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Friday 24 November 2.30pm - Sunday 7 January 7.30pm
written and directed by Mark Shanahan
Following the huge success of the UK premiere of A Sherlock Carol last Christmas, this ‘winning crossover mystery’ (The Guardian) returns to Baker Street!
This critically acclaimed production has been loved by London audiences, bringing ‘a wonderful festive play to get the entire family in the Christmas spirit’ (Lost in Theatreland) that ‘entertains from start to finish’ (Broadway World).
An impossible murder, a threatening letter, and a missing diamond – it’s just enough to intrigue the great detective. But it’s a dark and treacherous Christmas Eve, and once again the night is haunted by the spirits of the past, present, and future. Using his powers of deduction, can Holmes overcome his own ghosts to crack the case?
Tickets from £15
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Wednesday 13 December6.45pm - 8.30pm
with Adam Slowikowski
We will be continuing our reading of Rudolf Steiner’s lectures in Great Britain with the lectures given in Penmaenmawr from 19 to 31 August 1923.
All welcome. For more information: adam.slowikoweski69@gmail.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 may be accessed online 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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Thursday 14 December7.30pm - 9pm
with Alex Wright
Anthroposophy is a Spiritual Path which can lead to very significant human development. A practical guide to making that a reality.
Most evenings are a combination of lectures and activities. This series has been designed by Alex Wright as a course with the knowledge building week on week, so regular attendance is advised. Alex has an MA in Law from Oxford University and is a graduate of the three-year Emerson Visual Arts Course.
The course costs £90 (£60 student). You are welcome to attend the 1st or 2nd evenings for £10 (£7 student) and then pay the balance if you decide to continue, pay at the door, no cards. If you would like to be kept informed of when the next course starts, then please email introtoanthro2020@gmail.com This course will also run one day earlier on Wednesdays in the Carson Building at Emerson College, Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5JX. And two days earlier on Tuesdays at Brighton Waldorf School, BN2 5RA.
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Saturday 16 December10am - 5pm
A sequence of one-day workshops running from September 2023 – July 2024
with Sarah Kane
The one-day workshops planned for weekends at Rudolf Steiner House in 2023 and 2024 aim to provide an overview over the core elements of Michael Chekhov’s acting technique that he continued to develop throughout his life. They range from the very beginnings of any serious artistic research and exploration to the finer points of developing a stage life and creating character, including the character’s psychological gesture.
Each workshop will be an entirety in itself and can be taken individually; priority will be given to those wishing to enrol in the three groups of workshops ( September – December, January – March, April – July) and in the entire series.
Please bring clothes and shoes suitable for movement 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 of any aspect of the technique in practice.
Part one: The Imagination
September - December‘Imagination is the real and eternal world, of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.’ William Blake
As actors and performers how can we engage with our imagination in the process of creating, transforming into character? Imagination is a part of every human being and for many performers an essential element in their creative process: how can the imagination serve and also enhance our individual creative journey? Can we train it?
These questions will be at the heart or core of the first three weekend workshops for professional actors and performers and will explore one of the core elements of Michael Chekhov’s understanding of and approach to the actor’s professional life and work.
The four Elements as Imaginative Tools for transformation Part 2
Saturday 16 December 10am - 1pm & 2pm - 5pm
This workshop will explore how with the help of the imagination the actor can access the first two of four main qualities present in the world surrounding us as perceived in Ancient Greek culture. How can they inspire performers to express these qualities as they live in human beings in and through the body, both in sound and movement, and then become an element in the creation of character?Workshop Fee: £55 per individual day; £200.00 for four; £150.00 for three workshops; £425.00 for ten workshops
Booking:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/e-qpyxpq
Registration and booking in person available at the Bookshop on the nightComing in 2024:
Part Two
January - March 2024: From Movement to Gesture
April - July 2024: Creating Character -
Sunday 17 December4pm
with Iaia Chiesa
An attempt to convey how wars are experienced by ordinary people on the ground.
Poems written in response to the current wars.
Read by the poet and others.
No booking necessary.
£5 suggested donation at the door.
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Tuesday 19 December7pm - 8.30pm
with Brendan McQuillan
As we approach Christmas we will be reading these six lectures from October 1918. The lecture cycle is subtitled: 'The connection of the Luciferic-Ahrimanic Impulses with the Christ-Jahve Impulse'.
All welcome.
For further information: ben.mcquillan@outlook.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 may be accessed online 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 20 December6.45pm - 8.30pm
with Adam Slowikowski
We will be continuing our reading of Rudolf Steiner’s lectures in Great Britain with the lectures given in Penmaenmawr from 19 to 31 August 1923.
