30th Telluride Mushroom Festival
Our friends at Fungi Magazine are sponsoring the 30th Telluride Mushroom Festival August 26th through the 29th.
http://www.shroomfest.com
Celebrate Mushfest’s 30th Monsoon Shroom Season
Come to Colorado’s San Juan Mountains the last weekend in August, Thursday the 26th through Sunday the 29th, for American mushrooming’s Rocky Mountain upstart: the Telluride Mushroom Festival.
As festival first-timer Sue Williamson wrote after last year’s event, “You have to go to find out that everyone is happy -- everyone; every age, every color, every size. It was like mingling with a very large family, one that actually loves each other. Literally everyone smiled when you met their eyes. It was my first festival in T-ride after 13 years of living here and I'm pretty sure I'll be there every one after.”
Since 1981 fungophiles of all sorts – from Andrew Weil to Thomas Szasz, from Rita Rosemberg to Lynn Margolis, from Sasha Shulgin to the late Terence McKenna -- have come to this mining camp-turned-resort mecca to talk about identification, growing methods, medicinal uses, drug scapegoating, culinary recipes, biological theory, entheogenic practice and the way of the psychonaut.
This year our featured lecturer is Paul Stamets of Fungi Perfecti in Olympia, Washington. Famed for his encyclopedic knowledge of the genus, Psilocybe, Paul has bioneered a host of new uses for mycological spores from forest remediation and oil spill cleanup to non-toxic insecticides and cardboard packaging boxes you can grow. His latest book’s Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World.
Keynote speaker is Canadian film star and New York Botanical Garden mycologist Gary Lincoff who will be exploring this topic, “"A Mushroomwomb with a View: How the Marginalized became the Matrix", as well as providing identification slide shows and workshops. He has a new field guidebook that was just published.
Other faculty includes Daniel Winkler, Naomi Salzman, Britt Bunyard, Elinoar Shavit, David Rose, Manny Salzman, Larry Evans, Jason Salzman, Linnea Gillman, Tony Corbin, Rita Rosenberg, John Sir Jesse, Kris Holstrom, Katrina Blair, the Adams family, Mike Logghe, Marie Luna, and the Hollinbeck family.
Expect four days of immersion in all things fungal and entheogenic, including forays, lectures, workshops, tours, movies, and tastings – with the high point always being Saturday afternoon’s annual mushfest costume parade down Telluride’s main street from Elks Park to the Town Park bridge.
Earlybird tickets for access to all events run $125 until July 15 (and then go up to $150). Mushfest is hosted by the Telluride Institute with grants from the Zoline Family Fund and the Town of Telluride’s Commission for Community Assistance, Arts and Special Events and sponsor support from the Wilkinson Library, Talking Gourds, Alpine Lodging, and Telluride Watch.
posted 2010-07-28 07:45:23