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Friday 27 June7pm - 8.30pm
with Howard Smith
Rudolf Steiner lectured extensively on our journey through the planetary spheres after death. Some of his lectures were given during the First World War – conditions we are again witnessing. Today we have the same questions as then. Steiner aimed to bring understanding to such issues as battlefield deaths, the deaths of children, the connection between the living and the dead, and the formation of karma for the next incarnation. These are practical questions, which invite us to take our own inner development and understanding in hand, both as a personal preparation, and as a selfless service to the dead and the spiritual world in general.
All welcome, no need to book, no charge. Events are not recorded and zoom meetings are limited to 100 participants. Voluntary donations towards costs are gratefully received and can be made by cash donation on the day, transfer to a Nationwide account held for this purpose or via Paypal.
Account name: Adrian Hotten, Nationwide, sort code: 07-01-16 account number: 31466776. Paypal to suejoanpeat@gmail.com
Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82632129836
Meeting ID: 826 3212 9836, Passcode: 755359
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Saturday 28 June10.30am - 6pm
Cancelled due to unforseen circumstances
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Saturday 28 June11am - 12pm
with Graham Kennish
A 1+ hour (free) Zoom workshop to learn a practical anthroposophical method of handling anxiety and stress, through the Goethean observation of one’s own inner emotional state, with the language of gesture. You will leave with a practical exercise that you will have created yourself, to use in daily life.
Graham Kennish is a Steiner science teacher trainer, a driving instructor and a psychotherapist (MBACP Accredited) holding workshops and individual sessions in Goethean Psychology.
Free of charge, but donations to cover Zoom costs are welcome.
For further information and booking your chosen date, please contact: kennish46@gmail.com or 07973 680959
www.goetheanpsychology.co.uk
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Monday 30 June7pm - 8.30pm
With Trevor Dance
These profoundly esoteric lectures examine the laws inherent in reincarnation and karma and explore in detail the incarnations of specific historical figures. The opportunity to study this lecture series in a group affords us a chance to really get to grips with these fundamental issues, which demonstrate the realities of the workings of karma in human life.
For further information: trevordance@hotmail.com
Small donations towards expenses welcome: £3/£2
All the Rudolf Steiner lectures and writings that we are studying are available from the library at Rudolf Steiner House and, in addition, many can be purchased in the Bookshop or accessed online at at the Rudolf Steiner Archive.
For updated news on these and other events please see:www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science
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Monday 30 June7.30pm - 9.15pm
with Paul Webber
Men, you are invited and called to join a new adventure, a weekly men’s circle.
A safe and calming space to come, unpack and trust in the bond of the circle and being with other men.
We will start the evening with a calming and grounding experience based on one of the senses. We will then go on to create a circle and share with one another. To both listen and be heard from our hearts. It will be based on the Way of Council, and my hope is to pass on to others the amazing benefits I’ve felt and experienced from this.
I look forward to having you there,
Paul
Price per session: £15 price band A, £10 price band B. Cash in person on the day.
No man will be turned away based on finances, please contact Paul if you need a different pricing: paulwebber81@hotmail.comBookings in person on the night, at the door
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Wednesday 2 July2pm - 4pm
with Trevor Dance
In these very accessible lectures, Steiner deals with the subtle effects of spiritual development at every level from straightforward investigations of the effects on spiritual seekers of coffee, tea and foodstuffs through to the universe of anthroposophical spiritual striving and the human being in relation to the forces of Ahriman and Lucifer.
For further information: trevordance@hotmail.com
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Wednesday 2 July4.15pm - 5.45pm
with Dagmar Steffelbauer
Occult Science was first written by Steiner in 1909 and after that, three revised editions (1913, 1920 & 1925) followed. Studying the book, a first glance into supersensible worlds is given. ‘One of the fairest fruits of the pursuit of Spiritual Science is that it lends strength and firmness to life. Inexhaustible is the fountainhead from which it draws, giving human being strength for work and confidence in life’ - Rudolf Steiner.
All are welcome!
Further information: d.steffelbauer@gmail.com
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Wednesday 2 July6pm - 7.15pm
with Sara Hunt
Eurythmy is an art of harmonious movement, developed by Rudolf Steiner, which can increase a sense of well-being and a deeper connection to oneself and others. These open classes are for every and anyone, with no prior experience needed. We will explore ways to connect with our own bodies as well as how we grow comfortable and creative with others in a dynamic space. Poetry and movement will weave together to stimulate vitality and enrich our daily lives. Please wear loose fitting comfortable clothing and soft soled shoes.
