Anthroposophical Society in Australia

Uriel Event: The Sistine Madonna – a divine image for the Christmas season
2018-12-15 15:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Victoria
URIEL EVENT: ́The Sistine Madonna – a divine image for the Christmas season’. Talk by Cheryl Nekvapil, who recently visited the painting in Dresden.
Supported by the Victorian Branch of the Anthroposophical Society and the Ligsma Kirpe Trust

Café bookface and be-hive
2018-12-15 09:00 - 12:00, 2018-11-17 09:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
A pop-up café to foster community and to enjoy a browse in the Michael Centre library.

The Be-Hive” … a series of scheduled workshops, presentations and activities alongside café bookface. Email for an events flyer: brucemichaelrussell@gmail.com Supported by the Michael Group

The Star as a symbol of Love
2018-12-11 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
“The pentagram… represents everything which permeates the universe and is centred on the human being. It is the star of humanity. It symbolises the very essence and meaning of earth-existence.” Rudolf Steiner also tells us that “it depicts the streaming currents of energy occurring within our etheric body. In this sense, the pentagram is an etheric reality; not a symbol but a fact”. We will look at this eurythmy meditation and its meaning as the Third Logos. A talk with Jessie Phelps starting a 7pm at Rudolf Steiner House.

Christmas festival Canberra
2018-12-09 14:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Orana School, Kurrajong Room, Unwin Place, Weston, ACT, 2611, Australia
You are warmly invited to come together for our Christmas celebration.
The program will include a reading of the Foundation Stone Meditation, a Christmas Story and Carol singing.
Your contributions would be greatly appreciated so please bring a verse, some prose, a piece of music or your personal reflections on the Christmas Theme to share.
This will be followed by a shared afternoon tea ( Strictly No Nuts )
Cold and hot drinks will be available

DATE & TIME: SUNDAY 9th DECEMBER from 2 PM to 4 PM VENUE: KURRAJONG ROOM –
Upper Campus , Orana Rudolf Steiner School, Unwin St., Weston
Guests most welcome
Please let us know if you are coming
Our new email address; canberraanthropos1@gmail.com Enquiries: Riitta Korpinen: 0408 221 385 or Hannah Semler: 0402 782 632

Hot spot Syria
2018-12-04 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Because of the one-sided aspect of many media reports on war and the refugee crisis, it is helpful to have a broader picture on the history of this country and humanity. We might discover that it should much more live in our hearts and the problems we see outside (“there”) are a mirror picture of the one’s in our inside (“here”). This might give an understanding on one aspect of the refugee crisis, as well on many shortcomings of modern culture. A talk with Wolfgang Devine starting a 7pm at Rudolf Steiner House.

Advent Celebration
2018-12-02 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Aurora Australis, 2 Union Street, Kew, Vic, 3101, Australia
ADVENT CELEBRATION at the Aurora Australis College for the Arts, 2 Union Street, KEW. An artistic celebration on the first Sunday of Advent – preparing inwardly for the Christmas Season and the 12 Holy Nights. Please bring something to share for a festive supper and a donation to acknowledge the artists’ gifts to us. Enquiries: Birgith: 0448 844 453 Sponsored by the Anthroposophical Society -Vic Branch

Morning tea in Melbourne
2018-12-01 10:30 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Cafe Vic, 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne, Vic, 3000, Australia
At Cafe Vic, Ground floor, Victorian Arts Centre, St Kilda Road.
Everyone is welcome, meet old and new friends and enjoy some lively discussion.
For newcomers – so we won’t miss you ! – contact Annita 9523 6738

Café bookface and be-hive
2018-12-01 09:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
A pop up café to foster community and to browse in Michael Cr. library. For this week’s theme, contact Bruce: 0407090676 – or just come for coffee! 11am-12pm EURYTHMY,(1st Soul Calendar Verse. Eurythmist Sumie Nagura and speaker Yasushi Hayashi, tel. 0499 685 881 Email Bruce for a events flyer: brucemichaelrussell@gmail.com Supported by the Michael Group

Looking at biodynamics from the perspective of the medical lectures
2018-11-27 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
In 1924, Rudolf Steiner founded the practice of biodynamic agriculture in only eight rather dense lectures. In this talk we will deepen our understanding of the Agriculture Course by drawing on pictures given in his other works – particularly the image of the plant found in the medical lectures, and see for example, how this can help us approach the two horn preparations. A talk with Peter Stewart starting a 7pm at Rudolf Steiner House.

