What Have We Learned Exploring the Mycoverse?

Organized and hosted by Aaron Tupac
Sponsored by Arlington Garden

Over the years, we have traversed the Mycoverse with a diverse group of myconauts from our local community to authors, artists, and scientists from all over. We have learned so much, especially from you! To honor what we have learned, we are working on creating a few projects to showcase the Exploring the Mycoverse community we have cultivated toegher – via publications, a documentary, and more!

This session is dedicated to feeding these projects through sharing our stories, Mycoverse delights, favorite anecdotes, favorite humorous moments, favorite vulnerable moments, favorite mushroom encounter, and favorite moments where we felt deeply connected. How has your relationships with fungi and the more than human world evolved through our community?

Come along to share and listen to what spores we've spread, and what stories we’ve felt the need to share with our friends, family, coworkers, and the occasional stranger.

We are excited to reflect on what we have learned so far in exploring the Mycoverse, from the far reaches of the Mycoverse in the matsutake forests of Yunnan, the yeasty relationships that founded human civilization in the Middle East, the multitude of myco-inspired gatherings at New Moon, Telluride, Radical Mycology, NAMA, and many more we’ve explored across the United States, to the Mycoverse that is near, inside us, and under our very own feet.

Before our discussion, we invite you to think about:

• What is something you share with others that you have learned from this community? Or something you feel vitally important to share from this community?

• Do you have a specific story about the Mycoverse, or experience, a moment from the Mycoverse that changed the way you see the world or enhanced your understanding of fungi?
• What does building a better relationship with the more-than-human worlds of fungi look like to you?

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Host or Publisher Arlington Garden in Pasadena