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  • Tuesday 23 January 9am - Saturday 1 June 7pm

    Bringing together the worlds of painting and poetry, image and text, this stunning exhibition is a harvest of the collaborations between Sir Ben Okri and Rosemary Clunie. Preoccupied by the shadows and beauty of the world, the climate change crisis, social injustices, creativity and playfulness, the marvel that is colour, the enigma that is form -these painting come from two artists steeped in the spiritual and artistic traditions.

    Free to visit

  • Thursday 21 March 7.30pm - Saturday 20 April 7.30pm

    A man about to kill himself falls asleep and dreams of a beautiful, future earth, where people live in harmony with each other and nature. When he wakes, he has only one purpose: to persuade the world that what he has seen is possible. Will people listen? Will humanity wake up to his vision of a peaceful planet, where men and women love each other and live cooperatively with nature and the animals. Or are we doomed to repeat the old, terrible cycles of war and destruction? Based on a short story by the great nineteenth-century author Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a Russian Christmas Carol, relocated to modern London. Poignant but funny, a tale of wonder, full of warning, this exquisite one-person piece will leave you uplifted and full of hope for a better world.

    Tickets: from £26.50

    https://www.marylebonetheatre.com/productions/the-dream-of-a-ridiculous-man

    Show schedule:
    Monday to Saturday: 7:30pm
    Wednesday & Saturday: 2:30pm & 7:30pm

  • Saturday 30 March
    10am - 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 1: THE IMAGINATION
    September - December 2023

    In the first four sessions, we explored ways we can engage with our imagination as an essential pillar in Michael Chekhov’s approach to the actor’s creative process.

    Part 2: FROM MOVEMENT TO GESTURE
    January - April

    These three sessions explore the other ‘pillar’ of Michael Chekhov’s technique, the intimate and immediate link between movement and an actor’s psychology, to help with the process of transforming into character:

    Words and Text as Movement and Gesture
    Saturday 30 March* 10am - 5pm

    Inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s development of the art of eurythmy and then his lectures on speech for the stage in 1923, Chekhov’s approach also includes exploration of text first as movement, then as gesture.

    *Previously 20th April

    TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE or in person at the Bookshop (on the day)

    Part 3: CREATING CHARACTER
    May - June (Dates to be confirmed)

    Three sessions:
    The Imaginary Body
    The Imaginary Centre
    The Psychological Gesture

    Workshop Fee:
    £55 per individual day;
    £150.00 for three workshops;
    £275 for six workshops


  • Saturday 30 March
    11am - 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

  • Thursday 4 April
    7pm - 8.15pm

    with Iaia Chiesa

    As one of the recognised tasks of Anthroposophy, we will be reading to the so-called dead, to establish and/or reestablish a connection with the dear ones who have crossed the threshold.

    Please contact Iaia Chiesa via email to join the group: iaiac53@yahoo.com

    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

  • Thursday 11 April
    10.30am - 12pm

    with Iaia Chiesa

    Back to Basics. First published in 1904, Theosophy is an invitation to start to understand who we are as human beings in all aspects and stages of development, including reincarnation and karma.

    All welcome. For more information, iaiac53@yahoo.com

    Please specify ‘Theosophy’ as the subject.

    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 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

  • Thursday 11 April
    7.30pm - 9pm

    Lecture by Ralf Roessner

    This event has been cancelled due to ill health.

    Thank you for your understanding.

  • Thursday 18 April
    7pm - 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.

    rsh-bookshop@anth.org.uk

  • Thursday 25 April
    10.30am - 12pm

    with Iaia Chiesa

    Back to Basics. First published in 1904, Theosophy is an invitation to start to understand who we are as human beings in all aspects and stages of development, including reincarnation and karma.

    All welcome. For more information, iaiac53@yahoo.com

    Please specify ‘Theosophy’ as the subject.

    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 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

  • Saturday 25 May
    7pm - 9pm

    The year we are living in now marks the 100th anniversary of an astonishingly productive and fruitful year in the life of Rudolf Steiner. It began with the Christmas Conference, during which the Anthroposophical Society was reborn and the Foundation Stone Meditation given. There followed a whole array of new initiatives, including the beginning of the School for Spiritual Science and initiatives in the realm of the arts, medicine and agriculture. That year witnessed Rudolf Steiner’s vital contribution to the bringing of a new understanding of karma to humanity with his Karmic Relationships lectures, as well as the serialised Leading Thoughts, which summarise Anthroposophy in a series of aphoristic guidelines for meditation, supplemented by essays on the Michaelic nature of Anthroposophy.

    Peter Selg was born in Stuttgart and studied medicine in Witten-Herdecke, Zurich, and Berlin. Until 2000, he worked as the head physician of the juvenile psychiatry department of Herdecke hospital in Germany. He is currently part of the leadership group at the world headquarters of the Anthroposophical Society at the Geotheanum in Switzerland, co-leader of the General Anthroposophical Section and director of the Ita Wegman Institute. He lectures extensively and is the author of numerous books. His comprehensive biography of Rudolf Steiner is published in 7 volumes. Volume 7 covers 1924 – 1925 and includes a lecture by Rudolf Steiner on June 4, 1924, ‘The Festival of Pentecost’.

    All welcome, no booking required, donation towards expenses at the door gratefully received.

  • Thursday 27 June
    7.30pm - 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 1½ day workshop at Emerson College in the days following this lecture. Please see https://calendar.emerson.org.uk/events/frank-burdich-workshop/ for full details.

  • Thursday 19 September
    7.30pm - 9pm

    Lecture by Thomas Mayer­

    We all live together with the deceased. The souls who are in spiritual regions support us from within with strength, love, trust and inspiration. The more we open ourselves to them and reciprocate their friendship, the better they can do this. Thomas Mayer has been in conscious contact with many deceased people for over 20 years and will talk about this in his lecture.

    He will also describe how the normal after-death path leads to the next incarnation. Nowadays however, many souls can no longer find their way into the light, spiritual world, and end up in dead ends, in entangled unhealthy states. In their distress, they then occupy other people, siphon off energy, and cause spiritual, mental and physical difficulties and social strife. Thomas Mayer has been helping such deceased people to overcome their obstacles for many years and has observed that energy blockages in places and houses, or depression, panic, fears or deep grief in a possessed person, have been released as a result. Such connections have so far been underestimated in the public consciousness. Conversely, the incidence of mental illness is increasing rapidly. The good news is that we are not at the mercy of this. It is possible to help affected people and the deceased.

    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, as well as outdoor exercises to contact elementals and exercises to connect to the deceased, at Emerson College from 7pm Friday 20th September to 12.30pm Sunday 22nd September.

    Please see https://calendar.emerson.org.uk/events/anthroposophical-meditation-workshop/ for full details.

  • Friday 11 October 5pm - Sunday 13 October 1pm

    How can we work creatively in our increasingly dehumanising culture?  The  growing prevalence of AI and Transhumanism is socially corrosive.  Can we hone the necessary discernment to engage healthily with the possibilities of our modern technology without becoming enthralled by its debilitating effects?  This weekend seminar will identify the threats to our still unfinished human evolution, and also explore the inner practicesthrough which we can develop spiritual resilience, and cultivate our true human potential.    

    Our speakers will include Jeremy Naydler and Edwin Hübner.   

    Programme and seminar fee to be announced.

    To register your interest in participating please contact Andrew Wolpert   andrewjwolpert@gmail.com 

    An inter-Sectional event offered by the Humanities and Social Sciences Sections, and supported by The Anthroposophical Society. George Perry, Fritz Wefelmeyer, and Andrew Wolpert