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Birmingham Fungi Festival

Sunday 26th October 2025, Eastside City Park

Join us on Sunday 26th October for the Birmingham Fungi Festival

Join us to go mad for mushrooms and get fascinated by fungi! Taking place from 11.00am at Eastside City Park, Birmingham city centre, there will be much for everyone to enjoy throughout the day and everything is free to attend! At the Wildlife Trust gazebos you'll find plenty of fascinating fungi activities throughout the day, whilst we will also have special limited-number events including a fungi foray and talk from Lukas Large of the West Midlands Fungus Group, fungi felt-making workshops and fungi-focused poetry workshops.

Find details of all the events below and we look forward to seeing you there!

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All Day Events

Taking place from 11.00am - 15.00pm at Eastside City Park, Birmingham city centre, join us at the Wildlife Trust gazebos for fascinating fungi activities including:

  • family-friendly fungi forays (taking place at 11.30am, 12.30pm and 13.30pm)
  • a children's play space
  • mushroom print-making with local artist, Laura Onions,
  • mushroom origami
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Ticketed Event (Click to book)

Fungi in the West Midlands - A Talk by Lukas Large

This talk will give an introduction to fungi in the West Midlands, including some of the rare and unusual species that have been found here!
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***SOLD OUT***

Fungi Foray at Eastside City Park

Join fungus expert Lukas Large from the West Midlands Fungus Group for a foray at Eastside City Park to learn about the surprising variety of species that can be found in parks, gardens and other urban habitats.
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Fungi Felt Workshops

Come and make your very own felted 3D mushrooms out of sheep wool with local artist, ILdiko, and take your fungi creations home with you!
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***SOLD OUT***

Fungi Focused Poetry Workshops

Join poet, Lee Mackenzie, to create poems inspired by fungi! Suitable for everyone, even if you’ve never written a poem before!
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***SOLD OUT***

Dia-spore-ra: Fungi, Displacement & the Art of Belonging Everywhere

Part talk, part collective performance, Dia-spore-ra invites participants into a living dialogue between fungal and human worlds.
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Get a free fungi guide and t-shirt

Join us as a member this October from as little as £3.50p/m to receive a FREE fungi guide AND Mushroom Spotter t-shirt (plus all the usual perks of membership)! Your t-shirt is the height of fungi fashion, available in a range of sizes for men, women and children, and our guide will introduce you to 200 species of mushroom!

 Alongside our members, we've been working for nature's recovery for more than 40 years. Together we can create a wilder future!

Find out more

All Birmingham Fungi Festival events are free to attend and take place as part of our Championing Nature programme of events.

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