All welcome. For more information: adam.slowikoweski69@gmail.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 may be accessed online 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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Thursday 21 December7pm - 9pm
with Barnaby Tobias and Iaia Chiesa
Rudolf Steiner Bookshop offers An Evening of Poetry. Join us for the 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 23 December10am - 5pm
A sequence of one-day workshops running from September 2023 – July 2024
with Sarah Kane
The one-day workshops planned for weekends at Rudolf Steiner House in 2023 and 2024 aim to provide an overview over the core elements of Michael Chekhov’s acting technique that he continued to develop throughout his life. They range from the very beginnings of any serious artistic research and exploration to the finer points of developing a stage life and creating character, including the character’s psychological gesture.
Each workshop will be an entirety in itself and can be taken individually; priority will be given to those wishing to enrol in the three groups of workshops ( September – December, January – March, April – July) and in the entire series.
Please bring clothes and shoes suitable for movement 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 of any aspect of the technique in practice.
Part one: The Imagination
September - December‘Imagination is the real and eternal world, of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.’ William Blake
As actors and performers how can we engage with our imagination in the process of creating, transforming into character? Imagination is a part of every human being and for many performers an essential element in their creative process: how can the imagination serve and also enhance our individual creative journey? Can we train it?
These questions will be at the heart or core of the first three weekend workshops for professional actors and performers and will explore one of the core elements of Michael Chekhov’s understanding of and approach to the actor’s professional life and work.
Imagination IV
Imagination and the transformation of space
Saturday 23 December 10am - 1pm & 2pm - 5pm
The space where performance happens is not often integrated into performance as a creative tool, but many good writers know how the awareness of space, both the individual and the general, can enliven and enrich ensemble work and create mesmerising individual performances. Michael Chekhov calls this imaginative exploration of space ‘atmosphere’, both general or objective and individual or subjective: how can this intangible thing enhance our creativity, become a creative tool and a part of any artistic process?Workshop Fee: £55 per individual day; £200.00 for four; £150.00 for three workshops; £425.00 for ten workshops
Booking:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/e-qpyxpq
Registration and booking in person available at the Bookshop on the nightComing in 2024:
Part Two
January - March 2024: From Movement to Gesture
April - July 2024: Creating Character -
Saturday 30 December10am - 5pm
The healing potential inherent in Raphael’s Madonnas was first acknowledged by Rudolf Steiner in 1911. At that time, he entrusted a specific sequence of 15 images to Dr. Felix Peipers, to be used as a therapeutic aid at the Johannesbau Institute in Munich. Since then, the sequence of images has evolved significantly, thanks to the efforts of researchers with a keen interest in art, medicine and psychology. One of the instrumental figures in this work was the Dutch artist Eva Mees Christeller. While in Italy in 1988, she personally invited Dr. Remigio Cenzato to further study the series of Raphaelite images. As a result, the sequence has grown from the initial 15 paintings to the present collection of 37 images, all exclusively by Raphael, portraying the Madonna and Child.
The seminar unveils the mysteries contained in the movements traced by the varying positions of the Child in the Madonna’s arms. Together, we’ll explore the imaginative geometric connections within the paintings, their correlations with celestial movements (Sun, Earth and Moon) and their implications on human physiology, particularly on the heart.
Special attention will be paid to the eurythmic gesture of the letter ‘L’ in the healing sequence of ‘Halleluiah’ in Eurythmy. Raphael’s masterpiece, ‘The Transfiguration’, will serve as leitmotif throughout the day as we delve into the deepest realms of human fulfillment and spiritual development. The seminar will be delivered in Italian and translated into English.
Speaker: Remigio Cenzato MD - Anthroposophical Physician, Psychotherapist, Anthropologist, Clinical Pedagogist.
For information and bookings contact Nabila Yakub: 07423 328240 or luminouspotential@gmail.comTicket: £50 Full price / £25 Concessions
Booking to be confirmed by 28 December.
Eurythmic Introduction: the Letter ‘L’ and the ‘Halleluiah’ sequence • The historical context of the first decade of the 1900’s • The collaboration between Rudolf Steiner and the Johannesbau Clinic in Munich led by psychiatrist Felix Pfeifer • The first sequence of 15 images and later elaboration by Dutch artist Eva Mees Christeller • From the 22 images to the current sequence of 37 paintings • The theme of the five-pointed star; the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor and the eurythmic image of the letter ‘L’ • The Pentagram in the human microcosm and the celestial macrocosm • The dynamics of the astronomical relationships between Sun, Earth and Moon • The rhythms of Eclipses and the ‘Sword of Archangel Michael’ • The effect on man of eclipses of the Sun • The pattern traced on the Earth’s surface by eclipses;the correlation with gold dispersed in light and the formation of the human heart • The pentagon in cardiac physiology and its correlation with the star described by the movement of the Child in the arms of the Madonna in Raphael’s works • The eurythmic pentagon and the three-lobed shape of the heart • The correlation between heart dynamics and the 432 frequency in the experience of musical listening • The Golden Section in the works of Raphael • Circulatory and respiratory metamorphosis and correlation with the action on physiology of the letter ‘L’ • The formation of an invisible dynamic chalice • The ‘three rings’ in Raphael’s Transfiguration • The healing of the moody boy • The secrets hidden in Raphael’s great last work • The relationship between the Transfiguration and the quest for the Holy Grail • The esoteric link between the figures of Elijah, John the Baptist, Lazarus, the Apostle John, Raphael Sanzio and the Romantic poet Novalis • The coincidence of birth and death moons between Raphael and Novalis • Raphael and Christ’s mission for man on Earth • Vision of the sequence of 37 images of the Madonna and Child.
