Just for Fun
Earth Day at Everett Crowley Park
Everett Crowley Park 8200 Kerr St, Vancouver, BC, CanadaVMS members are gathering again for this year’s Earth Day at Everett Crowley Park, providing public mycology education and inoculating pollinator-friendly native shrubs and nurse logs with fungi. This revitalized landfill site has taken on a new life as a rewilded natural green space for wildlife and people, and is Vancouver’s largest off-leash dog park. Partnered with the Vancouver Park Park Board, Wildcoast Ecological Society will be leading a salmon berry planting along the banks of Kinross Creek, and the Environmental Youth Alliance will be giving away native plants. There will also be an interpretive walk of the park, and Vancouver Public Library will be on hand hosting its many books on natural history. We are looking for extra VMS volunteers to help with our booth and to assist families in inoculating native shrub plantings with mycorrhizal spores and nurse logs with myceliated wooden dowels. For more information and sign up: Cody Labossiere (cody@netc.it) John Ames (johnrmames@gmail.com)
Still Moon Arts Society Streamkeepers meeting
Slocan Community Hall Slocan Park, Vancouver, BC, CanadaMycologist/artist Willoughby Arevalo and environmental artist/community organizer Carmen Rosen will present on fungal biology and ecology in Renfrew Ravine and the Still Creek Watershed and their upcoming mycelial sculpture projects Mycelial Connections and Fruiting Bodies in Renfrew Ravine. If weather is conducive this event may include a foray into the ravine.
Fungus Among Us Festival
Organized by the Whistler Naturalists, the Fungus Among Us Festival is a great event with lots to offer! Click here for more details and to buy tickets.
Richmond Art Gallery Tour & Mushroom Walk
Richmond Art Gallery 7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BCArtist Xiaojing Yan's exhibition In Suspended Silence features some very fungal art. We're participating in a group tour of the gallery, starting a 12pm, and then moving to nearby Minoru Park for a brief mushroom walk to see what's out there. Click here for more info about the exhibition. Richmond Art Gallery 7700 Minoru Gate Richmond, BC V6Y 1R8 BY DONATION - funds going to the gallery, which graciously offered this free tour
Beatrix Potter: Illustrations of this World
VanDusen Botanical Garden 5251 Oak Street, Vancouver, BCBeatrix Potter was a woman of many interests and ambitions. However, we often come to know only one of these, her children’s books. Renowned for her fabulous Peter Rabbit storybook illustrations at the turn of the Century, during this period Potter was also involved in the study of fungi (mycology) and, later in life, land conservancy efforts in Britain.
Survivors’ Banquet
The Usual: VanDusen, Floral Hall 5151 Oak St, Vancouver, BC, CanadaSurvivors' Banquet - members-only event The mushroom-lover's social event of the year! Potluck dinner with all your fellow mycophiles. Email president@vanmyco.com to register.
Fantastic Fungi Film Screening
Rio Theatre 1660 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC, CanadaJoin opening night post-screening discussion with Director Louie Schwartzberg, and special guests. When so many are struggling for connection, inspiration, and hope, FANTASTIC FUNGI brings us together as interconnected creators of our world. FANTASTIC FUNGI, directed by Louie Schwartzberg, is a consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet. Through the eyes of renowned scientists and mycologists like Paul Stamets, best-selling authors Michael Pollan, Eugenia Bone, Andrew Weil, and others, we become aware of the beauty, intelligence and solutions the fungi kingdom offer us in response to some of our most pressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges. Please note: this is not an event organized by the VMS. Please contact the event organizers for all inquiries.
Fungi Forager’s Feast
Slocan Community Hall Slocan Park, Vancouver, BC, CanadaStill Moon Arts Society presents its seasonal Forager’s Feast Potluck, Tuesday, October 29th. At Slocan Hall next to 29th ave Skytrain station. Willoughby Arevalo will give a mushroom cooking demo and presentation. Sign up to attend at stillmoonarts.ca Please note: this is not a VMS event. Please contact event organizers for details.
Fantastic Fungi Film Screening
Rio Theatre 1660 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC, CanadaFANTASTIC FUNGI (Louie Schwartzberg, 2019 / 81 mins) Imagine an organism that feeds you, heals you, reveals secrets of the universe and could help save the planet. ‘Fantastic Fungi’ is a revelatory time-lapse journey, from 2019 Maui Film Festival Visionary Award honoree and director Louie Schwartzberg, about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago. Better yet, you’ll see it through the eyes of mycologists, like renowned Paul Stamets exing about the unlimited potential of fungi in the fields of food, medicine, expanding consciousness, bioremediation, neurogenesis and treating end-of-life anxiety. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. 19+ Please note: this is not a VMS event. Please contact event organizers or the Rio Theatre with any questions.
Fantastic Fungi Film Screening
Rio Theatre 1660 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC, CanadaFANTASTIC FUNGI (Louie Schwartzberg, 2019 / 81 mins) Imagine an organism that feeds you, heals you, reveals secrets of the universe and could help save the planet. ‘Fantastic Fungi’ is a revelatory time-lapse journey, from 2019 Maui Film Festival Visionary Award honoree and director Louie Schwartzberg, about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago. Better yet, you’ll see it through the eyes of mycologists, like renowned Paul Stamets exing about the unlimited potential of fungi in the fields of food, medicine, expanding consciousness, bioremediation, neurogenesis and treating end-of-life anxiety. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. 19+ Please note: this is not a VMS event. Please contact event organizers or the Rio Theatre with any questions.