Price per class: £10 Full/£8 Concession
Bookings: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/e-zollra or in person on the night in the Bookshop at RSH
Sara Hunt
After many years as a teacher in Canterbury Steiner school, Sara graduated from West Midlands Eurythmy and subsequently completed a Masters in Eurythmy Education with Alanus University. Until recently, she worked as an educational eurythmist in Steiner schools and is presently a freelance personal coach. -
Friday 4 July7pm - 8.30pm
with Helen Kinsey
The threats to childhood in the digital age are different to those in the industrial age and yet the journey through childhood to adulthood from a developmental perspective, remains the same. In our age, an increasing number of children are suffering from mental ill health. What can be done? We will explore this question by looking at the journey through childhood from a Waldorf perspective, comparing it with a mainstream experience and drawing out the strengths and weaknesses of both.
Helen is an anthroposophist and has been teaching in the Waldorf School for 20 years, mostly as a class teacher. She now teaches as a mainstream primary teacher.
All welcome, no need to book, no charge. Events are not recorded and zoom meetings are limited to 100 participants. Voluntary donations towards costs are gratefully received and can be made by cash donation on the day, transfer to a Nationwide account held for this purpose or via Paypal.
Account name: Adrian Hotten, Nationwide, sort code: 07-01-16 account number: 31466776. Paypal to suejoanpeat@gmail.com
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Friday 4 July7pm
Peredur Eurythmy presents:
'The Dance Weaves under the Fire - Thorn’
Elemental Realms and Human Destiny entwined
Suggested donation at the door: £18 supporter, £15 full, £12 concession.
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Friday 4 July8.30pm
Adapted from Mark Twain
A Theatre Research Project
With actors Jan Martin & German Segal
Directed by Christopher Marcus
Dramaturgy by Andrew UptonLast year was the 100 th anniversary of a series of lectures given to actors by Rudolf Steiner in 1924, known as the Speech and Drama Course. Steiner died six months later and was unable to further develop his indications to actors himself. His wife Marie Steiner, herself an actress, continued to work with the actors (particularly on the indications for speech) and Michael Chekhov went on to develop his own acting techniques inspired by Steiner, who he had met. However, the Course itself remains largely unknown and untested beyond a narrow circle of practitioners.
Our project began in March last year with the aim of researching anew the efficacy of Steiner’s Speech and Drama Course with actors as yet unfamiliar with it, via the process of creating a piece of theatre using his indications. A four-month training and devising process concluded in The Diaries of Adam and Eve - a dramatized synthesis of Mark Twain`s texts Adam’s Diary (1893) and Eve’s Diary (1905). In July we were invited to perform this piece at an international Theatre Festival at the Goetheanum, Switzerland, marking the centenary of Steiner’s lectures on speech and drama at the place where he had given them.
A year later, in this second edition of The Diaries of Adam and Eve with a new actor, we have been able to further research Steiner’s indications to actors. We have especially explored what Steiner calls ‘sound gestures’ and ‘sound qualities’, through which the actor allows the gestures and qualities of speech sounds to replace his/her subjective emotion in an artistic unity of sense and sensibility.
The production plans to tour in the autumn to various countries including Finland, Poland, Italy and UK.
From a review of The Diaries of Adam and Eve, July 2024‘The undeniable modernity of what otherwise might remain a sacred myth shone through the whole conception of this production. The acting managed to transcend what could so easily have been the limitations of the expected male-female paradigm into a human representation of entirely natural masculine and feminine archetypes, at the same time delicately personal.’ — Andrew Wolpert
Tickets: £15/£10 at the door, Runtime: 1 hour
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Saturday 5 July2pm - 8.30pm
With composers Nigel Osborne, Howard Skempton and Jinny Shaw
Together with Maren Stott and Eurythmy West MidlandsIn the centenary year of Rudolf Steiner’s death, this Festival celebrates the dynamic relationship between Music and Eurythmy.
Eurythmy, an expressive movement art, was originated by Rudolf Steiner in the early 20th century. The word eurythmy stems from Greek roots meaning beautiful or harmonious rhythm. A eurythmy performer moves the music itself, the inner dynamic, the emotional expressiveness. In an ensemble, the interplay of the instruments, the piece itself, is present before your eyes.
