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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.

See you soon!
Tuesday, August 11
 

3:30pm MDT

TMF Patron & VIP Pass Holders "Welcome to TMF" Social Hour
Tuesday August 11, 2026 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Tellurado Studio & Bistro @ 219 E Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Are you one of our Patron Donors or a VIP Pass Holder? YOU ARE INVITED to join Telluride Mushroom Festival's Executive Officer, Ashley Coady Smith and TMF's Business Development Manager, Rebecca Roberts and the Telluride Institute Board Members for a cash bar social hour dedicated to TMF patron donor's and VIP Pass Holders to learn about highlights of the festival week, meet one another,...
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Speakers
avatar for Ashley Coady Smith

Ashley Coady Smith

TMF Festival Executive Officer, Telluride Institute
Ashley Coady Smith joined the Telluride Mushroom Festival in 2019 and currently serves as Festival Executive Officer. Working alongside the Program Director and Creative Director, she helps steward the festival's vision by guiding bigger picture operations, budgeting, fundraising... Read More →
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Rebecca Roberts

TMF Business Development & Operations Manager, Telluride Institute
Rebecca's first Telluride Mushroom Festival was 2018, the next four years she volunteered until eventually being hired at TMF's Partnership Manager. After 3 years in the role, she was promoted to Business Development & Operations Manager and co-leading the festival. She's spent the... Read More →
Tuesday August 11, 2026 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Tellurado Studio & Bistro 219 E Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)
 
Wednesday, August 12
 

9:00am MDT

PreFest Foray: Truffle Dog Foray with Heather Dawson
Wednesday August 12, 2026 9:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Prefest workshops are an extra paid ticket purchased - not for general admission passes!Buy Tickets Truffle Dog Foray w/ Heather Dawson and her truffle hunting dogs Wednesday, August 12th 9am-1pm *NO DOGS allowed, however, all humans are welcome!* What kind of fungal treasures lie hidden underground in the Rocky Mountain soils? We're going to find out! Truffle dogs Rye and Pyro dig up...
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Heather Dawson

Foray Leader
Heather Dawson is a PhD student at the University of Oregon studying truffle biodiversity with a focus on truffles in oak savanna. She has spent the last 5 years following her truffle dogs around the woods learning first-hand about the vast number of truffle species that are easily... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 9:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required, Foray

9:00am MDT

PreFest Workshop: Mycosexual Mini-Retreat with Jessica Langley
Wednesday August 12, 2026 9:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Prefest workshops are an extra paid ticket purchased - not for general admission passes!Buy Tickets Mycosexual Mini-Retreat w/ Jessica Langley Wednesday, August 12th 9am - 1pm Want to tap into your erotic mushroom mania that's just waiting to sporulate all over the forest? In this half day retreat, I'll take you into the forest where we will drop into our bodies, allow our eroticism to come...
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Jessica Langley

Artist
Jessica Langley (b. 1981, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist, somatic sex & relationship practitioner, earth medicine mentor, and amateur mycologist. Langley is based in Colorado where she an active member of the Pikes Peak Mycological Society and facilitates platonic intimacy experiences... Read More →
Wednesday August 12, 2026 9:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required

9:00am MDT

PreFest Workshop: Natural Dying and Botanical Printing with Mayumi Fujio
Wednesday August 12, 2026 9:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop @ 155 West Pacific Avenue, Telluride, CO, USA
Prefest workshops are an extra paid ticket purchased - not for general admission passes!Buy Tickets Natural Dying and Botanical Printing w/ Mayumi Fujio Wednesday, August 12th 9:00am-1:00pm Botanical printing uses real leaves along with mineral and tannin to transfer natural color and shape from plants onto natural fiber such as silk, cotton and linen. It is like printing a photo directly...
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Mayumi Fujio

Artist
Mayumi is an award winning fiber artist using natural dye and mushroom dye with the technique called botanical printing which uses real leaves to transfer colors and shapes from plants onto natural fibers. She extracts dye from the mushrooms and uses it for her work on silk, wool... Read More →
Wednesday August 12, 2026 9:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required, Natural Dye

9:00am MDT

PreFest Workshop: FULL DAY Rare Fungi Foray & Photography Workshop with Alan Rockefeller and Mandie Quark
Wednesday August 12, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Prefest workshops are an extra paid ticket purchased - not for general admission passes!Buy Tickets 9am-1pm ForayForay with the aim of taking the best possible photographs and making high quality collections for future mycological research. A crash course in iNaturalist will be given once we reach the field. Photographs will then be captured using the equipment each participant brings. Alan...
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Mandie Quark

Speaker
Molecular biologist by training, Mandie Quark is a passionate researcher and science communicator, specializing in fungal diversity. Based in the California Bay Area, she is dedicated to advancing citizen mycology through exploration, photography, DNA barcoding, and education. Mandie... Read More →
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Alan Rockefeller

Speaker & Foray Leader
Alan Rockefeller is an expert mycologist in high demand at mushroom events where he teaches workshops on DNA barcoding, field photography, and fungal microscopy. Committed to his cause, Alan has been studying fungal diversity for more than two decades, and since 2001 he has photographed... Read More →
Wednesday August 12, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required, Foray

10:00am MDT

PreFest Workshop: The Art of Calibration and Precision: Advanced Microdosing and Emotional Alchemy w/ Andrea López Boetsch
Wednesday August 12, 2026 10:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Mountain Lodge @ 457 Mountain Village Blvd, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Prefest workshops are an extra paid ticket purchased - not for general admission passes!Buy Tickets The Art of Calibration and Precision: Advanced Microdosing and Emotional Alchemy w/ Andrea Wednesday, August 12th 10am-1pm Mountain Lodge Following her successful presentation last year, psychotherapist, entheogen facilitator, and holistic coach Andrea López Boetsch returns to Telluride to...
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Wednesday August 12, 2026 10:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Mountain Lodge
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required, Foray

10:00am MDT

PreFest Foray: Early Bird Foray with Britt Bunyard & Festival Friends
Wednesday August 12, 2026 10:00am - 2:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Prefest workshops are an extra paid ticket purchased - not for general admission passes!Buy Tickets Join our Executive Director and special guest mycologist’s to go on the first adventure into the San Juan National Forest of the week! This is the only foray Britt will give. Learn from his experience foraging and ways to find, identify and think about mushrooms. A truly in depth experience...
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Speakers
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Aurelija Plūkė

Speaker & Foray Leader
Aurelija Plūkė is a Lithuania-based mycology educator and the creator and host of Lithuania’s first and only national TV show devoted entirely to mushrooms and the fungal world. A lifelong nature-lover, she fell into mycology through macro photography, discovering that what looks... Read More →
avatar for Britt Bunyard

Britt Bunyard

Program Director, Telluride Mushroom Festival
Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi, in print since 2008. Britt is a former university professor and has published over 100 academic and popular science papers. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological... Read More →
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John Michelotti

Catskill Fungi
John Michelotti is the founder of Catskill Fungi which empowers people with fungi through outdoor educational classes, cultivation courses, mushroom art, and mushroom health extracts.  John is a former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association (MHMA) where he co-founded... Read More →
Wednesday August 12, 2026 10:00am - 2:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required, Foray

1:00pm MDT

Sign Up Tent for Forays and Workshops
Wednesday August 12, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Foray & Workshop Sign‑Up TentThis tent is where festival pass holders can sign up for Forays and Workshops the day before they take place. All forays and workshops can also be RSVP’d online before festival week. ONLY ONE Foray and ONE Workshop can be RSVP'd for online pre-sign ups.Workshops take place at various venues throughout Telluride, and signing up online ahead of time guarantees your...
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Speakers
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Chris Grimes

TMF Operations & Volunteer Coordinator, Telluride Institute
When Chris Grimes isn’t foragin’ for vintage western wear somewhere in Appalachia, he’s likely off in the woods hunting mushrooms. A TMF volunteer since 2023, Chris returns for his sophomore year as Operations & Volunteer Coordinator, better known around camp as the Lead “Soft... Read More →
Wednesday August 12, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park
  FREE - Open to public, Vendor Village

1:00pm MDT

Lunch at Alloy Kitchen (TMF pass-holder discount)
Wednesday August 12, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Mountain Lodge @ 457 Mountain Village Blvd, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
(not provided by TMF, pass-holder discount)Join us at Alloy Kitchen for a laid-back lunch overlooking the San Juans. Enjoy myco beer from Telluride Brewing Co. and cider from Fenceline Cider, with $1 from every beer or cider sold going back to support Telluride Mushroom Festival.This is a casual social gathering and a great chance to ease into the week, meet fellow festival-goers, and take in some...
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Wednesday August 12, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Mountain Lodge
  Other

1:00pm MDT

PreFest Workshop: The Art of Calibration and Precision: Advanced Microdosing and Emotional Alchemy with Andrea López Boetsch
Wednesday August 12, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Mountain Lodge @ 457 Mountain Village Blvd, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Prefest workshops are an extra paid ticket purchased - not for general admission passes!Buy Tickets The Art of Calibration and Precision: Advanced Microdosing and Emotional Alchemy w/ Andrea Wednesday, August 12th 10am-1pm Mountain Lodge Following her successful presentation last year, psychotherapist, entheogen facilitator, and holistic coach Andrea López Boetsch returns to Telluride to...
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Wednesday August 12, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Mountain Lodge
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required, Foray

1:00pm MDT

PreFest Workshop: Sacred Mushroom Cultivation with Tradd Cotter
Wednesday August 12, 2026 1:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Prefest workshops are an extra paid ticket purchased - not for general admission passes!

Half Day | Wednesday | 1pm - 4pm| AhHaa SkyDeck/Rooftop

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Speakers
avatar for Tradd Cotter

Tradd Cotter

Mycologist, Blue Portal
Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and retired landscape designer, who has been cultivating mushrooms both commercially and experimentally for more than thirty years.

Tradd is the author of the best-selling book Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation (2014) and has won numerous awards for his work including the prestigious Clemson University Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2013), the EPA GRO-U Fellowship Award (2011), including the Gary Lincoff... Read More →
Wednesday August 12, 2026 1:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required, Foray

1:00pm MDT

Registration & Information Desk + Festival Merch!
Wednesday August 12, 2026 1:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park @ 123 South Oak Street, Telluride, CO 81435
Welcome to the 46th annual Telluride Mushroom Festival. Join us in Elks Park, located in the middle of Telluride off Main Street for registration pick up. On this day (Wednesday) we will have a shortened time slot for attendees who arrived early to Telluride to pick up their festival wristband. We will also be distributing pre-order shirts (if you have purchased a TMF shirt with you pass...
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Speakers
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Mariah Grimes

TMF Marketing and Sales Manager, Telluride Institute
Mariah is a freelance creative, website designer, and social media manager who has been working with the Telluride Mushroom Festival since 2022. Before divinely stumbling into her work with TMF, Mariah worked in hospitality/events working for various boutique hotels and wedding venues... Read More →
Wednesday August 12, 2026 1:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park
  FREE - Open to public, Registration and Will Call

1:00pm MDT

Vendor Village
Wednesday August 12, 2026 1:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Vendor Village:Located under both sides of the main banner in Telluride main street at the town malls. We will have a food vendor in Elk's Park, Pretty as Plants, serving up a mushroom based vegetarian menu. Stop by and shop from local artisans, mushroom businesses, and all things fungi! From medicinals to dried mushrooms, cultivation use, to some cool TMF swag and a whole lotta unique crafts....
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Jackson Schneider

TMF Vendor Coordinator
Jackson has been assisting the TMF operations team as a year-round volunteer since 2025. This year will be his first year in the Vendor Coordinator role.
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Rebecca Roberts

TMF Business Development & Operations Manager, Telluride Institute
Rebecca's first Telluride Mushroom Festival was 2018, the next four years she volunteered until eventually being hired at TMF's Partnership Manager. After 3 years in the role, she was promoted to Business Development & Operations Manager and co-leading the festival. She's spent the... Read More →
Wednesday August 12, 2026 1:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park
  FREE - Open to public, Vendor Village

5:00pm MDT

PreFest Workshop: Watercolor Painting with Foraged Mushrooms taught by Caro Arevalo
Wednesday August 12, 2026 5:00pm - 7:00pm MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room @ 100 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Prefest workshops are an extra paid ticket purchased - not for general admission passes!Buy Tickets Watercolor Painting with Foraged Mushrooms taught by Caro Arevalo  Wednesday, August 12th 1:00pm-4:00pm Ah Haa Curiosity Shop Join us for an art workshop where we will sip on cacao and explore watercolor painting, guided by the beauty and wonder of mushrooms. This workshop offers a blend...
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Wednesday August 12, 2026 5:00pm - 7:00pm MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required

5:00pm MDT

PreFest Dinner: Trout Lake Dinner
Wednesday August 12, 2026 5:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
Trout Lake Overlook House @ 1415 N Trout Lake Rd, Durango, CO 81301
Prefest workshops are an extra paid ticket purchased - not for general admission passes!Buy Tickets Join Chef Chad Hyatt author of “The Mushroom Hunter’s Kitchen.” for an evening of drinks, unforgettable landscape views and fungal delights foraged from the mountains of Colorado. A Trout Lake residence located 20 miles outside Telluride is nestled along the Million Dollar Highway one of...
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Chad Hyatt

Chef
Chad Hyatt is an expert forager and classically trained chef who has made a name for himself in northern California and beyond, sharing his delicious spin on wild mushroom cookery. He has cooked in a variety of restaurants and private clubs around the San Francisco Bay area, where... Read More →
Wednesday August 12, 2026 5:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
Trout Lake Overlook House
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required, Dinner

5:30pm MDT

Opening Yoga: Rewild Flow with Shay
Wednesday August 12, 2026 5:30pm - 6:30pm MDT
Town Park @ 500 E Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Let’s begin the festival by grounding into your body and intention. What does rewild mean to you?Yoga to settle in and prepare for the days ahead. This time of year is known for the ripening of fruits, veggies, and the blooming of flowers, a sign that nature is generous and wild at heart. This time of year invites you to explore that same wildness within yourself. Break free from old...
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Wednesday August 12, 2026 5:30pm - 6:30pm MDT
Town Park
  FREE - Open to public, Yoga

6:00pm MDT

Live Music! Myco Beer Launch Party at the Alibi with Banshee Tree and Quattlebaum
Wednesday August 12, 2026 6:00pm - 10:00pm MDT
Alibi @ 121 S Fir St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Want to taste the Festival Telluride Brewing Company MycoBeer and NEW THIS YEAR Fenceline Myco-CIDER  before anyone else? Join Tradd Cotter who provides the extracts through Halo Extracts and other speakers as we toast to another exciting year of the Telluride Mushroom Festival with the live music and MUSHROOM BEVERAGES! $1 for every beer or cider purchased is donated to the Telluride...
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Banshee Tree

Musician

avatar for Britt Bunyard

Britt Bunyard

Program Director, Telluride Mushroom Festival
Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi, in print since 2008. Britt is a former university professor and has published over 100 academic and popular science papers. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological... Read More →
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Tradd Cotter

Mycologist, Blue Portal
Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and retired landscape designer, who has been cultivating mushrooms both commercially and experimentally for more than thirty years.

Tradd is the author of the best-selling book Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation (2014) and has won numerous awards for his work including the prestigious Clemson University Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2013), the EPA GRO-U Fellowship Award (2011), including the Gary Lincoff... Read More →
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Austin Quattlebuam

TMF Onsite Production Manager, Folk and Forage
Born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, Quattlebaum grew up with the slow rhythm of the South seeping into his bones. He found his musical roots early, drawn to the banjo's haunting twang, the Southern Appalachia song traditions, and the funky sounds of New Orleans.

