Name: Welcome to the Telluride Mushroom Festival! You know the mushroom. But do you REALLY know its identity?
Start: 2025-06-09T09:00:00-0600
End: 2025-06-09T10:00:00-0600

Welcome to the largest wild mushroom happening in North America, the 44th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival! A plethora of events ranging from foray and mushroom ID sessions, to hands-on demonstrations, to lectures—all led by regionally-, nationally-, and internationally-known experts, (and we cannot forget the Parade!) there is plenty for everyone each and every day.

On this website, you can filter your search by events, venues, presenters, etc. Each year the Mushroom Festival features many wonderful presentations on “all things fungi.” Presentations on similar topics are grouped together at the same venue so that attendees interested will be able to spend more time learning and interacting, and less time walking between venues. See who else is interested in each event and interact with our extended Mushroom Family. See you soon!

Monday June 9, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT

Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435

Welcome to the Telluride Mushroom Festival! This presentation will introduce you to a little bit of what to expect from the Festival ... and will introduce you to the kingdom of fungi. Fungi are weird, fungi are cool, and fungi are beautiful. But how much do we really know about them? For starters, they do much more than just rot things. They control pretty much all life on our planet and are everywhere. Discover the crazy, wonderful life that goes on all around us, mostly hidden in plain sight. This lecture is based on features from Bunyard’s new book, The Lives of Fungi, A Natural History of Our Planet's Decomposers.

Speakers

Britt Bunyard

Dean of Faculty, Telluride Mushroom Festival

Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal FUNGI. Britt has worked academically (and played very amateurishly) as a mycologist his entire career, writing scientifically for many research journals, popular science magazines, and books... Read More →

Monday June 9, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Sheridan Opera House

Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

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45th Telluride Mushroom Festival

Britt Bunyard

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