PROGRAMME14.00 Opening - Adrian Locher
14.15 Meet the composers: Nigel Osborne, Howard Skempton and Jinny Shaw
15.00 Panel discussion with composers and Maren Stott: The Grail theme in Music and Eurythmy
16.00 Tea-break
16.30 Rudolf Steiner’s Art impulse and the birth of Eurythmy - Coralee Frederickson and Christopher Marcus
17.15 Eurythmy demonstration - Maren Stott & Eurythmy West Midlands
17.45 Supper
19.00 Performance:
The performance includes works inspired by the Grail theme by composers Nigel Osborne, Howard Skempton and Jinny Shaw, as well as pieces by Shostakovich and Scriabin. Eurythmy is by Maren Stott & Eurythmy West Midlands. The performance lasts 75 minutes.
Festival Ticket: £30, £20 conc.
Performance only: £20, £15 conc.
Book here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/t-xmgjdll -
Monday 7 July4pm - 5.30pm
with Paul Webber
Men, you are invited and called to join a new adventure, a weekly men’s circle.
A safe and calming space to come, unpack and trust in the bond of the circle and being with other men.
We will start the evening with a calming and grounding experience based on one of the senses. We will then go on to create a circle and share with one another. To both listen and be heard from our hearts. It will be based on the Way of Council, and my hope is to pass on to others the amazing benefits I’ve felt and experienced from this.
I look forward to having you there,
Paul
Price per session: £15 price band A, £10 price band B
No man will be turned away based on finances, please contact Paul if you need a different pricing: paulwebber81@hotmail.com
Bookings in person on the night, at the door.
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Monday 7 July7pm - 8.30pm
with Dr Sue Peat and Adrian Hotten
We will be continuing to read and discuss Theosophy, which is one of Rudolf Steiner’s fundamental and foundational books, published in 1904.
It begins by describing the threefold nature of the human being: the body, or sense-world; the soul, or inner world; and the spirit, or universal world of cosmic archetypes. A profound discussion of reincarnation and karma follows, concluding with a description of the soul's journey through regions of the supersensible world after death. The book closes with an outline of the path to higher knowledge.
Copies of the book are readily available both new and pre-loved, and it is also available on the Rudolf Steiner Archive website.
All are welcome to join us for any, or all, of these meetings. Previous knowledge of Rudolf Steiners’ work is not expected or required.
All our meetings are free. Donations towards expenses are gratefully received.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82632129836?pwd=SDZ3d0kxWk0wNU1uUzN5OStBZmN6QT09
Meeting ID: 826 3212 9836
Passcode: 755359
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Wednesday 9 July4.15pm - 5.45pm
with Debbie Elliott
This book was written by Rudolf Steiner. Steiner wrote about this book; “The title Christianity as Mystical Fact was one I gave to this work eight years ago, when I gathered together the content of lectures given in 1902. It was meant to indicate the special approach adopted in the book. Its theme is not just the mystical side of Christianity in a historical presentation. It was meant to show, from the standpoint of a mystical awareness, how Christianity came into being.”
Further information: ns118de@yahoo.co.uk
Previous participation is not necessary and there is no need to book.
Small donations towards expenses welcome: £3/£2
All the Rudolf Steiner lectures and writings that we are studying are available from the
library at Rudolf Steiner House and, in addition, many can be purchased in the Bookshop or accessed online at at the Rudolf Steiner Archive.For updated news on these and other events please see: www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science
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Wednesday 9 July6pm - 7.15pm
with Sara Hunt
Eurythmy is an art of harmonious movement, developed by Rudolf Steiner, which can increase a sense of well-being and a deeper connection to oneself and others. These open classes are for every and anyone, with no prior experience needed. We will explore ways to connect with our own bodies as well as how we grow comfortable and creative with others in a dynamic space. Poetry and movement will weave together to stimulate vitality and enrich our daily lives. Please wear loose fitting comfortable clothing and soft soled shoes.
Price per class: £10 Full/£8 Concession
Bookings: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/e-zollra or in person on the night in the Bookshop at RSHSara Hunt
After many years as a teacher in Canterbury Steiner school, Sara graduated from West Midlands Eurythmy and subsequently completed a Masters in Eurythmy Education with Alanus University. Until recently, she worked as an educational eurythmist in Steiner schools and is presently a freelance personal coach. -
Friday 11 July7pm - 8.30pm
with Eric Klein
What’s happened over the last 100 years? Can we even imagine life without the possibility of gathering from all over the world on zoom to consider what life was actually like 100 years ago? In the time of Steiner there was not even the possibility of jumping on Easy Jet from London to Switzerland to attend an ‘in person’ talk delivered by the man himself. Now his written words are accessible to anyone who looks no further than a screen. Between then and now the world has changed dramatically, as has the application of his ideas to the developing areas of science and the arts. His insights, particularly those that relate to the nature of the human being and our connection to both the physical and the spiritual worlds, are timeless, and certainly offer inspiration for another 100 years at the very least.
