2026 Annual General Meeting (AGM)
March 21 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
| FreeAnnual General Meeting 2026
This year the Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held in person and virtually on Saturday March 21, 2026 at the Devon Community Centre in Devon, Alberta at no charge to participants.
Location is:
Devon Community Centre
20 Haven Avenue
Devon, Alberta T9G 2B9 Canada
The Devon Community Centre opens to the membership at 9:30 a.m. and the AGM starts at 10:00 a.m. Breakfast pastries and lunch will be provided for those attending in-person.
The AGM will be held in accordance with the Society Bylaws and will include
- Reports on the work of the Society in 2025
- The 2025 Audited Financial Statements
- Elections of board members – there are vacancies on the board. If you are interested in joining the board you may complete a nomination form here.
AMS Merchandise will be available for sale
RSVP below for AGM
Annual General Meeting Presentation
A Resilient Planet Needs Fungi Now: The Secret Lives of Fungi
Overview: Fungi are weird, fungi are cool, and fungi are beautiful. But how much do we really know about them? For starters, they do much more than just rot things. They control pretty much all life on our planet and are everywhere. Britt Bunyard’s lecture will present fascinating stories and beautiful photos of amazing fungi featured in his latest book. Discover the crazy, wonderful life that goes on all around us, mostly hidden in plain sight.
A popular evangelizer on all things fungal, Britt has given more than 250 invited lectures to academic and popular audiences across North America and beyond. He has been featured on the BBC World Service’s Newshour, NPR’s All Things Considered, PBS’s NOVA and Wisconsin Foodie television programs; and interviewed or quoted in Discover magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Vox, Vogue, Forbes, Saveur, Eating Well, Hobby Farm, Women’s World, and other magazines and newspapers.
Britt has collected fungi and lectured throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Annually, he leads mycological expeditions throughout the world. One such expedition, was the subject of an award-winning documentary film “Look Down Not Up” (2022), produced by documentary filmmakers Alok Siddhi Tuladhar and Dusty Shiva Panthi of Kathmandu, Nepal.
Britt has authored several books, including The Lives of Fungi (2022; Princeton University Press) which is sold all over the world and translated into Italian, German, Spanish, and Chinese languages. Additional titles include Fungi of the World: A Guide to All Phyla (2026; Princeton University Press), Atlas of Fungi (2026; Princeton University Press), Fungi Decoded (2025; Penguin Random House), The Little Book of Fungi (2024; Princeton University Press), The Beginner’s Guide to Mushrooms (2021; Quarry Books), Amanitas of North America (2020; The Fungi Press), and
Mushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and Midwestern States (2012; The Ohio State University Press).
Coming in 2027: Fungi: A Practical Field Guide (Quarry Books).
Britt has served as Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival since 2014 and was awarded the “Dr. Emanuele Salzman Award” for service to the Telluride Mushroom Festival in 2024. In 2021 he was awarded the Gary Lincoff Award “For Contributions to Amateur Mycology,” by the North American Mycological Association—NAMA’s most prestigious honor for American mycologists.
Join us after the 2026 AGM for the President’s Dinner by Chef Lindsay Porter
