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    Note: the VMS does not cultivate, sell, nor facilitate the sale of psilocybin “magic” mushrooms.

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    • Fungi Music

      VMS members WIlloughby Arevalo and Isabelle Kirouac are pleased to announce that their Art & Fungi Project at Kitsilano Community Centre will continue for a second year. This free workshop is part of that series. More info and registration at artandfungi.org

      Free
    • Land Reading and Deep Mapping

      Kitsilano Community Centre 2690 Larch St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

      VMS members WIlloughby Arevalo and Isabelle Kirouac are pleased to announce that their Art & Fungi Project at Kitsilano Community Centre will continue for a second year. This free workshop is part of that series. More info and registration at artandfungi.org

      Free
    • Mushroom and Art Walk

      Renfrew Ravine Park BC, Canada

      This workshop is one of a series, as part of Walking the Mycelial Web. Walking the Mycelial Web is a series of artistic activities inspired by ecology and fungal life, taking place primarily outdoors in three parks of the Renfrew-Collingwood neighborhood, presented by Willoughby Arevalo and Isabelle Kirouac in collaboration with the Collingwood Neighborhood House. Throughout 2021, community members of all ages, cultures will be invited to learn about the fungal biodiversity that exists within their neighborhood and honor fungi through collective, place-based, experiential activities, walks, and art workshops, building healthy and sustainable connections with each other and with nature through art. For more info: walkingthemycelialweb.org

    • Sound walk & fungi sounds 

      Pacific Spirit Park , Canada

      VMS members WIlloughby Arevalo and Isabelle Kirouac are pleased to announce that their Art & Fungi Project at Kitsilano Community Centre will continue for a second year. This free workshop is part of that series. More info and registration at artandfungi.org

      Free
    • Mushroom and Art Walk

      Pacific Spirit Park , Canada

      VMS members WIlloughby Arevalo and Isabelle Kirouac are pleased to announce that their Art & Fungi Project at Kitsilano Community Centre will continue for a second year. This free workshop is part of that series. More info and registration at artandfungi.org

      Free
    • Stenciling with mushroom spore prints

      Gaston Park Vancouver, BC, Canada

      This workshop is one of a series, as part of Walking the Mycelial Web. Walking the Mycelial Web is a series of artistic activities inspired by ecology and fungal life, taking place primarily outdoors in three parks of the Renfrew-Collingwood neighborhood, presented by Willoughby Arevalo and Isabelle Kirouac in collaboration with the Collingwood Neighborhood House. Throughout 2021, community members of all ages, cultures will be invited to learn about the fungal biodiversity that exists within their neighborhood and honor fungi through collective, place-based, experiential activities, walks, and art workshops, building healthy and sustainable connections with each other and with nature through art. For more info: walkingthemycelialweb.org

    • Fungi and Cheese: Friend or Foe, or Both?

      VanDusen Botanical Garden 5251 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC

      Local dairy-free cheese artisan, Karen McAthy (of Blue Heron Cheese Co.) will present on how fungi are a part of their process. This meeting will be held at VanDusen Floral Hall on Tuesday April 12 at 7:30pm. Masks are strongly encouraged.   Note: This will be a BLENDED MEETING, meaning that we will be live-streaming from VanDusen. This is our first attempt at this process, but we hope that the audio and video will be of acceptable quality, wi-fi permitting. If you prefer to attend via Zoom, please log-in and use the meeting link here: https://vanmyco.org/zoom-webinar-access/