Eric Klein was born and raised in an Anthroposophic home in New York and was educated at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City, before training as a concert musician at the Manhattan School of Music. His life’s journey has gone through Harvard Business School and the Christian Community Seminary in Stuttgart, Germany before settling in England in 2002. He has worked as a performing musician, composer, conductor, teacher and lecturer.
All welcome, no need to book, no charge. Events are not recorded and zoom meetings are limited to 100 participants. Voluntary donations towards costs are gratefully received and can be made by cash donation on the day, transfer to a Nationwide account held for this purpose or via Paypal.
Account name: Adrian Hotten, Nationwide, sort code: 07-01-16 account number: 31466776. Paypal to suejoanpeat@gmail.com
Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82632129836
Meeting ID: 826 3212 9836, Passcode: 755359
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Saturday 12 July 10.30am - Sunday 31 August 1pm
DEM Productions, Ethan Walker, and Nate Bertone present
Tumble down the rabbit hole this summer with Alice and a host of curious characters in this internationally acclaimed production!
Tickets from: £15.00
Book here: https://tickets.marylebonetheatre.com/tickets/series/ALICEINWONDERLAND
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Sunday 13 July10am - 6pm
As our environment becomes more digital, new technologies are reshaping and challenging our traditional ways of interacting with our creative tools.
In an era dominated by AI and automation, how can we actively engage with and question these new tools?
Can we shape them to meet our needs and expand our understanding of their impact?Rather than seeing AI as a threat to human creativity, how can we engage with it critically - harnessing it as a tool for deeper understanding while challenging dominant power structures and advocating for ethical innovation?
This one-day experience, combining lectures and interactive workshops, explores the human drive towards artistic and technological expression, affi rming that human creativity is not only necessary to our evolution but an essential act of meaning-making.
Through artistic engagement, ethical reflection, and deep inquiry, participants are invited to explore the dynamic interplay between analogue and digital, where creativity finds new forms of expression.Participants will engage in a hands-on drawing and writing workshop, where their live creations will be augmented with AI-enabled tools, leading into a broader group discussion.
Join us in this exploration of creativity as a vital force - one that has always defi ned, challenged, and expanded what it means to be human.
Recent master graduates from UAL’s course on Design for Art Direction, with thesis focused on digital world and AI, Maria Catalano and Leon Ferretti, will be leading the sessions.Maria Catalano will introduce the concept of creative necessity, and expand on how our tools, both traditional and digital, shape our creativity, reflecting our evolving needs and expanding our capacity for expression.
Leon Ferretti will guide us through an insightful ecological analogy for new technologies, exploring the relationship between the analogue and digital realms, for a collective investigation into AI and its potential implications.
Price £35 (concessions £20, students £10)
To book a place: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/t-rpvklvg
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Wednesday 16 July7pm - 8pm
with Prof Jules Pretty
Story is a simple device common to every human culture. It has some 50,000 years of history yet has often come to be both misunderstood and misused in the modern era. Join us in the bookshop for a talk by Professor and author Jules Pretty about how stories can be used to create agency for the climate, nature and inequality crises. It is a common feeling for the public and policy makers to feel anxiety and fear, helplessness too, in the face of global-wide crises. Yet stories can create a sense of purpose. They can act like tricksters of old who set us on new paths through the metaphorical dark forests.
A butterfly flaps its wings, and whole systems change.
Jules Pretty (OBE) is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex, and Director of the Centre for Public and Policy Engagement. He is Chief Editor of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability and received an OBE for services to sustainable agriculture. Jules is also an author and will share with us one of his latest books, ‘The Low-Carbon Good Life’.
Admission: £5
Book online: Ticketsource https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/t-jznevmo
or book at Rudolf Steiner Bookshop Tel: 020 7724 7699
Limited places available on the night.
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Thursday 17 July7pm - 9pm
with Barnaby Tobias and Iaia Chiesa
Join us in Rudolf Steiner Bookshop for a sharing of poems, monologues, stories, parts of plays, and all things creative. A casual event where we celebrate the spirit of creativity. All are welcome and encouraged to share something of their own work or another’s they admire. We will have some discussion around the inspiration for certain pieces, with a main emphasis on the practical sharing of work.
