July 10th
Saint John's tide events have gone by, below is the picture of the last dress rehearsal of the 4th scene of Portal of Initiation, the first of the Mystery Dramas of Steiner. People have been thinking about continuing this work in rehearsals and join with the other groups in Minessota and Madison-Milwaukee to share this work. Anyone interested can contact any of the actors in Viroqua:
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| Left to right: Sarah Kamin-Spirit of the Elements, Aaron Schmidt-Capesius, Mary Christenson-The Other Maria, Barbara Danner-Lucifer, David Kennedy-Ahriman, Cele Wolf-Johannes, Raquel Gargallo-Strader(taking the picture) |
May 25th
Saint John’s Tide 2012
Old Main Building, Viroqua
There are various events happening during the weekend, including:
Mystery Dramas Conference
with Daniel Hafner, priest of the Christian Community in Toronto ( see info below).
Contact: Bernhard Kuhn 608 637 6529
The Midwest Youth Conference, from Friday 22nd until Monday 25th
for young people in or entering High School. Cost $30.
For more information,
Contact: Ann Burfeind, priest of the Christian Community in Chicago,
773 526 0727 or annburfmark@yahoo.com
Ann Burfeind will be available throughout the week for general questions and also for the Sacrament of Consultation.
Saint Uriel Community Campfor families, from Tuesday 26th until Thursday 28th.
For accommodations, or general questions,
Contact:Jenny Spann 608 637 8759
Program
Friday 22nd June
9pm Close of Day for the Youth Conference. All welcome.
Saturday 23rd June
9am The Act of Consecration of Man
Sunday 24th June
9:30 Children’s Service
10:30 The Act of Consecration of Man
12:00 Finger-food Potluck with the Community.
5pm Saint John’s Gathering at Prairie Roots Farm. 37777 Newland Rd. Cashton. Bonfire, pageant, songs and a potluck meal.
Call Cameron and Daphne for directions: 608 654 7374
the
Christian Community
http://thechristiancommunity.org
Viroqua affiliate
We invite you to join us every Sunday 9:30-10:30 for a Devotional Gathering at the Old Main Building. On special occasions, we celebrate the festivals at the same location for the whole family. Some recent festivities included Saint Michael stories, an Advent Garden with a story for 4 weeks, and an Easter story with music.
We also invite you to join us in our monthly pilgrimages to East Troy for the Act of Consecration of Man.
We are preparing for the Summer Camp for children and more activities for the upcoming year, as well as finding a permanent location. Consider donating money or helping with your ideas and time.
The Threshold and its Guardian –
Rudolf Steiner’s Mystery Dramas and the West
Lectures by Daniel Hafner,
Toronto At the Old Main Building inViroqua, Wisconsin
Friday, June 22 2012
7pm Scene from the first Mystery Drama "The Portal of Initiation" Viroqua Drama Group
Lecture : The History of the Story Where Goethe's Tale came from and how it changed into the Mystery Dramas Daniel Hafner
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Afternoon 2pm Attempt of an Overview of the four Mystery Dramas Bernhard Kuhn
Lecture: The Publication of the Mysteries The opening of the threshold in the third drama. Daniel Hafner
Speech Formation: Exercises by Rudolf Steiner
Closer Study: Scene 3 of The Guardian of the Threshold : Lucifer's Realm.
Evening 7pm Lecture: The Mystery Dramas and America The burning of the Goetheanum. Strader at the altar of the West. Daniel Hafner
contact: Bernhard Kuhn 608 637 6529
bornux@runbox.com
single lecture $ 15, whole conference $ 50
scholarships available, donations welcome
bornux@runbox.com
single lecture $ 15, whole conference $ 50
scholarships available, donations welcome
Last month meeting was on biodynamics, and next week the same theme will be extended by our members of the Viroqua Biodynamic Group. (They just had this past Saturday the annual spring preparation day at Chrysalis Farm). In preparation for Saint John, the meeting of June will be about the festival and its meaning.
Stuart visited Viroqua and planted seeds amongs us, it was very good to have the meetings two Sundays in a row and to see how the ideas were spreading and taking shape. The Old Main Building echoed Thoreau's and Goethe's words in harmonies.
