Name: Keynote Presentation: Gabrielle Cerberville: Conversations with Fungi: Gathering as Embodied Listening
Start: 2026-08-14T20:15:00-0600
End: 2026-08-14T21:30:00-0600

SCHEDULE LAUNCH IS JUNE 21st, 2026

Welcome to the largest wild mushroom happening in North America, the 46th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival! This program of the Telluride Institute, a 501c3 non-profit, offers a plethora of events ranging from foray and mushroom ID sessions, to hands-on demonstrations and lectures—all led by regionally, nationally, and internationally-known experts, (and we cannot forget the wide variety of social and cultural events offered, along with the famous Mushroom Parade!) there is plenty for everyone, 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.

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Keynote Presentation: Gabrielle Cerberville: Conversations with Fungi: Gathering as Embodied Listening

Friday August 14, 2026 8:15pm - 9:30pm MDT

Palm Theatre @ 721 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435

Conversations With Fungi is a provocative and deeply grounded talk that asks what “conversation” could mean beyond the strictures of human language. Blending mycology, philosophy, and embodied foraging practice, Gabrielle Cerberville explores fungi as relationship partners -- beings that challenge our ideas of individuality, intelligence, and separateness through networks of sensing, exchange, and entanglement. Drawing from her book Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life and her ongoing PhD research at the University of Virginia, she reframes listening as a lived practice of attention and responsibility, inviting audiences to move from extraction toward reciprocity, and to ask what it might mean to live as if we’re already in conversation with more-than-human worlds.

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Gabrielle Cerberville

The Chaotic Forager

Gabrielle Cerberville, otherwise known as Chaotic Forager and sometimes as the Internet’s Mushroom Auntie, is a celebrated foraging educator, community mycologist, and climate advocate based in the Charlottesville area. Known for her informative, funny, high-energy social media... Read More →

Friday August 14, 2026 8:15pm - 9:30pm MDT
Palm Theatre

Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

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