Cash donations are welcome.
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Saturday 19 July10am - 5pm
The Foundations of Michael Chekhov’s approach to acting
A sequence of three one-day workshops
Creating Character with Sarah Kane
These one-day workshops provide an opportunity to explore practically the core elements of the truly artistic acting techniques developed by Russian actor Michael Chekhov in the middle of the twentieth century. Chekhov’s approach aims to inspire and empower actors for their future work by building a living and sensitive bridge between an actor’s movement and imagination and the character to be played.
The workshops are designed as a series and build from one to the next; at the same time each workshop is an entirety in itself and can be taken individually.
'Imagination is the real, eternal world, of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow'. - William Blake
Saturday 17 May
THE IMAGINARY BODY
With the help of the imagination, we will explore the physical attributes of the character in both the monologue you bring and in a scene that you will meet in the workshop.Saturday 14 June
THE IMAGINARY CENTRE
With the help of the imagination, we will explore
the inner aspects of the character in both the monologue you bring and in a scene that you will meet in the workshop.Saturday 19 July
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL GESTURE
With its foundation in the Archetypal Gestures, the Psychological Gesture takes the actor to the core of the character, to his or her will forces, opening a whole range of possibly unexpected, creative possibilities.Please bring clothes and shoes suitable for the Chekhov workshops as a well as a piece of text such as a monologue or poem known by heart, so that it can be used in the exploration in practice of any aspect of the techniques.
Workshop fees: 1 workshop day: £55 / 3 workshops: £150
Book here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/e-ddmdab
“Being directed by Sarah is inspiring, truthful and equally testing.I feel I’ve accomplished more as an actor over the last two sessions than everything prior.” A.R.
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Sunday 20 July10am - 5pm
Rudolf Steiner’s Approach to Artistic Speech
with Sarah Kane
These one-day workshops provide an opportunity to explore practically the core elements of the artistic speech techniques developed by Rudolf Steiner at the beginning of the twentieth century. The approach aims to bring what an actor speaks to life by exploring where we might find the life of words themselves. The approach can inspire and empower actors for their work by building a living and sensitive bridge between an actor’s inner life and the words a character speaks.
Although these workshops are designed as a series and one builds on to the previous one, each workshop is an entirety and can be taken individually.
Sunday 18 May
Finding the Individuality of a Character I: Consonants and Vowels
We will explore the sounds that can be found in the text or texts a character speaks to begin the process of discovering the individuality of the character.
Sunday 15 June
Finding the Individuality of a Character II: Speech Gestures
We will explore the gestures that we find in a monologue that you bring and in a scene that you will meet in the workshop.
Sunday 20 July
Individualising a Character III: Gestures and Sounds
Working with both sound and gesture the workshop will investigate how to create the vocal individuality of the character both for a monologue that you bring and a scene which you will meet in the workshop.
Please bring clothes and shoes suitable for movement as well as a piece of text such as a monologue known by heart, so that it can be used in the exploration in practice of any aspect of the techniques.
Workshop Fees:
1 workshop day: £55 / 3 workshops: £150Book here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/e-ddmdab
Sarah Kane trained in Steiner’s approach to speech and voice, then Chekhov’s approach to acting with many of his original students. She now integrates them in her teaching, directing and performing, which takes place internationally.
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Monday 21 July 9am - Thursday 24 July 5pm
with Mary Beattie
Become an infant massage instructor with the International Association of Infant Massage. The most fulfilling work, contributing to a better world.
Training is at Rudolf Steiner House in London with Mary Beattie (IAIM international trainer and Massage in Schools instructor).
Book now by contacting Mary: mary@babyandchildmassage.co.uk or 07528589859
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Monday 21 July4pm - 5.30pm
with Paul Webber
Men, you are invited and called to join a new adventure, a weekly men’s circle.
A safe and calming space to come, unpack and trust in the bond of the circle and being with other men.
We will start the evening with a calming and grounding experience based on one of the senses. We will then go on to create a circle and share with one another. To both listen and be heard from our hearts. It will be based on the Way of Council, and my hope is to pass on to others the amazing benefits I’ve felt and experienced from this.
I look forward to having you there,
Paul
Price per session: £15 price band A, £10 price band B
No man will be turned away based on finances, please contact Paul if you need a different pricing: paulwebber81@hotmail.com
Bookings in person on the night, at the door.
