Anthroposophy in Hawkes Bay
Calendar of Coming Events-- Diary Dates
In the Rudolf Steiner Centre, 401 Whitehead Road, Hastings
unless stated otherwise.
- Tuesday 11 February from 9:15 am. Sue Simpson's Eurythmy for Adults - 8-week course starts.
- Tuesday 11 February. Cleone Armon's "Evolution of the Earth" - 9-week course starts.
- Wednesday 12 February from 10 am. Kathy Allan's Therapeutic Pastel Class for Term 1 begins.
- Sunday 16 February, 3 to 4 pm. Downsizing Garage Sale at 55 Durham Drive, HN.
- Weekend 22-23 February. Workshop on "New Regulations for Charitable Entities" will be attended by delegates from ASNZ and the Branches in Auckland, Hawkes Bay, and Wellington which own properties.
- Thursday 27 February at 5:30 pm. Branch Committee meets.
- Friday 28 February at Taruna College. Art of Curative Eurythmy course starts.
- Saturday 1 March. 9:30 to noon. School of Spiritual Science: 4th Recapitulation lesson
- Friday 7 March at 7:30 pm. Peter Selg will present a talk via Zoom for NZ audiences on ‘Rudolf Steiner's last months, the time in the atelier’
- Saturday 22 March (Equinox) Autumn and Michael Festival.
- Sunday 30 March 2025. 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death.
- Monday 31 March Margaret-Mary Farr's Kairos Artistic Therapy training starts
- Kolisko Conference "Great Expectations" in Taikura School 11-14 April 2025.
Taikura was founded as a Rudolf Steiner School 75 years ago in 1950.
- Saturday 26 April at 3 pm. HB Branch AGM.
The Committee ask that visitors to events in the Centre pay a contribution in to the Koha box in the Foyer, as we have regular bills for electric power, city rates, insurance, and maintenance for an ageing building.
LIBRARY:
Open on Wednesdays during term time from 11 am.
There are quite a few overdue books - please examine your reading pile and identify any culprits and return them a.s.a.p. please.
The Library has multiple copies of many of Rudolf Steiner's lecture cycles as well as magazines and books by numerous other anthroposophical authors.
Eurythmy for Adults
Take the opportunity to explore & experience the gifts of eurythmy.
What it can mean to hold a centre in life's challenges and come to an experience of the self!
Join us for 8 weeks
Tuesday 11th February - 8th April
9:15 - 10:15 am
Corner 500 Nelson St and 401 Whitehead Rd
Cost $120
Contact: sue.simpson0@gmail.com
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Beginners' Art Classes
Taruna warmly invites you to "Beginners' Art Classes" on the 11th or 12th February.
Eight Tuesday evenings or Wednesday mornings from 11/12th February to 1/2nd April.
These art classes are led by Sonya Lethbridge, an Artistic Therapist.
We will explore Goethe's colour theory using the mediums of pastels, watercolours and coloured pencils.
For more information follow our link: www.taruna.ac.nz/courses-and-workshops/art-for-beginners/
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Therapeutic Pastel group
Kathy Allan begins this class again on Wednesday, February 12th. from10am to 11.30.
We continue working with images from the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily.
If you are interested please contact Kathy 027 233 0970
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Downsizing Sale
Come to 55 Durham Drive, Havelock North
Sunday, 16th February, from 3.00 to 4.00 p.m
One showing only ! ! !
Treasures that have accumulated over many decades in Steiner education and Anthroposophy,
artwork, crafts and other items, books are being offered.
Come and have a look and make an offer.
Diana and Robin Bacchus.
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THE ART OF CURATIVE EURYTHMY
Friday 28 February at Taruna College
2025-01-29_18-57_page_1.pdf
2025-01-29_18-57_page_2.pdf
2025-01-29_18-57_page_3.pdf
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Please save the date: 7 March at 7:30 pm for talk (zoom) by Peter Selg for NZ audiences.
Dear Members,
Warm greetings in this new year of 2025.
A significant part of this year is the 100-year commemoration of Rudolf Steiners death on March 30th.
In New Zealand we are marking that event locally in our regions. Plans are underway around the country for various events. Please contact your Branch or local contact person for more information. As part of these commemorations, the ASNZ Council are very grateful that Peter Selg has kindly agreed to bring this talk to us during this busy time at the Goetheanum: ‘Rudolf Steiner's last months, the time in the atelier’
Friday 7th of March, 7.30pm, via a zoom presentation by Peter Selg.
We will be sending out a further reminder next month. You can register to get a zoom link at info@anthroposophy.org.nz
In addition please check our website: www.anthroposophy.org.nz for more information on the event ‘RUDOLF STEINER On the 100th anniversary of his death ‘ March 28-30th at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland.
We look forward to seeing on March 7th.
Michelle Vette, Nic Parkes and Emma Ratcliffe.
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Billet please??
Kairos Artistic Therapy training is starting soon.
Is there anyone close to Hasting central interested in billetting a student.
Dates are March31st till April 4th, arrive Sunday30th .
Don't hesitate to get in touch with Margaret-Mary Farr on 027 2484193 if you are able to.
Studio address is 100 Eastbourne Street East Hastings
so it would be great if it is within walking distance. Thank you.
Maggie
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Evolution of the Earth
Gain insight into the spiritual and material evolution of the Earth and human consciousness - core anthroposophical principles.
Cleone Armon presents:
Evolutionary Stages of the Earth and Human Consciousness (previously Creation)
9 week lecture series and optional art experience
February 11 to April 8
$170 lectures only | $230 with art
Attend online or in person in Hastings, NZ.
