Name: TMF History and the Psychedelic Movement
Start: 2026-08-16T10:45:00-0600
End: 2026-08-16T12:00:00-0600

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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TMF History and the Psychedelic Movement

Sunday August 16, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm MDT

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

Join Art Goodtimes for a walk back to the festival's beginnings and how the festival maintained an active platform for the discussion of all psychedelics and entheogens throughout the era of illegality and the government's failed War on Drugs -- in addition to all things mycological.

Speakers

Linnea & Lee Gillman

Mushroom ID Tent Managers

Linnea and Lee Gillman have been with the Telluride Mushroom Festival from the beginning and running the Mushroom ID Tent over the years.

Linnea has an MS in mycology from Virginia Tech, is retired from the USDA Forest Service where she worked on mycorrhizal fungi, and is a co-aut... Read More →

Art Goodtimes

Telluride Mushroom Festival Co-Founder. Festival Cultural Coordinator, Steward and Poet-in-Residence, Telluride Institute

Art Goodtimes is an Italian-American poet, activist, basketweaver, non-profit administrator and politician in Colorado, as well as a driving force of the Telluride Mushroom Festival since its beginnings in 1981.

He grew up in California where he was a member of the Mycological Society of San Francisco. He attended St. Joseph's Seminary for six years but graduated from San Francisco State University in 1970, doing post-graduate work at UC Berkeley Extension where he obtained a lifetime California... Read More →

Sunday August 16, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm MDT
Palm Theatre

Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

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