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Saturday 26 July 7.30pm - Saturday 30 August 7.30pm
DEM Productions present the Barn Theatre production, in association with Barn Theatre, Simon Friend Entertainment, and Bob & Co…
by Jordan Waller
Directed by Derek Bond
She’s not just casting a role. She’s gambling with a legacy.
It’s the eve of the biggest casting reveal in Hollywood: Deborah is about to announce the next face of the world’s most legendary spy franchise. The tux is pressed, the martinis are chilled… until the rumours start flying. Her perfect pick? Caught in a scandal that would make even their on-screen alter ago look tame.
With a ticking clock and a legacy on the line, Deborah must make an impossible choice. Will she stick to the sleek, suited formula the world knows, or dare to let the next generation redefine a global icon?
A razor-sharp, laugh-out-loud comedy about identity, legacy, and the explosive battle between tradition and progress, A Role to Die For will leave you shaken, stirred, and seriously entertained.
Age guidance: 12+
Book here: https://tickets.marylebonetheatre.com/tickets/series/AR2DF
https://www.marylebonetheatre.com/productions/a-role-to-die-for
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Sunday 27 July2pm - 5pm
with Dr Sue Peat and Douglas Davidson
Biodynamics is an organic method of cultivation arising out of Rudolf Steiner’s Spiritual research. It was his response to questions from farmers who were unhappy with ‘chemical’ agriculture. Biodynamics works with the rhythms of the movements of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars, to which the plants respond. The workshop will cover the background to the biodynamic planting calendar and using the biodynamic preparations. It’s coming up to summer, a time when the results of our endeavours begin to flower and fruit, and biodynamics comes into its own. The workshop will include presentations of research that demonstrate the benefits that biodynamics brings to the environment, the soil, the plants and to improvements in food quality.
For the last hour, we’ll stir the horn manure preparation (known as 500), so bring an empty screw top bottle if you would like to take some home. A 500ml bottle is enough for an average garden. The workshop is suitable for those new to biodynamics and for anyone who would like to give their garden, window boxes or house plants a summer treat!
Sue and Douglas are enthusiastic gardeners with lots of practical experience of biodynamic gardening.
All welcome, no need to book.
Full £10 / Concession £5
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Wednesday 30 July7pm - 8.30pm
with Trevor Dance
These profoundly esoteric lectures examine the laws inherent in reincarnation and karma and explore in detail the incarnations of specific historical figures. The opportunity to study this lecture series in a group affords us a chance to really get to grips with these fundamental issues, which demonstrate the realities of the workings of karma in human life.
For further information: trevordance@hotmail.com
Our reading groups provide the opportunity in a very informal setting to explore Rudolf Steiner’s work with others. There is no need for any prior participation or knowledge, and everyone, young and old, is very welcome to join us at any time, just once or as often as it suits. We aim to create a friendly, inviting atmosphere, as good humoured as it is serious. Working together, we share our reflections on the immediate theme and try to pay as much attention to listening as to speaking. We find that studying together provides a wonderful opportunity for the whole group to advance in knowledge and understanding. Members and friends are warmly invited to groups at any time even for one-off visits. Previous participation is not necessary and there is no need to book.
Small donations towards expenses welcome: £3/£2
All the Rudolf Steiner lectures and writings that we are studying are available from the library at Rudolf Steiner House and, in addition, many can be purchased in the Bookshop or accessed online at at the Rudolf Steiner Archive.
For updated news on these and other events please see: www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science
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Monday 11 August 9am - Friday 15 August 5pm
Shakespeare Week at Rudolf Steiner House London
A pair of twins emerge from the ocean. Parted by a storm and shipwreck, each is sure the other is drowned as they come separately ashore on the coast of Illyria. Beneath their outwardly confusing similarity, their different destinies lead them into the same social psychic disorder which at first they unwittingly compound. The tenuous symmetry of the plot embraces illusion and misrule, and justly leaves some unfinished business at the end that reflects the disparate beginning.
Twelfth Night leads us from the innocence of the Early Comedies into the well-known experiences of the Tragedies. The less well-understood ambiguous, confused, social, personal, and gender realities of that transition expose an entertaining but tragic chaos. This play picks up a teasing loose end from As You Like It, and leaves a bitter remainder for Hamlet. The counter-intuitive polarities remind us of the excesses of the Saturnalia and reveal what is often hidden by the norms of convention. The questions the play poses about identity, delusion, recognition, and destiny all relate timelessly to our individual and social experience today.