Quattlebaum's cr... Read More →
Wednesday August 12, 2026 6:00pm - 10:00pm MDT
Alibi
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Music
 
Thursday, August 13
 

8:30am MDT

Foray with Blake Westman
Thursday August 13, 2026 8:30am - 1:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
ONE FORAY PER FESTIVAL TICKETSneffels Highline Foray with Blake WestmanStep right out of Telluride's box canyon and push into the heart of the Mt. Sneffels Wilderness, climbing through aspen groves, spruce-fir forest, and subalpine meadows on one of the most spectacular mycological landscapes in all of Colorado. This one's for fungi folks who like to move!We will cover 7 miles and 2,600 feet of...
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Blake Westman

Foray Leader
Blake Westman has spent 17+ years living and breathing mycology as part of the team at Fungi Perfecti. When he's not immersed in the fungal kingdom, he's out putting in miles on the trail . The Sneffels Highline Foray is where both worlds collide: putting in miles quickly for a foray... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 8:30am - 1:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

8:30am MDT

Registration & Information Desk + Festival Merch!
Thursday August 13, 2026 8:30am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park @ 123 South Oak Street, Telluride, CO 81435
Welcome to the 46th annual Telluride Mushroom Festival. Join us in Elks Park, located in the middle of Telluride off Main Street for registration pick up. On this day (Thursday) we will have an early 8:30am time slot for all attendees to pick up their festival wristband. We will also be distributing pre-order shirts to those who have purchased ahead with their festival pass.Registration - Festival...
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Speakers
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Mariah Grimes

TMF Marketing and Sales Manager, Telluride Institute
Mariah is a freelance creative, website designer, and social media manager who has been working with the Telluride Mushroom Festival since 2022. Before divinely stumbling into her work with TMF, Mariah worked in hospitality/events working for various boutique hotels and wedding venues... Read More →
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Chris Grimes

TMF Operations & Volunteer Coordinator, Telluride Institute
When Chris Grimes isn’t foragin’ for vintage western wear somewhere in Appalachia, he’s likely off in the woods hunting mushrooms. A TMF volunteer since 2023, Chris returns for his sophomore year as Operations & Volunteer Coordinator, better known around camp as the Lead “Soft... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 8:30am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park
  FREE - Open to public, Registration and Will Call

9:00am MDT

Rewild Community Circle
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park @ W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Reconnect with nature, yourself, and your community. Inspired by the interconnectedness of mycelium, this community circle offering will allow festival attendees to connect more deeply to one another through open-hearted shares in an intentional, safe space.During this community circle, attendees will be provided with journal prompts to reflect on the theme of this year’s festival, “rewild.”...
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Skyler Potocek

Creator, Coven Meeting
Skyler is a Woman’s Guidance Facilitator and 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher, based in Denver. Creator of Coven Meeting, a journal club and women’s circle group created for women to intentionally gather, reflect, and connect in sisterhood, Skyler has been hosting events for the... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

9:00am MDT

Welcome to the 46th Telluride Mushroom Festival: Let's Rewild!
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
This presentation will introduce you to a little bit of what to expect from this year's Festival ...and will give you a glimpse of our past, our founders and our visionaries who catalyzed this event which has become "the largest wild mushroom event in North America." I will also introduce this year's theme: Rewild.What is rewilding?Rewilding has emerged over the past three decades as one of the...
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Britt Bunyard

Program Director, Telluride Mushroom Festival
Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi, in print since 2008. Britt is a former university professor and has published over 100 academic and popular science papers. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

9:00am MDT

Yoga: Connecting to the Mycelium Network with Shay
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Community, support, shared wisdom. We are stronger together than we are apart. It’s in our nature to take care of each other.

Bring your mat, water, and any comforts for your practice. We may have limited mats available for those who do not have them on a first come first served basis. 
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Yoga

9:00am MDT

Sign Up Tent for Forays and Workshops
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Foray & Workshop Sign‑Up TentThis tent is where festival pass holders can sign up for Forays and Workshops the day before they take place. All forays and workshops can also be RSVP’d online before festival week. ONLY ONE Foray and ONE Workshop can be RSVP'd for online pre-sign ups.Workshops take place at various venues throughout Telluride, and signing up online ahead of time guarantees your...
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Speakers
avatar for Chris Grimes

Chris Grimes

TMF Operations & Volunteer Coordinator, Telluride Institute
When Chris Grimes isn’t foragin’ for vintage western wear somewhere in Appalachia, he’s likely off in the woods hunting mushrooms. A TMF volunteer since 2023, Chris returns for his sophomore year as Operations & Volunteer Coordinator, better known around camp as the Lead “Soft... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park
  FREE - Open to public, Registration and Will Call

9:00am MDT

Foray with Greg Sanchez
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 2:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
ONE FORAY PER FESTIVAL TICKETDiscover the Fungi of the San Juan Mountains with Greg SanchezExperience the incredible diversity of wild mushrooms found near Telluride during this guided foray through prime mushroom habitat in spectacular mountain terrain. Participants will learn mushroom identification tips and techniques, habitat recognition and responsible foraging practices while enjoying an...
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Greg Sanchez

Foray Leader, Colorado Mycological Society
Greg Sanchez knew nothing about mushrooms until 2004 when he wondered, “What do you do at a mushroom festival?”  After attending the Telluride Mushroom Festival that year, he found out, sparking a lasting fascination with and a deep passion for all things fungal. Greg is a high... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 2:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

9:00am MDT

Mushroom ID Tent
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Mushroom ID Tent: Located in the middle of Elks Park.We will have experts helping define and talk to you about all the mushrooms found around the San Juans during the days. These stations will be led by our lead mycologists, Foray Leaders and some of the festival founders. ID Staffed most days around 12pm and goes until 3pm. It is variable with forays and weather.Times:Mushroom ID TentThursday -...
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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 →
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Nickolas Rajtar

Foray Leader
Nick Rajtar is a forest pathologist and a mycologist who received his PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities under his advisor Dr. Robert Blanchette in 2024. Rajtar currently is a post-doctoral researcher at UMN where his work focuses on the biosurveillance of invasive forest... Read More →
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Andrew Wilson

Denver Botanic Gardens
Andrew Wilson is the Associate Curator of Mycology in the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi at Denver Botanic Gardens. His research studies the patterns and processes that shape mushroom diversity, where he has traveled the world to document and describe new species. As a curator he... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park
  FREE - Open to public, Vendor Village

9:00am MDT

Vendor Village
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Vendor Village:Located under both sides of the main banner in Telluride main street at the town malls. We will have a food vendor in Elk's Park, Pretty as Plants, serving up a mushroom based vegetarian menu. Stop by and shop from local artisans, mushroom businesses, and all things fungi! From medicinals to dried mushrooms, cultivation use, to some cool TMF swag and a whole lotta unique crafts....
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Jackson Schneider

TMF Vendor Coordinator
Jackson has been assisting the TMF operations team as a year-round volunteer since 2025. This year will be his first year in the Vendor Coordinator role.
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Rebecca Roberts

TMF Business Development & Operations Manager, Telluride Institute
Rebecca's first Telluride Mushroom Festival was 2018, the next four years she volunteered until eventually being hired at TMF's Partnership Manager. After 3 years in the role, she was promoted to Business Development & Operations Manager and co-leading the festival. She's spent the... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park
  FREE - Open to public, Vendor Village

9:30am MDT

Functional Fungi/Medicinal Mushroom: A Discussion
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Join a discussion where we listen and share experiences around medicinal and functional mushrooms. We'll offer topics to initiate conversations, raise questions, and share ideas in a flowing conversation. Some examples of topics may include how to choose and use mushroom products, making your own extracts, the side effects or contraindications of mushroom extracts, and where to find unbiased...
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John Michelotti

Catskill Fungi
John Michelotti is the founder of Catskill Fungi which empowers people with fungi through outdoor educational classes, cultivation courses, mushroom art, and mushroom health extracts.  John is a former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association (MHMA) where he co-founded... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

9:30am MDT

Foray with Graham Steinruck
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:30am - 12:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Documenting Fungal Diversity with Graham SteinruckJoin Biodiversity Collective to document Telluride’s fungal diversity, learn field ID and observation skills, and contribute meaningful data that supports community science.Where to MeetThis foray meets at Carhenge Parking Lot at 9:15AM. We encourage you to arrive a little early to meet your foray leader and your fellow foragers. TMF does...
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Graham Steinruck

Chef, Foray Leader
Graham Steinruck is a chef, forager, and mycologist with a passion for incorporating wild ingredients into unique culinary creations inspired by the natural world. Having worked alongside some of Colorado’s top chefs, Graham's dedication to cooking and foraging earned him a spot... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:30am - 12:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

10:00am MDT

Fiber Dying Workshop
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am MDT
Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop @ 155 West Pacific Avenue, Telluride, CO, USA
Pay Material Fee
In this workshop, attendees will learn how to produce and use natural mushroom dyes to create a small Shibori silk scarf.Material Fee: $35 sign up hereA limited on-site queue will be available for folks who did not sign up online. A queue card and proof of payment is required to access this workshop. Please come and line up for queue cards outside Ah Haa 1 hour before workshop start time....
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Mayumi Fujio

Artist
Mayumi is an award winning fiber artist using natural dye and mushroom dye with the technique called botanical printing which uses real leaves to transfer colors and shapes from plants onto natural fibers. She extracts dye from the mushrooms and uses it for her work on silk, wool... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am MDT
Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required, art

10:00am MDT

Psychedelic Elder Mycogourds Interview with Art Goodtimes and Special Guest Dr. Michael Myhre (Limited Capacity Seating Space, Bring your own Chair)
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Telluride Historical Museum Amphitheater @ 201 W. Gregory Ave. Telluride, CO 81435
Limited Capacity, First Come First Serve Seating. Bring a comfortable folding chair. Psychedelic Elder Mycogourds Interview with Art Goodtimes and Dr. Michael Myhre at 10am-12pm at the Telluride Historical Museum courtyard Modeled after the peer-to-peer sharing of graduate seminars, the MycoGourds concept was inspired by the work of Colorado deep ecologist Dolores LaChapelle and Brazilian...
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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 →
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Telluride Historical Museum Amphitheater
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Connect

10:00am MDT

Foray with Nickolas Rajtar
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Wandering for Wild Fungi: A Polypore‑Forward Foray with Nick RajtarJoin Nickolas for a relaxed, exploratory foray designed for everyone — from total beginners to seasoned mycologists. This walk embraces curiosity and the natural rhythm of the forest. Participants are encouraged to wander, explore at their own pace, and follow whatever catches their eye.While Nickolas has a special love for...
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Nickolas Rajtar

Foray Leader
Nick Rajtar is a forest pathologist and a mycologist who received his PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities under his advisor Dr. Robert Blanchette in 2024. Rajtar currently is a post-doctoral researcher at UMN where his work focuses on the biosurveillance of invasive forest... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

10:15am MDT

Mushrooms of Colorado and "The Telluride Most Wanted"
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:15am - 11:15am MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
Welcome to the Telluride Mushroom Festival! Let's get to know some of the more common mushrooms of our region...and rarities to be on the lookout for. Andy Wilson always challenges us to find some species rarely seen and Festival attendees usually rise to the challenge. Every year it's a different MOST WANTED. What will be on Dr. Wilson's list this year? You will be doing valuable scientific work,...
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Andrew Wilson

Denver Botanic Gardens
Andrew Wilson is the Associate Curator of Mycology in the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi at Denver Botanic Gardens. His research studies the patterns and processes that shape mushroom diversity, where he has traveled the world to document and describe new species. As a curator he... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:15am - 11:15am MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

10:30am MDT

Alchemical Mushroom Sound Bath
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Attendance limited to 40 people, First Come First ServeWe will start by enjoying a potent Spagyric Mushroom Elixir crafted by Sacred Herbal Extracts and then transition into a comfortable meditative space, laying down or seated.Brian will be intuitively guiding a journey through sound with a variety of gongs, singing bowls, bells, ancient whistles, handpan, chimes, and more. As we are immersed in...
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Thursday August 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Integration

10:30am MDT

MushWomb Circle: Tuning In To Your Own Sacred Dialogue
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park @ W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
This is a sacred dialogue, a gathering that embraces all voices to share and behold oneanother’s journeys and insights. Together, we shall deepen our understanding of our hormonalcycles within menstruating bodies, illuminating the vital seasons of death and decay and the lifethey bestow—akin to the wondrous mycelial realm. We will explore how various mycology termscan enlighten our...
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Abigail Maxon

Rhythmic Renewal
Abigail Maxon, the passionate force behind Rhythmic Renewal, is dedicated to uncovering the
magic of your hormonal cycles and reclaiming womb sovereignty. By challenging the societal
belief that menstruation is merely a burden or inconvenience, she encourages you to see your
cycle a... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Integration

11:00am MDT

Beyond the Biomarker: Harnessing the Complexity of Functional Mushrooms
Thursday August 13, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
As the functional mushroom industry grows, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: mushrooms from the same species are not necessarily the same in function or chemistry. Across lion’s mane, agarikon, and turkey tail, factors such as strain, substrate, tissue type, and extraction method can meaningfully shape biological activity and functional outcomes.Drawing from fungal genomics,...
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Chase Beathard

Fungi Perfecti
Chase Beathard is the Associate Director of R&D, leading the cell and molecular biology team at Fungi Perfecti, LLC. His research explores the impact of fungi on human health, spanning immunology, neurobiology, virology, longevity, and general wellness. Prior to his time at Fungi... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), entheogen

11:00am MDT

Foray with Larry Evans
Thursday August 13, 2026 11:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Deep Secrets & Microhabitats: Using All Five Senses to ID Mushrooms with Larry EvansStep into the forest with longtime TMF legend Larry Evans, who has been leading forays in Telluride since before Know Your Mushrooms introduced the world to fungiphilia as the cure for fungiphobia. Larry’s approach is immersive, sensory, and full of story — don’t be surprised if an exciting mushroom (or...
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Larry Evans

Foray Leader
Larry Evans has been tiptoeing through the subalpine spruce and fir and showing people how to tell mushrooms apart since the 20th century. Not afraid to sing or yodel, he may be triggered by the phrase, "can ya eat it?"  He's been writing songs and singing about mushrooms and released... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 11:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

11:30am MDT

Gasteromycetes of Colorado: Puffballs, Earthstars, Stinkhorns, Earthballs & False Truffles Across Elevation and Habitat
Thursday August 13, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
Colorado is gasteroid country. From shortgrass prairie to subalpine spruce–fir, the state’s huge elevation range, monsoon pulses, and patchwork of forests, dunes, riparian corridors, and even urban woodchips create an ideal map for “gasteromycetes”—puffballs, earthstars, stinkhorns, earthballs, and false truffles. While “gasteromycetes” isn’t a single modern clade, the gasteroid...
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Stephanie Jarvis

Pacific Truffle Growers, LLC
Stephanie Jarvis is a truffle cultivator, mycologist, ISA Certified Arborist, and founder of Pacific Truffle Growers. She holds a Master of Science degree in Conservation Genetics with a specialization in mycology and has spent more than 25 years working in mushroom cultivation, mycology... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

11:30am MDT

Foray with John Sir Jesse
Thursday August 13, 2026 11:30am - 2:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Foray with John Sir JesseJoin John Sir Jesse for a guided walk focused on identifying edible mushrooms while exploring a wide range of foundational mycology topics. Along the way, he’ll cover toxic lookalikes, medicinal species, and best practices for gathering, preparing, preserving, and cooking your finds — including recipe ideas and practical tips. The foray also emphasizes ethical...
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John SirJesse

TMF Co-Founder, Foray Leader
One of the founders of the Telluride Mushroom Festival, I have been leading forays, helping with setup, doing cook and tastes etc since day one. I also have a Special Use Permit with the Forest Service to conduct plant and mushroom hikes on FS lands. I am also a certified mushroom... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 11:30am - 2:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

12:00pm MDT

Why You Should Stop Growing Psilocybe Cubensis
Thursday August 13, 2026 12:00pm - 12:45pm MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
We will challenge the widespread reputation of cubensis as the go-to psychedelic mushroom. This presentation delves into the history of Psilocybe cubensis, not only of its cultivation but also how it spread throughout the globe. But more importantly, we will focus on the myriad of incredible alternatives, their growth, habitat and effect and why exotic species are the future of the Psychedelic...
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Jasper Degenaars

Fungi Academy
Jasper Degenaars is an ambassador to the Kindom of the Fungi and has dedicated his life to the sharing and growing of Fungal Wisdom. It all started over 13 years ago when he embarked on a journey to decipher the growing of Psilocybe mushrooms. Since 2019 he has committed his full... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 12:00pm - 12:45pm MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Integration

12:00pm MDT

How to Draw a Mushroom with Chris Adams - Limited Capacity Workshop Sign Up
Thursday August 13, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop @ 155 West Pacific Avenue, Telluride, CO, USA
Join artist Chris Adams (the human behind Corvidopolis, The Mushroom Tarot and Sporelust!), to discuss & practice basic techniques for drawing anything––but in this case mushrooms & other inspirational beings from the natural world. Chris will describe his basic processes of drawing from the real world & photographic reference, work with the class on some fun experiments with common media and...
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Chris Adams

Official Festival Artist, Corvidopolis, Sporelust
Chris is the creative mind behind Corvidopolis, The Mushroom Tarot and Sporelust!

