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Monday, April 22, 2024
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Featured April 22, 2024 -Featured Come join us for an in-person ID meeting this Monday April 22
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Come join us for an in-person ID meeting this Monday April 22
Next Monday's ID meeting will take place from 6.30 to 8.30 in person.
Attendees can of course arrive later and leave earlier.
Please bring any interesting specimens regardless of whether you have identified them or not, and check out what others have found.
In person ID meetings are a great way of developing your hands-on identification skills and dipping your toes into microscopy!
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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April 25, 2024 -The Fabric of Fungal Materiality : Intro to Myco-Materials and Pigments
The Fabric of Fungal Materiality : Intro to Myco-Materials and Pigments
NYMS member Sneha Ganguly is teaching a workshop on myco-materials and pigments at Biotech without Borders, a community lab co-led by Ellen Jorgensen, who is also a long-time NYMS member.
From the organizers:
Join us for an interactive lecture that will be a primer on fungal-based materials and pigments including a survey of wild mushroom varieties, recent scientific research and historical uses. The class will explore fungal materiality in its magnitudes, from fungal biology to the emerging fields in biological- arts, materials, and technology.
Class will open with a tasting of chaga tea sweetened with this season’s maple syrup to get things flowing. There will be a table display of fungal artworks and materials for all to engage with.
We will begin with a topical introduction in ethnomycology, followed by an overview of mycological basics with emphasis on materials science. We will dive into the nuances of chitin, mycelium and mushroom-based materials, including mycelium composite materials and mushroom paper. We will learn about fungal pigments through the alchemy of dyes, inks, mordants and their preparations, as well as extraordinary exudates such as latex and spalting.
We will reflect on the sensorial ecologies of fungi and how it might inform our practices and collaborations with the natural world. And conclude with critical discourse on ethics and sustainability, in the advent of the commodification of myco-materials in industry.
Questions will be encouraged throughout the presentation.
This class is perfect for those who are interested in the natural world, materials science, and art-making. No prior knowledge is needed. All ages and experience levels are welcome.
Schedule
6:30 – 7:00 Welcome / Tea
7:00 – 8:30 Presentation / Q&A
About the teacher
Sneha Ganguly also known as Kali Mushrooms, is an interdisciplinary artist working through the intersection of fine art and mycology. Sneha identifies and studies wild fungi with a special interest in biological materials and pigments, and synthesizes their alchemical and chitinous properties to create handmade papers, inks, dyes and extracts. Her work explores the potential of novel mushroom- and mycelium-based materials as an artistic medium, to communicate modern mythologies on fungal science, animisms, and lessons from the wild. As part of the New York Mycological Society, Sneha founded NYC’s inaugural Fungus Festival. She is co-founder of the POC Fungi Community. And she instructs courses on mycology and mushroom cultivation for Cornell Small Farms, as well as for parks, community and cultural organizations in the metro area.
www.kalimushrooms.com
$41.86
Friday, April 26, 2024
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Saturday, April 27, 2024
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April 27, 2024 -NYMS pop-up walk, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Saturday, April 27th-NOTE start time & location
NYMS pop-up walk, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Saturday, April 27th-NOTE start time & location
Join us for a walk in Prospect Park, Brooklyn this Saturday, April 27th! The early season mushrooms are getting started, plus we should see the ascomycetes, […]
Sunday, April 28, 2024
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Virtual EventApril 28, 2024 -Not all coral fungi are Ramaria: Field characters and taxonomy of Ramarioid fungi within the order Gomphaceae
Virtual Event
Not all coral fungi are Ramaria: Field characters and taxonomy of Ramarioid fungi within the order Gomphaceae
This presentation provides an overview of Ramarioid fungi, beginning with how to distinguish Ramaria from other coralloid fungi (Artomyces, Clavulina, etc.), and how to distinguish Ramaria from other Ramarioid genera within the Gomphales. We will then focus on Ramaria and cover distinguishing features of the subgenera. Further, the importance of documenting field characters for identification will be discussed. Many European species can be identified with proper documentation without microscopy, and it is very likely that similar concepts can be applied in North America. A practical key will be outlined, and notes on DNA sequencing considered.
