Exploring the Mycoverse: The Mycelial Way – Rethinking Organizing

Organized and hosted by Aaron Tupac
Sponsored by Arlington Garden

Join us as we revisit some of our favorite lessons that fungi can teach us about organizing, or as some Mycoverse myconauts have lovingly called it, "the mycelial way." This offering is an effort to support us as we expand into new relationships and remain grounded in community.

This is also in preparation for our next event on Wednesday, March 26th where we will continue to expand on this discussion with Exploring the Mycoverse founder Aaron Tupac who will be in conversation with Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodriguez, the author of Let's Become Fungal: Mycelium Teachings and the Arts. We are thrilled to have her back.

• How can the natural world ground our responsibilities and ultimately connect us?
• What does composting old ways of organizing look like?
• The helpful concept of “critical yeasts” – how does change happen in society through “small groups of people in unlikely combinations, in a new quality of relationship?”

Note – the following were carefully selected, intentionally short!

• On Being – “Foundations for Being Alive Now.” The four offerings are inspiring great shorts, but we will be focusing on third offering on “Critical Yeasts” (13 minutes)
• On Being: On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life with adrienne maree brown. Our discussion will be focusing on a short part of this thought-provoking conversation – 19:00-29:00 on the lessons from fungi. (10 minutes) This conversation is referenced in the Critical Yeasts offering.
• Four Insights for Radical Organizing From the Mysterious World of Mushrooms

If you have the time, we won’t be directly engaging with the following texts but they will be informing and grounding our discussion:

• Let’s Become Fungal – Teaching Three: How to Organize Like a Mycelium? (Available locally at Reparations Club, Vroman's, and other book stores)
• The Wisdom of Fungi Inspires Community Conservation - Yes Magazine
• How the Wonder of Nature Can Inspire Social Justice Activism

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Arlington Garden in Pasadena, 275 ARLINGTON DR, Pasadena, United States