On the eve of the anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's birth, we'd like to share with you a story and an interview conducted recently at the University of Calgary, featuring Canadian architect Douglas Cardinal. Mr. Cardinal, considered to be Canada's most important and celebrated Indigenous architect,...
April Quan: AHWS parent and former Facilitator: Many of us in the Waldorf school community, downtown and in Thornhill, are grieving the loss of D’Arcy Mackenzie. He passed away peacefully in the hospital, surrounded by his family, close to a year after his diagnosis of brain...
During the twelve Holy Nights, December 25th - January 6th, Regine Kurek's art show Migration - A Grail Journey of Our Time was displayed in the Community Room at Hesperus Fellowship Village. "I would like to share with you a series of paintings that have...
The Michael Hedley Burton play This War is Not Inevitable is coming to North Vancouver on April 2, Easter Monday. It will be shown at the Waldorf School at 1:30 pm. This production is about the Threefold Social Organism or social threefolding, first conceived by Rudolf...
An Interview with Susan Koppersmith Michael Burton, could you say a little bit about your play? I wrote this play in January 2017 in New Zealand, where I live. It is a 90-minute piece of theatre that has been performed 35 times in various countries. It is based...
On September 29th, 2017, Northern Lights School held the official opening of its kindergarten with a small group of 7 students, a Waldorf-trained teacher Vicki McQueen, a group of dedicated parents and a motivated Board. Our mission is to re-imagine education in Thunder Bay, a...
Part 1 One individual can create ripples. Arlene Thorn is an individual who creates ripples in the lives of many who have studied with her over the years, through many initiatives that support what is whole and well and full of wonder in our world. I have...
TQuest productions wrapped up their final two performances, including the Canadian premiere, of Rudolf Steiner’s first mystery drama, “The Portal of Initiation”, October 27-29 and November 4th in Thornhill. Both performances were sold out in advance. For many in the troupe, it was the culmination of...
Snapshots from "EverythingFlows", A Water Conference held in North Vancouver BC at Cascadia in September 2017 Jennifer Greene opened the conference by showing us her many-times-taped-together copy of “Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air” by Theodor Schwenk, an anthroposophist, engineer and pioneering...
On Saturday, August 19, 2017, approximately forty people attended a day-long workshop on the practice of anthroposophical meditation, led by Robin Schmidt. Robin co-authored, with Heinz Zimmerman, a book on this topic, and his teachings on the workshop day were mostly based on the content...