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26th Telluride Mushroom Festival
    #5977162 - 08/18/06 09:56 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

http://www.telluridewatch.com/081806/mushroom.htm

Telluride Institute Presents 26th Telluride Mushroom Festival
Cleaning Up the Mushroom's Image
By Martinique Davis

Twenty-six years ago, local herbalist John Sir Jesse found a note on his front door, asking him to assist in the creation of a burgeoning new Telluride festival.

The note, which was signed by the Denver group “Fungophile” (literally, mushroom-lovers) wanted Sir Jesse to become the foray leader for the weekend event, which would come to be known as the Telluride Mushroom Festival.

“I told them that while I knew where a lot of mushrooms were, I didn’t necessary know what kinds of mushrooms they were,” Sir Jesse recalls. “They said that if I could show them where they were, they would tell me what they were.”

Thus began Sir Jesse’s involvement with the Telluride Mushroom Festival, which celebrates its 26th anniversary this weekend. This year’s event marks a shift in tradition, with local organizers taking the reins from the Fungophile group as the festival’s coordinators. Sir Jesse joins local agriculturalist Kris Holstrom, of Tomten Farms, as the main organizers of the event, which is now a project of the Telluride Institute.

“This is somewhat of a rebuilding year for the festival,” says Holstrom. This year’s festival is two days rather than the typical three-and-a-half days, and has been moved to a weekend earlier than normal to accommodate the school year beginning earlier.

“We’re basically pulling off whatever we can to keep a presence, and let people know that the Mushroom Festival is not dead,” says Sir Jesse. “Our goal is to make Mushroom Festival even bigger next year, with a full four-day schedule and more forays, cooking demonstrations and discussions about growing mushrooms.”

The passing of the Mushroom Festival torch, from the Fungophiles to the Telluride Institute and local organizers, lights a new path for the event. Holstrom and Sir Jesse have set out this year to pave the way for the festival to become more focused on education about the complex world of fungi.

“Our goal is to try to incorporate more of the medicinal and culinary aspects of mushrooms, and look at the fungus world more as a whole,” says Holstrom. “It seemed like in the past there was a strong focus on the psychedelic side, and while that is an important function of mushrooms in many cultures, we want to expand on that.”

Festival organizers are excited to welcome fourth generation botanist Christopher Hobbs, who will be presenting his research on “Mushrooms as Herbs” at the Friday night lecture at the Nugget Theatre. Hobbs, a clinical herbalist and licensed acupuncturist, has authored or co-authored 24 books on health and herbal medicine. Hobbs will be sharing insights on how mushrooms can be used as medicine for healing the human body.

Ethnobotany and ethnomycology authority Kathleen Harrison returns to the festival for her second year to lead a discussion about “The Healing Magic of Mushrooms” Friday afternoon. Harrison’s research has focused on the specific rituals, myths, methods, and art forms of indigenous cultures that use plants and mushrooms ceremonially. Her ongoing fieldwork with the Mazatec people of Mexico has garnered recognition throughout the field of ethnobotany.

Some perennial Mushroom Festival veterans will also give presentations at this weekend’s event. Gary Lincoff, who co-authored the well-known Audubon Society Mushroom Identification Book, will be on hand to lead forays throughout the weekend and will also speak at Saturday morning’s lecture titled “The Mushrooms that Connect the Plants to the Earth and Ourselves to the Cosmos.”

Fellow mushroom specialist Jim Gouin will present research stemming from the Cortes Island Mycoforestry Project Friday afternoon, in which he will share findings of researchers who were able to get trees to grow faster in clear cut zones using the science of fungi.

Tomten Farm owner Holstrom will join mushroom guru Gouin on Saturday to lead a discussion about author Paul Stamets’s theories, found in his book Mycelium Running, about the multi-faceted role mushrooms can play in restoring the environment.

The weekend schedule is also packed with typical festival favorites, including daily forays, cooking demonstrations with local chefs, Friday evening’s Chef Cook-Off, Saturday evening’s Cook and Taste, and, of course, the ever-popular annual Telluride Mushroom Festival Parade on main street, Saturday starting at 5 p.m.

There will also be mushroom displays, DVDs, posters, PowerPoint presentations, and more that will be open to the public throughout the weekend in the media room at the Wilkinson Public Library.

The festival will culminate with a panel discussion by local and visiting mushroom experts about “How to Clean-Up Mushrooms’ Image.” Sir Jesse explains that the discussion is intended to spread the good word about mushrooms.

“It seems like as soon as you mention something like a ‘mushroom festival,’ people’s eyes light up and they wear this funny grin – but mushrooms are no more deadly or psychedelic than plants,” he says. “We want to throw out the idea that mushrooms have a lot to offer, but people tend to turn a blind eye towards that because they have a bad image.” The panel will include Hobbs, Gouin, Harrison, Art Goodtimes, and Sir Jesse.

Thanks to generous support from the Telluride Institute, as well as grants from the Telluride Foundation and Commission for Community Assistance, Arts and Special Events, admission to the weekend’s events are very affordable. Individual tickets to lectures run $10, while admission to a one-day foray is $20. A full weekend pass is $80 and a one-day pass is $45.

Registration begins Friday morning in the Nugget Theatre, and single-day registration for Saturday is between 8-8:30 a.m. that day.

For more information or a full schedule of events, visit the Telluride Mushroom Festival website at www.mushroomfestival.com.

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