Anthroposophical Society in Australia

Watercolour Painting Classes Copy
2019-07-30 14:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Watercolour painting classes. This is a weekly painting class at Rudolf Steiner House from 2pm to 4pm during school terms and is open to everyone. Paints and paper are supplied, but please bring your own brushes.

Artistic Imagination and Supersensible Knowledge
2019-07-30 19:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Artistic Imagination and Supersensible Knowledge: The art of living a spiritual year. Around the four major festivals that fall on the solstices and equinoxes: Christmas, Easter, St. John’s and Michaelmas there are four ancient fire festivals that mark the transition from one cosmic imagination to the next . They are different in the south to the north and becoming more conscious of the collaborative work of the Archangels in our annual cycle of festivals enhances how we participate in developing the seed cosmic imaginations for the future. This talk, continuing from Martin’s last talk, will introduce the current situation from August to November in our region. The focus this evening will be on how the southern cosmic imaginations lead us to developing both artistic and supersensible capacities. Martin has worked with the southern cosmic imaginations for 25 years and would like to share his research questions with people who are interested in observing and adding their own insights to the community. Lecture with Martin Samson at Rudolf Steiner House starting at 7pm.

Eurythmy Classes Copy
2019-08-01 07:30 - 08:30 | Castlecrag, 121 Edinburgh Rd, Sydney, NSW, 2068, Australia
EURYTHMY CLASSES- a weekly eurythmy class open to everyone.
Ease, Form, Grace, Balance and Flexibility
A new impulse of movement with Body, Soul and Spirit Open to teachers, students, parents and friends
THURSDAYS 7:30-8:10am
$20/$10 (school students class 9 and above ) 121 Edinburgh Rd, Castlecrag NSW 2068 kimberley.hammerton@icloud.com

Watercolour Painting Classes
2019-08-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000

Cafe Book Face
2019-08-03 09:30 - 12:30 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
A cafe-library with an event.
Soul Calendar Eurythmy Session with Sumie Nagura at 11.00am.

GARY LACHMAN - A Look Inside the World
2019-08-03 10:00 - 15:30 | DOCKLANDS Library, The Dock, L.2, 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Cnr. Collins & Bourke Sts, Docklands, VIC
GARY LACHMAN – MELBOURNE LECTURES https://garylachman.co.uk/
Saturday 3rd August DOCKLANDS Library at The Dock, L.2, 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade,
Docklands. (Trams:11, 48, 35, 70, 75) Southern Cross Sta.: 1.2Km 15 mins.
10:00-11:30am – A Look Inside the World, will focus on how our ancestors saw a living nature rather than a mechanical one, and how this vision informed Goethe’s view of the world and that we can discover and learn how to use this today.
2:00-3:30pm – A Different Kind of Knowing, before reason and logic and the study of “facts”, a different kind of knowing, the total picture of reality prevailed. Although radically different, these two ‘knowings’ are not mutually exclusive. There have always been individuals throughout history who have combined both “facts” and the bigger picture.
Book signing opportunity with Gary ñ bring your own pre-loved copy, – it may be possible to buy Garyís books.
Costs: $35 Adult, $30^ Student/Conc. per session. 3-lecture package: $95 Adult, $80^ Student/Conc. (^show cards at entry). Booking is required for all events. Tickets links:
Docklands: https://www.trybooking.com/526886
Warranwood: https://www.trybooking.com/527480

GARY LACHMAN - A Different Kind of Knowing
2019-08-03 14:00 - 15:30 | DOCKLANDS Library, The Dock, L.2, 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Cnr. Collins & Bourke Sts, Docklands, VIC

The Caretakers of the Cosmos - Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World
2019-08-04 14:00 - 16:00 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
Sunday 4th August WARRANWOOD The Michael Centre, Movement Rm, WARRANWOOD*
2:00pm ñ 4:00pm The Caretakers of the Cosmos – Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World. – Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World. Looking at how ancient ideas about our place in the world can unite with those of some of the most important but little known sages of recent times to envision a future in which we “take care of the cosmos” by becoming “fully human”. More information for Gary Lachman and the events will be available very soon.
Costs: $35 Adult $30^ Student/Conc. per session. 3-lecture package: $95 Adult $80^ Student/Conc. (^show cards at entry)
Booking is required for all events. Tickets links: Docklands: https://www.trybooking.com/526886 Warranwood: https://www.trybooking.com/527480