Access the online course with lecture recordings and notes anytime.
Free lesson preview and more details: https://anthro.thinkific.com/
Creation-Cleone.pdf
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ANNIVERSARY YEAR
This year is Taikura Rudolf Steiner School’ 75th birthday (being founded in 1950 through the purchase of Queenswood) and the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s death on 30 March 1925.
The Branch Committee meets on Thursday 27 February. We would love to know what members and readers would like to happen throughout the year to honour these anniversaries. Who can help or make suggestions or lead or support activities and events? Please let us know. Write/email to info@anthrohb.nz
or phone
Robyn Hewetson 021 2178688
Robin Bacchus 022 3982805
John Jackson 022 1228002
Angela Hair 027 4436737
Michael Caris 021 1538720
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Early Years
Continuing notes about the early years of Anthroposophy in New Zealand.
Some of these notes [in Italics] are derived from Garth Turbott’s 2013 thesis. "Anthroposophy in the Antipodes - A Lived Spirituality in New Zealand 1902-1960s" to Massey University for his MA. [Massey Research Online: www.mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/296 ]
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"The Beginnings of Steiner Education in New Zealand
From the time of Ada Wells and Emma Richmond there was a clear linkage between the impulse to Anthroposophy and a commitment to progressive education, with a developing interest in Rudolf Steiner’s educational methods. However, the first direct contact with Steiner education was not until 1926, when Rachel and Bernard Crompton Smith, Mabel Hodge (Headmistress of Woodford House) and Mary Bauchop visited the Waldorf school in Stuttgart, where Mary’s daughter Elizabeth became a pupil. The resolve to establish a Steiner school in New Zealand was made in 1936 when Ruth Nelson and Edna Burbury, accompanied by Jean Stuart-Menteath, also visited Stuttgart."
In the 1930s a group of teachers (including my mother) within Chilton Saint James School in Lower Hutt studied Rudolf Steiner's educational lectures and strove to incorporate his ideas in their teaching. Many of them became the new teachers In Queenswood after1950.
"In 1950 Edna Burbury, Ruth Nelson and Hugh Chambers (a long-standing member of the Anthroposophical Society in New Zealand who was continuing the tradition of involvement by prominent pastoralist families in the affairs of private schools in Havelock North), along with a number of other benefactors, formed a trust and acquired Queenswood School in Hastings. This had been a small private preparatory school for girls, with about 30 boarders and an equal number of local day pupils. Edna Burbury was aware that there would be apprehension about the introduction of Steiner education, and that changes in the school would have to proceed gradually. Indeed, there was some initial alarm amongst parents as the curriculum was progressively altered, but Alice Crowther writes that in due course their confidence was won. The first headmistress in 1950 was Jean Stuart-Menteath, who had been teaching junior classes at Marsden College in Wellington. She was joined in 1951 by Kathleen Weston, who had trained at the Michael Hall School in Forest Row in England, and there was a gradual acquisition of further trained Steiner teachers through the 1950s. Boys were slowly introduced to the school, beginning with entrance at the kindergarten level. During these early years, Rachel Crompton-Smith came regularly to the school on Thursday evenings to study Steiner’s educational lectures with staff and discuss curriculum development. Amongst the texts used was a translation of Steiner’s 1912 lecture cycle “The Roots of Education” made by Bernard Crompton-Smith (who often was assisted in this work by Alfred Meebold). By 1962 there were six teachers and a trained eurythmist. In that year, the school was visited for two months by Mr. Karl Ege, one of the original teachers at Waldorf School in Stuttgart when Rudolf Steiner was visiting the school regularly giving guidance.
He gave a public seminar* and suggested that the school name be changed to Queenswood Rudolf Steiner School, and that a course for teacher training be established. Both suggestions were adopted and Waldorf education was established on a firm basis at Hastings by the mid-1960s.
However, Queenswood Rudolf Steiner School was to stand alone in New Zealand until 1975, when a Christchurch school was opened, followed by a kindergarten in Auckland in 1978."
* I remember attending this public seminar, at the age of 20, with my mother, Nancy Bacchus.
She taught in the school until my father became very ill and died in 1966.
More next week. RB
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CONCEPTS
Percept - Sentient Soul - ephemeral - willing (observing)
Mental Picture - Comprehension Soul - individual experience - feeling (pleasure/displeasure)
Concept - Consciousness Soul - universal - thinking
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"Thought is not individual like sensation and feeling; it is universal. It receives an individual stamp in each separate human being only because it comes to be related to his individual feelings and sensations. By means of these particular colourings of the universal thought, individual men are distinguished from one another. There is only one single concept of “triangle.” It is quite immaterial for the content of this concept whether it is in A's consciousness or in B's. It will however be grasped by each of the two minds in its own individual way.
This thought conflicts with a common prejudice which is very hard to overcome. The victims of this prejudice are unable to see that the concept of a triangle which my mind grasps is the same as the concept which my neighbour's mind grasps. The naïve man believes himself to be the creator of his concepts. Hence he believes that each person has his 'private concepts'. One of the first things which philosophic thought requires of us is to overcome this prejudice. The one single concept of “triangle” does not split up into many concepts because it is thought by many minds. For the thought of the many is itself a unity."
from:
The Philosophy of Freedom
The Theory of Freedom
GA 4 VI. Our Knowledge of the World
VI. Our Knowledge of the World - The Philosophy of Freedom (1916) - Rudolf Steiner Archive