Sporelust! is a Fungi Forward & Forest Inspired apparel brand for people who love mushrooms, forests and biodiversity.
We make clothes, art & goods for people who care about ethical supply chains and... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), art

12:00pm MDT

Foray with Sebastian Tabibi
Thursday August 13, 2026 12:00pm - 4:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
From High Peaks to River Valleys: A Mycological Journey with Sebastian TabibiJoin mycologist and community builder Sebastian Tabibi for an immersive exploration of the diverse fungal landscapes surrounding Telluride. This foray is designed to bridge the gap between scientific identification and practical, earth-centered wisdom, offering participants a deep dive into the fungal diversity of the San...
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Sebastian Tabibi

Foray Leader, North Texas Mycology
Sebastian Tabibi is a passionate amateur chef and highly regarded mycologist raising awareness on the crucial role fungi play in our ecosystem. Based in North Texas, Sebastian has been delving into the world of fungi, particularly fascinated by their medicinal properties and cataloging... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 12:00pm - 4:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

12:00pm MDT

Integration Space
Thursday August 13, 2026 12:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park @ W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
We are rooted in a harm reduction model that welcomes all people who need a place to process and/or would like support from our licensed therapists with psychedelic integration training, massage therapists and herbalists. This cozy and accessible lounge will host integration circles and have other alternative wellness modalities for festival goers to be able to down-regulate and integrate their...
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Rebecca Joy

Mycelia Transformation
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Jennifer Pressey

TMF Integration Space Practitioner
Jenn holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC) as well as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in the state of Colorado. She has experience working with diverse populations and is passionate about supporting... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 12:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park
  FREE - Open to public, Integration

12:30pm MDT

What's in a Name: Decoding the Language of Fungi with Gabrielle Cerberville
Thursday August 13, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
"What's in a Name: Decoding the Language of Fungi"Scientific names may seem intimidating at first, but each one reveals a story about a mushroom's appearance, ecology, history, or the people who first studied it. In this entertaining lecture, we'll uncover the meanings behind the names of dozens of familiar and fascinating mushroom genera, exploring the Greek and Latin roots that form the...
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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 →
Thursday August 13, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

12:45pm MDT

Notes from Underground: The Roles of Fungi in Fields and Forests
Thursday August 13, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
What exactly are fungi, and why should we care about them? How are they related to and distinct from other organisms? How do they function in the world? What ecosystem roles do they play and how important are they? This talk will explore these and other questions.
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avatar for Ken Kassenbrock

Ken Kassenbrock

Colorado State University
Ken Kassenbrock, MD,PhD has been an avid hunter of wild mushrooms since the late 1970s. Trained as a physician-scientist, he has worked in Cell and Molecular Biology, including post-doctoral work with the brewer’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Although his interests in fungi... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), cultivation

1:00pm MDT

Mushroom ID Tent Discussion: "What's Been Coming In?"
Thursday August 13, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent @ Elks Park, South Oak Street, Telluride, CO
Join our mycologists at the Workshop Tent at Elks Park for some periodic "what's been coming in" talks. Learn more in depth what people are finding out foraging in the mountains. You may learn new species, common edibles, identifying techniques and foraging locations for specific mushrooms. All this and more will be happening throughout the festival. Times may vary day to day depending on...
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Nickolas Rajtar

Foray Leader
Nick Rajtar is a forest pathologist and a mycologist who received his PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities under his advisor Dr. Robert Blanchette in 2024. Rajtar currently is a post-doctoral researcher at UMN where his work focuses on the biosurveillance of invasive forest... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent
  FREE - Open to public, General Mycology

1:30pm MDT

Handmade Paper from Foraged Mushrooms- Limited Capacity - Workshop Sign Up
Thursday August 13, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop @ 155 West Pacific Avenue, Telluride, CO, USA
Come meet Jessica and make paper with fungi! In this workshop, she will teach you which fungi can be used and all about the tools and techniques of paper making. Each participant will get hands-on guidance and leave with their own piece of handmade paper!
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Jessica Langley

Artist
Jessica Langley (b. 1981, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist, somatic sex & relationship practitioner, earth medicine mentor, and amateur mycologist. Langley is based in Colorado where she an active member of the Pikes Peak Mycological Society and facilitates platonic intimacy experiences... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), art

2:00pm MDT

Mushrooms, Moths, and Midnight Ecology
Thursday August 13, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
After the sun goes down the forest doesn’t sleep, it goes wild. Fungi shape the forest after dark, from the chemistry of glowing mushrooms, to the traffic of pollinating moths, the work of decay, soil-building, and nutrient cycling pulses around the clock. Mycologist and photographer Mandie Quark invites you to explore the nocturnal world where mushrooms, moths, and other night-shift creatures...
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Mandie Quark

Speaker
Molecular biologist by training, Mandie Quark is a passionate researcher and science communicator, specializing in fungal diversity. Based in the California Bay Area, she is dedicated to advancing citizen mycology through exploration, photography, DNA barcoding, and education. Mandie... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Panel

2:00pm MDT

“He saw a snake which told him ‘Turn your eyes and see your wife’.” Psychoactive mushrooms and plants in colonial period Mexican divination and healing with Bret Blosser
Thursday August 13, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
This is a study of divination and healing practices in Mexico during the 17 th and 18 th centuries. The study is based on Inquisition documents, a 1629 report on ritual practices, and Inquisition edicts. Practitioners employed Psilocybe mushrooms, peyote, morning glory seeds, and pipiltzintzintli (an unidentified plant) to access information andenable healing not available by other means. These...
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Bret Blosser Ph.D.

Speaker
Bret Blosser received PhD in Anthropology with a focus on Mesoamerica from Tulane University in 2004. He studied with a Wixarika (Huichol) community in western Mexico and a Mazatec curandero in southern Mexico. He instructed twenty semester and summer university field programs on... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Psychedelics

3:00pm MDT

Book Signings with Chad Hyatt, Tradd Cotter, and Britt Bunyard
Thursday August 13, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
Between the Covers- Bookstore @ 214 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Three regular favorites at the Telluride Mushroom Festival. Now is your chance to chat with them and to get books signed by all three!
Speakers
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Britt Bunyard

Program Director, Telluride Mushroom Festival
Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi, in print since 2008. Britt is a former university professor and has published over 100 academic and popular science papers. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological... Read More →
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Tradd Cotter

Mycologist, Blue Portal
Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and retired landscape designer, who has been cultivating mushrooms both commercially and experimentally for more than thirty years.

Tradd is the author of the best-selling book Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation (2014) and has won numerous awards for his work including the prestigious Clemson University Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2013), the EPA GRO-U Fellowship Award (2011), including the Gary Lincoff... Read More →
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Chad Hyatt

Chef
Chad Hyatt is an expert forager and classically trained chef who has made a name for himself in northern California and beyond, sharing his delicious spin on wild mushroom cookery. He has cooked in a variety of restaurants and private clubs around the San Francisco Bay area, where... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
Between the Covers- Bookstore
  FREE - Open to public

3:00pm MDT

Open Myc - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC (Limited Space, Bring your own Chair)
Thursday August 13, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Telluride Historical Museum Amphitheater @ 201 W. Gregory Ave. Telluride, CO 81435
Limited Seating, Bring Your Own ChairSponsored by the Telluride Institute's Talking Gourds Poetry Program, this will be an opportunity for festival poets, musicians and storytellers to come and share a creative mushroom or identity (theme) piece with the Telluride community. There will be a sign-up list. Open and free to the public and any interested participants (as time allows). Bring a chair or...
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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 →
Thursday August 13, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Telluride Historical Museum Amphitheater
  FREE - Open to public, Poetry

3:15pm MDT

Aquatic and Terrestrial Xylaria
Thursday August 13, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
This presentation will cover some of my work identifying and researching Xylaria species in the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. The second half of the presentation will focus on a very special aquatic Xylaria species.
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avatar for Nickolas Rajtar

Nickolas Rajtar

Foray Leader
Nick Rajtar is a forest pathologist and a mycologist who received his PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities under his advisor Dr. Robert Blanchette in 2024. Rajtar currently is a post-doctoral researcher at UMN where his work focuses on the biosurveillance of invasive forest... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

3:30pm MDT

The Role of Psilocybin in Rewilding the Mind
Thursday August 13, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
This workshop explores psilocybin as a catalyst for returning the human mind to a more natural, unconditioned state—one less dominated by rigid patterns of thought and more attuned to intuition, emotion, and interconnectedness. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and indigenous perspectives, it examines how psilocybin can temporarily dissolve habitual frameworks—such as ego fixation,...
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Mah Ze Tar

Musician
Maz Karandish is a Devotee of music- A well traveled vocalist & multi-instrumentalist covering grounds from Rāga, Maqām, and Dastgāh to Harmony, Jazz, and Opera. Maz feels deeply connected to the ancient musical traditions of the east that he began learning from a very young age... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

4:00pm MDT

Myco-preneur's Happy Hour
Thursday August 13, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm MDT
The Hotel Telluride @ 199 Cornet Ln, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Join us for happy hour at the West End Bistro at the Hotel Telluride for a casual business happy hour learning how we can Rewild in our businesses and other myco-events popping up around the country. You'll have an opportunity to engage with business owners, mycological society coordinators and event organizers. We'll have TBC's Myco-Beer and Cider with Tradd Cotter's functional...
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Thursday August 13, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm MDT
The Hotel Telluride 199 Cornet Ln, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

4:00pm MDT

LGBTQ+ Social Hour
Thursday August 13, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Alibi @ 121 S Fir St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Join us for a casual gathering of queer folks and allies during the Telluride Mushroom Festival. We'll have myco beer from Telluride Brewing Co. and cider from Fenceline Cider, and $1 from every beer/cider sold will go back to supporting TMF.
Come meet new people, reconnect with old friends, and spend some time with community.
Thursday August 13, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Alibi
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

4:30pm MDT

Medicinal Mushroom Extracts & Tinctures: From Kitchen Chemistry to Commercial Craft
Thursday August 13, 2026 4:30pm - 5:15pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent @ Elks Park, South Oak Street, Telluride, CO
This hands-on workshop takes participants on a practical journey through the science and craft of functional mushroom extraction - from the compounds worth extracting, to the solvents that reach them, to the techniques used at every scale from home kitchen to commercial lab.Led by Shane of Mycolove, the session covers dual-solvent extraction methodology, the chemistry of beta-glucans and...
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Shane Schoolman

MyCOlove Farm

Thursday August 13, 2026 4:30pm - 5:15pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent
  FREE - Open to public

6:00pm MDT

Offical Opening Ceremony
Thursday August 13, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm MDT
Palm Theatre @ 721 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Welcome ALL to the 46th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival!
Speakers
avatar for Laurie Lunquist

Laurie Lunquist

TMF Committee Chair, Board Treasurer, Telluride Institute

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Ernest House Jr.

Opening Ceremonies - Invocation

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Mariah Grimes

TMF Marketing and Sales Manager, Telluride Institute
Mariah is a freelance creative, website designer, and social media manager who has been working with the Telluride Mushroom Festival since 2022. Before divinely stumbling into her work with TMF, Mariah worked in hospitality/events working for various boutique hotels and wedding venues... Read More →
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Rebecca Roberts

TMF Business Development & Operations Manager, Telluride Institute
Rebecca's first Telluride Mushroom Festival was 2018, the next four years she volunteered until eventually being hired at TMF's Partnership Manager. After 3 years in the role, she was promoted to Business Development & Operations Manager and co-leading the festival. She's spent the... Read More →
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Chris Grimes

TMF Operations & Volunteer Coordinator, Telluride Institute
When Chris Grimes isn’t foragin’ for vintage western wear somewhere in Appalachia, he’s likely off in the woods hunting mushrooms. A TMF volunteer since 2023, Chris returns for his sophomore year as Operations & Volunteer Coordinator, better known around camp as the Lead “Soft... Read More →
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Britt Bunyard

Program Director, Telluride Mushroom Festival
Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi, in print since 2008. Britt is a former university professor and has published over 100 academic and popular science papers. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological... Read More →
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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 →
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Ashley Coady Smith

TMF Festival Executive Officer, Telluride Institute
Ashley Coady Smith joined the Telluride Mushroom Festival in 2019 and currently serves as Festival Executive Officer. Working alongside the Program Director and Creative Director, she helps steward the festival's vision by guiding bigger picture operations, budgeting, fundraising... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm MDT
Palm Theatre
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

7:00pm MDT

A Louie Schwartzberg Sneak Preview
Thursday August 13, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
Palm Theatre @ 721 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
A Louie Schwartzberg Sneak PreviewLong before language, before thought, life was already speaking — through mycelial networks, DNA, and the cosmos itself. A cinematic journey revealing an unseen code that shapes existence, connects all living systems, and inspires wonder. Join Louie Schwartzberg, the visionary filmmaker behind Fantastic Fungi, as he takes us on a global mycelial...
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Louie Schwartzberg

MovingArt
Louie Schwartzberg is a visual artist who breaks barriers, connects with audiences, and shares stories that celebrate life. His work reveals the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people, and places. He is an award-winning director, cinematographer, and producer who has spent his illustrious... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
Palm Theatre
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

8:15pm MDT

Keynote Presentation: Mark Plotkin: The History of Hallucinogens at Harvard
Thursday August 13, 2026 8:15pm - 9:45pm MDT
Palm Theatre @ 721 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Mycophiles and myconauts: You will NOT want to miss this Keynote lecture by world renowned ethnobotanist / ethnomycologist Mark Plotkin. Last time at the Telluride Mushroom Festival Dr. Plotkin treated us to a tour de force of his knowledge. For his overview, only teases us that he will be "Recounting the little-known story of entheogen research at Harvard, from William James to Richard Schultes...
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Mark Plotkin Ph.D.

2026 Keynote
Mark Plotkin, Ph.D., is an ethnobotanist who has been working in and on the Amazon for over four decades. He is an ethnobotanist known for his work in the Neotropics and for advocating rainforest conservation. After early field experience at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 8:15pm - 9:45pm MDT
Palm Theatre
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Psychedelics

9:00pm MDT

Live Music! Night Cap at the Alibi w/ Copper Children and Thom LaFond
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00pm - 11:59pm MDT
Alibi @ 121 S Fir St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Want to taste the Festival Telluride Brewing Company MycoBeer and NEW THIS YEAR Fenceline Myco-CIDER? Join Telluride Mushroom Festival with live music and MUSHROOM BEVERAGES! $1 for every beer or cider purchased is donated to the Telluride Mushroom Festival, thanks to TMF sponsor and partner the Alibi. Thank you to Halo Extracts for infusing the beverages. 9PM | Thom LaFondThom LaFond,...
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Tradd Cotter

Mycologist, Blue Portal
Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and retired landscape designer, who has been cultivating mushrooms both commercially and experimentally for more than thirty years.

Tradd is the author of the best-selling book Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation (2014) and has won numerous awards for his work including the prestigious Clemson University Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2013), the EPA GRO-U Fellowship Award (2011), including the Gary Lincoff... Read More →
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Thom LaFond

Thom LaFond, currently based in Colorado, is known for his distinctive spoken style of lyrics and full-spectrum sonic arrangements. As a multi-instrumentalist and producer, he weaves compelling narratives through music, adding a fresh dimension to the broader musical landscape.  Thom... Read More →
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Austin Quattlebuam

TMF Onsite Production Manager, Folk and Forage
Born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, Quattlebaum grew up with the slow rhythm of the South seeping into his bones. He found his musical roots early, drawn to the banjo's haunting twang, the Southern Appalachia song traditions, and the funky sounds of New Orleans.

