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Sponsored by Threefold Educational Center
Toward the Possibility
of Spiritual Community:
A Public Talk with Orland Bishop
Thursday, February 11, 7:30pm
We regret to announce that this event has been cancelled.
Information: Email events@threefold.org or call 845-352-5020 x18.
Sponsored by Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America
Deepening Our Capacities
to Meet the Children in Our Care
East Coast Waldorf Early Childhood Conference
February 12, 13 and 14
This year’s conference is the third in a series of three where we have focused on working with the so-called difficult children in our care. The conference will offer a variety of formats for working with this theme, including a panel discussion and a wide variety of workshops. Other conference highlights will include a keynote presentation by Dr. Gerald Karnow, a job fair, a training programs information session, and a performance by Eurythmy Spring Valley.
For more information: call 845-517-2388 x11, email conference@waldorfearlychildhood.org, or click here.
Sponsored by Eurythmy Spring Valley
Parzival:
Poetics Lectures with John Wulsin
March 1-5, 11:15am
One of the great epic poems of medieval German literature, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is one of the great love stories of all literature. Timelessly universal, Parzival is set in a context of East and West, of Muslim and Christian. Knights Templar serve as guardians of the Grail, which becomes the focal point for the young Parzival's becoming, as he grows from innocence and ignorance, through great pain, isolation, and doubt, to eventual maturity, with great consequences for all. We will focus on primary stages of Parzival's development, using Mustard and Passage's English prose translation.
Location: School of Eurythmy.
Fee: $75 for five lectures.
For more information, call 845-352-5020 x13, or email info@eurythmy.org.
Sponsored by Sunbridge Institute and Threefold Educational Center
Alash
Tuvan Throat Singing Concert
March 3, 8:00pm
Alash are masters of Tuvan throat singing, a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. These masters of traditional Tuvan instruments subtly infuse their songs with western elements, creating their own unique style that is fresh and new, yet true to their Tuvan musical heritage.
What does throat singing sound like? "Imagine a human bagpipe – a person who could sing a sustained low note while humming an eerie, whistle-like melody. For good measure, toss in a thrumming rhythm similar to that of a jaw harp, but produced vocally-by the same person, at the same time." – Newsweek (March 17, 2006)
Tickets: $15/$10 students and seniors. At the door, or click here to purchase in advance.
Location: Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY
For more information, call 845-425-0055 x18 or email info@sunbridge.edu.
Sponsored by Eurythmy Spring Valley
Sailing to Byzantium
Saturday, March 13, 2010, 8:00pm
This new program will be centered around William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium," and will include the pieces offered in the January program, along with several others.
For tickets and information, please call 845-352-5020 x13, or email info@eurythmy.org.
Location: Threefold Auditorium.
Sponsored by Eurythmy Spring Valley
Songs of Light and Dark:
A Concert for the Spring Equinox
Lecture/Demonstration: March 19, 7:30pm
Concert: March 20, 7:30pm (pre-concert lecture at 6:45)
Pianist Marcus Macauley will be joined by baritone Thomas Buckner, soprano Shannon Boyce, and eurythmists including Beth Dunn-Fox, Michael Widmer, and Victoria Sander, for a dynamic and colorful program including songs by Ives and Berg, music by Bach and Pärt, and a few surprises. Two educational events will be offered for those wishing to deepen their understanding and experience of the evening's music, poetry, and eurythmy. A pre-concert lecture will begin at 6:45, and a more extensive lecture-demonstration will be given the prior evening, Friday at 7:30.
Location: Threefold Auditorium.
Fee: Donations gratefully accepted. All proceeds from these events will benefit the Eurythmy School Class of 2011 graduation trip to Dornach, Switzerland.
For more information, call 845-352-5020 x13, or email info@eurythmy.org.
Sponsored by Sunbridge Institute
Returning to Simple Traditions:
Home Funerals and Green Burial
March 19, 7:00-9:00pm
March 20, 9:00am-5:00pm
This weekend workshop will explore with new eyes and an open mind the special time surrounding a loved one’s crossing. A home funeral is a dignified and loving alternative to current funeral practices. Learn how to create a meaningful experience at the time of a loved one’s death, allowing simplicity and sanctity to pervade this time of transition.
Workshop fee: $120.
To register, click here.
For more information, call 845-425-0055 x18 or email info@sunbridge.edu.
Sponsored by Sunbridge Institute
The Crossroads of Money and Spirit:
Understanding Its Role in Our Lives,
Our Work, and Our Organizations
Three Days of Workshops with John Bloom, RSF Social Finance
April 6, 7 and 8
Each day of this workshop will address a timely theme about the role of money in our personal, organizational, and cultural lives:
- Day 1: Money and Biography
- Day 2: Money and Spirit in Organizations
- Day 3: Toward a Culture of Generosity (with Joachim Ziegler, Ph.D.)
