What’s On

with Spencer Christy

As the Sun, moon, stars and planets move through the sky following their individual journeys and marking the days of the year, so does life’s journey in the Social Farming Community at Lauriston Farm move forward from day to day! The farm is on the Blackwater Estuary in rural Essex, where biodynamic vegetables are grown, rare breed cattle and sheep are raised, chickens lay eggs and lots of work is done in the craft room. As well as being a vital part of our biodynamic farming system, the animals produce pasture fed meat, organic undyed knitting yarn and organic sheepskins. Around forty people a week work on the farm. Around two-thirds have special educational needs and co-work alongside our experienced farm team in a safe, supportive and tranquil environment. Those at Lauriston know the value of meaningful work!

Spencer is a real farmer at heart. He was born in Maldon, Essex and begun building the farm business at Lauriston in 2004.  Spencer is an active member of the Anthroposophical Society and ACESTA, a former trustee with the Biodynamic Association and a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Visits to the farm are welcome.  https://www.lauristonfarm.co.uk

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

with Louise Sofair                                   

Equality is one of humanity’s deepest desires, for we become a community by its means.  Once, in the very early stages of our development, we were part of a ‘feminine’ community and were all identical.  We can never go back to that state although many people in the world today, perhaps unconsciously, long to experience the primal ‘oneness’ that constitutes part of our deepest psyche.

On the other hand, human beings are frantically striving to achieve ‘super-human’ power over the physical world through the means of mechanisation and technology. Yet we observe an almost breathtaking disparity in the equality of people around the globe and an advancing disintegration of people-based community.

For example, while strides are being taken in the recognition of the right of women’s equality, in some societies women are still denied the opportunity to even begin that journey.

How do we understand equality in the spiritual sense? We will explore how we might attain a true community of humans, in our earthly lives and in the spiritual world, by journeying on a path of spiritual knowledge and of living with Christ.

Louise was a Waldorf-Steiner upper school teacher for many years and is the author of the book Women with Christ (Temple Lodge Press). She has written several articles and given many talks particularly on the relevance of the women mentioned in the Gospels.

A series of alternating zoom and face to face seminars and lectures exploring ‘Journeying’ led by speakers working with the insights of Rudolf Steiner. 

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

with Patrick Dixon

See the creative process in action! Next time we board a car lets think of the word and the process. We ‘inCARnate’. We enter the body of the car and for a short while live inside it as we are transported somewhere. Perhaps we take charge and drive, following the rules of the road, interacting nicely with other cars and their drives. Perhaps we sit there passively on our journey as we get taken somewhere that we do (or do not) want to go. Perhaps something goes wrong, or something goes horribly right and we end up at that (un)expected destination. In the journey of Life we all have our L plates!!   

Patrick trained at RADA and is an actor, writer, poet and performer. He lives in London and gives frequent lectures, seminars and one man shows.

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

with Andrew Welburn

Music can catch our deepest emotions; it can express clairvoyant intimations of the harmony of the universe; its magic can stir our limbs to work, to march, to dance.  It certainly goes back to the earliest stages of civilisation and the Mysteries which guided them.  In fact, it goes back to our very origins as human beings and to forms of humanity that even preceded ours.  The Neanderthals, Steiner's Atlanteans, had a musical consciousness that lived in their memories and expressed itself in song-like speech.  When they interbred with 'modern humans' in the Stone Age, they gave us an incredible gift.  Did they seek us - or did we seek them? Let's try to remember.

Join us from 6.15 pm in the bookshop for a book signing of Andrew's latest book Neanderthals and Atlantis.

Andrew has been an academic in the fields of English Literature and biblical interpretation and history. A life-long Anthroposophist, he has written several books on Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy, esotericism, and Christianity, and on the prophet Zarathustra.

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

with Barnaby Tobias

Where do Anthroposophical ideas meet the mainstream theatre scene? How does the imagination manifest on the stage? How does the inner life meet an audience? Barnaby will lead us in an evening of exploration into the world of theatre. His latest play, Deal, is set in 17th century Britain. It explores what happens when we let evil into our lives, and how the soul and spirit reckon with the material. The piece has strong Anthroposophical ideas; evil being something that searches for light. As well as looking at what we hold dear, what is sacred to us and how we cling to it in a violent world he will also be exploring another piece, Putrid Beauty, a play about Lucifer trying to find God. The evening will consist of performances by professional actors, interwoven with a talk around the imagination, the stage and Anthroposophy’s place amongst it all. 

Barnaby graduated from the oxford school of drama. He has appeared on stage and television, and you might have met him working in the bookshop at Rudolf Steiner House

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