Quattlebaum's cr... Read More →
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Copper Children

Musician
The Copper Children are a diverse blend of styles and influences that span from the choral sounds of American gospel music to the psychedelic acid jam fueled sounds of the 60s. Live, they take you into your heart space, conjuring the spirit of unity, freedom, silliness, and Love... Read More →
Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00pm - 11:59pm MDT
Alibi
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required, Poetry
 
Friday, August 14
 

6:00am MDT

Sunrise Foray with Greg Sanchez
Friday August 14, 2026 6:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Mushrooms by Morning Light with Greg SanchezAs dawn breaks across the landscape, we’ll move at a relaxed pace, searching for mushrooms, and enjoying the crisp mountain air in the San Juans. We'll search for wild fungi, discuss identification and ecology, and take in stunning morning views of the surrounding mountain terrain. This easy to moderate guided foray is intended for anyone who wants to...
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Greg Sanchez

Foray Leader, Colorado Mycological Society
Greg Sanchez knew nothing about mushrooms until 2004 when he wondered, “What do you do at a mushroom festival?”  After attending the Telluride Mushroom Festival that year, he found out, sparking a lasting fascination with and a deep passion for all things fungal. Greg is a high... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 6:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

7:00am MDT

Foray with Graham Steinruck
Friday August 14, 2026 7:00am - 10:30am MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Documenting Fungal Diversity with Graham SteinruckJoin Biodiversity Collective to document Telluride’s fungal diversity, learn field ID and observation skills, and contribute meaningful data that supports community science.Where to MeetThis foray meets at Carhenge Parking Lot at 6:45 AM. We encourage you to arrive a little early to meet your foray leader and your fellow foragers. TMF does...
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Graham Steinruck

Chef, Foray Leader
Graham Steinruck is a chef, forager, and mycologist with a passion for incorporating wild ingredients into unique culinary creations inspired by the natural world. Having worked alongside some of Colorado’s top chefs, Graham's dedication to cooking and foraging earned him a spot... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 7:00am - 10:30am MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

8:00am MDT

Foray with Anthony Corbin
Friday August 14, 2026 8:00am - 11:00am MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Reading the Forest: A Habitat‑Based Mushroom Foray with Anthony CorbinJoin Anthony Corbin for a foray focused on learning to read the landscape as deeply as the mushrooms themselves. Anthony’s teaching style centers on understanding habitat, indicator species, and the plants and trees that host the fungal partners we’re often searching for. Rather than chasing a single target mushroom, this...
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Friday August 14, 2026 8:00am - 11:00am MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

8:30am MDT

Foray with Sebastian Tabibi
Friday August 14, 2026 8:30am - 1:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
From Peak to Creek: A Full-Spectrum Mycology with Sebastian TabibiStep into the diverse wildlands of the San Juan Mountains with Sebastian Tabibi for a guided exploration of Telluride’s most prolific fungal habitats. This foray follows the natural flow of the landscape, beginning in the high-elevation coniferous forests—where spruce and fir dominate—before descending into the lush,...
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Sebastian Tabibi

Foray Leader, North Texas Mycology
Sebastian Tabibi is a passionate amateur chef and highly regarded mycologist raising awareness on the crucial role fungi play in our ecosystem. Based in North Texas, Sebastian has been delving into the world of fungi, particularly fascinated by their medicinal properties and cataloging... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 8:30am - 1:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

9:00am MDT

Mushroom Toxins and Poisonings: Everything You Need to Know
Friday August 14, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
People of the past forked around and found out, so, as foragers of edible mushrooms, we don’t have to. Still, headlines blab embarrassing and scandalous stories about gastronomy gone wrong. Let’s look at the categories of mushroom toxins, some known and unknown constituents responsible, and the not-so-pleasant reactions in the body through the exploration of toxicology reports and personal...
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John Michelotti

Catskill Fungi
John Michelotti is the founder of Catskill Fungi which empowers people with fungi through outdoor educational classes, cultivation courses, mushroom art, and mushroom health extracts.  John is a former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association (MHMA) where he co-founded... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

9:00am MDT

Yoga: Rooted in Nature with Shay
Friday August 14, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Sometimes lying under the trees and walking barefoot on the earth is the most spiritual thing you could ever do in your life.Place your hands into the soil to feel grounded. Wade in water to feel emotionally healed. Fill your lungs with fresh air to feel mentally clear. Raise your face to the sun and connect with that fire to feel your own immense power.Bring your mat, water, and any comforts for...
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Friday August 14, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

9:00am MDT

Sign Up Tent for Forays and Workshops
Friday August 14, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Foray & Workshop Sign‑Up TentThis tent is where festival pass holders can sign up for Forays and Workshops the day before they take place. All forays and workshops can also be RSVP’d online before festival week. ONLY ONE Foray and ONE Workshop can be RSVP'd for online pre-sign ups.Workshops take place at various venues throughout Telluride, and signing up online ahead of time guarantees your...
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Speakers
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Chris Grimes

TMF Operations & Volunteer Coordinator, Telluride Institute
When Chris Grimes isn’t foragin’ for vintage western wear somewhere in Appalachia, he’s likely off in the woods hunting mushrooms. A TMF volunteer since 2023, Chris returns for his sophomore year as Operations & Volunteer Coordinator, better known around camp as the Lead “Soft... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park
  FREE - Open to public, Registration and Will Call

9:00am MDT

Foray with John Sir Jesse
Friday August 14, 2026 9:00am - 12:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Foray with John Sir JesseJoin John Sir Jesse for a guided walk focused on identifying edible mushrooms while exploring a wide range of foundational mycology topics. Along the way, he’ll cover toxic lookalikes, medicinal species, and best practices for gathering, preparing, preserving, and cooking your finds — including recipe ideas and practical tips. The foray also emphasizes ethical...
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John SirJesse

TMF Co-Founder, Foray Leader
One of the founders of the Telluride Mushroom Festival, I have been leading forays, helping with setup, doing cook and tastes etc since day one. I also have a Special Use Permit with the Forest Service to conduct plant and mushroom hikes on FS lands. I am also a certified mushroom... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 9:00am - 12:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

9:00am MDT

Mushroom ID Tent
Friday August 14, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Mushroom ID Tent: Located in the middle of Elks Park.We will have experts helping define and talk to you about all the mushrooms found around the San Juans during the days. These stations will be led by our lead mycologists, Foray Leaders and some of the festival founders. ID Staffed most days around 12pm and goes until 3pm. It is variable with forays and weather.Times:Mushroom ID TentThursday -...
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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 →
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Nickolas Rajtar

Foray Leader
Nick Rajtar is a forest pathologist and a mycologist who received his PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities under his advisor Dr. Robert Blanchette in 2024. Rajtar currently is a post-doctoral researcher at UMN where his work focuses on the biosurveillance of invasive forest... Read More →
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Andrew Wilson

Denver Botanic Gardens
Andrew Wilson is the Associate Curator of Mycology in the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi at Denver Botanic Gardens. His research studies the patterns and processes that shape mushroom diversity, where he has traveled the world to document and describe new species. As a curator he... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park
  FREE - Open to public, Vendor Village

9:00am MDT

Registration & Information Desk + Festival Merch!
Friday August 14, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park @ 123 South Oak Street, Telluride, CO 81435
Welcome to the 46th annual Telluride Mushroom Festival. Join us in Elks Park, located in the middle of Telluride off Main Street for registration pick up. On this day (Friday) we will have a normal time slot for attendees who arrived late to Telluride to pick up their festival wristband. We also be distributing pre-order festival shirts. Registration - Festival Pass Wristband Pick-up- Please bring...
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Speakers
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Mariah Grimes

TMF Marketing and Sales Manager, Telluride Institute
Mariah is a freelance creative, website designer, and social media manager who has been working with the Telluride Mushroom Festival since 2022. Before divinely stumbling into her work with TMF, Mariah worked in hospitality/events working for various boutique hotels and wedding venues... Read More →
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Ashley Coady Smith

TMF Festival Executive Officer, Telluride Institute
Ashley Coady Smith joined the Telluride Mushroom Festival in 2019 and currently serves as Festival Executive Officer. Working alongside the Program Director and Creative Director, she helps steward the festival's vision by guiding bigger picture operations, budgeting, fundraising... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park
  FREE - Open to public, Registration and Will Call

9:00am MDT

Vendor Village
Friday August 14, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Vendor Village:Located under both sides of the main banner in Telluride main street at the town malls. We will have a food vendor in Elk's Park, Pretty as Plants, serving up a mushroom based vegetarian menu. Stop by and shop from local artisans, mushroom businesses, and all things fungi! From medicinals to dried mushrooms, cultivation use, to some cool TMF swag and a whole lotta unique...
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Jackson Schneider

TMF Vendor Coordinator
Jackson has been assisting the TMF operations team as a year-round volunteer since 2025. This year will be his first year in the Vendor Coordinator role.
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Rebecca Roberts

TMF Business Development & Operations Manager, Telluride Institute
Rebecca's first Telluride Mushroom Festival was 2018, the next four years she volunteered until eventually being hired at TMF's Partnership Manager. After 3 years in the role, she was promoted to Business Development & Operations Manager and co-leading the festival. She's spent the... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park
  FREE - Open to public, Vendor Village

9:30am MDT

THE Real Mushroom Dragon: Inside China’s Secretive Fungus Empire
Friday August 14, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Step behind the curtain with Hamilton Pevec as he takes Telluride Mushroom Festival 2026 on a rare, unfiltered journey into the heart of the Chinese mushroom industry. Supported by exclusive, on-the-ground video footage that has never been shown in the West. This investigative narrative pulls apart the myths, rumors, and half-truths that shape how Americans see the world’s most powerful mushroom...
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Hamilton Pevec

Director of FEST in Show, Hamilton’s Mushrooms
Hamilton Pevec is an ethnomycologist, entrepreneur, and filmmaker who has dedicated his career to advancing medicinal mushroom efficacy and mycological science.  He is president of the Western Colorado Mycological Association and founder of Hamilton’s Mushrooms, a premium mushroom... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

9:30am MDT

Foray with Christopher Vinci
Friday August 14, 2026 9:30am - 1:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Biosonification with Christopher VinciThis guided foray is designed to feel like stepping into a living classroom, but one where curiosity leads the way and everyone is part of the experience. Together, we will explore Telluride’s high elevation environments, searching for native mushroom species while discussing how to recognize them, where they grow, and what they are doing within the...
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Christopher Vinci

Foray Leader
Christopher Vinci is a Colorado based field mycologist, educator, and community builder dedicated to bringing people into direct relationship with fungi through hands on learning and shared field experience. He is a graduate student at the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 9:30am - 1:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

10:00am MDT

Rewilding Oneself: How to Forage for Fungi Safely and Sustainably
Friday August 14, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Downstairs Terrace @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
The basics of how and why to get started hunting mushrooms for the table. Intended for those new to mushroom hunting.


Speakers
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Ken Kassenbrock

Colorado State University
Ken Kassenbrock, MD,PhD has been an avid hunter of wild mushrooms since the late 1970s. Trained as a physician-scientist, he has worked in Cell and Molecular Biology, including post-doctoral work with the brewer’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Although his interests in fungi... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Downstairs Terrace
  FREE - Open to public, General Mycology

10:00am MDT

The Mushroom Hunter's Kitchen- Limited Capacity -Worhshop Sign Up
Friday August 14, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am MDT
Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop @ 155 West Pacific Avenue, Telluride, CO, USA

Chad Hyatt will demonstrate some of his favorite wild mushroom recipes and share tasty samples. The presentation will teach useful, fun ideas and techniques for you to use at home in your kitchen.
Speakers
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Chad Hyatt

Chef
Chad Hyatt is an expert forager and classically trained chef who has made a name for himself in northern California and beyond, sharing his delicious spin on wild mushroom cookery. He has cooked in a variety of restaurants and private clubs around the San Francisco Bay area, where... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am MDT
Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), culinary

10:00am MDT

Women's Foray with Jennifer Bell
Friday August 14, 2026 10:00am - 3:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Women's Foray with Jennifer BellJoin Jennifer Bell, former president of the Pikes Peak Mycological Society and the first woman certified by the State of Colorado as an edible mushroom expert, for an engaging exploration of high‑altitude fungi and the places they thrive. This is Jennifer's 5th year leading the Women's Foray. Jennifer will guide you through the essentials of mountain foraging —...
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Aurelija Plūkė

Speaker & Foray Leader
Aurelija Plūkė is a Lithuania-based mycology educator and the creator and host of Lithuania’s first and only national TV show devoted entirely to mushrooms and the fungal world. A lifelong nature-lover, she fell into mycology through macro photography, discovering that what looks... Read More →
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Jennifer Bell

Foray Leader, Pikes Peak Mycological Society
Jennifer Bell loves to get high—running up mountains in the summer and skiing down them in the winter. Splitting her time between southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, she thrives where the air pressure is low. She has walked across Spain and Portugal on a 30‑day, 300‑mile... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 10:00am - 3:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

10:15am MDT

Black Mycologies
Friday August 14, 2026 10:15am - 11:15am MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
Maria will share stories, art, and insights gleaned from her research into Black mushroom love in Africa and the diaspor(e)a.
Speakers
avatar for Maria Pinto

Maria Pinto

Myco Author & Speaker
Maria Pinto is an author and educator living in the Boston area whose work has appeared in Orion Magazine, Longreads, Necessary Fiction, and Arnoldia. She has led workshops and given lectures for mycological societies around the country, and she leads regular forays at Harvard’s... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 10:15am - 11:15am MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

10:30am MDT

Alchemical Mushroom Sound Bath - Limited Capacity - Workshop Sign Up
Friday August 14, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Downstairs Terrace @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
Attendance limited to 30 peopleWe will start by enjoying a potent Spagyric Mushroom Elixir crafted by Sacred Herbal Extracts and then transition into a comfortable meditative space, laying down or seated.Brian will be intuitively guiding a journey through sound with a variety of gongs, singing bowls, bells, ancient whistles, handpan, chimes, and more. As we are immersed in the cosmic ocean of...
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Friday August 14, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Downstairs Terrace
  FREE - Open to public, Integration

10:30am MDT

How to Safely Use Psilocybin in A Self-Directed Journey
Friday August 14, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park @ W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Safely Journeying Through the Cosmos
Have you considered a psilocybin journey on your own? Are clinical journeys with a professional out of reach for you? This lecture will give you information on dosing, set and setting, integration and everything you need to know for your journey to be safe at home.



This event is first come, first served and limited. Please show up early to ensure a spot.
Speakers
avatar for Jennifer Pressey

Jennifer Pressey

TMF Integration Space Practitioner
Jenn holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC) as well as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in the state of Colorado. She has experience working with diverse populations and is passionate about supporting... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Integration

10:30am MDT

Bioregional Specific Mycorrhizae: Capturing and Magnifying Inoculants for Seeding and Planting
Friday August 14, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Most Mycorrhizal inoculants are produced in the lab, then produced in mass for the agricultural market with no respect to the bioregional specificity, or even compatibility of the plant hosts, climate, soil composition, and biodiversity. See how you can easily propagate your own mycorrhizal inoculants using bags of sand and low tech processes to expand these fungi to create novel soil seeding...
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Tradd Cotter

Mycologist, Blue Portal
Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and retired landscape designer, who has been cultivating mushrooms both commercially and experimentally for more than thirty years.

Tradd is the author of the best-selling book Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation (2014) and has won numerous awards for his work including the prestigious Clemson University Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2013), the EPA GRO-U Fellowship Award (2011), including the Gary Lincoff... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

10:30am MDT

Foray with Larry Evans
Friday August 14, 2026 10:30am - 2:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Deep Secrets & Microhabitats: Using All Five Senses to ID Mushrooms with Larry EvansStep into the forest with longtime TMF legend Larry Evans, who has been leading forays in Telluride since before Know Your Mushrooms introduced the world to fungiphilia as the cure for fungiphobia. Larry’s approach is immersive, sensory, and full of story — don’t be surprised if an exciting mushroom (or...
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Larry Evans

Foray Leader
Larry Evans has been tiptoeing through the subalpine spruce and fir and showing people how to tell mushrooms apart since the 20th century. Not afraid to sing or yodel, he may be triggered by the phrase, "can ya eat it?"  He's been writing songs and singing about mushrooms and released... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 10:30am - 2:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

11:00am MDT

Relational Intelligence, not Artificial Intelligence: Embodying the Fungal Wisdom of Connection
Friday August 14, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Beneath the forest floor, ancient wisdom is at work - inviting us to learn its ways. Fungi silently work their magic, weaving vast mycelial networks—living systems of exchange, communication, and mutual support. In this engaging and interactive talk, we’ll explore what fungi—the master connectors of the forest—can teach us about human relationships.This talk is an invitation to rewild the...
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Gabe DeRita

Goal Whisperer, Fungi Academy, Effective Connection
Gabe DeRita is a goal whisperer and mushroom nerd who left his "fancy tech job" in 2018 to travel the world by bicycle. In the process, he found his calling helping individuals and groups create effective connections with self and others through coaching & facilitation.

Drawing on... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

11:30am MDT

Women of Psychedelics
Friday August 14, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
During this psychedelic renaissance of the 21st century, psychedelics are being celebrated for their ability to help change our minds, illuminate the world, and discover what we have forgotten. In a field that stands for expanded consciousness, ironically, women have been occluded, devalued, and minimized from the psychedelic stories we like to tell about ourselves. We’ve all heard of beloved...
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Gabriela D'Elia

Speaker
Gabriela D’Elia grew up in the arms of the Rocky Mountains, fell in love with fungi in the Pacific Northwest, and since 2022 has made home in the hills of the sky – the “Catskills”. Gabriela writes, teaches, and creates threads intended to connect us with ecological soulfulness... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

11:30am MDT

Foray with Alex Merryman
Friday August 14, 2026 11:30am - 2:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Foray with Alex MerrymanA foray in the beautiful San Juan mountains. We'll be on the hunt for a variety of mushrooms and fungi, edible and less-edible alike.Where to MeetThis foray meets at Carhenge Parking Lot at 11:15AM. We encourage you to arrive a little early to meet your foray leader and your fellow foragers. TMF does not provide transportation, so carpooling is encouraged to help groups...
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Alex Merryman

Foray Leader
Alex Merryman is an experienced foray leader with the Colorado Mycological Society. Having lived in Colorado for much of his life, he is well-versed in Rocky Mountain fungi, trees, and terrain.

