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Sponsored by The Christian Community—Movement for Religious Renewal
Whitsuntide:
How to Kindle Our Inner Flame
Whit-Sunday, May 19, 11:15am (after the service)
A talk with Rev. Bastiaan Baan.
Location: The Christian Community, 15 Margetts Rd., Monsey, NY.
Suggested donation: $10-$12.
Information: Call Rev. Jonah Evans: 845-573-9080.
Sponsored by The Christian Community—Movement for Religious Renewal
Community Caring Circle
Sunday, May 19, 11:30am
The intention of this group is to look for and notice the needs of other individuals in our congregation and the Threefold community. Our monthly meetings together will offer us a place to share the needs that we see of a given individual or family and allow us to look for ways of meeting those needs. This is intended to be an action/service group! All who are inspired to work with others to help meet the needs of our community are welcome!
Location: The Christian Community, 15 Margetts Rd., Monsey, NY.
Information: Call Rev. Jonah Evans: 845-573-9080.
Sponsored by Eurythmy Spring Valley
Art Auction to Benefit
Eurythmy Spring Valley
Class of 2014
Sunday, May 19, 3:00pm
Come and bid on this captivating collection of pieces by local artists. All proceeds support the Eurythmy Spring Valley Class of 2014 graduation trip to Dornach, Switzerland.
Location: Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Rd., Chestnut Ridge, NY.
Information: Call 845-352-5020 x13 or email info@eurythmy.org.
Sponsored by the Fiber Craft Studio
Open Studio
Friday, May 24
2:30-4:30pm
Come visit our Studio at Orchard House to browse, see us at work and experience our unique plant-dyed materials. Our yarns and craft kits are available for sale, and we are ready to assist you as needed.
Each Friday there will be a special demonstration focused on the following theme, so that you will get a taste of what we do at the studio:
• May 24, June 7 & 14: Plant dyeing.
Location: The Fiber Craft Studio, Orchard House, next to 285 Hungry Hollow Rd., Chestnut Ridge, NY. Park on Orchard Lane.
Information: Call 845-425-2891, email information@fibercraftstudio.org, or visit our web site.
Sponsored by Eurythmy Spring Valley
Molière's
The Forced Marriage
Friday, May 24, 8:00pm
Presented by the School of Eurythmy's third year class. An evening of fun and laughter — don't miss it!.
Location: Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Rd., Chestnut Ridge, NY.
Admission: Free. Donations welcome.
Information: Call 845-352-5020 x13 or email info@eurythmy.org.
Sponsored by The Christian Community—Movement for Religious Renewal
Finding Christ Today:
An Evening Talk with Lisa Romero
Thursday, May 30, 7:30pm
A benefit for the Christian Community.
Location: The Christian Community, 15 Margetts Rd., Monsey, NY.
Suggested donation: $15-$20.
Information: Call Rev. Jonah Evans: 845-573-9080.
Sponsored by the Fiber Craft Studio
Silent Auction
to Benefit the Fiber Craft Studio
Saturday, June 1, 4:00pm-7:00pm: Festive Opening with Refreshments!
Sunday, June 2, 10:00am-4:30pm (During the Sheep and Wool Festival)
Featuring hand-crafted items from friends of the Fiber Craft Studio.
Take this opportunity to find special on-of-a-kind gifts!
Location: The Fiber Craft Studio, Orchard House, next to 285 Hungry Hollow Rd., Chestnut Ridge, NY. Park on Orchard Lane.
Information: Call 845-425-2891, or email information@fibercraftstudio.org.
Sponsored by Nose to Nose of North America
and Threefold Educational Center
The Courage to Be:
One-Day Clowning Workshop
at Threefold Educational Center
Facilitated by Angie Foster
Saturday, June 1
The word "courage" comes from a root that means "heart."
Our approach to clowning is not a technique (tricks, gags or routines). Rather, it is about finding the free, fun, spontaneous part of yourself — your clown!
Come remember how to play and explore what it can mean to be fully present and authentic.
Through movement, games, and improvisation we will learn that what is more interesting/important/intriguing is not "getting it right" or being clever, but rather the magic of being surprised by what reveals itself when all else falls away.
Fee: $70. Click here to register on line, or click here for a paper registration form. Enrollment is limited, and pre-registration is required.
