The Telluride Mushroom Festival (TMF) is a can't-miss event happening every August in Telluride, Colorado. It's a weekend of mycology-related forays, unique talks, special events and dinners, and of course the parade. TMF is famous for the lively experience it provides all festival participants. Every year the festival attracts 800 to 1,000 fungi fans from across the United States, and the world.

Welcome to the largest wild mushroom happening in North America, the 43rd 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.

The Telluride Mushroom Festival has been bringing in the best mycologists to speak on psychedelic research, decriminalization, and how to cultivate your own mushrooms. We are stewards of education that all humans should know about our mycelial friends. We are a family bonded around mushrooms. Come join next years reunion!

Schedule of Events

August 16, 2023
 
10:00am: PreFest Workshop: Cooking w/ Mushrooms
Location: Ah Haa School - Culinary Room

9:00am: PreFest Workshop: Natural dye and botanical printing with plants, mushroom and lichen
Location: Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop

9:00am: PreFest Workshop: Cultivation of Sacred Mushrooms for Personal Use
1:00pm: PreFest Workshop: Amanita Muscaria
Location: Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop

9:00am: PreFest Workshop: MycoRemediation w/ Lauren Czaplicki
Location: Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio

10:00am: PreFest Foray: Early Bird Foray
Location: Carhenge Parking Lot

4:00pm: PreFest Dinner: Hongos en la Mesa (Mushroom Dinner & Wine Pairing)
Location: John Sir Jesse's Casa de la Mesa

4:30pm: Live Music! Myco Beer Launch Party - Quattlebaum and Lavalanche
Location: Sheridan Opera House

4:00pm: Out There Yoga with Kye to start your Mushroom Fest Journey
Location: Town Park

4:30pm: PreFest Dinner: Fungi Conservation Fundraiser - A Foraged Dinner
Location: Trout Lake Overlook House

August 17, 2023
 
10:00am: Fiber Dying Workshop - Signup Required at Registration
12:00pm: Put a Mushroom on it! Tie-dye T-shirt Demo! - Signup Required at Registration
3:30pm: Grow A Small, Sustainable Mushroom Company- Signup Required at Registration
Location: Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop

9:00am: Morel Life Cycles and Outdoor Cultivation
10:30am: Untangling the Confusing World of Functional Mushrooms: A Scientific Approach
12:00pm: Demonstration: Cooking Mushrooms with Chad Hyatt: Part 1- Signup Required at Registration
2:00pm: Panel Discussion: Resilience
4:00pm: FREE Yoga with Chelsey
Location: Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop

9:00am: Workshop Part 1 (Morning Session): Fun Fungi! Wild Mushroom Puppet Theater and Fungi Education for Kids 7–12
2:00pm: Workshop: Photomicroscopy with Alan Rockefeller and Alison Pollack- Signup Required at Registration
Location: Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio

1:30pm: Workshop Part 1 (Afternoon Session): Fun Fungi! Wild Mushroom Puppet Theater and Fungi Education for Kids 7–12
Location: Ah Haa School- Possibilities Room

1:00pm: Poetry Reading and Book Signing with Art Goodtimes and Wendy Videlock
3:00pm: Book Signing with Katrina Blair
Location: Between the Covers- Bookstore

11:00am: FORAYS 4-5 HOURS Departs at 11:00am- Signup Required at Registration
12:00pm: FORAYS 2-3 HOURS Departs at 12:00pm- Signup Required at Registration
Location: Carhenge Parking Lot

8:30am: Registration & Information Desk
3:00pm: Panel Discussion: Amanita muscaria: Science and Lore, Chemistry and Functionality
Location: Elks Park

9:00am: Vendor Village
Location: Elks Park & Oak Street Park

8:30am: Workshop and Foray Signups
Location: Elks Park Workshop Tent

6:00pm: Offical Opening Ceremony
6:30pm: Keynote Lecture: The State of Our Mushroom World
8:00pm: Movie Dosed
Location: Palm Theatre

9:30am: Welcome to the Telluride Mushroom Festival! Resilience of Fungi
10:30am: Intro to Colorado Mushrooms and the Annual “Most Wanted” of Telluride
12:00pm: Resilience and Plant Partnerships with Fungi
1:30pm: A Survey of Mushroom Use by Humans: From Neolithic and Chinese Medicine to Current Psychotherapy
3:00pm: Fungal Finds from Yasuní National Park, Ecuador: A Focus on Xylaria at One of the Most Biodiverse Places on Earth
4:30pm: Fundis Movement
Location: Sheridan Opera House

11:00am: Integration Space
Location: Telluride Arts Gallery- Back Lounge Area

12:00pm: Virtual Reality Mushroom Lounge
Location: Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room

9:00am: What They Have Said- Xavier Noakes Mushroom Oral History
Location: Wilkinson Public Library- Upstairs Telluride Room

August 18, 2023
 
9:00am: Making Professional Gummies in Your Kitchen- Signup Required at Registration
11:00am: Handmade Paper from Fungi! - Signup Required at Registration
1:00pm: Psilocybin in Group Therapy- Signup at Registration Required
Location: Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop

9:00am: Hyperfocused Distractions with Mycophillia, Mycophobia, and Ethnomycology
10:30am: Untangling the Confusing World of Functional Mushrooms: A Scientific Approach
12:00pm: Demonstration: Cooking Mushrooms with Chad Hyatt: Part 2
1:00pm: Panel Discussion: We’ve Decriminalized, Now What?
5:00pm: Special Event: Wild Foods Tasting with Katrina Blair
Location: Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop

9:00am: Workshop Part 2 (Morning Session): Fun Fungi! Wild Mushroom Puppet Theater and Fungi Education for Kids 7–12
2:00pm: Workshop: Photomicroscopy with Alan Rockefeller and Alison Pollack- Signup Required at Registration
Location: Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio

1:30pm: Workshop Part 2 (Afternoon Session): Fun Fungi! Wild Mushroom Puppet Theater and Fungi Education for Kids 7–12
Location: Ah Haa School- Possibilities Room

9:00am: Book Signing with Andy Weil
10:00am: Book Signing with Britt Bunyard
Location: Between the Covers- Bookstore

9:00am: FORAYS 4-5 HOURS Departs at 9:00am- Signup Required at Registration
10:00am: FORAYS 2-3 HOURS Departs at 10:00am- Signup Required at Registration
Location: Carhenge Parking Lot

9:00am: Registration & Information Desk
11:30am: Workshop: Outdoor Cultivation of Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms on Logs, Stumps, and Wood Chips
1:00pm: Free Cooking Workshop: Intro to Cooking Common Edible Mushrooms
2:00pm: Half Day Artist's Field Workshop- Signup Required at Registration
Location: Elks Park

9:00am: Vendor Village
Location: Elks Park & Oak Street Park

9:00am: Foray Signups
Location: Elks Park Workshop Tent

6:00pm: Keynote Lecture: The Remarkable and Resilient Old Growth Forest Fungi
7:00pm: Movie: Journey through Nature
Location: Palm Theatre

9:00am: Mushroom Hunting 202: A Few Delicious and Distinctive Colorado Edible Mushrooms
10:30am: Principles of Mushroom Cooking
12:00pm: Movie and discussion: Don’t Look Up, Look Down
1:30pm: Fungi for Resilient Rivers
3:00pm: Funga: Making Change for Fungi
4:30pm: MycoLuscious Poetry Show Rehearsal
8:00pm: The MycoLuscious MycoLicious MycoLogical Poetry Show with Art Goodtimes and Friends
Location: Sheridan Opera House

11:00am: Integration Space
Location: Sheridan Opera House- Green Room

2:00pm: Open Myc For ALL - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Location: SHOW Bar

11:00am: Alchemical Mushroom Sound Bath
Location: Wilkinson Public Library- Downstairs Terrace

9:00am: Virtual Reality Mushroom Lounge
Location: Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room

12:00pm: What They Have Said- Xavier Noakes Mushroom Oral History
Location: Wilkinson Public Library- Upstairs Telluride Room

August 19, 2023
 
11:00am: Costume Creations for the Mushroom Parade
Location: Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop

9:00am: Microscopy Workshop - Signup Required at Registration
Location: Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio

9:00am: Book Signing with Tradd Cotter
10:30am: Book Signing with Barbara Theirs
Location: Between the Covers- Bookstore

9:00am: FORAYS 4-5 HOURS Departs at 9:00am- Signup Required at Registration
10:00am: FORAYS 2-3 HOURS Departs at 10:00am- Signup Required at Registration
Location: Carhenge Parking Lot

9:00am: Registration & Information Desk
1:00pm: Workshop: Outdoor Cultivation of Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms on Logs, Stumps, and Wood Chips
Location: Elks Park

9:00am: Vendor Village
Location: Elks Park & Oak Street Park

9:00am: Wild Foods Foray
Location: Mountains in and around Telluride

9:00am: More Than Peanuts: George Washington Carver’s Fungal Fascination
10:30am: Location, Location, Location: Biogeographic Resilience of Boletes
Location: Palm Theatre

9:00am: Ancestral Uses of Fungi: Ethnomycological Reports from Literature and the Field
10:30am: Mycelial Organizing For A Holistic Psychedelic Movement
12:00pm: Legal Mushroom Trip: How Mushrooms are Legal, Illegal, Food, and Food Adulterants All at the Same Time
1:30pm: How Fungi is Healing Our Military, First Responders and Athletes
8:00pm: NEW The Puff Ball: A Costume, DJ Dance Party
Location: Sheridan Opera House

11:00am: Integration Space
Location: Telluride Arts Gallery- Back Lounge Area

4:00pm: PARADE + DRUMMING + DANCING
Location: Telluride Main Street

5:00pm: Costume Awards
Location: Town Park

9:00am: Mushroom Hunting 202: A Few Delicious and Distinctive Colorado Edible Mushrooms
10:30am: WTF: What’s the Fungus? A 101 to Mushrooms & Mycology
1:30pm: Lives of Fungi
Location: Wilkinson Public Library- Downstairs Terrace

12:00pm: Movie and discussion: Don’t Look Up, Look Down
1:30pm: Virtual Reality Mushroom Lounge
Location: Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room

August 20, 2023

9:00am: Registration & Information Desk
9:00am: ID Tent- Fungi of Colorado 101
10:00am: ID Tent- Fungi of Colorado 102
Location: Elks Park

9:00am: Vendor Village
Location: Elks Park & Oak Street Park

9:00am: Ganoderma Wonders of the World
10:30am: Official Closing Ceremonies & Awards
11:30am: Movie: Dosed
Location: Palm Theatre

9:00am: Integration Space
Location: Telluride Arts Gallery- Back Lounge Area

9:00am: Spanish-Speaker Foray
Location: Telluride Library

9:00am: Out There Yoga with Kye to end your Mushroom Fest Journey
Location: Town Park

1:00pm: Art's Shroomfest Peer Reintegration Gourd Circle- Program Room- Signup Required at Registration
Location: Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room

Date: August 16-20, 2023

Location: Various Venues in Telluride, CO 81435.

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