Study Group_Inner Development for World Development Group
2019-08-06 17:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Fortnightly Study Group
Contact: allisonartist@gmail.com
Inner Development for World Development Group
“Inner Development for World Development Group.” We meet 5pm Tuesday fortnightly
at Steiner House
WHO YOU ARE:
* You are aware of a deep longing within that has recently been awoken by the words of Rudolf Steiner. You have lots of questions and are beginning to fill yourself with some of the majestic imaginations of Anthroposophy
or
* You have attended public lectures and read a few books
Steiner wrote. You may already have struggled with doing the exercises or meditations that Steiner recommends for healthy balanced esoteric growth but have not been able to maintain your practice or
* You have realised that you stand in the world as a vessel for Anthroposophia and are interested in supporting others in the deeper work.
INTENTIONS: You will choose your own exercises to work on. You will work at your own pace. Others may make suggestions or give you feedback -but the choice will be yours own and you will hold yourself accountable.
We will witness and support your commitment to yourself.
Steadfastness stands higher than success
RS: Knowledge of Higher Worlds
To encourage an imaginative consciousness within the group we will balance the inner work by engaging in artistic processes led by different people in the group.
During school holidays we will meet 5-8pm where we can share our biographies – to help us become more aware of the divinity within each.
You will be encouraged to embark on spiritual research into your deepest heartfelt questions and share this journey with us.
In the last few years of his life Steiner increasingly spoke of the necessity and great esoteric significance to learn to work in Spiritual Science based groups. Are you motivated to keep coming back when one of us annoys, irritate or offends you; or when life gets demanding, distracting or complicated?
‘Life gets more luminous
Life gets more arduous’ ……when you truly seek your destiny star. RS

Gary Lachman Lectures- Dark Star Rising
2019-08-06 19:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Tuesday 6th August, starting at 7pm: Dark Star Rising. Did “positive thinking” and “mental science” help put Donald Trump in the White House? And are there other kinds of “occult politics” at work in the world today? In my book Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump, I look at the strange magical and esoteric ideas that are informing postmodern politics in the United States and Russia in the twenty-first century. From New Thought to Chaos Magick to the far-right esotericism of Julius Evola and the Traditionalists, a web of connections stretches out across the globe bringing together such disparate characters and phenomena as Norman Vincent Peale, Ayn Rand, Pepe the Frog, the Alt-Right, Vladimir Putin, President Trump, Reality TV, “meme magick” and much else in a weird tangle of postmodern occultism in which reality is up for grabs, facts give way to internet fictions, and truth is a negotiable commodity. My talk will try to find a path through this post-truth alternative fact landscape in reality is what you can get away with.

Alumni Gathering Emerson College
2019-08-07 08:00 - 17:00
Alumni Gathering Emerson College. Working with the theme “Listening to our Time, Speaking to the Stars”, this conference is open to Alumni from Emerson College. PLease have a look here for more details.

Faces of Christ - Faces of Michael exhibition
2019-08-09 19:00 - 2019-08-24 21:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Faces of Christ – Faces of Michael exhibition. This is an exhibition organised by the Arts section AAVAS and will have it’s opening evening on 9th August from 7pm to 9pm. It will run until Saturday 24th and be open only on Saturdays from 10am to 4pm at Rudolf Steiner House.

Lorien Novalis School Term 3 Insight Day
2019-08-10 08:00 - 17:00
Lorien Novalis School Term 3 Insight Day. This is for prospective families interested in enrolling their children. Please have a look here for more details

