Friday, May 6, 7-8:30 pm

An Evening Talk on Elementals and How we can Support Them at this Time

A talk by Gunther Hauk

Not only are we human beings under serious attack worldwide regarding what we need to do in order to continue taking steps toward our rightful path of evolution as human beings, the elemental kingdoms are also suffering and in need of our heightened consciousness and care. What challenges are they experiencing and how can we help them in their plight?

This talk is geared toward the adult audience/high school age children; there will be ample opportunity for a conversation.

Mettabee Farm

Saturday, May 21, 3:00 pm

Timeless Tales with Laurie Storyteller

Laurie Portocarrero is an actress, storyteller and drama teacher, and long-time resident of Columbia County. She has brought her backgrounds in drama, speech and movement to her work with Walking the dog Theater Co, The Actors' Ensemble, and Shakespeare on the Green, appearing in many plays and original works over the years as well as directing and teaching adults and children of all ages both locally and abroad.

She also has her roots in Waldorf education, and began by teaching kindergarten, telling stories to young children, with songs and a lighted candle and the hush of reverence....

For years she has built on and brought that storytelling to communities far and wide, creating in a hectic, busy, and technological world a space of quiet and reverence together, where the imagination and spoken word enliven and nourish children and grownups alike

Join us to celebrate the waxing of spring, gathering to create together that same mood of wonder and warmth.

RSVP to laurieportostories@gmail.com or 518 567-6766

Chatham Co-Op Community Room
15 Church St, Chatham, NY 12037

Sunday, May 29, 12:00 pm (noon)

Bread and the Evolution of Consciousness
A Talk by Koen van der Meer

• Our spiritual journey with bread. An esoteric history of bread from Zarathustra to Mechizedek to Christ.

• The seven traditional principles of making bread that nourishes. How life-giving bread has been destroyed by modern agriculture and baking methods.

• The alchemical process in breadmaking. The future of bread as a life-giving substance that supports a new consciousness.

A PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. Since 1977 Koen has operated several natural foods bakeries in the Netherlands and the USA. In 1981, in search of an alternative to both yeast and sourdough bread, he began to develop a method of making bread using leaven from dried and sprouted organic barley (Latin: Ordeum, Order of God) which has an abundance of enzymes that help to break down gluten. Using this leaven with original grains such as spelt, rye, and einkorn, that are not generated like modern wheat, also makes it possible for many gluten sensitive people to eat bread again.

The Christian Community
10 Green River Lane, Hillsdale NY 12529

June 2022

Saturday, June 4, 4 pm

Whitsun Festival

The Whitsun/Pentecost event is, among other things, a call for the development of both the free individual and our conscious belonging to the whole of humanity. We will celebrate this theme with a presentation by Marc Clifton on the significance of Whitsun as well as music, poetry, movement by some of our community members. There will also be opportunities for your participation.

World Language Circle
Members of the community are invited to recite the beginning of The Lord’s Prayer in a World Language. That can be your first language or a learned language. Or perhaps you would challenge yourself to learn these words in a language that is under-represented in our community. We have someone learning the prayer in the original Aramaic and someone else representing our indigenous people by learning these words in Abenaki (a language of the Algonquin people). We also have Latin, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian.

Flower Exchange
Rudolf Steiner called Whitsun a festival of flowers. Come to the festival bearing a flower that will be joined with others to grace our space and leave with one someone else has brought.

Mettabee Farm

Sunday, June 5, 4:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Including potluck supper

Listening Our Way into the Future

Community Workshop with John Bloom
General Secretary, Anthroposophical Society in America

For members and friends of the Anthroposophical Society. In this afternoon/evening workshop, we will explore what we have learned and what has changed over the last few years as we individually and in community prepare for the next one hundred years. The first one hundred years of anthroposophy birthed many beneficial ideas and practical applications, as the recognition of the reality of spirit was brought into the work in the material world. Many opportunities and challenges lay ahead if this pathway is to remain vital. How will members and friends take up this work? Within a framework of social three folding and the consciousness shift needed to implement the concepts, we will explore our economic landscape, the formation of agreements, and what freedom in the cultural sphere means. There will be short presentations, artistic work, time for reflection, peer engagement, and Q & A.

Please RSVP by Friday, June 3, to Gary Lamb at glamb@thecenterforsocialresearch.org or 518-672-4465.

