Upcoming Events
We invite you to join us for our upcoming lectures, artistic workshops, classes, and performances.
For More Information on individual events, please contact programs@anthroposophyla.org.
Upcoming Events
November
November 2 - Reading to the Dead - Anne Saldo
November 14 - Painting with Wool - Aileen Leijten
December
December 6-8 - Emergency & Trauma Education - Bernd Ruf, Reinaldo Nascimento
Details TBA - The Oberufer Shepherd's Play - Directed by Jeramy Shirley
Details TBA - The 12 Holy Nights in Los Angeles and Orange County
2025
March 28-30, 2025 - The Michael Prophecy: Celebration of Rudolf Steiner’s Life – Steffen Hartman & concert
Dates TBA - All Souls Drama Performance - Laurie Portocarrero
Dates TBA - Mystery Drama Workshops - Laurie Portocarrero
Reading to the Dead
with Anne Saldo
Saturday, November 2
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Postponed to 2025
Rudolf Steiner’s Third Mystery Drama
Doorway to the Wisdom of the Human Being!
With Laurie Portocarrero
Saturday and Sunday, November 9 and 10
Full Weekend of Mystery Drama Workshops
Join us in these uniquely experiential workshops exploring Rudolf Steiner’s The Guardian of the Threshold with Laurie each day from 9:00 – 1:00 and 2:30 - 6:00
- plus conversation over refreshment breaks!
Ever since the tremendous joy and soul enlightening we felt in Laurie’s first two mystery drama workshops, we’ve been looking forward to exploring the mysteries of Rudolf Steiner's third play, The Guardian of the Threshold with her in another intensive and dynamic “hands-on” experience.
We find that working with the words and imaginations, the actions and life of the plays, gives us tremendous insight, inspiration, and strength for our own paths of inner development
Contributions for support are highly appreciated
and all are welcome regardless of donation size. You may donate online or in person. Guideline suggestion - $20 each workshop session or $75 for Sat/Sun all 4 sessions.
If in Shakespeare's characters we meet every shade of soul and personality, perhaps in Steiner's, we are experiencing "stages of spiritual development."
In the first two plays the struggles between human beings with the great adversaries Lucifer and Ahriman have much reflected our own struggles. Now in the third play, with much changed, further development will take place only with strong help!
In Rudolf Steiner's mystery dramas, we are given imaginations that contain the entirety of Anthroposophy and serve as guides in meeting our own karmic knots. We see our own flaws and foibles in Johannes and Capesius and Strader, and learn from them. We welcome seeing how in this play they each are able to achieve new spiritual standing.
Since the beginning of western drama in ancient Greece, we have turned to drama to unveil for us the invisible behind the visible, the workings of the spiritual world through our own.
This workshop is the third in a series of four on Rudolf Steiner's mystery dramas hosted by our Branch for our community. We look forward to the fourth next summer!
"Our modern culture loves what is intellectual... But the world is constructed in such a way that it can't be expressed merely in concepts and ideas. - We have to evolve modes of depiction other than the merely intellectual.
And so it was that I felt the need to express something which is completely alive... The spiritual content of anthroposophy - of the Wisdom of the Human Being - that wills to reveal itself, is much too rich to be contained within words and ideas alone; it strives for form, for the image, metamorphoses all on its own into art, into genuine art from the primal sources of art and religion.
That's what gave rise to my four Mystery Dramas..
And if people really lived deeply with the imaginations offered in these dramas, I would not have to write the books, or give the lectures!"
The workshop will use the Barbara Renold beautifully edited 2014 translation, and the Rudolf Steiner Library will have several copies for purchase, or bring your own if you have one.
For more information please email ekrivosheia@dslextreme.com
About Laurie Portocarrero
Laurie Portocarrero attended the Washington Waldorf School in Washington DC, and fell in love with the experience of the dramatic arts permeated with meaning and spirit.
She went on to study Foundations of Anthroposophy, Waldorf teacher training and Goethean Studies; and later, to train in Spacial Dynamics, The Chekhov acting technique, Eurythmy, singing, speech formation, storytelling, and Non-Violent Communication. She has studied and taught in the US, Canada, Switzerland, and Australia. She is now an actor, storyteller, drama teacher and director, living in Philmont in Upstate New York. A long-time associate member of The Actors’ Ensemble and Walking the dog Theater, Laurie has appeared in and directed many works from Shakespeare to Thornton Wilder to Ionesco. With long-time colleague Glen Williamson she also creates, performs and tours two-person plays such as the Refugees Tale, The Gospel of John, Aeschylus Unbound, and currently, Fire in the Temple. Within the 2010-2014 series of Mystery Drama conferences in Chestnut Ridge, New York, she played Maria in Rudolf Steiner’s four mystery dramas.
