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Wednesday, August 17
 

8:00pm PDT

Beer Launch Party
Want to taste the Festival MycoBeer before anyone else!? Join Tradd Cotter and others as we toast to another exciting year of the Telluride Mushroom Festival.

There will be live music from Jeffrey James and the beer will be flowing! 
Speakers
avatar for Tradd Cotter

Tradd Cotter

Mushroom Mountain LLC
Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and organic gardener, who has been tissue culturing, collecting native fungi in the Southeast, and cultivating both commercially and experimentally for more than twenty-two years. In 1996, he founded Mushroom Mountain... Read More →

Sponsors
avatar for Telluride Brewing Company

Wednesday August 17, 2016 8:00pm - 11:00pm PDT
Elks Lodge Telluride Elks Lodge #692, 472 W. Pacific Ave., Telluride, CO 81435
  Special Event, culinary
 
Thursday, August 18
 

9:00am PDT

Opening Ceremony
Speakers
avatar for Art Goodtimes

Art Goodtimes

Art Goodtimes is an American poet, farmer and politician in Colorado...a founder and driving force of the Mushroom Festival. Goodtimes was first elected to the San Miguel County Board of Commissioners in 1996 as a Democrat. He switched to the Green Party of Colorado in 1998 and... Read More →
avatar for Gary Lincoff

Gary Lincoff

Gary Lincoff is the author or editor of several books and articles on mushrooms, including The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms. He teaches courses on mushroom identification at the New York Botanical Garden. He has led mushroom study trips and forays around... Read More →

Thursday August 18, 2016 9:00am - 9:45am PDT
Sheridan Opera House 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
  Special Event

2:00pm PDT

Mushroom ID and Cooking
Learn about the mushrooms you and others found on your forays. Work with experts to obtain a proper ID for your mushrooms and see what others have found! This is a great learning activity and a wonderful opportunity to see the fungal diversity in the Telluride-area.

Found something edible? Want to cook it up? Basic cooking supplies are available for your to savor your find! 

Thursday August 18, 2016 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Elks Park Elks Park, S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
  Special Event, taxonomy

4:00pm PDT

Chef's Mushroom Cook-off
The cookoff is one of the most exciting events of the festival. Chefs compete for best mushroom dish and festival attendees are able to sample all of the dishes. Past years have included Puffball Pistachio Ice Cream, Porcini Pancakes with Candycap Whipped Cream, and last year’s winner was an Apricot Chanterelle tart. Some of the plated presentations by the chefs resemble little gnome gardens and feature mushroom-themed decorations to garner audience favor and votes.  Chefs travel from all over the United States to compete in this highly competitive and delicious event. Cowboys and Indians Magazine named the Telluride Mushroom Festival one of the 15 best foodie festivals in the West. 

This event is free to the public with a cash bar full or amazing mushroom beers! The cookoff will be open to the public at 4:00 pm.
Artists
avatar for Fractalia Forever

Thursday August 18, 2016 4:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Gondola Lot
  Special Event, culinary

9:00pm PDT

Jam Session
Musicians performing at the festival will get together and play group favorites! Mushroom Beer all around!
Artists
avatar for Jeffrey James

Thursday August 18, 2016 9:00pm - 11:00pm PDT
Elks Lodge Telluride Elks Lodge #692, 472 W. Pacific Ave., Telluride, CO 81435
  Special Event, art
 
Friday, August 19
 

2:00pm PDT

Mushroom ID and Cooking
Learn about the mushrooms you and others found on your forays. Work with experts to obtain a proper ID for your mushrooms and see what others have found! This is a great learning activity and a wonderful opportunity to see the fungal diversity in the Telluride-area.

Found something edible? Want to cook it up? Basic cooking supplies are available for your to savor your find! 