Saturday Morning Dialogues
2018-11-24 10:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Victoria
SATURDAY MORNING DIALOGUES [SMD], at ‘CRU’ 916 Glenferrie Road, KEW. Theme continues; “The Mysteries of our Time” A transit from the Rosicrucian to the Manichean aspects. Facilitators: Helen Branton 0415804485 – Maria J Garrido 0423274936 Details above. Sponsored by the Anthroposophical Society -Vic Branch, supported by Ligsma Kirpe Trust Fund.

Advent Christmas Epiphany Brisbane
2018-11-23 08:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Victoria
Please come along to our next Brisbane Branch Group meeting and most likely the last one for this year. Our guest is Kate Sharp. Through artistic activities, Kate will bring to life, old traditions questing for the spirit within the Christmas Mysteries. There will be a focus on the background according to R.Steiner and a reading of a Christmas Tale – The Three Wise Men. No experience is required for this workshop. Everyone welcome!

The Day:

Details:
When: Saturday, 24th November
Time: 9:50 for a 10am start and finish at 3pm
Bring: Shared lunch if convenient
Contribution: $10
Where: 109 Dawson Creek Road, Highvale
(Near Samford, Please park out the front along the road. Thank you!)

RSVP: Monique Davies by email or 0414 291 491

Making the threefold society a reality
2018-11-17 10:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
A lecture on our modern society and how we can change it. Anyone is welcome. Please have a look here for more details.

How to celebrate Advent and the holy nights
2018-11-17 09:00 - 2018-11-18 13:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Aurora Australis, 2 Union Street, Kew, Vic, 3101, Australia
Sat 17th – Sun 18th November 9am -1pm, 2 MORNING WORKSHOPS “How to celebrate Advent and the 12 Holy Nights – building a relationship to the twelve Masters.” at the Aurora Australis College for the Arts, 2 Union Street, KEW.
Cost: $120 Enquiries and Registration: Birgith: 0448 844 453

Living in Knowing and Living in Devotion
2018-11-13 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
How is this fostered by The Christian Community and The Anthroposophical Society? A talk with Vicke von Behrs starting at 7pm at Rudolf Steiner House.

Plants: cultivation, observation, culinary, medicinal remedies
2018-11-11 10:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Victoria
A biodynamics sydney event held in Gladesville
Pre-registration: contact 9550 1682 or
email: biodynamicssydney@gmail.com
facebook: biodynamics.sydney

How Do I Orient Myself in a LGBTQI+ World?
2018-11-10 18:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Christian Community, Balmain, 27b Llewellyn Street, Balmain, NSW, 2041
You are invited to share a meal and some conversation in an open and gentle atmosphere. Please have a look here for more details.

Uriel Talk: The Second Death – signs in our times
2018-11-10 15:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Christian Community Hawthorn, 319 Auburn Rd, Hawthorn, Vic, 3122, Australia
Saturday 10th November (out-of-cycle) 3pm – 5pm URIEL TALKS at HAWTHORN* “Enlivening our Soul-Spirit Life through Sacraments”. Vicke von Behr, leading priest of The Christian Community, visiting from Berlin. Suggested donation $15/$10 members/conc. Enquiries: Cheryl 0458 124 088 Sponsored by the Ligsma Kirpe Trust and supported by ASinA- Vic Branch

DRAMA Prometheus Unbound
2018-11-09 19:00 - 22:00 (Australia/Sydney) | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
DRAMA Prometheus Unbound by Shelley, Rehearsal presentation of Acts 1&2 by the Michael Drama Group, WARRANWOOD* Entry by donation.
Enquiries: Marcus Cox 0434 842 213,or Yasushi Hayashi 0499 685 881 Supported by the Michael Group

Synchronicity or Karma
2018-11-06 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
A wide-ranging exploration of “meaningful coincidence” through personal experience in relation to the Basilica of St Denis in Paris and the medieval cathedral and mystery school of Chartres. A talk with Jolyon Bromley starting a 7pm at Rudolf Steiner House.

Renewing links with friends over the threshold
2018-11-03 08:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Renewing links with friends over the threshold. This is our festival for the dead. Everyone is welcome and you can find the details here.

The myth of Demeter and Persephone and the archetypal necessity for descending into Hades.
2018-10-30 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Among other of their attributes and purposes, myths offer us a larger context within which to lay our individual suffering. Archetypal figures convey the universal, ancient and impersonal, and within this container they bestow on us a map, which enables us to better navigate ourselves and make sense of the world. Our suffering finds a place, it has necessity. It belongs on our transformative inner journey. We know ourselves (‘Know Thyself’) by knowing the archetypal patterns, for we are patterned beings in a patterned universe.
Through the myth of Demeter and Persephone we’ll explore: How does the soul come to love that which lives in the underworld? How are we even acquainted with and initiated into this subterranean realm? Why is it necessary to be abducted from our intense identification with Demeter’s life lived on the surface to encounter Hades and all that lies below? And can, like Persephone, we belong to and partner with both the upper and underworld? A talk with Kristina Dryza starting at 7pm at Rudolf Steiner House.