Alex is a contributor to Falcon Guides' "Foraging Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountains," published in 2024. He helped organize a group to advance Agaricus julius (the "Emperor Mushroom") as Colorado’s official state mushroom; it was signed into law in 2025. Alex has been invited to... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 11:30am - 2:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

12:00pm MDT

Introduction to Medicinal Mycology: Traditional Roots, Modern Research, and What the Science Actually Says
Friday August 14, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent @ Elks Park, South Oak Street, Telluride, CO
Medicinal mushrooms have never been more popular - or more misunderstood. This lecture cuts through the noise with a grounded, science-forward introduction to the field: covering traditional uses across cultures, the current state of peer-reviewed research, what we actually know about bioavailability and extraction, and how to evaluate the rapidly growing landscape of medicinal mushroom...
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Shane Schoolman

MyCOlove Farm

Friday August 14, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent

12:00pm MDT

Integration Space
Friday August 14, 2026 12:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park @ W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
We are rooted in a harm reduction model that welcomes all people who need a place to process and/or would like support from our licensed therapists with psychedelic integration training, massage therapists and herbalists. This cozy and accessible lounge will host integration circles and have other alternative wellness modalities for festival goers to be able to down-regulate and integrate their...
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Rebecca Joy

Mycelia Transformation
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Jennifer Pressey

TMF Integration Space Practitioner
Jenn holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC) as well as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in the state of Colorado. She has experience working with diverse populations and is passionate about supporting... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 12:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Integration

12:15pm MDT

BIPOC Community Gathering: Opening Circle & Connection
Friday August 14, 2026 12:15pm - 1:15pm MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room @ 100 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
The Telluride Mushroom Festival has long been a place where people gather to celebrate fungi, science, art, education, and community. This year, the festival is piloting a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Community Gathering Space to help foster connection, belonging, and long-term participation within the mycological community.This gathering is a BIPOC affinity space created for...
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Clarissa Arana

Foray Leader
Clarissa Arana is a Colorado-based mycologist, foray leader, and passionate citizen scientist with over a decade of experience in mushroom identification, ecology, and community education. She serves as the Founder and President of the Front Range Mycological Society (FRMS) and works... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 12:15pm - 1:15pm MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room
  FREE - Open to public, General Mycology

12:30pm MDT

Beyond the Fruiting Body: New Research on Mycelium and Full-Spectrum Mushrooms
Friday August 14, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
This talk will share new research that is reshaping the long-standing belief that only mushroom fruiting bodies provide functional benefits. The session will highlight emerging science on mycelium and full-spectrum mushroom ingredients and how this research is changing industry and scientific conversations.Presenters will include contributors from M2 Ingredients and Fungi Perfecti sharing...
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Julie Daoust

Om Mushroom Superfood
Julie Daoust is the Chief Science Officer at Om Mushroom Superfood. Dr Daoust received her PhD in natural product chemistry from the University of British Columbia and has since worked in the nutraceutical industry with a focus on plant-based products. Her research has been centered... Read More →
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Chase Beathard

Fungi Perfecti
Chase Beathard is the Associate Director of R&D, leading the cell and molecular biology team at Fungi Perfecti, LLC. His research explores the impact of fungi on human health, spanning immunology, neurobiology, virology, longevity, and general wellness. Prior to his time at Fungi... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

12:30pm MDT

The Truffle Orchard Ecosystem: From Soil to the Scent of Success
Friday August 14, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Truffle cultivation is equal parts ecology, patience, and precision. In this talk, we’ll demystify what it actually takes to grow truffles in North American landscapes—starting with the core relationship that makes truffles possible: a healthy host tree partnered with a thriving mycorrhizal network. We’ll walk through the foundational building blocks of a successful truffle orchard,...
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Stephanie Jarvis

Pacific Truffle Growers, LLC
Stephanie Jarvis is a truffle cultivator, mycologist, ISA Certified Arborist, and founder of Pacific Truffle Growers. She holds a Master of Science degree in Conservation Genetics with a specialization in mycology and has spent more than 25 years working in mushroom cultivation, mycology... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Workshops

12:45pm MDT

Mushroom Ceremony & Underwater Journey at the Dawn of Mixtec Civilization: Readings from an Ancient Mexican Pictorial Manuscript
Friday August 14, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
Mushroom Ceremony & Underwater Journey at the Dawn of Mixtec Civilization: Readings from an Ancient Mexican Pictorial ManuscriptJoin Bret Blosser to discuss images from an ancient Mixtec painted manuscript, the Vienna Codex, which illustrate a Psilocybe mushroom ceremony attended by nine deities engaged in the foundation of Mixtec civilization. I’ll draw on images from several codices,...
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avatar for Bret Blosser Ph.D.

Bret Blosser Ph.D.

Speaker
Bret Blosser received PhD in Anthropology with a focus on Mesoamerica from Tulane University in 2004. He studied with a Wixarika (Huichol) community in western Mexico and a Mazatec curandero in southern Mexico. He instructed twenty semester and summer university field programs on... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

1:00pm MDT

Book Signings with Robert Rogers, Mark Plotkin, and Chris Hobbs
Friday August 14, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
Between the Covers- Bookstore @ 214 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Three world renowned authorities on ethnobotany and ethnomycology will be signing copies of their many books. Don't miss this opportunity!
Speakers
avatar for Mark Plotkin Ph.D.

Mark Plotkin Ph.D.

2026 Keynote
Mark Plotkin, Ph.D., is an ethnobotanist who has been working in and on the Amazon for over four decades. He is an ethnobotanist known for his work in the Neotropics and for advocating rainforest conservation. After early field experience at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology... Read More →
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Chris Hobbs

Speaker
TBA
avatar for Robert Dale Rogers

Robert Dale Rogers

Professional Herbalist, Elder Herbalist of Canada, Author, Adjunct Professor
Professional Herbalist, Elder Herbalist of Canada, Author, Adjunct Professor

Robert Dale Rogers is one of North America's most accomplished and respected authorities on plant and fungal medicine. A Professional Herbalist and Elder Herbalist of Canada, Robert brings over two decades of clinical experience to his practice, and more than 26 years of teaching
... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
Between the Covers- Bookstore
  FREE - Open to public

1:00pm MDT

Mushroom ID Tent Discussion: "What's Been Coming In?"
Friday August 14, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent @ Elks Park, South Oak Street, Telluride, CO
Join our mycologists at the Workshop Tent at Elks Park for some periodic "what's been coming in" talks. Learn more in depth what people are finding out foraging in the mountains. You may learn new species, common edibles, identifying techniques and foraging locations for specific mushrooms. All this and more will be happening throughout the festival. Times may vary day to day depending on...
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Nickolas Rajtar

Foray Leader
Nick Rajtar is a forest pathologist and a mycologist who received his PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities under his advisor Dr. Robert Blanchette in 2024. Rajtar currently is a post-doctoral researcher at UMN where his work focuses on the biosurveillance of invasive forest... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent
  FREE - Open to public, General Mycology

1:30pm MDT

Fungi for Fido: There's a Mushroom for That!
Friday August 14, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room @ 100 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Fungi for Fido: There's a Mushroom for That!Mushroom use in our pets is relatively new, but is gaining traction among many progressive pet parents. This lively talk will explain the many ways  mushrooms can benefit our pets health and happiness. Specific mushrooms that have specific benefits for our pets will be discussed, as well as how to administer and dose mushrooms or mushroom products...
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Dr. Robert Silver

integrative and holistic veterinarian
Dr Rob Silver is an integrative and holistic veterinarian who has included the use of functional mushrooms in his clinical work for 20 years., along with many other holistic and conventional modalities. He has authored the book: "There's a Mushroom for That!" describing the use of... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room
  FREE - Open to public, General Mycology

2:00pm MDT

Art & Mushrooms Circle with Chris Adams
Friday August 14, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent @ Elks Park, South Oak Street, Telluride, CO
Come have a seat with Telluride Mushroom Festival Offical Artist & Sporelust! Founder Chris Adams for a discussion about the inspirational magic of fungi, how mushrooms find themselves depicted in the world of human art, and lot's of space for us all to share how we have, or want to, create work inspired by our mushroom buddies. This is an open forum, not a lecture, so come prepared to share...
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Chris Adams

Official Festival Artist, Corvidopolis, Sporelust
Chris is the creative mind behind Corvidopolis, The Mushroom Tarot and Sporelust!

Sporelust! is a Fungi Forward & Forest Inspired apparel brand for people who love mushrooms, forests and biodiversity.
We make clothes, art & goods for people who care about ethical supply chains and... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent
  FREE - Open to public

2:00pm MDT

Entheogenic Mycolotry and Ethnomycology of Mesoamerica
Friday August 14, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
As a subfield of Ethnobotany or Ethnobiology, Ethnomycology focuses on the roles and relationships of fungi within the human experience. Mesoamerican cultures and their association with sacred mushrooms from the genus Psilocybe are both fascinating as well as mysterious and hold an essential role in the evolution of Ethnomycology. Our current psychedelic renaissance owes a huge debt to ancient...
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Greg Sanchez

Foray Leader, Colorado Mycological Society
Greg Sanchez knew nothing about mushrooms until 2004 when he wondered, “What do you do at a mushroom festival?”  After attending the Telluride Mushroom Festival that year, he found out, sparking a lasting fascination with and a deep passion for all things fungal. Greg is a high... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

2:00pm MDT

Hidden Connections: Fungi, Invasive Plants, and the Future of Forests
Friday August 14, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Mycorrhizal fungi underpin native plant communities globally, forming symbioses that improve plant access to essential nutrients. Via these symbioses, mycorrhizal fungi can also underpin plant invasions. Plant invasions are a multi-stage process, from establishment, spread, ecological impacts, and subsequent rewilding, in which mycorrhizal fungi play crucial and distinct roles. Unpacking these...
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Jamil Kay

2026 Student Scholar
Jamil currently is an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of Science with Honours at the School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania in Australia. 
Friday August 14, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Transformation Studio
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

2:00pm MDT

Mycological Skills For The Apocalypse
Friday August 14, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
A deep dive into the survival potential of working with fungi when modern systems fail. This presentation explores ingenious low‑tek methods for pasteurization and sterilization without reliance on natural gas or electricity. We will look at how agricultural waste and other obscure substrates can be transformed into reliable food sources, and how you can utilize the 'waste' produced by your...
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Jasper Degenaars

Fungi Academy
Jasper Degenaars is an ambassador to the Kindom of the Fungi and has dedicated his life to the sharing and growing of Fungal Wisdom. It all started over 13 years ago when he embarked on a journey to decipher the growing of Psilocybe mushrooms. Since 2019 he has committed his full... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

2:30pm MDT

Book Signings with Gabrielle Cerberville and Maria Pinto
Friday August 14, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Between the Covers- Bookstore @ 214 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Our two huge rising stars to foraging and myco literature...together in one spot! Don't miss out on your chance to chat and get books signed!
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avatar for Gabrielle Cerberville

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 →
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Maria Pinto

Myco Author & Speaker
Maria Pinto is an author and educator living in the Boston area whose work has appeared in Orion Magazine, Longreads, Necessary Fiction, and Arnoldia. She has led workshops and given lectures for mycological societies around the country, and she leads regular forays at Harvard’s... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Between the Covers- Bookstore
  FREE - Open to public

2:30pm MDT

The Mushroom Hunter's Kitchen- Limited Capacity - Workshop Sign Up
Friday August 14, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop @ 155 West Pacific Avenue, Telluride, CO, USA
Chad Hyatt will demonstrate some of his favorite wild mushroom recipes and share tasty samples. The presentation will teach useful, fun ideas and techniques for you to use at home in your kitchen.
Speakers
avatar for Chad Hyatt

Chad Hyatt

Chef
Chad Hyatt is an expert forager and classically trained chef who has made a name for himself in northern California and beyond, sharing his delicious spin on wild mushroom cookery. He has cooked in a variety of restaurants and private clubs around the San Francisco Bay area, where... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), culinary

3:00pm MDT

Mushroom ID Tent Discussion: "What's Been Coming In?"
Friday August 14, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent @ Elks Park, South Oak Street, Telluride, CO
Join our mycologists at the Workshop Tent at Elks Park for some periodic "what's been coming in" talks. Learn more in depth what people are finding out foraging in the mountains. You may learn new species, common edibles, identifying techniques and foraging locations for specific mushrooms. All this and more will be happening throughout the festival. Times may vary day to day depending on...
See More →
Speakers
avatar for Nickolas Rajtar

Nickolas Rajtar

Foray Leader
Nick Rajtar is a forest pathologist and a mycologist who received his PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities under his advisor Dr. Robert Blanchette in 2024. Rajtar currently is a post-doctoral researcher at UMN where his work focuses on the biosurveillance of invasive forest... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent
  FREE - Open to public, General Mycology

3:15pm MDT

Hidden Figures in Mycology & Black and Brown: The New My(e)cologists with Maya Han
Friday August 14, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
Join Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker, Maya Han, for an hour together showcasing the "Hidden Figures of Mycology" where we will share a screening of her film Black and Brown: The New My(e)cologists along with snippets from her New York Myco Film Fest and Q&A about this emerging movement in mycology.Maya's works give visibility to hidden histories,...
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Maya Han

Artist + Filmmaker + Cultural Programmer
Maya Han is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker whose works give visibility to hidden histories, with recent projects focused on the natural sciences, environmental justice, and ecofeminism. She is an awardee of the 2026 New York State Council on the Arts... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Movie

4:00pm MDT

Cultivating Relational Intelligence, not Artificial Intelligence: Skills for Embodying the Fungal Wisdom of Connection
Friday August 14, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room @ 100 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Expand your capacity for connection, understanding and nuance in relationship. Gain skills to re-wild your authentic self-expression, through the art of Authentic Relating. These practices mirror the profound connections of fungi in the forest, and fungal wisdom will be our guide for relating to one another in more mycelial ways.Gain skills to navigate personal experiences and connect...
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avatar for Gabe DeRita

Gabe DeRita

Goal Whisperer, Fungi Academy, Effective Connection
Gabe DeRita is a goal whisperer and mushroom nerd who left his "fancy tech job" in 2018 to travel the world by bicycle. In the process, he found his calling helping individuals and groups create effective connections with self and others through coaching & facilitation.

Drawing on... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room
  FREE - Open to public, Kids

4:00pm MDT

Mycelial Wisdom: A Conversation with Two Pioneers Fireside Chat with Robert Rogers and Steve Farrar
Friday August 14, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
The Hotel Telluride @ 199 Cornet Ln, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Featured: Complimentary OM Mushrooms and Real Mushrooms (TMF Sponsors) drinks at the coffee bar. Want to taste the Festival Telluride Brewing Company MycoBeer and NEW THIS YEAR Fenceline Myco-CIDER? $1 for every beer or cider purchased is donated to the Telluride Mushroom Festival, thanks to TMF sponsor and partner Hotel Telluride.Mycelial Wisdom: A Conversation with Two PioneersFireside...
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avatar for Robert Dale Rogers

Robert Dale Rogers

Professional Herbalist, Elder Herbalist of Canada, Author, Adjunct Professor
Professional Herbalist, Elder Herbalist of Canada, Author, Adjunct Professor

Robert Dale Rogers is one of North America's most accomplished and respected authorities on plant and fungal medicine. A Professional Herbalist and Elder Herbalist of Canada, Robert brings over two decades of clinical experience to his practice, and more than 26 years of teaching
... Read More →
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Steve Farrar

Renowned Mycologist, Co-Founder of Om Mushrooms and M2 Ingredients, Om Organic Mushrooms
Renowned Mycologist, Co-Founder of Om Mushrooms and M2 Ingredients

Steve Farrar is one of the most consequential figures in the modern functional mushroom industry, a mycologist, cultivator, and entrepreneur whose work over more than 40 years has helped define what quality, integr
... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
The Hotel Telluride 199 Cornet Ln, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
  FREE - Open to public, Connect

4:00pm MDT

Mushroom Facilitator Social Hour
Friday August 14, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Alibi @ 121 S Fir St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
An informal social space for folks in the psilocybin mushroom space -- as facilitators, therapists, healing center owners, and cultivators -- to connect and share around what we're all up to. This social hour seeks to build connections and help us all to co-create a vision for safe, ethical, community-driven practices and collaborations to continue Colorado's leadership in the mushroom space.
Friday August 14, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Alibi
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

4:30pm MDT

The MycoLuscious MycoLicious MycoLogical Poetry Show: REHEARSAL, INVITATION ONLY
Friday August 14, 2026 4:30pm - 6:30pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
The party can’t stop at the Telluride Mushroom Festival! Join Art Goodtimes and others for a Talking Gourds Poetry and Performance Closing party upstairs, full bar downstairs with simulcast on the large tvs.