Mettabee Farm and Arts

Saturday, June 11, 4:00 pm

Concert

Dear friends and music Lovers,

Please join us to experience the transformative power of music performed by a remarkable group of outstanding world-class musicians. Violinist Eugene Drucker, violist William Frampton, cellist Roberta Cooper, mezzo-soprano Susannah Woodruff with pianist Gili Melamed-Lev. The program includes the energetic and poetic piano quartet by Schumann, "Of Troubled Times", a song cycle composed by Eugene Drucker to poems by Denise Levertov, and songs by Beethoven.

All are welcome to the reception to meet the artists following the concert.

The space is limited so please make your reservations in advance.
The concert is about 70min. with no intermission.

To purchase tickets and more information, please visit www.jazzandclassicsforchange.org

Tydeman farm
564 County Route 10
Germantown, NY

New Date
Saturday, June 11, 7:00 to 8:30 pm

Toward Understanding the Honeybee

A talk by Gunther Hauk

Modern scientists now consider giving the honeybee the status of "mammal" rather than "insect." More and more marvelous facts are being revealed about this creature, inspiring awe and wonder. This talk will be accompanied by pictures and will hopefully help to bring this being closer to our hearts.

School-aged children, with appropriate interest and maturity, can also attend this presentation.

Mettabee Farm

Wednesday, June 15th, 7:00 pm

History as Symptomology: Three Axial Ages in the Life of the Soul

The last five thousand years has seen a maturation of certain specific human soul forces, three revolutions with distinct features of consciousness. While the last revolution is still the process of full development, each has become a sheath for the evolving “human”, or Spirit. How can we identify their characteristic features? And what are the inherent “virtues” and what the “vices?”  And who is it that speaks so clearly through each? And, finally, what constitutes the next step in this evolution, that of the Sixth Post-Atlantean Epoch, the Epoch of the Spirit Self?

Presented by Robert Stewart, RS Hom. CCH, past president of the NY Society of Homeopaths; founder of the New York School of Homeopathy; certified high school Waldorf teacher; for over 2 years, a painter in Philmont, NY. beamishly2@gmail.com

LightForms
743 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY 12534

Sunday, June 19th, 3:00 pm

Mystery Drama Group Sharing

Our little Mystery Drama study/exploration group has been meeting weekly over the past year, exploring and getting to know the first play by Rudolf Steiner, Portal of Initiation.

The group found it important to share with an audience some of what we've been doing, before parting ways for the summer vacation.

Join us!

Fountain Hall in Camphill Copake

Questions?

contact Laurie at 518 567-6766
laurieportostories@gmail.com

Wednesday, June 22th, 7:00 pm

The History of Art as a Picture of the Evolution of Consciousness

Every age has produced art that was correlated to a particular stage of cultural evolution as a kind of culturalization of Ernst Haeckel’s biogenetic law that ontogeny recapitulates.

Phylogeny, in this case, the art of each age represents one stage in the evolution of human consciousness. From Paleolithic to Conceptual Art, this lively presentation will explore the relationship between our evolving consciousness and pictorial representation, between society and the works of the Great Masters of the visual arts. A slide show presentation.

Presented by Robert Stewart, RS Hom. CCH, past president of the NY Society of Homeopaths; founder of the New York School of Homeopathy; certified high school Waldorf teacher; for over 2 years, a painter in Philmont, NY. beamishly2@gmail.com

LightForms
743 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY 12534

Friday, June 24th, 12 noon
Saturday June 25th, 3 pm
Sunday June 26th, 3 pm

A Taste of Shakespeare

Play Within a Play from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Outdoors! Midsummer! Children and fairies and theater and play!

Come and support the Young People's Drama Collective in their performances of the Play within the Play from A Midsummer Night's Dream, and celebrate together the height of summer in art and community.

Mettabee Farm

Friday, July 8th 7 pm

Rudolf Steiner, His Life and Times: The Year 1918

A Talk by Karl Fredrickson

“The present time is literally challenging us every hour, indeed every minute, to wake up. Anthroposophy as a science of the spirit can only be understood by those who are able to grasp that humanity is being asked to make a clear decision. Either the spirit is understood or the chaos continues." Michaelmas, 1917

As we seek to approach more closely Rudolf Steiner’s core mission, the year 1918 offers important insights. His months in Berlin, his work on the Goetheanum, his lectures and his journeys, inform us how he responded to the needs and challenges of the last months of the First World War setting the stage for his fruitful final years and it provides us with crucial insights in how we, in our own time, can best move forward.

Karl Fredrickson taught history at the Green Meadow Waldorf High School for 35 years and now speaks and writes on history and Anthroposophical themes.

Windy Hill

For questions contact Mariola
518-672-7093
shiningmtnny@aol.com