About The Festival

Shroom Sabha is a gathering of minds, spirits, and spores — a space for people drawn to fungi and the many worlds they connect.

India’s first mushroom festival began as a celebration of the seen and unseen: the mushrooms that fruit after rain, the mycelial networks beneath our feet, the decomposers that return life to soil, the healers, teachers, fermenters, and strange companions that shape our ecologies, cultures, kitchens, medicines, and imaginations.

Fungi are among the most important and least understood forms of life on Earth. They build soil, recycle nutrients, support forests, ferment food, produce medicines, and sustain countless forms of life. They challenge our ideas of individuality, cooperation, intelligence, and what it means to live together. Yet despite their profound influence on the world around us, they often remain overlooked.

For four days, foragers, artists, scientists, cultivators, cooks, musicians, farmers, and mushroom lovers come together through forest walks, workshops, conversations, food, art, music, and shared curiosity.

Shroom Sabha is the fruiting body of a movement that has been germinating quietly: a call to notice fungi, learn from them, celebrate them, and imagine more connected ways of being in the world.

Together, we are the mycelium.

What You’ll Find Here

• Fungi forays and forest walks

• Workshops and demonstrations on mushroom cultivation and more

• Food, fermentation, and mushroom tastings

• Art, music, and creative practices

• Conversations on ecology, conservation, cultivation, medicine, and culture

• Sessions on healing the self, the community, and the ecology

• Community, curiosity, and a healthy dose of fungal weirdness

The Team

Shroom Sabha is made possible by a diverse group of organisers, volunteers, collaborators, educators, artists, growers, and mushroom enthusiasts who share a passion for bringing fungal knowledge and culture into the public sphere.

Meet the people behind the mycelium!