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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 walks (taking place at 11.30am, 12.30pm and 13.30pm)
  • a children's play space created by We Forest Folk
  • 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!

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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