Gary Lachman Workshop weekend
2019-08-10 09:30 - 2019-08-11 15:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th August workshop, starting at 9:30am each day: In search of our other mind through the lost knowledge of the Imagination and the Secret History of Consciousness. When we hear the word “imagination,” what do we think? Mostly we tend to see the imagination as a substitute for reality, as a form of wishful thinking, a pleasant alternative to the hard facts of life. Or we see it as a means of developing novel ideas, of being on the “cutting edge” of technology, a way of making things “bigger and better.” But this is not the only way to understand the imagination. For poets and scholars like Kathleen Raine, Henry Corbin, Owen Barfield, and others, the imagination is not a substitute for reality, but a way of grasping its essence. For them, imagination isn’t a form of “make believe,” but a faculty of cognition, a way of knowing things that would otherwise remain unknown. This knowledge was accessible at an earlier time, but in recent centuries it has been minimized, if not vigorously rejected, by our emphasis on “hard,” scientific thinking. My talk will look at the imagination as a faculty for grasping the invisible realities that surround us and at the tradition of knowledge rooted in it – a knowledge that, if lost, can still be recovered. What is consciousness? For many philosophers, scientists, and neurophysiologists today it is “nothing but” a by-product of processes going on in the brain. As Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the DNA molecule, declared: “You, your joys and sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and molecules.” Yet while this highly reductive view of consciousness dominates mainstream discussion, there has always been a counter tradition that sees consciousness not as a negligible epiphenomenon of neurons and synapses, but as the very foundation of existence. There has been what we can call “a secret history of consciousness,” a much more meaningful view of our inner world to which many important thinkers have contributed. My talk will look at some of these figures and at how their ideas can influence our world today.

Gary Lachman Lectures-Hypnagogia and Precognitive Dreams
2019-08-13 19:00
Tuesday 13th August, starting at 7pm: Hypnagogia and Precognitive Dreams. Twice a day each of us enters a strange altered state of consciousness, that is like a dream but is in many ways different. This is the state hovering in between wakefulness and sleep called hypnagogia. Hypnagogic visions have inspired great artists, poets, and philosophers and for some they have been the gateway into other worlds and weird inner dimensions. From C. G. Jung to the Surrealists, hypnagogia has proved a fertile means of exploring the unconscious while wide awake, of dreaming with our eyes open. My tal with introduce this little known but universally human experience, its history and what it means for us today, and will include some of my own experiences with hypnagogia and the equally fascinating phenomenon of precognitive dreams, when the sleeping mind steps out of time and affords us a glimpse of the future.

An Introduction to Marie & Rudolf Steiner's Speech & Drama Research Seminar
2019-08-16 15:00 - 2019-08-17 17:00 | The University of Sydney, AV Room, L1 John Woolley Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The University of Sydney’s Department of Theatre and Performance Studies present Neil Anderson’s Special Research Seminar & Workshop.
An Introduction to Marie & Rudolf Steiner’s Speech & Drama Approach, with
Renate Millonig, Annika Andersdotter & Neil Anderson.
Seminar Friday 16 August, 3-5pm “Goethe to Steiner: Acting With Artifice to Achieve Deeper Verisimilitude”
Workshop Saturday 17th August, 9am-5pm

Cafe Book Face
2019-08-17 09:30 - 12:30 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
A cafe-library with an event. Every third Saturday of the month.
Open watercolour painting session with Claire Louise Hayashi at 11.30am

"Searching for the Unknown Future"
2019-08-23 - 2019-08-25 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
An exploration process with Herbert Wolpert and branch representatives and the Management Group about the Anthroposophical Society’s future in Australia

In Search of the Centre—in Depth tour
2019-08-25 08:00 - 2019-09-08 17:00
In Search of the Centre—in Depth. A week of exploring Dornach, Arlesheim and much more. Please have a look here for more details

These pictures are so familiar to us and yet…
• Have you gone behind the scenes to explore the whole Goetheanum, seen the Representative of Humanity sculpture and Gerard Wagner’s original paintings from the Second Goetheanum?
• Have you visited the Glass House and the other extraordinary buildings designed by Rudolf Steiner, each for their specific purpose?
• Have you seen the houses designed by him and others following his inspiration?
• Have you seen the interior of a home designed by Steiner and the fascinating metamorphic fences around gardens?
• Have you visited the archives and seen some of the original art and written works of Steiner?
• Have you visited the Persephone Grotto at the Hermitage – and why would you?
• Have you visited the Klinik Arlesheim and the Sonnenhof, founded by Ita Wegman?
• Have you seen the displays of anthroposophical jewelry, clocks and furniture?
All this and much more is on offer for a week of in-depth exploring with Rima Meadow, an American eurythmist and speech artist, who has lived, studied and worked in Dornach-Arlesheim for 7 years.
Included will be art classes in clay and painting, story time with Wanda Chrzanowska, who has amazing tales about her family and Dornach – as well as other opportunities that may present themselves.
Rima will then take us to explore Colmar and see the Isenheim altarpiece by Grünewald, the glorious Alsace area, Mont St-Odile, Strasbourg cathedral, Malsch, Maulbronn Monastery and, finally, a day in Stuttgart before returning home.
Accommodation will be primarily in monastery or convent guesthouses; hotel in Riquewihr and near Stuttgart airport.
For further information please contact Sarnia Guiton 604-740-0676 sarnia@sophiaservices.ca.

