30 May - 7 June, 2026
As autumn turns into winter, we bring a gift inspired by the hidden kingdom beneath our feet. Across Launceston and the surrounding region, forest forays, mushroom feasts, talks, workshops, art and films all celebrate the strange and beautiful world of fungi.Your adventure starts here.
Forest Foray & Log Cultivation Workshop at Strathaven
Strathaven Farm • Sundays 31 May & 7 June • 11am–2pm • $45
A festival favourite returns. Explore wild fungi on a guided walk through pines, farmland and eucalypt forest at Haven Farm, then join a log cultivation workshop and take home your own mushroom log.
Fungi Market Mornings
Harvest Market • Saturdays 30 May & 6 June • 8:30am–12:30pm • Free
Start your festival day at Harvest Market with a lively celebration of Tasmania’s mushroom season. Meet local growers, taste fresh fungi and explore displays of wild and cultivated species, with roaming mushroom characters bringing playful energy to the market.
Fungi Farm Feast: Mr Brown and Towns
Mr Brown & Towns • Saturdays 30 May & 6 June • 12:30pm - 2:30pm • $55 - $75
Step inside a working mushroom farm for one of the festival’s most immersive food experiences. Harvest exotic mushrooms, taste them moments later and gather for a fungi feast paired with fungi-inspired dessert and drinks.
Grow Your Own Mushrooms: Bag Cultivation Workshop
Du Cane Brewing • Saturdays 30 May & 6 June • 10am - 12:15pm • $40
Discover how easy it is to grow mushrooms at home. In this hands-on workshop with Julie from Mountain Mushrooms, make your own inoculated grow bag to take home and begin growing mushrooms.
Truffle Hunt: Unearthing Tasmania’s Black Gold
The Truffle Farm, Deloraine • Saturdays 30 May & 6 June, Wednesday 3 June • 1pm - 2:15pm • $95
Join the truffle dogs at The Truffle Farm for a guided hunt for rare black truffles. Enter the trufferie, unearth one yourself and finish with a simple tasting of truffle products. A subsidised truffle hunt experience supported by Fungi the Festival.
Why Fungi? A Festival Talk with Will Borowski
Du Cane Brewing • Saturday 30 May • 3pm–4pm • FREE (Booking Essential)
Tasmanian naturalist Will Borowski introduces the hidden kingdom beneath our feet, revealing how fungi shape forests, soil, food and the living systems that sustain our world and future.
Hidden Kingdom: Fungi Photography Prize & Exhibition
Du Cane Brewing • Saturday 31 May - 7 June • During Opening Hours • FREE
Discover the strange beauty of fungi through a photography exhibition celebrating the hidden kingdom beneath our feet. Exhibition opening at the Gala and prize winners will be announced at the Mycelium Ball.
Meet the Grower: Farm Tour
Mr Brown & Towns • Saturdays 30 May & 6 June • 10am-12pm • $5
Visit one of Tasmania’s leading gourmet mushroom farms and learn how mushrooms are grown commercially. A rare chance to see the cultivation process behind the fungi served in restaurants across the region.
Slime Moulds: The Sexy Impostors of the Fungi World - A Festival Talk
Du Cane Brewing • Saturday 6 June • 4pm–5pm • FREE (Booking essential)
Naturalist Sarah Lloyd introduces slime moulds, mysterious organisms that look like fungi but aren’t. These strange life forms creep, pulse and solve problems in surprising ways.
Fungi the Festival Opening Night Gala
Du Cane Brewing • Saturday 30 May • From 6pm • $5
Launch the festival on the red carpet with wearable fungi art, photography and film. Dress as a mushroom or fungi-inspired for free entry. Woodfired mushroom pizza and fungi-inspired drinks available. Family friendly space with play area for your little button mushrooms.
Film Screening: Fungi - The Web of Life
Du Cane Brewing • Saturday 30 May & 6 June • Matinee 1:15pm–2:15pm, Evening 6:30pm–7:30pm • FREE (Bookings essential).
Narrated by Björk, this visually stunning documentary reveals how fungi shape life on Earth, featuring remarkable footage filmed in Tasmania’s takayna/Tarkine rainforest.
Town-Wide Fungi Tasting Trail
29 May - 7 June
Celebrate Launceston’s UNESCO City of Gastronomy status with a city-wide fungi tasting trail. Cafés, restaurants and bars create special mushroom dishes throughout the festival.
Available daily during normal trading hours. Book and pay directly through participating venues to be announced.
Strange Materials: Jewellery, Fungi and the Art of Curiosity
Du Cane Brewing • Saturday 6 June • 3pm–4pm • FREE (Booking essential)
Award winning artist and jeweller Emma Bugg explores how curiosity, unusual materials and ecological thinking shape her jewellery and object-making practice.
Fantastic Fungi: Late-Night Film Screening
Du Cane Brewing • Satuay 30 May • 7:45pm–9pm • FREE (Booking Essential)
A visually rich documentary exploring the mysterious world of fungi and their role in nature, medicine and culture, revealing the remarkable intelligence and power of the fungal kingdom.
Future of Fungi Panel Discussion
Du Cane Brewing • Sunday 31 May & 7 June • 3pm-4pm • FREE (Booking essential)
Growers, chefs, artists and fungi experts explore how mushrooms are reshaping food, farming, ecology and creativity — and what the future of fungi might look like.
The Mycelium Ball
Du Cane Brewing • Saturday 6 June • From 6pm • $5
Gather for the festival’s relaxed closing celebration. Share fungi stories and enjoy music, mushroom pizza, and the photography competition awards. Mushroom lattes and fungi inspired snacks available.