The Christian Community in Viroqua is organizing a full program for Saint John, with a conference on the Mystery Dramas by Daniel Hafner and various other events, a Youth Conference, a Saint John's festival....more information and programs to follow soon.
March 19th
For this month's meeting we had Eurythmy again with Annette Conlon, and Rich Grams offered a talk on Whitsun with charcoal drawings. There is scheduled a biodynamic introduction for next month, with stirring of the prep with Steven Adams and Brian Wickert.
A comitive in Viroqua went this past weekend to the ordinations of the priests from the Christian Community in Chestnut Ridge, New York. It was great to see Paul Newton, a member of Viroqua for the last years, entering the priesthood in such a special ceremony.
There is a group forming with the intention to prepare a scene of the Mystery Plays from R. Steiner, contact one of us if you are interested.
February 18th
This past Monday Annette Conlon, the eurythmist at the waldorf school, taught us some movements with the Verse for America as a background.
These second Monday of the month meetings will continue to be open to the public, next one probably will incorporate a session about the upcoming season of Whitsun and its meaning.
January 19th
The Turning Place is opening the meetings for everybody interested to attend. Below is the invitation letter.
Dear Friends of Anthroposophy:
The Turning Place: Where Spirit and Earth Meet, is a center to hold meetings and activities related to Spiritual Science and its fruits. You are receiving this invitation because you have attended a conference, are a member of a group inspired out of anthroposophy or are on our email list as a friend. The Turning Place moved from Main Street last summer and after organizing the space and the library, the steering committee feels ready to offer a small program or festival study at each monthly meeting. We invite you to share in what we hope will be a nurturing activity.
Our monthly Turning Placemeeting will take place on the second Mondays of the month. The next meeting is Monday evening February 13 from 7:00 – 9:00 pm at Room 202, Landmark Center. For those who wish to socialize and browse the anthroposophical library, we will open at 6:30 pm.
The meeting will begin at 7:00 pm with our study this month on Rudolf Steiner’s Verse for America and we will work with Annette Conlon to move it with Eurythmy.
At 8:00 we will begin our business meeting, looking ahead to other monthly topics for the coming year. If you would like to be part of the planning, we welcome your ideas. If not, people can leave at this time.
Our monthly meetings are scheduled on the second Monday of each month and are open to all who share an interest in the work of Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy. We invite local friends of anthroposophy to share their work with us during these meetings, so let us know if you are interested in presenting some time during the year. We would like to have a statement describing your presentation or an outline; we also plan to have festival studies four times during the year (March, June, Sept., Nov).
Call or email mary@pleasantridgewaldorf.org with questions: 608-629-5507
If you do not wish to receive monthly invitations, please let us know by responding to this email.
Announcements: Linda Bergh will be at Three Rivers Waldorf School
Craig Holdrege will be the keynote speaker for the BD Winter Gathering on Jan. 27-28-29, $50 full conference.
Richard Dancey, priest of the Christian Community: The Transformation of Work-The Transubstantiation of Money, Saturday 4th February 7pm Old Main Buiding, $15.
Michael D’Aleo will be the keynote speaker at the AWSNA Great Lakes conference at the Minnesota Waldorf School
December 20th
Some of the events in the area for this season include:
- Holy Nights Open House at The Turning Place 8:30-9:30pm 26th December-6th January
- Talk about Christmas and its meaning ( Place and date TBA)
- Biodynamic Winter Conference: Craig Holdrege on Observation of Nature following Goethean indications. Last weekend of January.
- Christian Community Priest visit, Richard Dancey. First weekend of February.
- Three Rivers Waldorf School: Kamsler will be coming Jan 20-21 and we are sponsoring a Biography weekend on February 17-19 with Linda Berg.
December 1st
CHRISTMAS CONTEMPLATIONS
Please join in if you are interested in the esoteric considerations of Rudolf Steiner regarding the Season of Advent and The Holy Nights of Christmas. We will meet from 2-4 pm every Sunday between Dec.1 and Jan. 6, 2012. Place: Chotzen home, 322 E Jefferson Street, Viroqua. Please call Kim first at 637-8404.
November 19th 2011
Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School is getting ready for their Holiday Faire ( see flyer below). They also are preparing an Advent garden for the kindergarten and grades children that will be open as well for the general community on Tuesday 29th November at 3pm.
