4th Anniversary Mycoverse Celebration – Learning Collaboration with Fungi

Organized and hosted by Aaron TupacSponsored by Arlington Garden

🎉 Join us as we celebrate our fourth year of Exploring the Mycoverse! Founded in July of 2021, at a time when the world felt lonely and hard, we made a community together, inspired by fungi. We pursued how to be in better relationship with the more-than-human world. We found love, joy, and purpose through these fungal adventures, which included over 100 workshops and reached more than 1,000 people over the past four years!!!

Fungi have taught us so much through their incredible diversity, ways of living, and creative ways of forming relationships.

Which leads us to how we will celebrate this year’s anniversary! We will take a guided walk together created by myconauts Lenka Vráblíková (Czech & UK) and Elsbeth Mitchell (UK). On this we walk, we will establish new and diverse relationships with nature and others, together with mushrooms. Inspired by life approaches such as collective action, the slow living movement, and radical mindfulness, it calls for establishing different kinds of relationships and cooperation. We will help decompose the old ways of being through unlearning lovelessness, selfish competitiveness, and rugged individualism. Now are the times that call for collective collaboration! During our walk together, you will learn something new about others and yourself - thanks to sensory, creative, and collective activities.

Let's follow in the footsteps of mushrooms and learn to live, move, and share with others again – and in better ways than ever! 🎊

🌟 Before our discussion, we invite you to:

• Bring a story or lesson you've learned at Exploring the Mycoverse about community and collaboration!

📝 About the creators:

Lenka Vráblíková and Elspeth Mitchell write and teach about contemporary art, transnational feminisms and critical ecologies at Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of Leeds.

Since 2017 they have worked together on art and fungi projects guided by decolonial strategies, radical pedagogies, and feminist ways of knowing.

Elspeth is committee member of the Mid-Yorkshire Fungus Group (UK) and Lenka is an advisory board member of Kafkárna - Center for Arts and Ecology UMPRUM (Czechia).

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📣 NOTE: We will be back at Arlington this month after their shed burned down containing our tables and chairs. We will be mostly standing and walking during this workshop.

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