Search
14 May Mountainfilm: Dr.Julie Holland, Science of Connection, In-Person/Online!
Mountainfilm plans to once again bring films from Telluride, that is home base to couches and camper vans around the world in 2021. Passes to the online festival, which will run May 31–June 6, are now available at Mountainfilm.org. In addition to the seven-day Mountainfilm...
20 Sep Furci’s Fungi Foundation Goes Global!
Telluride, Colorado is the epicenter for the largest wild mushroom happening in North America. And at the epicenter of that epicenter known as the Telluride Mushroom Festival is Guiliana Furci. For over 10 years, the Telluride Institute, has offered The Salzman Award to the person...
12 Nov Psilocybin: FDA Grants “Breakthrough Therapy” Status
Posted at 17:31h
in Beyond Telluride, Culture, Everywhere Else, Health and Fitness, Lifestyle
0 Comments
Michael Pollan (of “How to Change Your Mind”) must be psyched. And those who’ve attended the John Hopkins lectures at the Telluride Mushroom Festival about extremely positive results using psilocybin to mitigate depression and PTSD and help with smoking cessation should be cheering too. The...
31 Jul Fischer Prize for Poetry: Michelle Bitting Wins
Michelle Bitting, Poet Laureate Emerita of Pacific Palisades, California, won the 21st Annual Fischer Prize in Poetry with her poem, “Everything Crumbling Becoming Something New.” Chosen by Judge Joan Logghe of Española, Bitting attended the awards ceremony and received her $1000 prize at the Telluride...
29 Apr Lit Fest Adds Cantor Award
Thanks to a generous donation from Elaine Cantor’s family, this year the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Program will add a $500 Cantor Award to its national Fischer Prize contest for the best poem by a Colorado poet. The Cantor Award will be presented at the...
13 Feb Colorado’s Fischer Prize Accepting Entries Now
The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program continues its 20-year tradition of offering a national Fischer Prize contest in honor of attorney/poet Mark Fischer, who died in 1987, and his wife politician/painter Elaine Cantor Fischer, who passed away just three years ago. “Both were beloved...
07 Dec “Magic” ‘Shrooms & Depression: Possible Treatment?
On November 10, we received an email from Telluride Institute board prez Dan Collins, announcing Maggie Klinedinst would be executive director of the 2015 Telluride Mushroom Festival. Maggie, a festival regular, has for years worked at The Johns Hopkins Behavioral Pharmaceutical Research Unit, which takes conventional...