November 3rd 2011
The Christian Community in Viroqua is opening the Devotional Gatherings on Sundays for the season of Advent, please see below for more information.
Next week, on Saturday the 12th of November a comitive of Viroqua will travel to East Troy for the Act of Consecration of Man and the laying of the ashes of Rosemary Bergman (one of the first priests in the area). Richard Dancey from Chicago will be the officiating priest.
October 25th 2011
There is an All Souls Gathering planned for next Wednesday the 2nd November at 7pm at the Old Main Building. Bring a candle for the event.
Also we are planning a youth task with biodynamic preparations around town. See flyer below:
October 3rd 2011
There have been more book donations for the reading library at the Turning Place. Come to the next Open House on November 2nd, 3:30-5pm to look through them and to find out what activities and events are currently offered or being planned.
Around Michaelmas this year there are a number of events, fall preparations-making day at byodinamic farms , a Michaelmas Gathering on the eve of September 28th, and a Young Farmer Gathering on October1st:
The Viroqua Biodynamic Group will hold our fall prep-making day on Saturday, October 1st at Chrysalis Farm. We will start between 9:30 and 10 a.m. Come prepared for a pot luck around mid-day. In case of serious rain we will meet on Sunday the 2nd. Refer any questions to Brian Wickert, 637-8890 or Steven Adams 637-2079.
"The Greenhorns" Documentary to Screen at Prairie Roots Farm. Cashton WI. The Greenhorns, a national grassroots nonprofit organization of young farmers, will premiere their much anticipated documentary film, "The Greenhorns", at Prairie Roots Farm, Saturday October 1, 2011 at 6:30pm. Come early (3:00pm) for a farm tour and potluck meal and stay late for music and bonfire to follow the screening. RSVP to Daphne Kingsley 608-654-7374, or e-mail Daphnesuek@yahoo.com.
August 31st 2011
Report from:
The Nineteen Lessons of the First Class of the School of Spiritual
August 7-12, 2011 held at Fair Oaks , California
This special event was the fourth time since 2007 that all Nineteen Lessons have been presented over several days in freely rendered form. The other presentations were in London , Ann Arbor
Classholders from the U.S. , Canada and members of the Collegium of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum in Dornach , Switzerland Michael School
This presentation was especially significant because it coincided with the 150th anniversary year of Rudolf Steiner’s birth. There were special exhibits of his work and life, and each evening lectures as well as artistic offerings. We heard from Virginia Sease, Michaela Glockler, Douglas Miller, Astrid Schmitt-Stegmann as they spoke about Steiner’s early years, time in Weimar
As you can imagine this was a very full program but the rhythm of the day amazingly allowed for sufficient time to rest and prepare for the next lesson. The weather was also extraordinary and the staff at Rudolf Steiner College
Mary Christenson
629-5507
August 14th 2011
The Christian Community Camp started this year on Tuesday August 9th and the departure date is Monday the 22nd at Camp Decorah, fourteen miles north of LaCrosse. The camp is run by volunteers, including trained professionals, young people and parents, who are giving their time and commitment in order to provide a special summer experience for children.
July 31st 2011
The conference with Dennis Klocek on the theme Sacred Agriculture was this past weekend. There will be a meeting to discuss around the subjects of the conference this next Wednesday from 19:00-20:30.
Some pictures of the conference:
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| Dennis Klocek explaining the New Mysteries at the last talk on Saturday evening. |
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| Some attendees asking questions at the end of the conference. |
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| Rich Grams attending questions at the "Book table". |
The new space was open to the public too though is still in its preliminary stages. Some pictures of the different areas of this threefold initiative:
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| The Turning Place meeting area. |
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| The library collection is on the left. |
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| The Threshold Care Circle. |
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| Tobit Study Group/Sweet Peas Nursery |
July 15 2011
New Space at the Landmark Center: The Turning PlaceTTP is getting ready the new space, which would be shared with other two groups, a group taking care of the persons crossing the threshold when dying,( Threshold Care Circle TCC) and a group taking care of children and families(Tobit Study Group TSG/Sweet Peas Nursery).
The next picture shows the space at the beginning stages, right now is being painted and soon will be furnished and named.
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| Members of the respective groups, Kathy Neidert TCC, Mary Christenson TTP and Raquel Gargallo TSG, (left to right), at the painting decision meeting. |
