Theme: As Above / So Below
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Time: At Twilight (Approx. 6:30 PM)
Location: A Secret Location in Central Texas (Emailed to Registrants)
🛸 THE MISSION BRIEFING 🛸
Cadets, Agents, and Spores of Unusual Origin,
The SporeCorps Command Unit (a.k.a. the 1968 Shasta Airflyte) will be activated for one night only to explore the theme through a curated evening of cinematic rebellion and fungal communion.
🎥 Theme: As Above / So Below:
A night where the cosmic meets the earthly: where stars, soil, and spores all speak the same language. Think witches, wizards, fungi, and fauna. Dress-up is highly encouraged, the more magical, the better.
🕒 PROGRAM OF OPERATIONS
At Twilight (6:30 PM): Dimensional Rift Opens
Arrive at the secret location and step into our Atomic-Age Sci-Camp Surrealism.
The Shasta Airflyte will be aglow with LED lighting, fungal posters, and the haze of lavender fog.
Receive your temporary Spore Corps mushroom tattoo (optional but encouraged!)
7:00 PM: Sonic Inoculation & Biomusic Transmission
SPACE OUT TO MUSIC BY MINGFEI.XILLIE
A curated set of glitchy, ethereal sounds to bend your perception and prepare the vibe.
Special Feature: The mesmerizing Mushroom Biomusic Video with Reishi by The Octopus Project.
7:30 PM: The Main Event - Descent into the Forbidden Zone
FEATURED MOVIE: FORBIDDEN ZONE (1980)
Directed by Richard Elfman. A film so bizarre, so unclassifiable, it exists in its own dimension. Witness the exploits of the Hercules family as they stumble into the Sixth Dimension, ruled by a diminutive King in yellowface and a princess in a frog suit. It’s jazz, chaos, and pure cinematic anarchy.
Throughout the Evening: Sustenance for the Journey
TEA PARTY SERVED BY LOUIS OF RINGTAIL REGENERATIVES
Navigate the realms with a specially brewed, fungal-friendly tea service. A selection of herbal infusions to ground you below and elevate your spirit above.
BYOB
Bringing your favorite drinks to enjoy the screening is welcome!
✨ Stay after the film for casual hangs, deep chats, and decompression with the crew!
This is a 21+ BYOB event held on private property. Guests are welcome to bring their own beverages to enjoy responsibly during the screening.
Alcohol will not be sold, provided, or included with admission or donations. A suggested donation of $7 and up helps support future SporeCorps programming.
Want More?
Register for our first SporeCorps 3-part Series on Mushroom Cultivation
SporeCorps isn’t your average class…it’s a mission. Across three “missions” from Ezlyh’s home lab, you’ll learn how to transform your kitchen table or garage into a launchpad for fungi. Think atomic-age science camp meets fungal resistance movement complete with retro mission patches, glitchy lab vibes, and a growing squadron of DIY growers and food justice advocates.
Here’s the flight plan:
🌌 Mission 1: Building a Home Lab on a Budget
Assemble your toolkit like a spore-faring astronaut. Learn how mushrooms grow, what tools actually matter, and how to MacGyver clean air and temperature control without maxing your budget. You’ll see real-life home labs and leave with a checklist to set up your own.
🌌 Mission 2: Inoculation, Spore Work & Cloning
Time to fuel your mission. Learn sterile techniques, work with spores, clone mushrooms onto agar, and spot contamination before it mutinies. You’ll gain confidence handling cultures and walk away ready to keep your grow shipshape.
🌌 Mission 3: Fruiting, Incubation & Harvest
Prepare for launch into fruiting! Explore substrates, incubation timing, fruiting chamber tricks, and how to troubleshoot issues. By the end, you’ll know how to harvest and store your own mushrooms and have the confidence to keep growing again and again.
What You’ll Walk Away With
🛠 Practical Skills: A full toolkit for home cultivation, from sterile checklists to troubleshooting know-how.
🌐 Digital Boosters: Class recordings, supply lists, and entry into our SporeCorps alumni network (plus Discord for extra fungal camaraderie).
🏆 Rewards: Your very own SporeCorps Level 1 Certificate, mission patch, and some cheeky contamination stickers to remind you that even failure can fruit.
Why Join?
Because mushrooms are more than food. They’re soft rebellions, tiny teachers, and allies in resilience. SporeCorps is a place to experiment, to fail joyfully, and to join a growing community of mycologists. Whether you’re here for food security, environmental justice, or just because you’ve always wanted to grow something weird and wonderful, we’ve saved you a seat in the launch pod.
About the Instructor
Ezlyh is a mycologist, fiber artist, and mycology educator certified in medicinal mushroom education, she approaches cultivation as a sacred dialogue with the living world. Her work blends science and spiritual ecology, and she often experiments with gourmet and medicinal species at home. Ezlyh fosters curiosity, reverence, and hands-on learning through workshops and outreach.
Join the SporeCorps. Inoculate. Cultivate. Liberate. Sign-up for a membership to get discounts on workshops, walks, and mycology related events.
