News 49: Sunday 8 December

Anthroposophy in Hawkes Bay

Newsletter 48 for Sunday 1 December 2024                   

Calendar of Coming Events-- Diary Dates

In the Rudolf Steiner Centre, 401 Whitehead Road, Hastings
unless stated otherwise.

  • Friday 13 December, 7pm. Leading Thoughts 127 to 130. Letter "Second Study: How the Michael Forces work in the earliest unfolding of the Spiritual Soul" p112.
  • Saturday 21 December. Summer Festival. There will be several events including Stirring BD 501 preparation early in the day; from late afternoon: Folk dancing, sharing a meal and a talk.

The Committee ask that visitors to events in the Centre pay a contribution into the Koha box in the Foyer, as we we have regular bills for electric power, city rates, insurance, and maintenance for an aging building.
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FLORIAN

Florian Roger's sister Elodie, his mother Laurence, father Jean-Pierre and father's wife Chantal, will be in New Zealand from the 12th to the 31st December, and in Hawkes Bay from the 14th to the 21st of December. Elodie and family have expressed a warm interest to meet people that Florian knew here in New Zealand, to see how and where he lived, and what his life was like here. Elodie has warmly accepted invitations to visit the Christian Community church, Rangimarie, in Hastings, the Weleda farm and shop, Taruna, Hohepa (Clive and Poraiti), the Anthroposophical Center in Hastings and Te Mata Peak.
 They will visit the Centre on Wednesday 18th at around 10am.  Those who knew Florian and would like to meet his family are welcome to join us at this time.

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Room Hire

From 1 January 2025 Room Hire rates will be:

  • Main Room [About 100m2, with 50+ upholstered, stackable chairs] $30 per hour with discounts available for half and full day hire and weekly sequence of hire through a term.

There is a discount for paid-up/financial members of the HB Branch wishing to hire rooms for a personal event.
When the rooms are used for anthroposophical meetings they are not "hired", but they must be booked via the website or the Treasurer).  For such meetings attendees are expected to make KOHA contributions in the foyer box.   Robin Bacchus, Treasurer. treas@anthrohb.nz   

Smoke-, vape-, alcohol-free policy

On request of the Play Group using the Centre, the Committee has considered and decided to implement a Smoke/Vape/Alcohol-free policy for the whole Rudolf Steiner Centre building and grounds as from 1 January 2025.

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TELECONFERENCE:

THE CREATION OF A NEW FORM OF UNIVERSITY

 The idea of an anthroposophical university goes back to last years of Steiner’s life, when numerous young people approached him about integrating anthroposophical thoughts into their conventional tertiary studies. Before that he had often referred in lectures to the deficiencies of normal university education, especially its fundamentally materialistic outlook.
 
Two universities in Germany developed out of a background of anthroposophical thinking – Alanus University of  Arts and Social Science and Witten/Herdecke University. Both of these offer state-accredited degree courses.  There is also the Heliopolis University in Egypt, which is likewise state-accredited.
 
The central part of the mission of the Education for Social Renewal Foundation (though its corporate trustee Archeus Social Ltd) is to assist the creation of a university in Australia inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner. Archeus Social Ltd is also the trustee of Archeus Social Building Fund and Archeus Social Scholarship Fund. All four entities are charities.
 
In 2024, under the auspices of the Education for Social Renewal Foundation, a feasibility study of a new university in Western Australia was completed. It will be, as we envision it, entirely free from the government. We see no reason for bureaucratic control of what courses we offer and even the use of the word “university”. The threefold social archetype we will be the basis of its organisation. We developed a 100-page feasibility document which can be found at: https://www.educationforsocialrenewalfoundation.com/
 
This is an exciting initiative towards the education of those that have incarnated with the intent of creating the new ways of the future. It is still only an idea, a potential, but the feasibility document is a big step towards its coming into being. The university will need tutors and teachers, who are deeply grounded in Goethe’s way of artistic science and how it applies to all the disciplines. For more on this go to:
We are planning a teleconference on this theme in the week of 13th January 2025. If you would like to be part of this teleconference (people outside Australia are welcome) please register with Pieter Lottering at pieterlot@gmail.com, or Peter Fern at peterfern108@gmail.com
                               
    Peter Fern

Posted: Sun 01 Dec 2024

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