Sarah Kane and Andrew Wolpert will be offering speech, drama workshops, close study of the text, lectures, discussions, and a visit to see a production of the play at The Globe Theatre.
The course fee of £465 includes a Groundling theatre ticket, morning coffee and afternoon tea.
For the timetable, more information, and to register please contact Andrew Wolpert andrewjwolpert@gmail.com
Rudolf Steiner House 35 Park Road London NW1 6XT
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Saturday 6 September10am - 5pm
Meeting Pain through Art, Celebrating Creativity
A day of artistic workshops and sharing in the centenary month of the horrific accident and sustained injuries of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo
‘To be an artist is to believe in life.’ Frida Kahlo
A choice of workshops:
Creative Writing with poet & co-leader of The School of Storytelling Henrietta Bowen
Drama with Olivier Nominated actress Melody Grove
Painting with artist Ilona Pimbert
Singing with Musician & Singer Andrew Thompson
The Art of Being Present with mindfulness teacher Tamzin Muir
Followed by a sharing from the workshops and conversation
Fee: £40.00 - some bursaries available
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/t-eaearyj
Contact Louise at: lfc@listntell.co.uk
Banner image: Roots by Frida Kahlo 1943
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Friday 12 September 10am - Sunday 9 November 5pm
with Marko Pogačnik and Ying Li
A 9-month programme with 5 weekends: 28 February-2 March, 11-13 April, 13-15 June, 12-14 September and 7-9 November 2025
Geomancy as a creative dialogue with Gaia has made profound developments after entering the third millennium when the intense process of Earth changes started. More than ever, we need a new approach to geomancy with practical experiences and theoretical insights related to the upcoming multidimensional Earth cosmos and the different kinds of beings sustaining its permanent transformations. In this course we will practice methods of Earth healing and subtle perception exercises with special emphasis on the creative language of the body and its artistic expression. Beginners and experienced geomancy practitioners are both welcome.
The training will be led by Marko Pogačnik assisted by Ying Li with fieldwork in the vicinity of London and one residential weekend at Emerson College, Sussex.
28 February- 2 March: In London taught by Marko Pogačnik
11-13 April: In London taught by Ying Li
13-15 June: At Emerson College, Sussex taught by Marko Pogačnik
12-14 September: In London taught by Ying Li
7-9 November: In London taught by Marko Pogačnik
A certificate of completion in Geomancy Updated is given at the end of the training course.
Marko Pogačnik (1944) UNESCO Artist for Peace from Slovenia has developed a method of Earth healing based upon geomantic knowledge, using cosmograms carved in stone. He has led education in geomancy in Germany, England, Hungary, Italy, USA, Switzerland, Austria, Croatia and Slovenia. His latest books: Dancing with the Earth Changes and Creating Gaia Culture. www.markopogacnik.com
Ying Li, originally from Hong Kong and based in London, is a geomancer, bodyworker, inner dimensions guide and facilitator of co-creative meditation and dance alchemy. Ying is part of the organising team of LifeNet, the international network for life, geomancy and transformation. https://embodying.earth
Cost: full price £1375, concessions £1225. Booking deposit: £250
Early booking is advisable due to group size limitations. The course price includes entrance fees to sites. Accommodation, meals and transport are booked separately.
For booking and additional information: https://embodying.earth/events/geomancy-updated
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Sunday 14 September7.30pm - 8.45pm
Music Poetry Storytelling
with Louise Coigley
Honouring the centenary of Frida Kahlo’s accident 17 September 1925
Storyteller, speech & language therapist and spinal injury survivor Louise weaves her own fractured journey into a powerful and poetic narrative of perseverance and healing. Born with clubfeet, as a child Louise develops scoliosis.
After years of treatment for her legs & feet and back, being stretched, moulded, winched and strapped, then undergoing spinal surgery, Louise emerges out of the cocoon of a spinning bed. Years later, in extreme pain, she encounters Frida Kahlo’s paintings, learns about her life, her loves. Louise finds recognition and a new way to navigate pain: through creativity. With humour and humanity, tales from these two women’s lives interweave.