Workshop fee: $285, or $95 for any single day.
To register, click here.
For more information, call 845-425-0055 x18 or email info@sunbridge.edu.
Sponsored by Sunbridge Institute
Meet the Author
An Evening Discussion with John Bloom,
Author of Genius of Money: Essays and Interviews
Reimagining the Financial World
April 8
Coming to terms with money is one of the great transformational challenges of our time. John Bloom's new collection of essays and interviews is an invitation and inquiry addressing that challenge on a systemic and personal level. The book presents an engaging worldview that emerges from the intersection of money and spirit. Practical, spiritual, and unwavering, it investigates the financial world as it plays out in daily life through our transactions.
Books will be available for purchase at this event. Read more about the book at this page.
For more information, call 845-425-0055 x18 or email info@sunbridge.edu.
Sponsored by Sunbridge Institute
Closing the Credibility Gap:
Governance in Waldorf Schools
A Workshop with John Bloom and Jackie Henson
April 9
This day-long workshop, featuring Jackie Henson, a nationally recognized attorney on charitable law and taxation, and John Bloom, Director, Organizational Culture, RSF Social Finance, will explore the full range of issues in non-profit governance. Ms. Henson will speak about the legal obligations, the duties of care and loyalty essential to the role, and emerging responsibilities of trusteeship and good governance. Mr. Bloom will address the framework and purposes of good governance as a way to free up human capacities on behalf of the social and spiritual mission of the organization.
Workshop fee: $95.
To register, click here.
For more information, call 845-425-0055 x18 or email info@sunbridge.edu.
Sponsored by Light, Color and Darkness
The Third Foundation Course
in Light, Color and Darkness
According to the Work of
Liane Collot d'Herbois
April 12-17, 2010
This six-day intensive course will feature
- Charcoal exercises and watercolor painting of the interaction of Light, Color and Darkness
- Presentations and studies of the activity of Light, Color and Darkness in connection with the seven-fold human being
These courses are suitable for adults with any level of art experience, and provide an excellent preparation for the study of therapeutic painting. They can also be followed independently as a path of self-development.
Faculty: Marielle Levin and Deborah Lothrop, plus a presentation by Gerald Karnow, MD.
Location: Threefold Community, Chestnut Ridge, NY.
Fee: $380 (early registration; $400 after Feburary 26, space permitting).
To register, or for additional information, contact Marielle Levin by email (mariellevin@comcast.net) or phone (303-698-0530), or Deborah Lothrop at deborahlothrop@hotmail.com. For more information about the sponsor (including information about additional courses), please visit www.lightcoloranddarkness.org.
Sponsored by the Fiber Craft Studio
Handwork as an Aid to the Incarnating Child:
Pedagogical, Artistic and Healing Aspects of the Waldorf Handwork Curriculum
April 23-25, 2010
The theme of this research conference will be explored in a number of three-session workshops on the handwork curriculum led by experienced Waldorf handwork teachers. The fruits of this joint work will be gathered and shared in a forum session.
With this conference, the Fiber Craft Studio of the Threefold Educational Center is continuing the important conference activity that took place at Kimberton Waldorf School in the 1990s (organized by Margareta Eichenholz and Tjitske Lehman) as well as building on the research activity happening in the Applied Arts Program and in the classrooms of experienced handwork teachers.
For more information, click here, or contact the Fiber Craft studio by phone (845-425-2891) or email information@fibercraftstudio.org. Registration will begin in February 2010.
Sponsored by the Otto Specht School
Forging a Path:
Working with Children’s Destinies
July 22-25, 2010
Healthy human development and education in today’s time pose challenges that require a change in the conventional way of regarding the child. Rudolf Steiner’s picture of the developing human being provides us with great insights into the potential of Waldorf education to meet each child as well as the possibility of creating educational settings needed for all children. What does it mean to work both inwardly and practically with the destiny of the children that we meet today?
Please join Gerald Karnow, MD, and Bruno Calligaro, MD, along with therapists and educators as we explore ways of working with Steiner’s indications in anthroposophic medicine, therapies and educational approaches toward a deeper understanding of the human being.
For more information, email ottospechtrsff@gmail.com.
Sponsored by the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
Annual Conference
September 30-October 3
At Threefold Educational Center
The Annual Conference of the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association is returning to Threefold in 2010. Save the date, and watch this space for more details as they become available.
Click here to visit the Association's conference page.