Workshop: Crisis, Experiencing Trials and Thresholds - Reflection on peak, abyss and transition points
2019-08-30 19:00 - 2019-09-01 16:00 | Canberra

Lorien Novalis School Spring Fair
2019-08-31 10:00 - 16:00
Lorien Novalis School Spring Fair. A day full of activities, craft, fine food and performances. Starts at 10am until 4pm and all are welcome

Progress meeting for members and friends
2019-08-31 14:00 - 16:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Progress meeting for members and friends. This meeting is especially to review the 2018 financial accounts getting them ready for the AGM. Please have a look here for more details.

Painting Workshop -'Zodiac and the Elements' Copy
2019-09-02 08:00 - 17:00 | Melbourne Therapy Centre, 221 Wonga Rd, Warranwood, Victoria, Australia
A glimpse into the colour wisdom and understandings inherent in the Zodiac Colours of Rudolf Steiner and the elements of Fire, Earth, Air and Water.
For new and experienced watercolour painters.

Fees: $100 per workshop, supplies incl.
(discounts, half LET’s pts. negotiated)
Refreshments included.

Contact Katherine Rudolf 0413 770 020 or MTC 9876 3011.

Joan Sleigh - Shared lunch and discussion
2019-09-07 10:30 - 14:30 | Samford Valley Steiner School, 5 Narrawa Drive, Wights Mountain, Qld, 4520
Joan Sleigh, who is a member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society, will visit Samford Valley Steiner School in the morning.
Members interested to meet with Joan are invited to attend.

10.45 am Meet at High School side entrance of the Hall for the morning performance by the Waldorf 100 students singing of The Foundation song.
11.30 am – 12.30pm Walk to 8 Narrawa Drive for a shared lunch together.
12.30pm Walk back to the Eurythmy room for conversations with Joan Sleigh regarding questions that you would like to ask.

Social Initiatives Forum with Joan Sleigh
2019-09-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Christian Community Sydney, 8 Montague Street, Balmain, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Joan Sleigh, member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Council, will speak and discuss the work of the Social Initiatives Forum.

Water Yarning: Tidings, Flows and Sorrows.
2019-09-10 08:00 - 17:00
A 4-day workshop looking at water. A sharing of knowledge from First National Elders.
Not water as a commodity we have a right to buy, “license”, dam and pollute, but water as a carrier of spirit, culture, story, and sustainer of life in all forms.

Gumbaynggirr Country
Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre

Participation by individually determined ‘sponsorship’ towards the costs involved.

An evening with Joan Sleigh & Jan Baker-Finch
2019-09-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Orana School, Kurrajong Room, Unwin Place, Weston, ACT, 2611, Australia
Members, Teachers and Friends are invited to join in sharing a meal with our special guests.
Vegetable soup with fresh bread, tea, coffee and juice will be provided by the Canberra Branch of the Anthroposophical Society.
Please bring a plate of either cheese, quiche, salad, dips or fruit to share for the dinner.
(Strictly no nuts or sesame due to children with high allergy intolerance in this building).

Please let us know if you are coming
canberraanthropos1@gmail.com
Vivien Hillman 0449 188 245

What connects Education, Empathy and the Social Initiative Forum?
2019-09-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Overture Hall, Orana School, Unwin Place, Weston, ACT, 2611, Australia
International guest speaker, Joan Sleigh will present and lead a conversation on the transformative powers of empathy.
The evening will also include A Performance of Music and Poetry by eurythmists Jan Baker-Finch and
Josefin Porteous, accompanied by pianist Dr Danae Killian and narrator Ioanna Panagiotopoulos.

Tickets: $25 waged; $15 concessions; students free. Includes Supper.
Bookings: trybooking.com Tickets also available at the door.

Joan Sleigh - shared meal
2019-09-13 18:30 - 20:30 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
Joan Sleigh and Jan Baker-Finch will meet with Michael Group, Victoria Branch committee

Poetry and Music of the Romantics
2019-09-13 19:30 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
An evening of poetry and music with Neil Anderson, Manfred Beck, Tim McGovern and Christian Lillicrap.