Public can attend for $10
Speakers
avatar for Art Goodtimes

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 →
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John Michelotti

Catskill Fungi
John Michelotti is the founder of Catskill Fungi which empowers people with fungi through outdoor educational classes, cultivation courses, mushroom art, and mushroom health extracts.  John is a former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association (MHMA) where he co-founded... Read More →
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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

MMM Poetry Show Host
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives with her husband and two children in Placerville, Colorado, on the banks of the wild and undammed San Miguel River. She served as San Miguel County’s first poet laureate (2007-2011) and as Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017).
Devoted to helping others explore their creative potential, Rosemerry is the co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process (with Christie Aschwanden), co-director of Telluride’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club (with Art Goodtimes) and co-founder of Secret Agents of Change (with... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 4:30pm - 6:30pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), art

5:00pm MDT

(Special Event) Rewild Dinner: The Wild Foods that Shaped Katrina Blair's Journey
Friday August 14, 2026 5:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop @ 155 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
A month before she passed away, Katrina Blair met with Team Mushroom to share her wishes for how her legacy would live on at the Telluride Mushroom Festival. More than anything, she wanted the spirit, joy, and abundance of wild plants to keep being celebrated.The way we honor Katrina’s wish is by continuing this Wild Foods Dinner and celebrating with stories of the wild plants that shaped...
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Speakers
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Mila Garelle-Essam

Foray Leader
My name is Mila and I am from Manitou Springs, a  special little town nestled at the base of Pikes Peak. I aim to cultivate love and respect for the land through place based learning and a fungal lens. I am passionate about integrating art, science, and storytelling into forays and... Read More →
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Gerard LaBonte

Chef/Owner, LaBonte Nutrition
Gerard LaBonté is an ever-evolving non-ordinary wellness coach. Gerard started his career coaching physical movement, Crossfit, rugby, wrestling coach, and personal training. His next evolution as a coach incorporated real food nutrition and hormone understanding. By combining his... Read More →
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In Memory Of Katrina Blair

(1970-2026), Turtle Lake Refuge
In Memory of our beloved Katrina Blair.
"Rest In Weeds"

Katrina Blair began studying wild plants in her teens when she camped out alone for a summer to focus on eating wild foods. She later wrote “The Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants of the San Juan Mountains” for her senior project at Colorado College. In 1997 she completed a MA at... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 5:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
Ah Haa School - SkyDeck Rooftop
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required, culinary

5:30pm MDT

Mini Mush Film Fest!
Friday August 14, 2026 5:30pm - 7:00pm MDT
Palm Theatre @ 721 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
NCY Milky Band, Magic Mushroom 3:35minA fun Intro...Hamilton Pevec, Fest In Show (Remastered) 25 minCompetitive mushroom costume making reaches uncharted territory when a new rival enters the scene. Vicious competition meets hand crafted art in this twisted documentary film. Featuring the "unbeatable" costume team: Jessica Langley, Ben Kinsely and Riitta Ikonen. Shot on location at TMF...
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Giuliana Furci

Fungi Foundation de Chile
Giuliana Furci is a Chilean-British-Italian field mycologist, speaker, author, and founder of the world's first non-profit organization dedicated to fungi, Fundación Fungi or Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, National Geographic Explorer, author of a series... Read More →
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Joel Penner

Filmmaker
Joel Penner is a National Geographic-featured documentary filmmaker based in Winnipeg, Canada. His work delves into the beauty of mortality and decay seen through the unique perspective provided by timelapse photography. His most recent short film Wrought has screened at over 65 film... Read More →
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Maya Han

Artist + Filmmaker + Cultural Programmer
Maya Han is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker whose works give visibility to hidden histories, with recent projects focused on the natural sciences, environmental justice, and ecofeminism. She is an awardee of the 2026 New York State Council on the Arts... Read More →
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Hamilton Pevec

Director of FEST in Show, Hamilton’s Mushrooms
Hamilton Pevec is an ethnomycologist, entrepreneur, and filmmaker who has dedicated his career to advancing medicinal mushroom efficacy and mycological science.  He is president of the Western Colorado Mycological Association and founder of Hamilton’s Mushrooms, a premium mushroom... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 5:30pm - 7:00pm MDT
Palm Theatre
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Movie

7:00pm MDT

Keynote Presentation: Giuliana Furci: Conks, Puffballs, and People
Friday August 14, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
Palm Theatre @ 721 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
One of our all-time favorite presenters at TMF, Giuliana Furci travels from Chile (as well as the four corners of the planet) to deliver a special Keynote presentation. This presentation will be an overview of the relationships between people and fungi, focusing on conks and puffballs, with uses collected from all over the world and permission to share their stories.
Speakers
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Giuliana Furci

Fungi Foundation de Chile
Giuliana Furci is a Chilean-British-Italian field mycologist, speaker, author, and founder of the world's first non-profit organization dedicated to fungi, Fundación Fungi or Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, National Geographic Explorer, author of a series... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
Palm Theatre
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

8:00pm MDT

(Special Event) Nighttime Foray w/ Alan Rockefeller
Friday August 14, 2026 8:00pm - 10:00pm MDT
Gondola in Telluride @ W San Juan Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Late Evening | Friday | 8pm-11pm | Telluride Gondola Station | Capacity 30Join renowned mycologist Alan Rockefeller for this exciting event. As you may know - Fungi glow in the dark!! Well… many fungi glow but only under special conditions!! Participants will join Alan to learn about UV reactance in mushrooms, how to use these tools in identification, and enjoy an evening on the mountain....
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Alan Rockefeller

Speaker & Foray Leader
Alan Rockefeller is an expert mycologist in high demand at mushroom events where he teaches workshops on DNA barcoding, field photography, and fungal microscopy. Committed to his cause, Alan has been studying fungal diversity for more than two decades, and since 2001 he has photographed... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 8:00pm - 10:00pm MDT
Gondola in Telluride
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required

8:15pm MDT

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,...
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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

8:30pm MDT

The MycoLuscious MycoLicious MycoLogical Poetry Show with Art Goodtimes and Friends
Friday August 14, 2026 8:30pm - 11:00pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
The party can’t stop at the Telluride Mushroom Festival! Join Art Goodtimes and others for a Talking Gourds Poetry and Performance Closing party upstairs, full bar downstairs with simulcast on the large tvs.

Public can attend for $10
Speakers
avatar for Giuliana Furci

Giuliana Furci

Fungi Foundation de Chile
Giuliana Furci is a Chilean-British-Italian field mycologist, speaker, author, and founder of the world's first non-profit organization dedicated to fungi, Fundación Fungi or Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, National Geographic Explorer, author of a series... Read More →
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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 →
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John Michelotti

Catskill Fungi
John Michelotti is the founder of Catskill Fungi which empowers people with fungi through outdoor educational classes, cultivation courses, mushroom art, and mushroom health extracts.  John is a former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association (MHMA) where he co-founded... Read More →
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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

MMM Poetry Show Host
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives with her husband and two children in Placerville, Colorado, on the banks of the wild and undammed San Miguel River. She served as San Miguel County’s first poet laureate (2007-2011) and as Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017).
Devoted to helping others explore their creative potential, Rosemerry is the co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process (with Christie Aschwanden), co-director of Telluride’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club (with Art Goodtimes) and co-founder of Secret Agents of Change (with... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 8:30pm - 11:00pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), art

10:00pm MDT

Live Music! Night Cap at the Alibi w/ Codestar + Jasper of Fungi Academy
Friday August 14, 2026 10:00pm - Saturday August 15, 2026 1:00am MDT
Alibi @ 121 S Fir St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Want to taste the Festival Telluride Brewing Company MycoBeer and NEW THIS YEAR Fenceline Myco-CIDER? Join Telluride Mushroom Festival with live music and MUSHROOM BEVERAGES! $1 for every beer or cider purchased is donated to the Telluride Mushroom Festival, thanks to TMF sponsor and partner the Alibi. Thank you to Halo Extracts for infusing the beverages. 10PM - 11:30PM | DJ Set with...
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Tradd Cotter

Mycologist, Blue Portal
Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and retired landscape designer, who has been cultivating mushrooms both commercially and experimentally for more than thirty years.

Tradd is the author of the best-selling book Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation (2014) and has won numerous awards for his work including the prestigious Clemson University Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2013), the EPA GRO-U Fellowship Award (2011), including the Gary Lincoff... Read More →
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Jasper Degenaars

Fungi Academy
Jasper Degenaars is an ambassador to the Kindom of the Fungi and has dedicated his life to the sharing and growing of Fungal Wisdom. It all started over 13 years ago when he embarked on a journey to decipher the growing of Psilocybe mushrooms. Since 2019 he has committed his full... Read More →
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CodeStar

DJ
Wielding a style that blends organic instrumentation and vocals with deep bassy beats, expansive effects, loops, samples, and turntablism, CodeStar’s sets and productions are inspired by an invigorating love for music and dance. He brings a live and unique flavor to every occasion... Read More →
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Austin Quattlebuam

TMF Onsite Production Manager, Folk and Forage
Born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, Quattlebaum grew up with the slow rhythm of the South seeping into his bones. He found his musical roots early, drawn to the banjo's haunting twang, the Southern Appalachia song traditions, and the funky sounds of New Orleans.

Quattlebaum's cr... Read More →
Friday August 14, 2026 10:00pm - Saturday August 15, 2026 1:00am MDT
Alibi
  Other, Poetry
 
Saturday, August 15
 

7:30am MDT

Foray with Sebastian Tabibi
Saturday August 15, 2026 7:30am - 1:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Where Aspen Meets Alpine: Exploring Telluride's Fungal Biodiversity with Sebastian TabibiWhile the soaring subalpine peaks hold their ancient giants and the low river valleys cradle lush riparian life, the true alchemy of the San Juan Mountains unfolds in the spaces between—where these distinct worlds collide. Join mycologist Sebastian Tabibi to decode the region’s fungal biodiversity as we...
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Sebastian Tabibi

Foray Leader, North Texas Mycology
Sebastian Tabibi is a passionate amateur chef and highly regarded mycologist raising awareness on the crucial role fungi play in our ecosystem. Based in North Texas, Sebastian has been delving into the world of fungi, particularly fascinated by their medicinal properties and cataloging... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 7:30am - 1:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

8:00am MDT

Foray with Nickolas Rajtar
Saturday August 15, 2026 8:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Wandering for Wild Fungi: A Polypore‑Forward Foray Part 2 with Nick RajtarJoin Nickolas for a relaxed, exploratory foray designed for everyone — from total beginners to seasoned mycologists. This walk embraces curiosity and the natural rhythm of the forest. Participants are encouraged to wander, explore at their own pace, and follow whatever catches their eye.While Nickolas has a special love...
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Nickolas Rajtar

Foray Leader
Nick Rajtar is a forest pathologist and a mycologist who received his PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities under his advisor Dr. Robert Blanchette in 2024. Rajtar currently is a post-doctoral researcher at UMN where his work focuses on the biosurveillance of invasive forest... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 8:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

8:30am MDT

Conscious Alliance: Community & Connection Foray with Clarissa Arana
Saturday August 15, 2026 8:30am - 11:45am MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Conscious Alliance: Community & Connection Foray with Clarissa AranaJoin Clarissa Arana and Skyler Fly Wilson for a community-centered mushroom foray focused on connection, belonging, and shared exploration. This walk welcomes BIPOC attendees, LGBTQ+ participants, allies, first-time festival attendees, and anyone seeking a supportive environment to learn about fungi while building meaningful...
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Clarissa Arana

Foray Leader
Clarissa Arana is a Colorado-based mycologist, foray leader, and passionate citizen scientist with over a decade of experience in mushroom identification, ecology, and community education. She serves as the Founder and President of the Front Range Mycological Society (FRMS) and works... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 8:30am - 11:45am MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

9:00am MDT

A Plant Meditation with Ceremonial Cacao
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park @ W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Join us for a gathering of connection and community among plants and people guided by the heart-opening medicine of Cacao.  Cacao has been revered for centuries for its ability to deepen our connection to ourselves and the world around us. In this gathering, we'll come together to honor the ancient tradition of cacao ceremonies, learn about the nahual of the day and explore the transformative...
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Caro Arevalo

Artist, Festival Wellness
Caro is a Peruvian visual artist based in Woodstock, NY. Her artwork explores the plant and fungi kingdoms as seen with our naked eyes and through the microscopes. From her Amazonian heritage, Caro embraces the interconnectedness of all beings, the significance of rituals and ancestral... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

9:00am MDT

Medicinal Lichens: Indigenous Knowledge and Modern Pharmacology
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
Members of the Fungi Kingdom, lichens have unique structure and chemistry. Their use for food, shelter, clothing and medicine has led to discovery of natural compounds useful for chronic health conditions and synergistic activity with various chemotherapy drugs and drug resistant bacteria and fungi.
Speakers
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Robert Dale Rogers

Professional Herbalist, Elder Herbalist of Canada, Author, Adjunct Professor
Professional Herbalist, Elder Herbalist of Canada, Author, Adjunct Professor

Robert Dale Rogers is one of North America's most accomplished and respected authorities on plant and fungal medicine. A Professional Herbalist and Elder Herbalist of Canada, Robert brings over two decades of clinical experience to his practice, and more than 26 years of teaching
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Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

9:00am MDT

Foray with Anthony Corbin
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Reading the Forest: A Habitat‑Based Mushroom Foray with Anthony CorbinJoin Anthony Corbin for a foray focused on learning to read the landscape as deeply as the mushrooms themselves. Anthony’s teaching style centers on understanding habitat, indicator species, and the plants and trees that host the fungal partners we’re often searching for. Rather than chasing a single target mushroom, this...
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Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

9:00am MDT

Costume Creations for the Mushroom Parade
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 1:30pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop @ 155 West Pacific Avenue, Telluride, CO, USA
In this free crafting session, create your very own wearable fungus with usual and unusual art supplies with the internationally renowned wearable sculpture artist and two-time Telluride Mushroom Festival Costume Competition winner Riitta Ikonen.Pop in and make a quick-fix fungal suit for the parade, meet your soulmates who also want to play the parts in the life cycle of dung-loving fungi, or...
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Riitta Ikonen

Costume Queen
Originally from the deep eastern Finnish forests, Riitta Ikonen’s many interdisciplinary collaborations look at contemporary human’s belonging in the natural world. The four time TMF Costume Competition winner's first book (with Karoline Hjorth) 'Eyes as Big as Plates' was nominated... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 1:30pm MDT
Ah Haa School - Curiosity Shop
  FREE - Open to public, art

9:00am MDT

Mushroom ID Tent
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Mushroom ID Tent: Located in the middle of Elks Park.We will have experts helping define and talk to you about all the mushrooms found around the San Juans during the days. These stations will be led by our lead mycologists, Foray Leaders and some of the festival founders. ID Staffed most days around 12pm and goes until 3pm. It is variable with forays and weather.Times:Mushroom ID TentThursday -...
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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 →
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Nickolas Rajtar

Foray Leader
Nick Rajtar is a forest pathologist and a mycologist who received his PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities under his advisor Dr. Robert Blanchette in 2024. Rajtar currently is a post-doctoral researcher at UMN where his work focuses on the biosurveillance of invasive forest... Read More →
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Andrew Wilson

Denver Botanic Gardens
Andrew Wilson is the Associate Curator of Mycology in the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi at Denver Botanic Gardens. His research studies the patterns and processes that shape mushroom diversity, where he has traveled the world to document and describe new species. As a curator he... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park
  FREE - Open to public, Vendor Village

9:00am MDT

Registration & Information Desk + Festival Merch!
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park @ 123 South Oak Street, Telluride, CO 81435
Welcome to the 45th annual Telluride Mushroom Festival. Join us in Elks Park, located in the middle of Telluride off Main Street for registration pick-up. On this day (Saturday) we will have a normal time slot for attendees who arrived late to Telluride to pick up their festival wristband. We also be distributing pre-ordered shirts if you have purchased a TMF shirt.Registration - Festival Pass...
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Mariah Grimes

TMF Marketing and Sales Manager, Telluride Institute
Mariah is a freelance creative, website designer, and social media manager who has been working with the Telluride Mushroom Festival since 2022. Before divinely stumbling into her work with TMF, Mariah worked in hospitality/events working for various boutique hotels and wedding venues... Read More →
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Ashley Coady Smith

TMF Festival Executive Officer, Telluride Institute
Ashley Coady Smith joined the Telluride Mushroom Festival in 2019 and currently serves as Festival Executive Officer. Working alongside the Program Director and Creative Director, she helps steward the festival's vision by guiding bigger picture operations, budgeting, fundraising... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park
  FREE - Open to public, Registration and Will Call

9:00am MDT

Vendor Village
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Vendor Village:Located under both sides of the main banner in Telluride main street at the town malls. We will have a food vendor in Elk's Park, Pretty as Plants, serving up a mushroom based vegetarian menu. Stop by and shop from local artisans, mushroom businesses, and all things fungi! From medicinals to dried mushrooms, cultivation use, to some cool TMF swag and a whole lotta unique crafts....
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Jackson Schneider

TMF Vendor Coordinator
Jackson has been assisting the TMF operations team as a year-round volunteer since 2025. This year will be his first year in the Vendor Coordinator role.
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Rebecca Roberts

TMF Business Development & Operations Manager, Telluride Institute
Rebecca's first Telluride Mushroom Festival was 2018, the next four years she volunteered until eventually being hired at TMF's Partnership Manager. After 3 years in the role, she was promoted to Business Development & Operations Manager and co-leading the festival. She's spent the... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park
  FREE - Open to public, Vendor Village

9:00am MDT

Sign Up Tent for Forays and Workshops
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 8:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Foray & Workshop Sign‑Up TentThis tent is where festival pass holders can sign up for Forays and Workshops the day before they take place. All forays and workshops can also be RSVP’d online before festival week. ONLY ONE Foray and ONE Workshop can be RSVP'd for online pre-sign ups.Workshops take place at various venues throughout Telluride, and signing up online ahead of time guarantees your...
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Chris Grimes

TMF Operations & Volunteer Coordinator, Telluride Institute
When Chris Grimes isn’t foragin’ for vintage western wear somewhere in Appalachia, he’s likely off in the woods hunting mushrooms. A TMF volunteer since 2023, Chris returns for his sophomore year as Operations & Volunteer Coordinator, better known around camp as the Lead “Soft... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:00am - 8:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park
  FREE - Open to public, Vendor Village

9:05am MDT

Yoga: Wild & Free with Lauren Norton
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:05am - 10:05am MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Downstairs Terrace @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
What does true authenticity look like? How can you share your unique gifts with the world?
Restore your wild through connection to nature, your body, breath, and simple joy.

