Program Schedule - 2013
The Fungus Fair has two main speaking venues: the main room (Room 3) is where you'll find our headliners and cooking demonstrations. Entry passes to the main room will be available outside the room 30 minutes prior to the scheduled presentation. A smaller lecture room (Room 1) down the hall has informative and educational talks about mushrooms, given by local, knowledgeable mycologists. The schedule for these rooms is listed below.
We will be conducting a class specifically designed for students to be held from 10:30-11:30 both Saturday and Sunday mornings in the Teen Center at Louden Nelson. Follow this link to learn more...click on the "2013 Fungus Fair Educational Information" tab.
Visit the Kid's Room for mushroom activities such as clay sculpture, water colors, face painting, and making mushroom dyed fabric.
You can also ask questions about mushrooms you have brought to the fair in the main auditorium at the mushroom identification table, staffed by our best identification experts.
Friday, January 11
MAIN ROOM (Room 3)
3:30-4:30
Britt Bunyard, Publisher of Fungi Magazine
Mycorrhizotopia:
fungi are the puppet masters of the universe
5:00-6:00
Chef Bob Wynn
Winemaker Jeff Emery of Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard
Cooking Demonstration
7:00-10:00
After Hours Mushroom Dinner Catered by Chef Damani Thomas of Oswald, Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard, Music by George Heagerty & Never the Same
Advance Reservations (click here for details)
LECTURE ROOM (Room 1)
3:30-4:30
Christian Schwarz
Kicking and Screaming: Dragging Mycology into the 21st Century with the Help of Citizen Scientists (aka YOU)
4:45-5:45
Henry Young
Mushroom Toxicology
6:00-7:00
David Rust
Inroduction to Wild and Edible Mushrooms
Saturday, January 12
MAIN ROOM (Room 3)
11:00-12:30
Christopher Hobbs
Medicinal Mushrooms
1:00-2:30
David Arora
Wheel of Fungi
3:00-4:00
Executive Chef Cal Stamenov of Marinus at Bernardus Lodge, Carmel
Cooking Demonstration
LECTURE ROOM (Room 1)
10:30-11:30
Debbie Viess
Zen and the Art of Mushroom Hunting
1:30-2:30
Christian Schwarz
Tales from the Cryptogams - Twelve Alternative Lifestyles from the Kingdom Fungi. Beware! Sex, Death and Insanity lie ahead
3:00-4:00
Phil Carpenter
Introduction to Mushroom Identification
Sunday, January 13
MAIN ROOM (Room 3)
11:00-12:30
Britt Bunyard, Publisher of Fungi Magazine
From Aflatoxins to Zombies: weird weird weird fungi
1:00-2:30
David Arora
Wheel of Fungi
3:00-4:30
Executive Chef Maurice Dissels of Birks Restaurant
Pairing wine with Assistant Winemaker, Meredith Miles of Fenestra Winery
Cooking Demonstration
LECTURE ROOM (Room 1)
10:30-11:30
Debbie Viess
Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of California
12:00-1:00
Dorothy Beebee
History of Mushroom Dyes
1:30-2:30
Henry Young
Mushroom Toxicology
3:00-4:00
Mark Gillespie
Introduction to Mushroom Identification