Make and Print a Mushroom Pennant
Join Abi from Oil & Oak and have some fun creating your own unique Mushroom Pennant. We’ll use calico and cut out your Pennant before designing your mushroom stamp and printing it onto your pennant. You can add some tassels or fringe too!
Suitable for all abilities, no sewing experience need, all materials provided.
Book on Oil & Oak website: www.oilandoak.co.uk/workshops
Fermentation - Kombucha Workshop
Join local writer and yeast expert Simon Poffley from The Fermentarium for a deep dive into the fizzy, flavoursome world of yeast-based drinks. Learn about the cultural journey of kombucha from Tibet to California, wrap your taste-buds around different yeast-derived items, and create your own kombucha.
Tickets £25 from Hay Castle website
Puff Ball Parade
Fungi Town invites everyone to join our joyful closing ceremony, the family-friendly Puff Ball parade. Wonderbrass, Wales’s biggest fun-loving community brass band, will lead the parade, from the Market Square to the Castle lawn, bringing the outdoor party with a mixture of jazz, pop, ska, funk and fun. We'd love to see some fungi fancy dress or just come as yourself and get in the fungi-groove to red hot interpretation of songs you know and love. Remember mushrooms dance best in the rain!
Make A Mushroom Patch
Join Abi from Oil & Oak and have some fun creating your own unique Mushroom Patch. Using fabric as collage, basic hand sewing techniques and fabric paint you’ll create a patch of dreams.
Suitable for all abilities, no sewing experience need, all materials provided.
Book on Oil & Oak website: www.oilandoak.co.uk/workshops
Pickling and Preserving Workshop
Join local author and forager Liz Knight from Forage Fine Foods on a masterclass to help you preserve and pickle seasonal food - including mushrooms!
Booking: Email tim@clan-cic.org
Mushroom Printing Workshop
Join artist and printmaker Yuli Gates for a hands-on introduction to the art of lino printmaking — with a twist. In this workshop, you’ll learn traditional carving and printing techniques while exploring the fascinating process of creating natural printmaing inks from mushrooms, as detailed in the book and website: The Mushroom Color Atlas.
SOLD OUT
Fungal Rummage
Come and see, smell and touch some of the incredible mushrooms, toadstools and lichens growing wild around Hay. Bring in unusual fungi and see if our team of experts and enthusiasts can identify them.
FREE
Science Corner
Discover the microscopic world of soil and fungi with Hay Regenerative Soils. Bring a sample from your compost heap to look at under a microscope, identify fungal hyphae, spores and microorganisms from the soil food web. Learn about the importance of below-ground biodiversity whilst checking if your compost heap is active.
FREE
Meet the Growers
Your chance to meet specialist mushroom farmers from across Wales and buy exotic fungi and mushroom supplements to take home.
FREE
Fungal Emporium
Find the perfect gift for the mushroom lover in your life in Hay Castle’s pop-up fungal emporium.
Mushroom Caricatures
Ever wondered what you would look like as a cartoon mushroom? This is your chance to find out. Monsieur Champignon will be interpreting you as your favourite fungus.
Find Monsieur Champignon in the Castle on Saturday
