homemade Miso Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Special thanks to Rafa for having us at Huntington Gardens for a Fungal Diversity Survey.
Myconauts abroad! Mushrooming at Sonoma County Mushroom Camp.
UV fluorescent gills of Hebaloma on my latest walk with Los Angeles Public Library.
Excited to announce I started my second year with the landmark CA Fungal Diversity Survey Project documenting our local mushrooms.
Doğa Tekin + Olga Tzogas on Cultivating Community
Monday, February 26th, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA
Sponsored by Arlington Garden
Join organizers from the Mycelium Underground collective which organizes the New Moon Mycology Summit and beyond.
The New Moon Mycology Summit was created in response to a need and passion for alternative spaces within mycology—diverse spaces for sharing knowledge and community that center the interconnectedness between fungi and ecological + social justice. From mycoremediation to decolonization, interspecies art to alternative economies, racial justice to environmental activism, our events connect diverse perspectives, experiences, and topics to help us envision and create new futures together.
Doğa and Olga will share their journey of organizing these events including the love stories and the challenges, and open it up to a Q+A and discussion about what we want to collectively see and grow in myco-spaces.
Check out Eventbrite to learn more about our special guest speakers!
Alison Pouliot’s Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms
Monday, March 11th, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free
Sponsored by Arlington Garden
From one of the photographers of Merlin Sheldrake (author of Entangled Life) and Björk's new IMAX film Fungi: Web of Life, the well-known photographer Alison Pouliot with over 20 years of experience in the field, recently published a new book this last September about her personal fungal journey traveling across the world reflecting on “how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet’s power and fragility.”
It is a very fitting read for the Mycoverse as we explore deeper how to cultivate awareness, appreciation, and connection with the more-than-human world of fungi.
Before our discussion, we invite you to:
Read the first half of the book, Chapters 1 through 6, pages 1-132. We will be reading the second half of the book for our April discussion, April 15th.
Myconautics & Links
Plantasia! A queer celebration of plants at Junior High Los Angeles – the Mycoverse will be tabling, see you there! Friday, February 23rd at 7p.
Looking sporeward,
Aaron