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!
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Ways of Seeing the Long History of Psychedelic Plants and Mushrooms: Emerging from their roots in indigenous folk practice, we follow the path of several significant psychedelic species through more than a century of cross-cultural introduction. After grounding the topic in evolutionary history, then the known indigenous traditions, we move into the 20th century. These plants, fungi and substances have wended their way across boundaries, seeding cultural transformation in the West, changing their traditional knowledge-holding cultures, and generating more questions than answers. We will regard this complex landscape of change-agents, including the creative burst that we now call the Psychedelic Revolution of the 1960s-70s. Via storytelling, we personify these particularly potent species – Peyote, Psilocybe mushrooms, and Ayahuasca. We ask, what if each of them had a conscious role in these waves of cultural change? Who are they, and what is lost and gained by the carriers of these traditions?
