Friday Night:
Gabrielle Cerberville’s Presentation: Creative Alchemy: Conversations with Mushrooms
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Gabrielle Cerberville wears a LOT of hats. She’s a mushroom and foraging influencer with a devoted following, the author of Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life, a PhD student in music composition, a multimedia artist, and a passionate advocate for sustainability and community care. In this lively and thought-provoking talk, Gabrielle invites audiences into the tangled, awe-inspiring worlds of fungal morphology, wild ecologies, and the sensory joys of foraging. But this isn’t just a lecture about mushrooms. It’s a story about curiosity, resilience, and connection. Drawing from her experiences in the field, the forest, and the academy, Gabrielle details how to pay attention to the natural world and all of its smallest and weirdest details. In this talk, you’ll learn about how the intricacies of fungal morphology, the ever-unfolding surprises of natural ecologies, and the endless hunt for wild experiences can inspire your own search for meaning and connection, even in uncertain times.
Saturday Night:
Britt A Bunyard’s Presentation: “Fungi Now: Building a Sustainable and Resilient World
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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. Britt Bunyard’s lecture will present fascinating stories and beautiful photos of amazing fungi featured in his latest book. And about some of the research being conducted using fungi to solve many of our planet’s woes right now. Fungi CAN save the planet! Discover the crazy, wonderful life that goes on all around us, mostly hidden in plain sight. For general audiences, no knowledge of mycology is required, and all levels of mycological questions are encouraged for the Q&A. This lecture is based on features from Bunyard’s new books, The Lives of Fungi, A Natural History of Our Planet’s Decomposers and The Little Book of Fungi, recently published, as well as Fungi Decoded, coming out in September.
Sunday Night:
Hamilton Pevec’s Presentation: Your Mountain Pharmacy: Discovering Colorado’s Unsung Mushroom Medicine”
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Step off the supplement aisle and into the forest. In this story-rich exploration, Hamilton Pevec—filmmaker, forager, and president of the Western Colorado Mycological Association—shifts our gaze from the supermarket shelf back to the forest floor, where Colorado’s native mushrooms offer a potent, often-overlooked pharmacopeia.
While the big names like Reishi and Lion’s Mane get all the glory, what about Boletus rubriceps, Phellinus tremulae, or Ganoderma applanatum? What makes a mushroom medicinal? What compounds give them their healing power? And how can we build a deeper relationship with our local fungal allies?
In this talk, you’ll learn the science and soul behind the functional fungi of our mountain ecosystems. Hamilton brings you a heartfelt and knowledge-rich crash course in Colorado’s medicinal mushrooms—wild, accessible, and ready to be rediscovered.