Friday August 19, 2016 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Elks Park Elks Park, S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
  Special Event, taxonomy

8:00pm PDT

Art Goodtimes' Talking Gourds Mycolicious Poetry Party
The party can’t stop at the Telluride Mushroom Festival! Join Art Goodtimes and others for a Talking Gourds Poetry and Performance party. The MycoBeer will also be available at the at the Cookoff.
Speakers
avatar for Art Goodtimes

Art Goodtimes

Art Goodtimes is an American poet, farmer and politician in Colorado...a founder and driving force of the Mushroom Festival. Goodtimes was first elected to the San Miguel County Board of Commissioners in 1996 as a Democrat. He switched to the Green Party of Colorado in 1998 and... Read More →

Friday August 19, 2016 8:00pm - 11:00pm PDT
Elks Lodge Telluride Elks Lodge #692, 472 W. Pacific Ave., Telluride, CO 81435
  Special Event, art
 
Saturday, August 20
 

2:00pm PDT

Mushroom ID and Cooking
Learn about the mushrooms you and others found on your forays. Work with experts to obtain a proper ID for your mushrooms and see what others have found! This is a great learning activity and a wonderful opportunity to see the fungal diversity in the Telluride-area.

Found something edible? Want to cook it up? Basic cooking supplies are available for your to savor your find! 

Saturday August 20, 2016 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Elks Park Elks Park, S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
  Special Event, taxonomy

4:00pm PDT

PARADE + DRUMMING + DANCING
This isn't the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, this is Telluride Mushroom Festival Parade! Each year festival attendees follow the “Shroompa” himself, Art Goodtimes, on a parade down Colorado Avenue exclaiming “WE LOVE MUSHROOMS”! Festival attendees don’t take the parade lightly, and many spend months planning their elaborate costumes. As 2014 Executive Director Rebecca Fyffe notes, “people bring extra suitcases just for their costumes and people are competitive all throughout the year saying ‘you better pick up your game because I’m already working on my costume.’”

Saturday August 20, 2016 4:00pm - 6:30pm PDT
Elks Park Elks Park, S Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
  Special Event

7:00pm PDT

FUNGI Magazine Costume Winners ANNOUNCED!
Think you have what it takes to be a winner in the annual FUNGI Magazine costume contest? You're going to have to bring your A-game...

Join us for the post-parade, pre-keynote announcement of the winners from the parade costume contest! 
Moderators
avatar for Virginia Till

Speakers
avatar for Britt Bunyard

Britt Bunyard

Executive Director, Telluride Mushroom Festival
Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal FUNGI. Britt has worked academically (and played very amateurishly) as a mycologist his entire career, writing scientifically for many research journals, popular science magazines, and books... Read More →

Saturday August 20, 2016 7:00pm - 7:15pm PDT
Sheridan Opera House 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435
  Special Event, art

8:00pm PDT

Mushroom Lounge - Open Mic and After Party
The party can’t stop at the Telluride Mushroom Festival! Continue socializing and talking shop with other mycologists each evening at the Elks Lodge, which will be turned into a Mushroom Lounge that will feature Tradd Cotter’s MycoBeer. Some nights will feature an open-mic night where people can read poetry, passages from books, or play music, or whatever! The stage is yours! The MycoBeer will also be available at the Wild Foods Dinner and during the Cookoff.
Artists
avatar for Jeffrey James

Saturday August 20, 2016 8:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
Elks Lodge Telluride Elks Lodge #692, 472 W. Pacific Ave., Telluride, CO 81435
  Special Event
 
Sunday, August 21
 

9:00am PDT

Mycolicious Mushroom Brunch
A final, amazing mushroom gathering of breakfast at the Elk's Lodge. Open to any festival attendees and the public for $15/person. Culinary wizards Andre Kohler and Graham Steinruck will join forces for bring you pure mushroom bliss at this final mushroom meal we share for the year.
Speakers
avatar for Graham Steinruck

Graham Steinruck

Graham Steinruck served as the 2012 editor of SporesAfield, the newsletter for the Colorado Mycological Society, as well as the vice president of the club in 2011. He volunteers for the Arkansas Valley Mushroom Club as a chief identifier. He is a presenter at the Telluride Mushroom... Read More →

Volunteers
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Sunday August 21, 2016 9:00am - 11:00am PDT
Elks Lodge Telluride Elks Lodge #692, 472 W. Pacific Ave., Telluride, CO 81435
  Special Event, culinary
 
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