Craft Zone, Drawing Workshop, Microscopy
Mushroom Dyes, Family-Friendly Activities
10:00 am
10:00 - 5:00 pm 
Cultivation - make your own mushroom growing kit
Location: Between the mushroom display area and the Craft Zone
10:00 - 5:00 pm 
Janai Southworth is a video-microscopist with an 
interest in plankton. Photo and video-micrography along with Nature Journaling connects her background in Fine Arts and her passion for science. As a member of the San Francisco Microscopical Society she often plays the intersection of art and science. Currently Janai is a marine science educator with the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation and a volunteer with the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary as well as The Rotary Nature Center Friends.
Microscopes are in the Mushroom Display Area
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Elissa Callen: Mushroom Dyes & Pigment Making
Fungi Dye Bath - the process of the
color being extracted into water
Southeast corner of the greenhouse
10:30 am - 1:00 pm 
John Muir Laws: Drawing Mushrooms Workshop
Age 12+. Workshop ticket can be purchased online after you have purchased your fair admission ticket.
SOLD OUT
11:00 - 11:30 am Children's Foray
Melany Kahn
Meet at Craft Zone, Horticulture Classroom
12:00 - 12:30 pm 
Pigment Making with Fungi Demo: the dye bath will be used in a chemical reaction process for lake making
Elissa Callen specializes in pigment making
and primarily works on paper.
Southeast corner of the greenhouse
12:00 - 12:30 pm Mushroom Sunprint Activity
Karen Rusiniak
For ages 6+. Horticulture Classroom
12:30 - 3:00 pm 
General display of the different stages of pigment making:
Pigment from Fungi Dye Bath Demo on view settling in jar.
Mushroom dyed yarn palette from SOMA Camp
Southeast corner of the greenhouse
1:15 - 1:45 pm Melany Kahn
Book reading: Mason Goes Mushrooming
PE Classroom #3
3:00 - 3:30 pm 
Pigment Making with Fungi Demo: the dye bath will be used in a chemical reaction process for lake making
Southeast corner of the greenhouse 3:00 - 3:30 pm Children's Foray
Melany Kahn
Meet at Craft Zone, Horticulture Classroom
3:00 - 4:00 pm 
Carol Reed
Mushroom Snowflake Activity
Craft Zone, Horticulture Classroom
3:30 - 4:45 pm General display of the different stages of pigment making:
Pigment from Fungi Dye Bath Demo on view settling in jar
Southeast corner of the greenhouse
5:00 pm
The Mycological Society of San Francisco has been hosting 1 or 2 Fungus Fairs each year since 1969. Fairs have been held in San Francisco County, Alameda County, San Mateo County, and Marin County. Historical information is available about previous Fungus Fairs: