Anthroposophical Society
Thornhill Campus Bulletin 
June 2011
Einstein

 

 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge,  

for knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand."  

- Albert Einstein


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In this issue: Playing and Working With Imagination   

 

 

Greetings!

  
The word "imagination" has a variety of meanings. It can suggest escapism and idle fantasy - a retreat into dreamland. Or it can be seen as a capacity for leadership - the ability to "see" exciting possibilities for the future.  A leading dictionary definition is very practical:  "The faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses."

Imagination is all these things - and more.  Each of us possesses this faculty.  How effectively are we using it? 

Sincerely,

Mark
  
Encounters With Imagination
Encounters A FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND EDUCATION, 11-22 July, 2011

The capacity for imagination is central to advances in all fields of human endeavour. Scientists, artists and educators alike rely upon creative capacities to forge new understanding and build healthy relationships...to perceive living interconnections between seemingly separate beings. These reveal that individuals and objects are but a part of a whole meaning-filled world. Imagination lifts the veil of materialism and offers insights into how to work holistically in any endeavour.

Leed Jackson
Leed Jackson
Highlighted Workshop: 
HEART OF MATTER - MAKING IN METAL
- with Leed Jackson
Working with metals engages us in a process where we can find a deeper connection to the whole, to "mother earth," that can bring personal, social and ecological healing.  We will work with copper, silver, lead, tin, carbon and silica, creating both aesthetic forms and inner soul structures.  We will use the processes of casting, etching, forging and enamelling to explore movement between three alchemical states: form (salt), mobility (mercury), and enthusiasm (sulphur).

Full Festival Details.  
Practicing Imagination -
Thresholds Art Symposium
The Thresholds Art Symposium brings together artists and community to create a unification of colour, form, and space.  Participants may choose to apprentice in sculpture or lazure painting (using plant pigments), with many hours each day in hands-on learning.

Lazure1Highlighted workshop: Lazure painting
- with John Stolfo  

Lazure painting can be seen as a 'cultural impulse' with universal implication and application.  Not everyone, sometimes even experienced lazurists, fully grasp its essential principles and importance as a way of transforming interior and exterior spaces through the inner power of colour.  Lazure should support spatial function.  It can achieve this through colour mood and randiant transparency. Lazure ensouls space with healing life...   

 

28 September-2 October, 2011 at Hesperus.   Click here for full details of the opening of Hesperus Village. 

 

 

Kindling Imagination -
Anthroposophy Study Group in Toronto?
Rafael
Raphael - "School of Athens".

Several readers have said it is difficult to travel to the "School of Thornhill", and they would like to meet with others in the Toronto area for conversation and study about anthroposophy.  Please contact me if you are interested, and perhaps something could be arranged for September. Ed.
Contact Information
The Campus is located at 9100 Bathurst St., north of Hwy 7 in Thornhill. 
 
Questions?  Contact Mark McAlister
416-892-3656
Liszt Via Brazil!
Liszt2
Franz Liszt
Castro2
Luiz de Moura Castro
De Castro, a "poet of the piano", returns to Novalis Hall to give a concert celebrating the 200th aniversary of Liszt's birth. June 5, 3pm, Novalis Hall, Angus ON Details (scroll down the page)
Summer Intensives

 

Nature Institute
The Nature Institute Plant-Drawing Workshop
The Nature Institute
19-25 June, Harlemville NY

Eurythmy Week
19-24 June, Spring Valley NY

Centre For Anthroposophy
26 June-8 July,
Wilton NH

Clowning - Level 1
"The Courage To Be" - 26-30 June, Spring Valley NY

Encounters with Imagination 11-22 July, Thornhill

The Four Ethers

with Michael Chapitis and Regine Kurek. 18-22 July, 901 Rutherford Rd. 


HEART (Healing Arts and Remedial Training), 25-29 July, Thornhill

Links
Goetheanum

Our International Centre at The Goetheanum.

  
  

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