Re: free sat?

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I cannot make this.

We've been to the Fungus Faire before and it's cool.  And yummy.

Never heard of the documentary, but sounds interesting.

--- Donovan Rittenbach <http://www.webappguru.net/~donovan> wrote:
> Wow dale makes it all sound so sexy. : )
> 
> here's the more formal invitation:
> 
> Saturday December 3 is going to be a great day. I have 2 outstanding 
> events lined up.
> 
> Did you know the world's largest living organism is a fungus that 
> covers 1,665 football fields and may be 7,000 years old?  Did you 
> know that fungus can grow over a kilometer a day?
> 
> This was among the many things I learned last year when I attended 
> the 35th Annual Fungus Fair and was blown away by this unprecedented 
> display of mushrooms.  It was spectacular. There were 3,000 
> mycophiles there, and I was like a kid lost in an amazing wizard's 
> shop.
> 
> Not only did they have tasty mushroom soup served in loaves of fresh 
> bread, but there were tons of freshly picked culinary and medicinal 
> mushrooms to see.  Of course there were a lot of poisonous ones too, 
> like the beautiful Amanita Muscara. That's the red mushroom with 
> white dots.  You know it, you have seen it.  It is also why Santa 
> Claus wears a red and white outfit. That ties into one of my favorite 
> mushroom trivia questions.  Why do Hindus consider the cow to be 
> sacred?
> 
> Explore the mysteries of the mushroom at the 36th Annual Fungus Fair, 
> presented by the Oakland Museum of Ca and the Mycological 
> Society of  (MSSF), Saturday and Sunday, December 3 - 4. 
> Fair hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Saturday and 12-5 p.m. on Sunday.
> 
> http://www.museumca.org/events/fungus_fair.html
> 
> If you are game, they are doing mushroom forays out at Point Reyes, 
> Salt Point and others on December 2nd.  The mushrooms that are picked 
> will be on display at the museum.
> 
> http://www.mssf.org
> 
> Shaman's Apprentice Screening
> 
> Also for those who are interested, we are doing a screening of The 
> Shaman's Apprentice that evening at 8pm (time to be confirmed).  It 
> is a mind-bending documentary about ethnobotanist, Mark Plotkin's 
> work to save the shaman's of the South American Rainforest.  It is an 
> incredible documentary I recently saw at an exhibit at the San 
> Francisco Plant Conservatory's "Medicines of the Rainforest" show, 
> and I loved it.
> 
> Anyhow, Mark is an amazing and foreward thinking scientist who has 
> setup a program to preserve previous shaman's knowledge before it is 
> lost.  These so called "primitive" people can cure things that 
> Western medicine can't, like diabetes, or alcoholism. Unfortunately 
> their knowledge is threatened by encroaching civilization. (What 
> isn't?) 
> 
> It would be a crime against humanity if we were to lose the 
> incredible pharmaceutical knowledge of the shamans.  We must protect 
> this undiscovered pharmacopia, and shaman's are the keys to showing 
> us how we can all benefit if we do.
> 
> The best part of this award winning documentary is, in my opinion, 
> when the shamans tell you how they got that knowledge in the first 
> place. They claim the plants told them.  What do they mean by that? 
> Could it possibly be true? 
> 
> Oh yes my friend. Truth is stranger than fiction, and it wouldn't be 
> the first time an existing paradigm was proven wrong.
> 
> Space is limited for this event.  First come, first serve.
> 
> Donovan
> 
> At 12:38 PM -0800 12/2/05, http://www.outformations.com/~dek wrote:
> >I'm doing some fun stuff on Saturday afternoon/early evening if you guys
> >are interested in joining.  There is a fungus fair in Oakland and a shaman
> >movie at a friends house early that night.  Drop me a line if you are
> >interested OK?
> >
> >http://www.museumca.org/events/fungus_fair.html
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Dale
> >415 699-0421