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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

  • Sunday 3 March 11am - Sunday 24 March 5pm

    with Alice and Peter Oswald

    Using a mixture of well-known and perhaps less familiar poems and collections, this is a course on oral poetics and will dive into how we can take poetry off the page. Using voice, movement and gesture, intertwining poetry and storytelling, each session will explore bringing text alive through the body and performance.

    For further information and to book, please see: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/poetry-as-speech-workshop/e-eezjxd

  • Tuesday 19 March
    7pm - 8.30pm

    with Brendan McQuillan

    In lecture 2 of ‘Lucifer and Ahriman’ (GA 101) Rudolf Steiner likens their influence upon us to two scales of a balance whose beam we need to hold in equilibrium. One way for us to achieve this that Steiner speaks of is to permeate with a strongly Luciferic element what has an Ahrimanic form within us. Rather puzzlingly he adds that since nothing is more Ahrimanic than the delusion of material knowledge, then if we can be filled with fiery enthusiasm and interest by the deceptions that arise out of chemistry, physics, astronomy and the like, then through this Luciferic interest we can wrest from Ahriman what is his own. All welcome.

    For further information: ben.mcquillan@outlook.com

    Our reading groups provide the opportunity in a very informal setting to explore Rudolf
    Steiner’s work with others. There is no need for any prior participation or knowledge, and everyone, young and old, is very welcome to join us at any time, just once or as often as it suits. We aim to create a friendly, inviting atmosphere, as good humoured as it is serious. Working together, we share our reflections on the immediate theme and try to pay as much attention to listening as to speaking. We find that studying together provides a wonderful opportunity for the whole group to advance in knowledge and understanding. 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 can be purchased in the Bookshop or accessed online at at the Rudolf Steiner Archive.

    For updated news on these and other events please see: www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science

  • Wednesday 20 March
    2pm - 4pm

    with Trevor Dance

    We will be reading and discussing these deeply penetrating but very accessible lectures given in Dornach July-Sept 1916. A wide variety of topics encompassing, ‘the duality of human nature – the heavenly and earthly aspects of human beings’, ‘enlivening the sense processes and ensouling the life processes, aesthetic enjoyment and artistic creativity.’

    For further information: trevordance@hotmail.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

  • Wednesday 20 March
    6pm - 7.15pm

    with Sara Hunt

    Eurythmy is an art of harmonious movement, developed by Rudolf Steiner, which can increase a sense of well-being and a deeper connection to oneself and others.These open classes are for every and anyone, with no prior experience needed. We will explore ways to connect with our own bodies as well as how we grow comfortable and creative with others in a dynamic space. Poetry and movement will weave together to stimulate vitality and enrich our daily lives. ‍Please wear loose fitting comfortable clothing and soft soled shoes.

    Price per class: £10 Full/£8 Concession

    Booking
    By phone: 020 7723 7984
    Online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/e-raqrva
    In person: At the Bookshop at RSH


  • Wednesday 20 March
    7.30pm - 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.

    A straightforward way to take a first step in understanding the modern spiritual path of Anthroposophy. Intro to Anthro takes 10 areas of Anthroposophy and explains them through 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.

    Each evening cost £10 or £7 students, 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 later on Thursdays in the Carson Building at Emerson College, Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5JX www.emerson.org.uk/introtoanthro

    For enquiries please call 01342 827967.

  • Thursday 21 March
    10.30am - 12pm

    with Brendan McQuillan

    We will continue to read these lectures (GA 128) given by Rudolf Steiner in Prague. Steiner reflects in them on the two stage evolutionary process involved in the foming of the human spinal column and brain, contrasts conscious and unconscious processes in the various human organs, considers the archetypes of the nervous system and blood in the astral body and the ‘I’ (ego), and looks at the organic processes that accompany some spiritual exercises in order to explain their effect.

    All welcome. Small donations towards expenses welcome: £3/£2

    For further information: ben.mcquillan@outlook.com

    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 21 March
    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 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

  • Friday 22 March
    7pm - 8.30pm

    with Eric Klein

    In his lectures on Karma Rudolf Steiner offers us some fascinating insights into how the working of karma is not just
    limited to what we experience together whilst in physical incarnation. In his consideration of the school of Chartres, Steiner offers the following thoughts ‘a kind of supersensible exchange of ideas took place between the Platonic souls from the School of Chartres who were now coming up into the spiritual world through the gate of death and the Aristotelian souls who had remained above.’ Eric will share his experience of recently visiting Chartres and his thoughts on how we can experience the legacy of this working together.

    Eric Klein was born and raised in ann Anthroposophic home in New York, educated at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City, before training as a concert musician at the Manhattan School of Music. His life’s journey has gone through Harvard Business School, the Christian Community Seminary in Stuttgart, Germany before settling in England in 2002. He has worked as a performing musician, composer, conductor, teacher and lecturer.

    All welcome, no need to book, no charge. Voluntary donations towards costs are gratefully received and can be made by transfer to a Nationwide account held for this purpose.

    Account name: Adrian Hotten, sort code: 07-01-16 account number: 31466776 or via Paypal to suejoanpeat@gmail.com

    Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82632129836
    Meeting ID: 826 3212 9836, Passcode: 755359

    Seminars are not recorded and participants are limited to 100 on zoom

  • Saturday 23 March
    9am - 1pm

    We are looking to recruit children and young people aged 7-16 who are interested in performing arts. We offer a fun and safe environment to learn new skills and meet new friends.

    Members of Marylebone Youth Theatre will grow in confidence as they work collaboratively and creatively. They will be taught theatrical skills and there will be regular opportunities to perform in front of an audience in the beautiful Marylebone Theatre.

    Marylebone Youth Theatre runs Saturday classes during the school term and weekday classes during the school holidays. Our upcoming projects are below.

    To apply, please fill the Marylebone Youth Theatre application form available via https://www.marylebonetheatre.com/get-involved

  • Saturday 23 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

  • Wednesday 27 March
    6pm - 7.15pm

    with Sara Hunt

    Eurythmy is an art of harmonious movement, developed by Rudolf Steiner, which can increase a sense of well-being and a deeper connection to oneself and others.These open classes are for every and anyone, with no prior experience needed. We will explore ways to connect with our own bodies as well as how we grow comfortable and creative with others in a dynamic space. Poetry and movement will weave together to stimulate vitality and enrich our daily lives. ‍Please wear loose fitting comfortable clothing and soft soled shoes.

    Price per class: £10 Full/£8 Concession

    Booking
    By phone: 020 7723 7984
    Online:https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/e-raqrva
    In person: At the Bookshop at RSH

    Sara Hunt
    After many years as a teacher in Canterbury Steiner school, Sara graduated from West Midlands Eurythmy and subsequently completed a Masters in Eurythmy Education with Alanus University. Until recently, she worked as an educational eurythmist in Steiner schools and is presently a freelance personal coach.

  • Thursday 28 March
    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 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

  • 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 1.5 day workshop at Emerson College in the days following this lecture. See www.emerson.org.uk 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