Accompanied by Olivier nominated actress Melody Grove and Aly Macrae, actor & musician of stage and screen, “Back to Back” unfolds with poignant, uplifting singing & music. Melody also speaks “From the Frocks”- a powerful new prose poem by Louise.
www.lisntell.co.uk
Book Tickets: £20
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Thursday 18 September7pm - 9pm
with Barnaby Tobias and Iaia Chiesa
Join us in Rudolf Steiner Bookshop for a sharing of poems, monologues, stories, parts of plays, and all things creative. A casual event where we celebrate the spirit of creativity. All are welcome and encouraged to share something of their own work or another’s they admire. We will have some discussion around the inspiration for certain pieces, with a main emphasis on the practical sharing of work.
Cash donations are welcome.
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Sunday 21 September1pm - 6pmJoin us at Rudolf Steiner House, the only example of expressionist architecture in London, for the Open House Festival.Free admission
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Thursday 25 September7.30pm - 9pm
Lecture by Thomas Mayer
At every moment we are surrounded and permeated by angels of the nine hierarchies.
How can we differentiate the nine angelic hierarchies?
How do the angels work in our lives and in our aura?
How does our angel accompany us in our sleep and after death?
What is a landscape angel?
How do angels express themselves in families or social communities?
How do angels experience us humans?
Thomas Mayer is a Meditation teacher, civil rights activist, and author of “Answering the Call of the Elementals” published by Findhorn Press, “Overcoming Fear - Exercises for Spiritual Self-Defense” and “Covid Vaccines from a Spiritual Perspective”.
https://www.anthroposophische-meditation.de/english
£15 cash on the door.
For further information please call Alex Wright on 01342 827967
Thomas will be leading a workshop on Anthroposophical Meditation focussed on connecting to the Angelic World, at Emerson College from 7pm Friday 26th September to 12.30pm Sunday 28th September.
Please see https://calendar.emerson.org.uk/events/connecting-with-the-angelic-world/ for full details.
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Friday 10 October7.30pm - 9pm
Lecture and Performance by Steffen Hartmann
What can we make of spiritual experiences? Do they happen to us, or are they invented by us? How can we distinguish between reality and illusion in such perceptions? Can there be a scientific basis for approaching this issue?
Steffen Hartmann has addressed this question directly and will show how the anthroposophical path of personal development begins with pure thought and meditation, and ends in spiritual experience - the ability to access, as conscious, mindful individuals, the realm of angelic beings.
Steffen Hartmann (b.1976) has accompanied Elisabeth Schwarzkopf on the piano, and worked closely with the soprano Marret Winger. In 2007 he founded the MenschMusik Insitute in Hamburg with Matthias Bölts. He has followed an inner meditative path based on anthroposophy since 1997 and has worked as a teacher of meditation. He founded the publishing house Edition Widar with Torben Maiwald, and has led the Rudolf Steiner Haus Hamburg branch of the Anthroposophical Society since 2012. He is also the author of many books including “The Michael Prophecy and the Years 2012-2033” (2020), and holds lectures and conducts seminars and concerts worldwide.
£15 cash on the door.
For further information please call Alex Wright on 01342 827967
On this UK mini-tour Steffen will lecture at Emerson College on the evening of Saturday 11th October, and both lecture and perform at the Christian Community in Stroud on the afternoon of Sunday 12th October.
His new book, “Angel Thinking - Consciousness, Meditation and Human Destiny” will be published by Temple Lodge on 21st April 2025.
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Saturday 29 November9.30am - 5.30pm
* Postponed
Shakespeare’s play, a meditation for healing relationship
An embodied exploration with Adam Fotheringham
The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s last and most moving plays. It shares with the other late plays a preoccupation with loss and redemption. In the story King Leontes, acting out of blind jealousy, tyrannically destroys his family and happiness, but his shattered world is redeemed by time, destiny and a process of inner atonement. In this divisive age of polarising perspectives and conflicting narratives, how can we work to heal the relational rifts that threaten our human fellowship? This deeply spiritual play points both to causes of conflict in human interaction, and to the path of repair and reconciliation available if we choose to take it. Participants will be introduced to the story, which will become a lens for examining their own conduct in relationship. Through dialogue, group reflection and embodied exercises, participants will have opportunities to work with their own relationship history in a context that is strongly held, confidential and holds a possibility for healing.
Adam Fotheringham has a background in theatre as an actor, director and teacher, but now works predominantly in personal and leadership development. He is a Programme Lead and Archetypal Coach with Olivier Mythodrama, using story as a tool for developing individuals in leadership and life.
Cost £65 (£50 concessions)
Book via: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/t-krnzkpl
*Originally advertised as 18th May