Information: Questions about the workshops? Contact Angie Foster by email (4angiefoster@gmail.com) or phone (610-935-0637). To learn more about this clowning, click here.
Sponsored by the Fiber Craft Studio
Sheep and Wool Festival
Sunday, June 2, 10:00am-5:00pm, Rain or Shine
Celebrate Nature’s Gifts and Fiber Transformation.... Meet Sheep, Goats and Bunnies.... Participate in fiber craft activities, including spinning, weaving, knitting, felting, and plant dyeing....
Delicious food too!
Admission is free. A small fee will be charged for activities. All proceeds benefit the Fiber Craft Studio.
Location: The Fiber Craft Studio, 275 Hungry Hollow Rd., Chestnut Ridge, NY.
Information: Call 845-425-2891, email information@fibercraftstudio.org, or visit our web site.
Sponsored by Eurythmy Spring Valley
Spring End-of-Term Festival
Thursday, June 6, 7:30pm
Please join us for our end-of-term sharing of pieces our students have been working on during the Spring term.
Location: School of Eurythmy, Hungry Hollow Rd., Chestnut Ridge, NY.
Admission: Donations welcome.
Information: Call 845-352-5020 x13 or email info@eurythmy.org.
Sponsored by Threefold Educational Center
A Performance and Sharing by
the Students of The Art of Acting
Saturday, June 8, 4:00pm
Laurie Portocarrero and the students of The Art of Acting invite you to their end-of-year performance and sharing, culminating nine months of work with the acting techniques of Michael Chekhov, speech formation, spacial dynamics, and much more. Be amazed, be entertained, and share in the joy and accomplishment of the 2012-13 class of the Art of Acting.
Location: Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Rd., Chestnut Ridge, NY.
Admission is free. The performance will last about one hour.
Information: Email events@threefold.org or call 845-352-5020 x18.
Sponsored by the Fiber Craft Studio
Plant Dyeing Workshop:
Spring Harvest in the
Dye Garden
Saturday, June 15, 9:00am-5:00pm
Harvesting plants, creating dye pots and receiving colors — the whole experience of these activities nourishes our souls and enlivens our whole beings. We will dig madder roots that are ripe in the soil, and harvest weld that are tall with juicy green leaves, and more depending on what is available in the season! We will take time to observe, create dye pots and dye wool fleece in such a way that we begin to appreciate the gifts from nature.
Fee: $95, materials included.
Location: The Fiber Craft Studio, Orchard House, next to 285 Hungry Hollow Rd., Chestnut Ridge, NY. Park on Orchard Lane.
Information, and to register: Call 845-425-2891 or, email information@fibercraftstudio.org, or click here to download a registration form (PDF).
Sponsored by Eurythmy Spring Valley
Song in Movement:
Summer Eurythmy Week 2013
June 23-28
Spend a summer week in Spring Valley doing eurythmy with others who enjoy the width, depth and pleasure eurythmy can give. The theme of this summer's course is Song. In speech eurythmy, lyric poems move us to sing with our whole being in movement and gesture. Some of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience will lead us again into exploring joy and sorrow alike while eurythmy's living source refreshes the soul. Come join our faculty members, Barbara Schneider-Serio and Annelies Davidson, in eurythmy, and Patti Regan and Gosha Karpowicz, who will lead us in singing and painting, for this week-long intensive course, giving a direct experience of the refreshment and depth that eurythmy can provide.
Course fee: $400.
Information, and to register: Call 845-352-5020 x13 or email info@eurythmy.org.
Sponsored by Sunbridge Institute
Sunbridge Institute Summer Courses and Workshops
June 23–July 26
Registration is now open for Sunbridge Institute's Summer Series 2013: 13 week-long courses on topics in Waldorf Early Childhood Education (Farm & Forest Kindergartens, Leading Parent-Child Classes, Intro to Waldorf Early Childhood), Approaching the Grades, Collaborative Leadership, and Middle School Math, plus three great new "Waldorf Weekends."
Location: Sunbridge Institute, Threefold Main House, 285 Hungry Hollow Rd., Chestnut Ridge, NY.
Information, and to register: Contact Ayla Dunn, Director of Summer Series, at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20, or click here for a complete overview and link to online registration.