Bring your mat, water, and any comforts for your practice. We may have limited mats available for those who do not have them on a first come first served basis. 
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:05am - 10:05am MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Downstairs Terrace
  FREE - Open to public, Yoga

9:30am MDT

Foray with Alex Merryman
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:30am - 12:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Foray with Alex MerrymanA foray in the beautiful San Juan mountains. We'll be on the hunt for a variety of mushrooms and fungi, edible and less-edible alike.Where to MeetThis foray meets at Carhenge Parking Lot at 9:15AM. We encourage you to arrive a little early to meet your foray leader and your fellow foragers. TMF does not provide transportation, so carpooling is encouraged to help groups stay...
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Alex Merryman

Foray Leader
Alex Merryman is an experienced foray leader with the Colorado Mycological Society. Having lived in Colorado for much of his life, he is well-versed in Rocky Mountain fungi, trees, and terrain.

Alex is a contributor to Falcon Guides' "Foraging Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountains," published in 2024. He helped organize a group to advance Agaricus julius (the "Emperor Mushroom") as Colorado’s official state mushroom; it was signed into law in 2025. Alex has been invited to... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:30am - 12:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

9:30am MDT

Foray with Christopher Vinci
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:30am - 1:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Alpine Ascent Foray: Waterfalls, Fungi, and High Country Views with Christopher VinciThis moderate foray combines a scenic alpine hike with hands on field learning focused on fungi, lichen, and high elevation ecology. We will hike approximately one mile into a beautiful mountain setting, moving through changing terrain that offers both striking views and diverse microhabitats to study along the...
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Christopher Vinci

Foray Leader
Christopher Vinci is a Colorado based field mycologist, educator, and community builder dedicated to bringing people into direct relationship with fungi through hands on learning and shared field experience. He is a graduate student at the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 9:30am - 1:30pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

10:00am MDT

(Special Event) Wild Food Walk and Magical Tea Party with Gabrielle Cerberville (Limited to 15, sign up required)
Saturday August 15, 2026 10:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Mountains in and around Telluride @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Foray Description.Join Gabrielle (Chaotic Forager) and Betsy (Miss Wondersmith) for an edible and medicinal wild plant walk, followed by a magical tea party complete with delicious foraged treats. In the spirit of our dear TMF friend and plant champion Katrina, this walk will be full of joy, plant love, and encouragement, providing a rare opportunity at TMF to learn about the botanical world! This...
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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 →
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In Memory Of Katrina Blair

(1970-2026), Turtle Lake Refuge
In Memory of our beloved Katrina Blair.
"Rest In Weeds"

Katrina Blair began studying wild plants in her teens when she camped out alone for a summer to focus on eating wild foods. She later wrote “The Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants of the San Juan Mountains” for her senior project at Colorado College. In 1997 she completed a MA at... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 10:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Mountains in and around Telluride
  Special Event - Extra Ticket Required, Foray

10:00am MDT

Women's Foray with Jennifer Bell
Saturday August 15, 2026 10:00am - 3:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
2nd Women's Foray with Jennifer BellJoin Jennifer Bell, former president of the Pikes Peak Mycological Society and the first woman certified by the State of Colorado as an edible mushroom expert, for an engaging exploration of high‑altitude fungi and the places they thrive. This is Jennifer's 5th year leading the Women's Foray. Jennifer will guide you through the essentials of mountain...
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Jennifer Bell

Foray Leader, Pikes Peak Mycological Society
Jennifer Bell loves to get high—running up mountains in the summer and skiing down them in the winter. Splitting her time between southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, she thrives where the air pressure is low. She has walked across Spain and Portugal on a 30‑day, 300‑mile... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 10:00am - 3:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot
  Foray - Signup Required (included in Festival Pass), Foray

10:15am MDT

Rainforest Conservation and the Search for New Shamanic Medicines
Saturday August 15, 2026 10:15am - 11:15am MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
TBD
Speakers
avatar for Mark Plotkin Ph.D.

Mark Plotkin Ph.D.

2026 Keynote
Mark Plotkin, Ph.D., is an ethnobotanist who has been working in and on the Amazon for over four decades. He is an ethnobotanist known for his work in the Neotropics and for advocating rainforest conservation. After early field experience at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 10:15am - 11:15am MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

10:30am MDT

Katrina Blair Memorial with Turtle Lake Refuge
Saturday August 15, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent @ Elks Park, South Oak Street, Telluride, CO
TBD
Speakers
avatar for Art Goodtimes

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 →
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In Memory Of Katrina Blair

(1970-2026), Turtle Lake Refuge
In Memory of our beloved Katrina Blair.
"Rest In Weeds"

Katrina Blair began studying wild plants in her teens when she camped out alone for a summer to focus on eating wild foods. She later wrote “The Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants of the San Juan Mountains” for her senior project at Colorado College. In 1997 she completed a MA at... Read More →
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Turtle Lake Refuge

Turtle Lake Refuge
Our mission is to celebrate the connection between personal health and wild lands.We manifest this goal through educating and practicing sustainable practices. A few examples of our work include growing and preparing local, wild, and living foods from the Turtle Lake Community farm... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent
  FREE - Open to public

10:30am MDT

Integration Space - Closes at 10PM Saturday Night
Saturday August 15, 2026 10:30am - 10:00pm MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park @ W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Rooted in a harm reduction model, the Integration Space is an inclusive, grounded space for anyone in need of support, reflection, or rest during the festival. Whether you're looking to process a powerful experience or simply recharge, our team of licensed therapists and coaches trained in integration are here to hold space with compassion and care.



Speakers
avatar for Rebecca Joy

Rebecca Joy

Mycelia Transformation
avatar for Andrea López Boetsch
avatar for Jennifer Pressey

Jennifer Pressey

TMF Integration Space Practitioner
Jenn holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC) as well as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in the state of Colorado. She has experience working with diverse populations and is passionate about supporting... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 10:30am - 10:00pm MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park
  FREE - Open to public, Integration

11:30am MDT

Chris Hobbs on Medicals or Psychedelics
Saturday August 15, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435


Speakers
avatar for Chris Hobbs

Chris Hobbs

Speaker
TBA
Saturday August 15, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

12:00pm MDT

Rewild with Movement Play, A Grown Up Recess
Saturday August 15, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Downstairs Terrace @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
This workshop invites you to rediscover movement as play. Through curiosity, experimentation, and connection, folks will explore patterns their body may have forgotten and awaken the kind of joyful movement most last experienced on a playground. Expect laughter, exploration, and a little bit of challenge as participants unwind the body and nervous system through partner games, upside down...
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Speakers
avatar for Gerard LaBonte

Gerard LaBonte

Chef/Owner, LaBonte Nutrition
Gerard LaBonté is an ever-evolving non-ordinary wellness coach. Gerard started his career coaching physical movement, Crossfit, rugby, wrestling coach, and personal training. His next evolution as a coach incorporated real food nutrition and hormone understanding. By combining his... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Downstairs Terrace
  FREE - Open to public

1:00pm MDT

Book Signings with Art Goodtimes and Lesley Wheeler
Saturday August 15, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Between the Covers- Bookstore @ 214 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Join Art Goodtimes and Lesley Wheeler for poetry and signings. Lesley Wheeler will be signing copies of her brand new, highly-acclaimed MycoCosmic.

Speakers
avatar for Art Goodtimes

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 →
Saturday August 15, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Between the Covers- Bookstore
  FREE - Open to public

1:00pm MDT

Mushroom ID Tent Discussion: "What's Been Coming In?"
Saturday August 15, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent @ Elks Park, South Oak Street, Telluride, CO
Join our mycologists at the Workshop Tent at Elks Park for some periodic "what's been coming in" talks. Learn more in depth what people are finding out foraging in the mountains. You may learn new species, common edibles, identifying techniques and foraging locations for specific mushrooms. All this and more will be happening throughout the festival. Times may vary day to day depending on...
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Speakers
avatar for Nickolas Rajtar

Nickolas Rajtar

Foray Leader
Nick Rajtar is a forest pathologist and a mycologist who received his PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities under his advisor Dr. Robert Blanchette in 2024. Rajtar currently is a post-doctoral researcher at UMN where his work focuses on the biosurveillance of invasive forest... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Elks Park Workshop Tent
  FREE - Open to public, General Mycology

1:00pm MDT

Panel Discussion: Latest Research from the World of Functional and Medicinal Fungi
Saturday August 15, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435

Speakers
avatar for John Michelotti

John Michelotti

Catskill Fungi
John Michelotti is the founder of Catskill Fungi which empowers people with fungi through outdoor educational classes, cultivation courses, mushroom art, and mushroom health extracts.  John is a former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association (MHMA) where he co-founded... Read More →
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Julie Daoust

Om Mushroom Superfood
Julie Daoust is the Chief Science Officer at Om Mushroom Superfood. Dr Daoust received her PhD in natural product chemistry from the University of British Columbia and has since worked in the nutraceutical industry with a focus on plant-based products. Her research has been centered... Read More →
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Steve Farrar

Renowned Mycologist, Co-Founder of Om Mushrooms and M2 Ingredients, Om Organic Mushrooms
Renowned Mycologist, Co-Founder of Om Mushrooms and M2 Ingredients

Steve Farrar is one of the most consequential figures in the modern functional mushroom industry, a mycologist, cultivator, and entrepreneur whose work over more than 40 years has helped define what quality, integr
... Read More →
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Robert Dale Rogers

Professional Herbalist, Elder Herbalist of Canada, Author, Adjunct Professor
Professional Herbalist, Elder Herbalist of Canada, Author, Adjunct Professor

Robert Dale Rogers is one of North America's most accomplished and respected authorities on plant and fungal medicine. A Professional Herbalist and Elder Herbalist of Canada, Robert brings over two decades of clinical experience to his practice, and more than 26 years of teaching
... Read More →
avatar for Mark Plotkin Ph.D.

Mark Plotkin Ph.D.

2026 Keynote
Mark Plotkin, Ph.D., is an ethnobotanist who has been working in and on the Amazon for over four decades. He is an ethnobotanist known for his work in the Neotropics and for advocating rainforest conservation. After early field experience at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology... Read More →
avatar for Chris Hobbs

Chris Hobbs

Speaker
TBA
Saturday August 15, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass)

2:00pm MDT

Book Signings with Rob Silver and Britt Bunyard
Saturday August 15, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Between the Covers- Bookstore @ 214 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435

Speakers
avatar for Britt Bunyard

Britt Bunyard

Program Director, Telluride Mushroom Festival
Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi, in print since 2008. Britt is a former university professor and has published over 100 academic and popular science papers. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological... Read More →
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Dr. Robert Silver

integrative and holistic veterinarian
Dr Rob Silver is an integrative and holistic veterinarian who has included the use of functional mushrooms in his clinical work for 20 years., along with many other holistic and conventional modalities. He has authored the book: "There's a Mushroom for That!" describing the use of... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Between the Covers- Bookstore
  FREE - Open to public

2:00pm MDT

Fearless, Sleepless, and Deathless
Saturday August 15, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Downstairs Terrace @ 214 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Maria Pinto will read from and sign her book of lyric essays, Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival.
Pro tip: pick up a copy of her book at the Between the Covers bookshop in town and bring it for the author to sign!
Speakers
avatar for Maria Pinto

Maria Pinto

Myco Author & Speaker
Maria Pinto is an author and educator living in the Boston area whose work has appeared in Orion Magazine, Longreads, Necessary Fiction, and Arnoldia. She has led workshops and given lectures for mycological societies around the country, and she leads regular forays at Harvard’s... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Downstairs Terrace
  FREE - Open to public, General Mycology

2:00pm MDT

Sign-Making Workshop
Saturday August 15, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
Elks Park @ 123 South Oak Street, Telluride, CO 81435
Make a sweet sign for the parade that promotes your favorite mushroom message.  We will provide markers, paints, cardboard, and other materials onsite at the Workshop tent.
Saturday August 15, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
Elks Park
  FREE - Open to public, art

4:00pm MDT

PARADE + DRUMMING + DANCING
Saturday August 15, 2026 4:00pm - 6:30pm MDT
Telluride Main Street @ 123 South Oak Street, Telluride, CO 81435
"Each year hundreds of Festival attendees, visitors and extraterrestrials dress up like mushrooms and parade down Main Street in Telluride exclaiming "WE LOVE MUSHROOMS" / "AMAMOS A LOS HONGOS!" to hundreds of onlookers.This year the parade will include an African Drum Crew. Bring your own drum to join in on the fun."Sign Making @Elks Park starts at 2:00pm-4pmFestival attendees don’t take...
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Speakers
avatar for Etienne Tolno

Etienne Tolno

Parade Drum/Dance Lead
Etienne Tolno is a professional musician from Guinea, West Africa. His area of expertise is in percussion but also dance and song! He has been practicing music since he was sixteen years old, playing with various professional companies such as Sole Africa, Kissidugu Ensemble, Samato... Read More →
avatar for Britt Bunyard

Britt Bunyard

Program Director, Telluride Mushroom Festival
Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi, in print since 2008. Britt is a former university professor and has published over 100 academic and popular science papers. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological... Read More →
avatar for Tradd Cotter

Tradd Cotter

Mycologist, Blue Portal
Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and retired landscape designer, who has been cultivating mushrooms both commercially and experimentally for more than thirty years.

Tradd is the author of the best-selling book Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation (2014) and has won numerous awards for his work including the prestigious Clemson University Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2013), the EPA GRO-U Fellowship Award (2011), including the Gary Lincoff... Read More →
avatar for Giuliana Furci

Giuliana Furci

Fungi Foundation de Chile
Giuliana Furci is a Chilean-British-Italian field mycologist, speaker, author, and founder of the world's first non-profit organization dedicated to fungi, Fundación Fungi or Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, National Geographic Explorer, author of a series... Read More →
avatar for Art Goodtimes

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 →
Saturday August 15, 2026 4:00pm - 6:30pm MDT
Telluride Main Street
  FREE - Open to public, Parade and Costumes

5:15pm MDT

Costume Awards
Saturday August 15, 2026 5:15pm - 5:30pm MDT
Town Park @ 500 E Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Festival attendees don’t take the parade lightly, and many spend months planning their elaborate costumes.When the parade ends at the Town Park with the Drum Circle we will also pause to announce our costume award winners onsite.We've heard rumors this year there will be some mighty wild costume creations and we look forward to seeing your and selecting winners for various costume categories.NEW...
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Speakers
avatar for Britt Bunyard

Britt Bunyard

Program Director, Telluride Mushroom Festival
Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi, in print since 2008. Britt is a former university professor and has published over 100 academic and popular science papers. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological... Read More →
avatar for Giuliana Furci

Giuliana Furci

Fungi Foundation de Chile
Giuliana Furci is a Chilean-British-Italian field mycologist, speaker, author, and founder of the world's first non-profit organization dedicated to fungi, Fundación Fungi or Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, National Geographic Explorer, author of a series... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 5:15pm - 5:30pm MDT
Town Park
  FREE - Open to public, Parade and Costumes

8:00pm MDT

The Puff Ball: A Costume, DJ Dance Party
Saturday August 15, 2026 8:00pm - Sunday August 16, 2026 12:00am MDT
Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
Let’s get psily and celebrate Colorado’s historic liberation of plant medicines. Wear Fungattire, fluorescent spores and glowing caps for a dance party. Come bearing costumes, Peace, Love, and Transformative community.

