Revisiting Braiding Sweetgrass
Announcing our Mycoverse schedule through October!
Dear Fellow Myconauts,
We are returning this month in Exploring the Mycoverse to a text that fundamentally shaped and inspired why we gather – the book Braiding Sweetgrass. It’s quite a moving work. A favorite amongst many of us so we’re excited to share in the experience of reading and discussing it together. Braiding Sweetgrass offers how we can understand the world through embracing pluralism inclusive of indigenous wisdom, western science, and the wisdom plants and fungi.
We first read this book together back in March 2022. It was our first sessions since relocating to Arlington Garden, our current home. Now we have a new cohort of enthusiastic myconauts requesting to read it together, many of whom have yet to read it.
Braiding Sweetgrass is greatly inspired by fungi! There is not one, but TWO chapters dedicated to the teachings of fungi in Braiding Sweetgrass! One on Umbilicaria (a lichen who lives here in SoCal) and another on Shkitagen (aka the tinder fungus aka chaga).
Upcoming Events 🍄🟫🌳🍄🍁
August 12th – The Grammar of Animacy
August 26th – Potluck 🥙 & Braiding Sweetgrass: The Honorable Harvest
September 9th: Soil Scientist Lynn Fang on Soil Fungi & Fungi in Compost 🪱 (more TBA, save the date!)
September 16th: Painting our fungal sculptures we made together from our Third Anniversary Celebration 🎨 (more TBA, save the date!)
October 7th – Braiding Sweetgrass: Becoming Naturalized to Place
October 21st – Braiding Sweetgrass The Sacred and The Superfund
Previously in the Mycoverse… Our Third Anniversary Celebration!
Special thanks to myconauts Alice and their partner Matthew for their generous clay supplies donation and teaching the Mycoverse how to sculpt with clay! It turned out to be quite a memorable evening. Stay tuned for more photos and to see what the sculptures become after we paint and fire them!
Social media post by Anne Trumble
Braiding Sweetgrass: The Grammar of Animacy
Monday, August 12th, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free by donation
We’ll be discussing Braiding Sweetgrass over many iterations so please join us for all of them or just one! We’ll be discussing the book 100 pages at a time with a focus on a specific section within that 100 pages if you’re not able to do the whole readings. More details on each event via the links.
August 12th – The Grammar of Animacy
August 26th – Potluck & The Honorable Harvest
October 7th – Becoming Naturalized to Place
October 21st – The Sacred and The Superfund
Spores Round Up
Behind the scenes footage of one of my favorite fungal short films Wrought. A time-lapse montage of rotting.
In the latest CA Lichen Society newsletter they talk about lichens that grow on lichens in Joshua Tree and exciting news about new species.
Spread the spores,
Aaron