Sponsored by the Fiber Craft Studio
Creative Working with
Wool Fibers and Plant Colors:
A Retreat at the Fiber Craft Studio
With Renate Hiller & Mikae Toma
July 8–12
A whole sheep’s fleece and local dye-plants will serve us to create wool pictures and wool figures. An exploration of the world of elemental beings will accompany this work as we transform wool fibers through the processes of sorting, washing, carding and dyeing and use them for painting and modeling activities.
Throughout the week we will seek to create a mood of joyful collaboration and meditative working to deepen our relationship with nature and enliven our whole being. Indoor activities will be complemented by observing and harvesting plants in the Studio’s Dye Garden.
Renate Hiller has shared her enthusiasm for fiber craft activities with children and adults at Green Meadow Waldorf School, Sunbridge College and the Fiber Craft Studio. She has recently stepped back from full-time work at the studio, but continues to be inspired by nature and the transformative power and richness of fiber craft activities. Mikae Toma, co-director of the Fiber Craft Studio, was a kindergarten teacher in Japan and has been working at the studio since 2002.
Fee: $550, materials included. This course is limited to 14 participants.
Location: The Fiber Craft Studio, Orchard House, next to 285 Hungry Hollow Rd., Chestnut Ridge, NY. Park on Orchard Lane.
Information, and to register: Call 845-425-2891, email information@fibercraftstudio.org, or click here to download a registration form (PDF).
Sponsored by the Center for Biography
and Social Art
Biography and Social Art
Certificate Program
Begins July 2013
A new cycle of the Biography and Social Art Certificate Program will begin in July 2013, and enrollment is now open. The program is a unique part-time professional development program for individuals interested in inner development and social questions.
The program meets at Threefold Educational Center over the course of three years, three times per year: two weeks in summer, one week each in fall and winter.
Each block focuses on a particular aspect of the mystery of human life. Artistic practice, including the art of conversation, is central to the learning process. Nature observation, painting, modeling, drawing, writing, singing and movement encourage deepening capacities of perception, communication, spirituality, and more.
Former students have brought their Biography and Social Art experience and education into a variety of professions, including life coaching, biographical counseling, art therapy, elder care, parent education, health work, death care, adult education, and many other avenues of working with personal and community development.
Information: Visit biographysocialart.org, or email center4biography@gmail.com.
Sponsored by the Threefold Mystery Drama Group
Taking Responsibility for Destiny:
The Souls' Awakening
2013 Mystery Drama Conference
Conference: August 14-18
Performance: Saturday, August 17
This summer's Mystery Drama conference will center around performances of Rudolf Steiner's fourth mystery drama, The Souls' Awakening. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings, one section of the play will be performed. The entire play will again be performed on Saturday, August 17, beginning at 9:30am.
Information, and to register: Please visit this page.
Co-Sponsored by Threefold Educational Center and
the North American Collegium of the School of Spiritual Science
The Challenge of Objectivity
in Spiritual Research:
2013 Living Questions
Research Symposium
September 19-22
All the technical achievements of our modern civilization are evidence of our ability to objectively understand the material world. But what about the non-material world, the world of consciousness, of soul, of spirit? Are there also ways of objectively investigating the world of soul and spirit? In particular, can the soul-spiritual dimension of the world be objectively investigated by soul-spiritual means? Are there non-material ways of researching the world that can lead to more than subjective belief or personal interpretation?
How should we regard the results of such spiritual research? How can their truth and objectivity be tested? How do the spiritual researchers themselves conduct their work and test their own results? How do they strive for objectivity in their particular field of inquiry and activity?
At this year’s Living Questions Research Symposium, we will actively explore these questions and also hear them addressed by practicing researchers in diverse fields of scientific and artistic endeavor. Join us.
We want to hear how you are researching your living questions! We are issuing a call to individuals and organizations who wish to present and discuss their research at the 2013 Symposium. Selected applicants will receive a grant of $500 from Threefold Educational Foundation, and will be expected to present their work during the Symposium's Research Perspectives sessions. Interested? Click here to download an application.
Save the date, and watch this space for updates and registration information. Please visit this page to read about recent Living Questions Research Symposia at Threefold.