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Sponsored by the Christian Community
Allende:
Come Sing, Drum and Move With Us!
March 12, 7:30pm
March 13, 8:00am-6:00pm
An enlivening weekend workshop at The Christian Community with Rev. Carol Kelly, eurythmist Gail Langstroth, and international singer/drummer Fred Johnson.
Location: Christian Community Church, 15 Margetts Rd., Monsey, NY.
Suggestion donation: $80. Work exchange possible.
Information: Call 845-426-3144.
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 The Christian Community
Four Talks for Passiontide
By Rev. Carol Kelly
March 14, 21 and 28, 11:30am
March 7: The Weight of Earthly Being
March 14: The Lightening of the Burdens of Earth
March 21: The Depths of Inner Space
March 28, Palm Sunday: Continual Transformation
Location: Christian Community Church, 15 Margetts Rd., Monsey, NY.
Suggested donation: $10 per talk.
For more information: Please call Rev. Jonah Evans at 845-573-9080.
Sponsored by Threefold Educational Center and Your Local Transition Initiative
World Café Event: The Future of Our Community
March 14, 3:00pm-6:00pm
At Threefold Café
During the past year, the Transition Initiative has been exploring the impact of fossil fuels on our lives and issues surrounding the topic of food. It would now like to begin a process of envisioning the future of this community and ways of making our lives here more comprehensively sustainable. What would we like to see, and how can we get there from here? Join us for an afternoon of brainstorming, envisioning and strategizing.
Information: Call 845-425-2527. There is no charge for this event.
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
With Sandy Booth, Ann-Elizabeth Barnes, Jonitha Hasse and Rev. Carol Kelly
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.
Sandy Booth, a co-founder of the Crossings Care Circle in Austin, TX, has been helping families in Central Texas-care for their own at death since 2003. Ann-Elizabeth Barnes and Jonitha Hasse are founders of "Sacred Undertaking, a Family Partnership" in Harlemville, NY and Great Barrington, MA. Rev. Carol Kelly is a priest in the Christian Community Chruch in Spring Valley, NY.
Workshop fee: $120.
To register, click here.
For more information, call 845-425-0055 x18 or email info@sunbridge.edu.
Sponsored by Rockland Farm Alliance,
Hungry Hollow Co-op, and
Threefold Educational Center
Pancake Breakfast to Benefit Rockland Farm Alliance
March 28, 9:00am-12:00pm
Locally produced maple syrup from Camp Hill Farm and local eggs will be featured at this yummy, family-friendly eating extravaganza. The predominantly organic menu will include pancakes (both regular and gluten free), free-range eggs, potatoes, sausage, coffee and juice. Maple sap for the syrup will be collected in Rockland County by Camp Venture, a not-for-profit provider of family-like care and services to children and adults with developmental disabilities.
All proceeds from this event benefit the Rockland Farm Alliance (RFA), a coalition of farmers, community groups, community activists, local and county officials, and citizens. RFA's mission is to facilitate sustainable agriculture in Rockland County, NY. Click here to learn more.
Tickets: $15/adult, $10/child; $45/family package (four people); $125/table of 10. Because of limited seating and the need to pre-order ingredients, tickets must be purchased in advance at this page.
Location: Threefold Café, 285 Hungry Hollow Rd., Chestnut Ridge, NY.
Information: For more information, call 845-362-0207 or email info@rocklandfarm.org.
Sponsored by The Christian Community
Three Talks to Prepare Us for Easter
By Rev. Jonah Evans
March 30, 31 and April 1, 10:00am-11:00am
These talks on the theme of healing the soul will address the esoteric meaning of sin and the path toward the True Self.
Location: Christian Community Church, 15 Margetts Rd., Monsey, NY.
Suggested donation: $10 per talk.
For more information: Please call Rev. Jonah Evans at 845-573-9080.
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 Christian Community
Mysteries of Sex, Mysteries of Love:
Lectures by Michael Ronall
and Rev. Jonah Evans
May 1, 8:00pm (Please note change of date)
We are all eager to unveil the mystery of sex, but what if sexual experience itself turns out to be a veil? How would we earn a meeting with what it conceals? What light can spiritual science shed on our warm but irrational urges, which we so easily view through veils cast by sentimental mystification, brutal if subtle aggression, and the dullness imposed by self-deception? How can we make the world safe for our affection?
In two consecutive presentations on one evening, a priest and a philosopher will consider some of the riddles with which our sexuality teases, torments, and can enrich our earthly journey, and will ask what role our drives and striving may play in making us more human. Michael Ronall, M.A., lecturer, essayist, and instructor in anthroposophical education, will explore the nature of attraction and arousal and their consequences for intimacy and freedom. Rev. Jonah Evans, Christian Community priest with a background in counseling, will speak about the cultivation of empathy within sexual relationship as a feature of the modern path of initiation.
Location: Christian Community Church, 15 Margetts Rd., Monsey, NY.
Suggested donation: $6-$20; all proceeds benefit the Christian Community.
For more information: Call 845-573-9080.
Sponsored by The Pfeiffer Center
The Annual Pfeiffer Center Plant Sale
May 14, 15 and 21, 8:30am-5:00pm
Don't miss this opportunity to buy beautiful, healthy, biodynamically raised bedding plants for your garden.
You will find vegetables (don't miss the heirloom tomatoes), annuals, and herbs, plus many unusual and hard-to-find native perennials. The natives are great for keeping your garden blooming year after year, and they attract beneficial insects (like honeybees) and birds too. Our gardeners will be on hand to provide expert advice on plant selection for your particular conditions.
All proceeds from the plant sale benefit the programs of the Pfeiffer Center.
Location: In the Pfeiffer Center garden, opposite 285 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY; click here for directions.
For more information: call 845-352-5020 x20, or email info@pfeiffercenter.org.
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.