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Friday 15 March 7pm - Sunday 17 March 1pm
A weekend workshop with Andrew Linnell, Are Thoresen & Theodor Hundhammer
Friday 15 - Sunday 17 March
Friday, 7pm - evening lectures + Q&A
Saturday, 10am-1pm & 2.30-5.30pm workshops, 7pm evening lectures + Q&A
Sunday, 10am - 1pm workshopThroughout Rudolf Steiner’s years of lecturing, he warned about the dangers as well as the necessary role of technology in our evolution. In his last Letters to Members, he explained how evolution has brought us to a mastery of the physical, of Nature, but also of how technology will pull us down into a new realm, the realm of sub-nature. This is unavoidable and throughout his lectures where he discusses the dangers of technology, Steiner also offered us counterbalances. To balance our exposure to sub-nature, we must learn to consciously enter the realms of super-nature (the etheric and astral realms). Eurythmy, a movement artform first developed by Rudolf Steiner, will be shown to be an important counterbalancing activity, among others.
This conference is created by MysTech, a non-profit organization based in Seattle, USA. MysTech seeks to advance humanity’s moral cultivation of technology through Spiritual Science. It is devoted to cultivating a relationship between humanity and machine that will be healthy and helpful for future evolution.Price:
Single lecture (Friday or Saturday evening): £10
Single workshop (Saturday morning or afternoon, Sunday morning): £25
Full Day Pass (Saturday morning, afternoon, and evening events): £50
Full Pass (Friday evening, all Saturday, Sunday morning): £75
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Thursday 11 April7.30pm - 9pm
Lecture by Ralf Roessner
Human society and the kingdoms of nature are both undergoing great changes, in the future these will only accelerate and affect us all. This offers spiritual, social, political and economic opportunities to an increasingly awakened humanity, and demands greater responsibility from us. Through the working of Christ in the etheric body of the Earth since 1933, the connection of our Spirit Self/Angel in our aura has changed, and the elemental and angelic worlds now have new hope in humanity as they perceive the growing light of Christ within us.
There is the opportunity for us to perceive the spiritual-elemental world within us if we turn our gaze inwards, this brings the potential for group work. Together we can shape the world of the future in the light of Christ.
Ralf Roessner is a former Waldorf School art teacher, current Bio-Dynamic farmer cultivating Light Root, beekeeper, inventor and producer of water energising devices (www.imton.de), clairvoyant and esoterist. He is also the author of “The Genius of Bees and the Elemental Beings” and “The Light Root: Nutrition of the Future” both published by Temple Lodge Publishing.
£10 cash on the door.
For further information please call Alex Wright on 01342 827967
Ralf will be lecturing again the following evening (Friday 12 April) at Emerson College followed by a 1½ day workshop on Saturday 13 and the morning of Sunday 14 April.
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Thursday 27 June7.30pm - 9pm
Lecture by Frank Burdich
Reading about elemental beings or nature spirits can leave an abstract impression of something not quite real. Frank has been actively collaborating with the elemental world for more than ten years and so can speak from a wealth of experience about their nature, purpose, and structure, as well as their desire to work with humans. He will also present different methods for perceiving them.
Frank Burdich was for 14 years an Upper School science teacher at a Waldorf School in Germany during which time he pursued an Anthroposophical spiritual path and became clairvoyant. He has been lecturing on supersensible perception since 2007, and in 2012 founded his own supersensible research company Gesellschaft für angewandte Geistesforschung mbH which provides supersensible research services in a range of contexts such as medicine preparation, mistletoe based remedies, oncology, special needs conditions and the spiritual audit of buildings, as well as lecturing and giving workshops on a variety of spiritual topics.
http://www.spiritual-research.eu/en/
£10 cash on the door.
For further information please contact Alex Wright on 01342 827967
Frank will be giving two further lectures as well as a 1.5 day workshop at Emerson College in the days following this lecture. See www.emerson.org.uk for full details