Café Champignon: Book Launch & Soiree with Alison Pouliot

This event launches the 2025 Fungi Feastival with our keynote speaker, Alison Pouliot. Alison is an incredible ecologist, environmental photographer and author.

Following in the French tradition of Café Philosophique, Café Champignon brings the curiosities of the Kingdom Fungi into active conversation. In this interactive seminar and discussion, Alison will introduce us to both the science and aesthetics of fungi. She’ll share her experiences in the field with conservation groups and rangers, First Nations people and farmers, scientists and artists and others to ponder these curious organisms through multiple lenses. In particular, we’ll explore how we might navigate the tensions between ecology, aesthetics and conservation.

We will also launch Alison’s new book, which is both about fungi, and the photography of fungi. Through the stories in Funga Obscura we will cross continents and ecosystems, navigate lichen-covered landscapes, crawl in the fungal undergrowth, scale glacial extremes and duck between rainforest shadows.

Afterwards, you can enjoy a light fungi supper and have the opportunity to purchase signed copies of Alison’s books, The Allure of Fungi, Wild Mushrooming, Underground Lovers and Funga Obscura.

Join us at the Bermagui Community Centre Hall and celebrate the launch of Fungi Feastival 2025. Book now to avoid missing out - limited tickets are available.

You may also like the following events from Fungi Feastival:

• This month, 20th June, 01:00 pm, Foray Among Fungi with Alison Pouliot in Bega
• This month, 21st June, 09:00 am, Fungi Film Night at Narooma in Bermagui
• This month, 21st June, 09:00 am, Fungi Photography Immersive Weekend Workshop in Bermagui

Also check out other Arts events in Bermagui, Workshops in Bermagui, Literary Art events in Bermagui.