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Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez: Fungal Teachings

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DATE: March 23, 2025 TIME: 1 PM

LOCATION: Audubon Center at Debs Park

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TICKET PRICE: Free

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Rommy González for Let's Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez.

Spend an afternoon with Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez to uncover the wisdom of fungi and how to incorporate them into our daily lives. Through interactive activities prompted by the Let’s Become Fungal! Oracle Cards, we will delve into the world of fungi and discover how these organisms can teach us about symbiotic relationships, cyclical calendars, and more. Each card offers insights, questions, meditations, and exercises to help us connect with these unmissable agents in our shared ecosystem. 

The intimate workshop, led by Yasmine, will include three exercises drawn from the oracle cards. By examining mycelium as a model for collaboration, the workshop offers a playful approach to exploring profound questions and lessons for social and environmental justice. By the end of the session, each participant will have created a unique card for their own deck to take home.

Over a two year period, Yasmine partners with Active Cultures to develop workshops, gatherings, and conversations in Los Angeles to explore the interconnectedness of ecological systems and integrate fungal wisdom into creative practices and everyday life. 

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About the Artist

Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez
Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez is a curator, writer, and researcher working at the intersection of art and ecology. She is the founder and director of the Green Art Lab Alliance (established in 2012); a network comprising seventy art organizations across Europe, Latin America, the United States, Canada and Asia and of the...
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About A Mycelial Residency

Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez: A Mycelial Residency is a series of workshops, gatherings, resources and readings. These programs are based on Yasmine’s research and book, Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts, and explores the interconnectedness of ecological systems and how to integrate fungal wisdom into creative practices and everyday life. 

About The Audubon Center at Debs Park

The Audubon Center at Debs Park is an environmental education and conservation center for the communities of Northeast Los Angeles and the region. The Audubon Center is wheelchair accessible, from street level. Only service dogs are allowed at the Audubon Center, so please leave your furry friends at home. Parking is limited, so if the small lot is full please park along Griffin Avenue and use the dirt walking path up to the Center. Further information can be found at https://debspark.audubon.org/visit

Credits

Active Cultures’ programs this year are made possible through the generous support of its Board of Directors; the Members Circle Annual Fund; the Los Angeles Visual Arts (LAVA) Coalition; the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture as part of Creative Recovery LA, an initiative funded by the American Rescue Plan; and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture.