12 Aug Telluride Mushroom Fest: Eugenia Bone, Everywhere You Want to Be!
The Telluride Mushroom Festival (TMF) returns for the 45h year in a row. And when that happens – this year August 13 – August 17 – the Town of Telluride will be taken over by amanita hat-wearing, mold- and spore-worshipping mycelium fanatics, among them, Eugenia Bone.
Go here for more on the history of the Telluride Mushroom Festival. (Scroll back to 2009.)
And please scroll down to listen to a podcast with returning Festival favorite, science and food writer and chef Eugenia Bone.
Eugenia Bone, courtesy Macmillan Publishers.
Lesser known facts about the abundantly talented Eugenia Bone:
• She is featured in the celebrated documentary directed by Louie Schwartzberg, “Fantastic Fungi”(2019) and was a contributor to the companion book.
• She has also appeared in Netflix’s “Waffles + Mochi” – the mushroom episode – produced by Michele Obama’s Higher Ground Productions.
• Eugenia is also a member of the American Society of Science Writers; founder of Slow Food Western Slope in Western Colorado; and former president of the New York Mycological Society.
• She has lectured widely in diverse venues like The New York Public Library, the Denver Botanical Garden, the Reuben Museum – and, of course, Whoop Whoop, at the Telluride Mushroom Festival.
At TMF 2025, Eugenia, will quite literally be everywhere you want to be starting Thursday, August 14, 10 a.m.
• “MycoGourds: A Psychedelic Elders Sharing” takes place at the Telluride Historical Museum, where Eugenia is featured alongside Festival Steward and Poet-in-Residence Art Goodtimes and ethnobotanist Kat Harrison.
• Later that same day, at 2 p.m., Eugenia shows up at the Ah Haa School for another talk, this one titled “A Round Peg in a Square Hole.”
–Focus: debunking the notion that the FDA or Big Pharma are to blame for the failure to date of psychedelics meeting regulatory expectations, instead showing the real challenges psychedelics face in working within the current regulatory structure.
• Following that talk Eugenia is signing her latest book, “Have A Good Trip, “ along with two other TMF regulars, Festival director Britt Bunayrd, Katrina Blair and Chad Hyatt. That event takes place at Telluride’s indie bookstore, Between the Covers.
• On Friday, August 15, at the Telluride Library, Eugenia will focus on the contents of “Have A Good Trip.”
This talk will explore the ways the consumer can best prepare themselves in an unregulated psychedelic marketplace, from clinical trials (she will show you how to join one), to retreats, hiring guides, and self-dosing in a world where different cultivars have vastly different potencies; producers make different potencies and providers come with an array of qualifications. In short, how to make good choices.
• On Saturday, August 16, Eugenia joins a power panel for a deep discussion on psychedelics, along with Art Goodtimes, Tradd Cotter, John Michelotti, Paul Stamets and Dr. Dennis McKenna.
In a world that has rarely if ever has existed in such tension with The Truth, turn to Eugenia’s bright light for illumination in her fields of interest and expertise. She has demonstrated over and over again, a nimbleness and wit that enables her to synthesize complex issues into digestible sound bites.
For more about her life and work, check out Eugenia’s podcast.
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