She led the course “The Art of the Actor” through Threefold Educational Center in Chestnut Ridge, for seven years. She directs the summer children’s camp “Drama for the Little Folk”, directs an annual community reading of The Christmas Carol, and created the Christmas Celebration of Song and Word, bringing together speaking and singing groups to share their gifts with the community. She directs plays with academy students in special needs communities; and has directed plays throughout China with adults, children and young people of all ages. Currently she also directs a speech chorus, leads a Mystery Drama study/exploration group, and helps to form Branch festivals in the Berkshire-Taconic community.
Ever inspired by and seeking to serve both the Muse of Art and Anthroposophia in the service of the community, her hope in all art-creating is to help facilitate harmonious encounter with each other out of the longing we all carry deep in our beings to develop the Social Art of the future: How do we meet one another? How may we do what Rudolf Steiner urged, and carry our warm hearts into the world to do powerful healing work
With great gratitude, we welcome Laurie whenever she can join us!
Emergency and Trauma Education
with Bernd Ruf, Reinaldo Nascimento, Ida Oberman
December 6th-8th
Rudolf Steiner Community Center and Pasadena Waldorf School
Traumas change lives permanently and can even lead to a break in one’s biography. Emergency and trauma education aims to support children and young people in processing extreme stressful experiences and prevent subsequent trauma-related disorders. The weekend aims to introduce the conception and practice of anthroposophical emergency and trauma education.
For educators at all levels, parents, guardians, medical professionals, and all those invested in the health of childhood.
In addition to the presentors (bios below), this course includes experiencial workshops that include artistic and movement-based activities with local and international Emergency Pedagogs.
FRIDAY NIGHT December 6th:
Lecture at Rudolf Steiner Community Center
110 Martin Alley, Pasadena ~ 7-9:30pm
SATURDAY & SUNDAY December 7th - 8th:
Two Day Workshop - 9am-4pm
Mornings at Rudolf Steiner Community Center (RSCC)
Afternoons at Pasadena Waldorf School (PWS)
(Agenda subject to adjustments)
Co-Sponsored By:
Waldorf Institute of Southern California
Los Angeles Rudolf Steiner Community Center in Pasadena
Pasadena Waldorf School
Contact Christine B. for questions:
programs@anthroposophyla.org
Biography
Bernd Ruf
Author of Educating Traumatized Children and other books on Emergency and Trauma Education (in German). Founder and Director of the Emergency Pedagogy Center, leading missions in war and disaster areas worldwide. Co-founder of the International Institute for Emergency and Trauma Pedagogy (IINTP). In 2019, he founded and has since developed the Emergency Pedagogy Without Borders organization.
Reinaldo Nascimento
Social Therapist, physical educator, neuropsycho educator, emergency and trauma educator. Teacher Trainer and Co-founder of the Emergency Pedagogy Association in Brazil. Member and pedagogical coordinator of the international Emergency Pedagogy team.
Translation: Dr Ida Oberman
Founder & ED emerita Community School for Creative Education, Oakland, CA; Founding Member Emergency Pedagogy Team California/USA.
Postponed to 2025
All Souls Performance
with Laurie Portocarrero
Laurie Portocarrero brings her magic to us for an evening of dramatic performance starring the “Uprising in the Dying.”
For the special season of All Souls, this journey weaves the threads of story, song, and poetry celebrating the undying love that reaches across the threshold of death, and includes stirring passages from Rudolf Steiner’s third play, “The Guardian of the Threshold”
Suggested donation: $25.00.
Whatever amount, donations are always welcome.
Holy Nights with Orange County Study Groups
With Rudolf Steiner’s Gospel of St. Matthew
Everyone is warmly invited to join us December 26 - January 6 for a deeper sharing in the special atmosphere of these holy days together.
We have discovered that the more evenings we attend the greater the rich treasure of the Christmas season blossoms livingly in us.
These Mathew lectures are astounding for the breadth and depth of spiritual knowledge presented.
For our meeting schedule, please email Eloise at ekrivosheia@dslextreme.com