The South Vancouver Island Mycological Society meets September through May (except January) at 7:00 pm at the Pacific Forestry Centre. Visitors welcome. List of previous speakers.
All further meetings of the membership have been suspended till further notice.
We will unfortunately have to break our long tradition of holding a SVIMS mushroom show this fall. While a certain virus was looking forward to the opportunity, SVIMS has decided that it would not be a good idea this year. We are hopeful about the fall of 2021.
With a heavy heart and an empty mushroom/specimen basket I must inform you that the Cowichan Foray for 2020 – October 23 – 25 has been cancelled. The COVID protocols and restrictions would have significantly limited the number of participants and the ability to effectively foray, analyze and discuss the many fungi usually collected during this event.
With a heavy heart and an empty mushroom/specimen basket I must inform you that the Cowichan Foray for 2020 – October 23 – 25 has been cancelled. The COVID protocols and restrictions would have significantly limited the number of participants and the ability to effectively foray, analyze and discuss the many fungi usually collected during this event.
Kurt Raeder
Calling all SVIMS members to submit your Original Art for the
SVIMS Logo Contest
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: August 1, 2020
Please submit your artwork to Denise at svims.mal2@gmail.com
Submission Guidelines:Must be a SVIMS member OR sponsored by a SVIMS member
What we are looking for:
Prizes:
Winning Logo :
2nd Place:
3rd Place:
Winners will be decided by SVIMS board members and announced at the next General Meeting after the Contest closes.
All winners must donate the art and rights of its use to SVIMS.
Our Logo is a proud symbol of our society which celebrates the joy of mushrooming on southern Vancouver Island.
South Vancouver Island Mycological Society
Calling all SVIMS members to submit your art/photos for the
2021 Mushroom Calendar
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: July 30th 2020.
WHO CAN SUBMIT:
HOW:
WHAT:
Visually appealing and artistic art and/or photographs that illustrate:
The purpose of the calendar is to celebrate the joy of mushrooming and
to inform people about mushrooms growing on southern Vancouver Island.
A Selection Panel chooses the photographs for the calendar.
HOW MANY:
PHOTO SIZE:
INCLUDE:
Try to provide identification information for each mushroom such as when your saw the mushroom, where you found it, habitat (e.g. on or near what kind of trees), spore colour.
* Also may include any other supportive photos but not necessarily of high resolution
Britt Bunyard, who was at SVIMS this spring and did a presentation on his work on Amanitas, reports:
We hope you will share this announcement to your members–an exciting and beautiful new book on all the Amanitas of North America. And all pre-orders received before June 1 will get a major discount (33% off the cover price)! Orders can be placed at the fungimag.com website and questions can be posted there or sent directly to me at fungimag@gmail.com.
Message from SVIMS President David Walde: There are no further meetings or events for the SVIMS summer 2019 to summer 2020 program year. The membership general meeting for May 7th has been cancelled. The Annual President`s Picnic that had been planned for early June has also been cancelled.
We have been looking at alternative approaches to our monthly speaker presentations, but for a number of reasons we have had to hold off with these plans for now.
Other PNW mycology clubs have moved their presentations online and SVIMS members may want to take advantage of these. The Oregon Mycological Society’s event for April (on powdery mildews) is now online here. The Cascade Mycological Society is also going to do a live feed of their speaker for April 22nd. The Webinar is by Trent Blizzard of Modern Forager in Colorado and will be on Oregon Burn Morels. Please follow this link for details on his presentation and instructions on how to access his talk.
