The North American Youth Section (NAYS) would like to offer a new monthly newsletter full of constructive insight on the topic of Love in its highest form, or "Agape" to affirm positive action in 2016. While some of us contributing writers are located here in Chestnut...
Warm greetings and Happy New Year! 2016 promises to be a big year for the Anthroposophical Society in Canada. The website for the Society will be launched shortly. We have the North American conference Encountering Our Humanity in Ottawa in August, with its wealth of speakers, artistic...
“What is really at the core of Hesperus' mission is to explore, develop and support what is truly human. It's like the snowflake. Each snowflake is the same - and different. And that's also the case with human beings. Each of us has our own...
Advent: one candle lit and wondered on its greeny wreath as oak leaves wither and waste themselves upon the stony mantle. Advent: the white light twains as an ill wind blows and the river drives its dark metal over the bitter land. Advent: the Trinity speaks in flames only the One remains — above my head thrush and blackbird flock their...
A major conference entitled Encountering our Humanity: From Knowledge to Conscious Action will be held in Ottawa from August 7th to 14th, 2016. This conference is the initiative of Arie van Ameringen, General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada. The following is an interview...
Warm greetings to all the members. From October 10th to October 12th, the Council had the opportunity to meet and work together in Ottawa. We stayed at the residence on the campus of La Cité collégiale, which is the location...
Friday evening 24 July 2015, I was at the Rudolf Steiner Centre in Vancouver, Canada. I had come to listen to Bodo von Plato lecture on “Philosophy, Anthroposophy and Everyday Life.” The following morning we were asked to give a free interpretation of what the...
Some background:In 2014, the Thornhill Group hosted a number of events relating to social art. (See: Resilience and Renewal Through Social Sculpture) The “social sculpture” workshop with Deborah Ravetz was a big highlight. Here is a comment from one of the participants: “As...
Duncan and Maggie Keppie, Jennifer Greene and Jonathan Swan This unique conference brought water and rocks together as subjects of Goethean observation of the processes common to water and the earth as a step towards a deepening understanding of the “Living Water and Earth or...
Dear Friends,A very warm greeting to everyone!There were a few events that occurred since the AGM that council would like to communicate.We received a letter from the Canada Revenue Agency requesting that the Rudolf Steiner Foundation be dissolved unless...