Donation based. All proceeds go to a small business vendor scholarship.

Time 8PM-12PM at Sheridan Opera House.


Saturday August 15, 2026 8:00pm - Sunday August 16, 2026 12:00am MDT
Sheridan Opera House
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Parade and Costumes

10:00pm MDT

Live Music! Night Cap at the Alibi w/ Thom LaFond and DROS
Saturday August 15, 2026 10:00pm - Sunday August 16, 2026 1:00am MDT
Alibi @ 121 S Fir St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Want to taste the Festival Telluride Brewing Company MycoBeer and NEW THIS YEAR Fenceline Myco-CIDER? Join Telluride Mushroom Festival with live music and MUSHROOM BEVERAGES! $1 for every beer or cider purchased is donated to the Telluride Mushroom Festival, thanks to TMF sponsor and partner the Alibi. Thank you to Halo Extracts for infusing the beverages. Thom LaFond |...
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Speakers
avatar for Tradd Cotter

Tradd Cotter

Mycologist, Blue Portal
Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and retired landscape designer, who has been cultivating mushrooms both commercially and experimentally for more than thirty years.

Tradd is the author of the best-selling book Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation (2014) and has won numerous awards for his work including the prestigious Clemson University Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2013), the EPA GRO-U Fellowship Award (2011), including the Gary Lincoff... Read More →
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Dros

Musician
TBA
TL

Thom LaFond

Thom LaFond, currently based in Colorado, is known for his distinctive spoken style of lyrics and full-spectrum sonic arrangements. As a multi-instrumentalist and producer, he weaves compelling narratives through music, adding a fresh dimension to the broader musical landscape.  Thom... Read More →
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Austin Quattlebuam

TMF Onsite Production Manager, Folk and Forage
Born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, Quattlebaum grew up with the slow rhythm of the South seeping into his bones. He found his musical roots early, drawn to the banjo's haunting twang, the Southern Appalachia song traditions, and the funky sounds of New Orleans.

Quattlebaum's cr... Read More →
Saturday August 15, 2026 10:00pm - Sunday August 16, 2026 1:00am MDT
Alibi
  Other, Poetry
 
Sunday, August 16
 

9:00am MDT

BIPOC Community Closing
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room @ 100 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
 The Telluride Mushroom Festival has long been a place where people gather to celebrate fungi, science, art, education, and community. This year, the festival is piloting a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Community Gathering Space to help foster connection, belonging, and long-term participation within the mycological community.This gathering is a BIPOC affinity space created...
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Speakers
avatar for Clarissa Arana

Clarissa Arana

Foray Leader
Clarissa Arana is a Colorado-based mycologist, foray leader, and passionate citizen scientist with over a decade of experience in mushroom identification, ecology, and community education. She serves as the Founder and President of the Front Range Mycological Society (FRMS) and works... Read More →
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room
  FREE - Open to public

9:00am MDT

Closing Yoga: Ground & Reflect
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Town Park @ 500 E Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
As the festival comes to a close, let’s return to the body to reflect, integrate, and ground the wisdom received. What have you learned? What will you take with you? Tap into that grounded, peaceful space within yourself. Know that it’s available to you wherever you are, whenever you need it. This is a one hour, all levels yoga experience with plenty of instruction for beginners to...
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Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Town Park
  FREE - Open to public, Yoga

9:00am MDT

ID Tent - Fungi of Colorado 101
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Elks Park @ 123 South Oak Street, Telluride, CO 81435
Ok you've had several days of mushrooming with the Festival experts. You went to the introductory lectures on mushrooming. You went on all the forays. You spent a lot of time at the ID tent learning from experts. You even ate some of the strange wild mushrooms...and survived! Is your head spinning? It may be the altitude. Or it may be that you're suffering from Mycophilia!This presentation will be...
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Speakers
avatar for Britt Bunyard

Britt Bunyard

Program Director, Telluride Mushroom Festival
Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi, in print since 2008. Britt is a former university professor and has published over 100 academic and popular science papers. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological... Read More →
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Ken Kassenbrock

Colorado State University
Ken Kassenbrock, MD,PhD has been an avid hunter of wild mushrooms since the late 1970s. Trained as a physician-scientist, he has worked in Cell and Molecular Biology, including post-doctoral work with the brewer’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Although his interests in fungi... Read More →
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Elks Park
  FREE - Open to public, General Mycology

9:00am MDT

Mini Mush Film Fest!
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am MDT
Palm Theatre @ 721 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
NCY Milky Band, Magic Mushroom 3:35minA fun Intro...Hamilton Pevec, Fest In Show (Remastered) 25 minCompetitive mushroom costume making reaches uncharted territory when a new rival enters the scene. Vicious competition meets hand crafted art in this twisted documentary film. Featuring the "unbeatable" costume team: Jessica Langley, Ben Kinsely and Riitta Ikonen. Shot on location at TMF...
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Giuliana Furci

Fungi Foundation de Chile
Giuliana Furci is a Chilean-British-Italian field mycologist, speaker, author, and founder of the world's first non-profit organization dedicated to fungi, Fundación Fungi or Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, National Geographic Explorer, author of a series... Read More →
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Joel Penner

Filmmaker
Joel Penner is a National Geographic-featured documentary filmmaker based in Winnipeg, Canada. His work delves into the beauty of mortality and decay seen through the unique perspective provided by timelapse photography. His most recent short film Wrought has screened at over 65 film... Read More →
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Maya Han

Artist + Filmmaker + Cultural Programmer
Maya Han is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker whose works give visibility to hidden histories, with recent projects focused on the natural sciences, environmental justice, and ecofeminism. She is an awardee of the 2026 New York State Council on the Arts... Read More →
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Hamilton Pevec

Director of FEST in Show, Hamilton’s Mushrooms
Hamilton Pevec is an ethnomycologist, entrepreneur, and filmmaker who has dedicated his career to advancing medicinal mushroom efficacy and mycological science.  He is president of the Western Colorado Mycological Association and founder of Hamilton’s Mushrooms, a premium mushroom... Read More →
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am MDT
Palm Theatre
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Movie

9:00am MDT

Caminata de Recoleccion en Espanol- Spanish-Speaker Foray
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Telluride Library @ 100 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Juntemenos enfrente del Wilkinson's Library para una caminata de recoleccion unico, todo en Espanol, para identificar los hongos locales. Es un evento inclusivo en colaboracion con El Wilkinson Public Library.Meet in front of the Wilkinson's Library for a unique foray offering, all in Spanish to identify local mushrooms.  This is an inclusive event in collaboration with the Wilkinson Public...
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Speakers
avatar for Dominique Bruneau

Dominique Bruneau

Spanish Speakers Foray Leader, Wilkinson Public Library
Domi Bruneau is a mountain lover from Chile. She has a background in Architecture and Landscape Architecture, which has led her to work on projects in urban planning, rural development, productive landscape design, and mapping design projects for the Geographical Society of Andean... Read More →
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Chad Hyatt

Chef
Chad Hyatt is an expert forager and classically trained chef who has made a name for himself in northern California and beyond, sharing his delicious spin on wild mushroom cookery. He has cooked in a variety of restaurants and private clubs around the San Francisco Bay area, where... Read More →
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Telluride Library
  FREE - Open to public, Foray

9:00am MDT

Mushroom ID Tent
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Mushroom ID Tent: Located in the middle of Elks Park.We will have experts helping define and talk to you about all the mushrooms found around the San Juans during the days. These stations will be led by our lead mycologists, Foray Leaders and some of the festival founders. ID Staffed most days around 12pm and goes until 3pm. It is variable with forays and weather.Times:Mushroom ID TentThursday -...
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Speakers
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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 →
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Nickolas Rajtar

Foray Leader
Nick Rajtar is a forest pathologist and a mycologist who received his PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities under his advisor Dr. Robert Blanchette in 2024. Rajtar currently is a post-doctoral researcher at UMN where his work focuses on the biosurveillance of invasive forest... Read More →
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Andrew Wilson

Denver Botanic Gardens
Andrew Wilson is the Associate Curator of Mycology in the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi at Denver Botanic Gardens. His research studies the patterns and processes that shape mushroom diversity, where he has traveled the world to document and describe new species. As a curator he... Read More →
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park
  FREE - Open to public, Vendor Village

9:00am MDT

Registration & Information Desk + Festival Merch!
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Elks Park @ 123 South Oak Street, Telluride, CO 81435
Welcome to the 45th annual Telluride Mushroom Festival. Join us in Elks Park, located in the middle of Telluride off Main Street for registration pick up. On this day (Sunday) we will have an abbreviated time slot for final pass purchases and last minute merch shopping sprees!Registration - Festival Pass Wristband Pick-up- Please bring QR code from email for expedited wristband / t-shirt pick up-...
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Mariah Grimes

TMF Marketing and Sales Manager, Telluride Institute
Mariah is a freelance creative, website designer, and social media manager who has been working with the Telluride Mushroom Festival since 2022. Before divinely stumbling into her work with TMF, Mariah worked in hospitality/events working for various boutique hotels and wedding venues... Read More →
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Elks Park
  FREE - Open to public, Registration and Will Call

9:00am MDT

Vendor Village
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 2:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park @ S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
Vendor Village:Located under both sides of the main banner in Telluride main street at the town malls. We will have a food vendor in Elk's Park, Pretty as Plants, serving up a mushroom based vegetarian menu. Stop by and shop from local artisans, mushroom businesses, and all things fungi! From medicinals to dried mushrooms, cultivation use, to some cool TMF swag and a whole lotta unique crafts....
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Jackson Schneider

TMF Vendor Coordinator
Jackson has been assisting the TMF operations team as a year-round volunteer since 2025. This year will be his first year in the Vendor Coordinator role.
avatar for Rebecca Roberts

Rebecca Roberts

TMF Business Development & Operations Manager, Telluride Institute
Rebecca's first Telluride Mushroom Festival was 2018, the next four years she volunteered until eventually being hired at TMF's Partnership Manager. After 3 years in the role, she was promoted to Business Development & Operations Manager and co-leading the festival. She's spent the... Read More →
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 2:00pm MDT
Elks Park & Oak Street Park
  FREE - Open to public, Vendor Village

9:00am MDT

Integration Space
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 2:00pm MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park @ W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
We are rooted in a harm reduction model that welcomes all people who need a place to process and/or would like support from our licensed therapists with psychedelic integration training, massage therapists and herbalists. This cozy and accessible lounge will host integration circles and have other alternative wellness modalities for festival goers to be able to down-regulate and integrate their...
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Speakers
avatar for Andrea López Boetsch
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Rebecca Joy

Mycelia Transformation
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Jennifer Pressey

TMF Integration Space Practitioner
Jenn holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC) as well as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in the state of Colorado. She has experience working with diverse populations and is passionate about supporting... Read More →
Sunday August 16, 2026 9:00am - 2:00pm MDT
Integration Space - Elks Park
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Integration

10:00am MDT

ID Tent- Fungi of Colorado 102
Sunday August 16, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am MDT
Elks Park @ 123 South Oak Street, Telluride, CO 81435
Ok you've had several days of mushrooming with the Festival experts. You went to the introductory lectures on mushrooming. You went on all the forays. You spent a lot of time at the ID tent learning from experts. You even ate some of the strange wild mushrooms...and survived! Is your head spinning? It may be the altitude. Or it may be that you're suffering from Mycophilia!This presentation will be...
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Nickolas Rajtar

Foray Leader
Nick Rajtar is a forest pathologist and a mycologist who received his PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities under his advisor Dr. Robert Blanchette in 2024. Rajtar currently is a post-doctoral researcher at UMN where his work focuses on the biosurveillance of invasive forest... Read More →
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Andrew Wilson

Denver Botanic Gardens
Andrew Wilson is the Associate Curator of Mycology in the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi at Denver Botanic Gardens. His research studies the patterns and processes that shape mushroom diversity, where he has traveled the world to document and describe new species. As a curator he... Read More →
Sunday August 16, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am MDT
Elks Park
  FREE - Open to public, General Mycology

10:30am MDT

Ecstatic Dance in Honor of Katrina Blair
Sunday August 16, 2026 10:30am - 12:30pm MDT
Telluride Core Area (big white double peak tent by baseball fields) @ 500 E Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Join us for a special Ecstatic Dance honoring the life, the love, and the light of Katrina Blair. We will give thanks for all that she was in this world while allowing our real emotions around her passing to be felt, expressed, and somatically integrated. Ecstatic Dance is a safe space to move and feel with raw authenticity. The music is often a journey around the world through multiple tempos and...
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CodeStar

DJ
Wielding a style that blends organic instrumentation and vocals with deep bassy beats, expansive effects, loops, samples, and turntablism, CodeStar’s sets and productions are inspired by an invigorating love for music and dance. He brings a live and unique flavor to every occasion... Read More →
Sunday August 16, 2026 10:30am - 12:30pm MDT
Telluride Core Area (big white double peak tent by baseball fields)
  FREE - Open to public

10:45am MDT

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.
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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 →
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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

12:15pm MDT

Lithuania: Where Fungi Have Their Own TV Show and Some Woods Are Left to Turn Into Ancient Forest
Sunday August 16, 2026 12:15pm - 1:15pm MDT
Palm Theatre @ 721 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
Lithuania may not be the only mushroom-loving country, but it is one of the very few places where fungi have made it all the way onto national television in a dedicated TV show. Every autumn, mushroom season can feel like a collective migration into the woods - families arrive with baskets, inherited knowledge, strong opinions, and a set of unwritten rules about how to move through the forest. In...
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Aurelija Plūkė

Speaker & Foray Leader
Aurelija Plūkė is a Lithuania-based mycology educator and the creator and host of Lithuania’s first and only national TV show devoted entirely to mushrooms and the fungal world. A lifelong nature-lover, she fell into mycology through macro photography, discovering that what looks... Read More →
Sunday August 16, 2026 12:15pm - 1:15pm MDT
Palm Theatre
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

1:15pm MDT

Official Closing Ceremonies & Awards
Sunday August 16, 2026 1:15pm - 2:30pm MDT
Palm Theatre @ 721 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO 81435
The closing ceremony is a time to reflect on the festival and say goodbye to one another. Come as we close the festival off in ceremony and tradition.Thank you to everyone that has made this year happen, for those who have given to the festival and have transformed an idea into a movement, we hope to keep bringing this Festival to you in all the new and changing iterations that we learn about the...
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Laurie Lunquist

TMF Committee Chair, Board Treasurer, Telluride Institute

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Mariah Grimes

TMF Marketing and Sales Manager, Telluride Institute
Mariah is a freelance creative, website designer, and social media manager who has been working with the Telluride Mushroom Festival since 2022. Before divinely stumbling into her work with TMF, Mariah worked in hospitality/events working for various boutique hotels and wedding venues... Read More →
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Rebecca Roberts

TMF Business Development & Operations Manager, Telluride Institute
Rebecca's first Telluride Mushroom Festival was 2018, the next four years she volunteered until eventually being hired at TMF's Partnership Manager. After 3 years in the role, she was promoted to Business Development & Operations Manager and co-leading the festival. She's spent the... Read More →
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Chris Grimes

TMF Operations & Volunteer Coordinator, Telluride Institute
When Chris Grimes isn’t foragin’ for vintage western wear somewhere in Appalachia, he’s likely off in the woods hunting mushrooms. A TMF volunteer since 2023, Chris returns for his sophomore year as Operations & Volunteer Coordinator, better known around camp as the Lead “Soft... Read More →
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Britt Bunyard

Program Director, Telluride Mushroom Festival
Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi, in print since 2008. Britt is a former university professor and has published over 100 academic and popular science papers. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological... Read More →
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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 →
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Ashley Coady Smith

TMF Festival Executive Officer, Telluride Institute
Ashley Coady Smith joined the Telluride Mushroom Festival in 2019 and currently serves as Festival Executive Officer. Working alongside the Program Director and Creative Director, she helps steward the festival's vision by guiding bigger picture operations, budgeting, fundraising... Read More →
Sunday August 16, 2026 1:15pm - 2:30pm MDT
Palm Theatre
  Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology
 
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