From our third anniversary celebration of the Mycoverse last year! We made clay sculptures, can’t believe this was already a year ago! 📸: Lola @chicawithbees on Instagram
The time has come to celebrate our fourth year coming together as a values-based community inspired by fungi, building better relationships with the more-than-human world!! Join us for a special guided walk, “Learning to Collaborate with Fungi,” on July 28th, designed by my myconaut friends across the pond in the UK, whom I met at the Telluride Mushroom Festival in 2022.
PS – I had a medical emergency last week, ☹️ so we had to postpone our discussion of Braiding Sweetgrass. I am grateful to share that my recovery is going smoothly. Stay tuned when we find a time to reschedule!
Sunday, August 17th, 9am @ Arroyo Seco, Pasadena, CA – $5-$25
I am excited to announce a new workshop I’m doing with my long-time partner in sound, Ian Wellman. For several years, we performed live in an electromagnetic field recording called Zzyzxzyzz, named after the location where we met at a field recording workshop at the Desert Studies Center in Zzyzx, where we recorded bats and ants.
This workshop is part of a Fulcrum Arts exhibition featuring Ian's documentation of the sounds of the Arroyo Seco River, titled ‘Between the Sound,’ which includes the soundscapes of the more-than-human world.
Now, about the workshop! Come along as we explore the sounds of secret worlds along the Arroyo Seco watershed. Following the activity, participants will gather at the Fulcrum Arts HQ for a short lecture where I will discuss my work and provide an introduction to lifeforms of Arroyo Seco, such as fungi and insects. Additionally, workshop leaders will discuss techniques for recording sounds the human auditory system cannot perceive, such as electromagnetic fields.
Monday, July 28th, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free by donation
🎉 Join us as we celebrate our fourth year of Exploring the Mycoverse! Founded in July of 2021, at a time when the world felt lonely and hard, we made a community together, inspired by fungi. We pursued how to be in better relationship with the more-than-human world. We found love, joy, and purpose through these fungal adventures, which included over 100 workshops and reached more than 1,000 people over the past four years!!!
Fungi have taught us so much through their incredible diversity, ways of living, and creative ways of forming relationships.
Which leads us to how we will celebrate this year’s anniversary! We will take a guided walk together created by myconauts Lenka Vráblíková (Czech & UK) and Elsbeth Mitchell (UK). On this we walk, we will establish new and diverse relationships with nature and others, together with mushrooms. Inspired by life approaches such as collective action, the slow living movement, and radical mindfulness, it calls for establishing different kinds of relationships and cooperation. We will help decompose the old ways of being through unlearning lovelessness, selfish competitiveness, and rugged individualism. Now are the times that call for collective collaboration! During our walk together, you will learn something new about others and yourself - thanks to sensory, creative, and collective activities.
Let's follow in the footsteps of mushrooms and learn to live, move, and share with others again – and in better ways than ever! 🎊
🌟 Before our discussion, we invite you to:
Bring a story or lesson you've learned at Exploring the Mycoverse about community and collaboration!
📝 About the creators:
Lenka Vráblíková and Elspeth Mitchell write and teach about contemporary art, transnational feminisms and critical ecologies at Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of Leeds.
Since 2017 they have worked together on art and fungi projects guided by decolonial strategies, radical pedagogies, and feminist ways of knowing.
Elspeth is committee member of the Mid-Yorkshire Fungus Group (UK) and Lenka is an advisory board member of Kafkárna - Center for Arts and Ecology UMPRUM (Czechia).
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Shagane wrote a wonderful, detailed recap of her workshop with us in June. Check out all the mushroom artwork and cartoons on YouTube she linked. Thank you, Shagane, for sharing your gift and cultural stories around fungi!!!
Survey Question! If you’re interested in discussing The Light Eaters again or missed last discussion, fill out the survey below. I’m trying to see if there’s enough interest to host another gathering on this mind-bending book.
Orion magazine dedicated their summer issue to fungi, featuring some of our favorite thinkers, thinking relationally about a future with fungi. They hosted a Future is Fungi magazine issue launch event.
The Thinking with Plants and Fungi Conference 2025 has officially been posted on YouTube, featuring Giuliana Furci on fungal conservation.
Aishwarya Veerbahu's research on Golden Oysters has been published. It's not publicly accessible yet, Aishwarya said to keep an eye on the Pringle Lab website in the near future for its posting. She wrote about it publicly like in this article.
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