Mycoverse: Aaron Tupac in Conversation with Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez

Organized and hosted by Aaron Tupac
Sponsored by Arlington Garden

We are thrilled to welcome back Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, the author of Yasmine will be in conversation with Exploring the Mycoverse founder Aaron Tupac.

We will be in conversation about mycelial organizing, what fungi can teach us about grief, Yasmine's new oracle card deck, and much more. Last year's workshop with Yasmine was a favorite amongst the Mycoverse myconauts!

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Yasmine is visiting Los Angeles thanks to programing hosted by Active Cultures, which you can learn more about here.

About the speakers:
(MA) is a curator, writer, and researcher working at the intersection of art and ecology. She is the founder of the Green Art Lab Alliance (established in 2012); a network comprising sixty art organizations across Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia. The mission of the alliance is to foster relationships that contribute to social and environmental justice, akin to the interconnected nature of mycelium. She worked for organizations including Julie's Bicycle (United Kingdom), Asia-Europe Foundation (Singapore), and TransArtists (Netherlands). She is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Forum (Austria), the Ecologic Institute (Germany) and of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (Germany). She founded and directed the Nature Research Department at the Jan van Eyck Academie (Netherlands, 2017), the Van Eyck Food Lab (2018), and the Future Materials Bank (2020); a crowd-sourced database of sustainable materials for artists, designers and architects. She organised Food Art Film Festivals from the Netherlands to China to Brazil and has been curator-in-residence in many art institutions worldwide, including Capacete (Brazil) and Bamboo Curtain Studio (Taiwan). She is a self-proclaimed "mycophile", interested in exploring the application of a mycological lens in defining fair models of collaboration and (self) organization. Her debut book, "Let's Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts," shares twelve teachings of the world of fungi. It was published by Valiz in 2023 and is being translated into various languages. It was selected for one of the Best Dutch Book Designs 2023 and nominated for the Best Book Design Globally 2023.

(they/them) is a mycologist, educator, community organizer, and speaker based in Los Angeles. Aaron is the organizer of the fungi-focused community education group Exploring the Mycoverse.

Aaron works for the Fungal Diversity Survey, the only nonprofit focused on North America's fungal biodiversity and conservation. They serve as a fungi collector for the California Fungal Diversity Survey, the first government-funded state-wide project of its kind.

Aaron is also the founding chair of the North American Mycological Association’s Conservation and Stewardship Committee.

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