Saturday Morning Dialogue: The Mysteries of our Time
2018-10-27 10:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Now and Then Cafe, 204 HIgh St, Kew, Vic, 3101
The Mysteries of our Time” A transit from the Rosicrucian to the Manichean aspects.

Facilitators: Helen Branton 0415804485 – Maria J Garrido 0423274936 Street parking and long term parking at Kew Library. Public transport accessible. Sponsored by the Anthroposophical Society – Vic Branch, supported by Ligsma Kirpe Trust Fund.

Astronomy and the Spirit
2018-10-26 18:00 - 2018-10-28 14:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Harmony Centre, 11 Beresford St, Mittagong, NSW, 2575
WHAT CAN THE HUMAN BEING ACTUALLY EXPERIENCE AND COMPREHEND OF
WHAT IS OUTSIDE THE EARTH – AS WELL AS SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF THE STARRY SKY
$350 per person (including all meals and accommodation) Places are limited and registration is required. Call Annet 0400 301 550 or email annet.vankesteren@gmail.com
David Bowden has taught astronomy, phenomenological (Goethean) physics, and projective geometry over the last 25 years in Rudolf Steiner high schools around Australia. He has co-written a book with Robert Powell, titled Astrogeographia. His current interests lie in researching the world of space and counter space, as it relates to the life forms and to physics – and with how the natural sciences can be transformed in a direction that the spirit of the times is calling for.
More details here

Sentience and Sacrifice
2018-10-23 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
“Those who maintain that human pain can be more intense than the pain felt by animals are talking without foundation. Pain in the animal is far, far more deep-seated than purely bodily pain in man can be.” Rudolf Steiner “The Human Spirit and the Animal Spirit”, Berlin, Nov 17 1910. A talk with Hal Ginges starting at 7pm at Rudolf Steiner House.

Synchronicity or karma?
2018-10-23 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
A wide-ranging exploration of “meaningful coincidence” through personal experience in relation to the Basilica of St Denis in Paris and the medieval cathedral and mystery school of Chartres. A talk with Jolyon Bromley.

Uriel talk: Bee Friendly
2018-10-20 15:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Christian Community Hawthorn, 319 Auburn Rd, Hawthorn, Vic, 3122, Australia
A “Bee Friendly” talk by Julie Armstrong who has just returned from the international conference in Holland – Learning from the Bees: Honeybee Landscape Humanbeing. Suggesteddonation$15/$10members/conc.

The Healing Power of Eurythmy: working with the melody of the human organs to bring harmony, through movement and the energies of the planets
2018-10-20 11:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Orana School, Kurrajong Room, Unwin Place, Weston, ACT, 2611, Australia
Birgith Lugosi, eurythmist and educator, co- founded, with Karl Kaltenbach and Burnum Burnum, Aurora Australis, the Anthroposophical College of the Arts, in Melbourne, offering the Orientation Year in Anthroposophy with sculpture, painting and eurythmy. Two years later, the 4 years full time Melbourne Eurythmy training began. The diploma is recognised in Dornach, is internationally recognised and the students are able to teach all around the world. In her Courses Birgith has engaged eurythmists from overseas and Australia, and has presented her Eurythmy Graduates at the graduation performances at the Goetheanum.
Birgith was the main teacher and artistic director of the College for many years and also completed the curative eurythmy training in England in 2003. She is also co-founder of the Eurythmy Guild in Victoria which later expanded into a Eurythmy Section, (vocational field), of work and which was actively incorporated within the School of Spiritual Science in Australia.
Birgith also founded The House of Fairy Tales in Melbourne for children and classes.

No experience is necessary; beginners are most welcome.

Venue: the Kurrajong room at Orana Steiner School
Date and Time: Saturday 20th October, 11 -1pm followed by lunch if you can stay; if so, please bring something to share, drinks will be provided.
Cost: $40, concession $25. Please ask as we wish everyone to be able to take up this opportunity and do not want to turn anyone away! Please advise you intend to come by the 10th October.

Café bookface and be-hive
2018-10-20 09:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
A pop up café to foster community and to enjoy a browse in the Michael Centre library.

Saving the honey bee, BD hive care, planting a bee-friendly garden, making a bee house
2018-10-14 10:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Victoria
A biodynamics sydney event held in Marrickville
Pre-registration: contact 9550 1682 or
email: biodynamicssydney@gmail.com
facebook: biodynamics.sydney
