Rudolf Steiner Branch - Chicago
4249 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618
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About the Branch
Greetings and Welcome to the website of The Rudolph Steiner Branch of the Anthroposophical Society. We are located near the bustling Lincoln Square neighborhood in Chicago. Map
We have a rich life here at the branch, with many study groups (see below), Festivals, Program/Lectures, Workshops, and Exhibits, . The Branch Calendar is online.
Ongoing events are listed below. Festivals and Special events are in the column to the right.
Coming in for an event? For info. on lodging etc. contact Info@RSchicago.org
Do you have a desire to serve & share your gifts?
Be an active member of the Community!
There are many things that need to happen to keep the branch life alive. WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Library, Cafe, Books
Our extensive lending library of Anthroposophical books is available, free to the public with a suggested refundable $25 deposit (less if this is not affordable) and without deposit to Branch members.
Our library and bookstore are open: During the Wednesday morning Study Group from 9:30 am - 11 am
Tuesday evenings 7 pm - 9 pm,
Thursday's 6 pm - 7 pm and also by appointment
We warmly welcome new friends and visitors to browse the library and to join us in our study groups and events!
Our café area makes a cozy atmosphere for socializing after a program, festival. or exhibit
Anthroposophy is ...
"Anthroposophy opens its wellsprings, and the human will, carried by love, may draw from the waters. It brings to life love for humankind and thereby works creatively in impulses for moral action and true social interaction.” — Rudolf Steiner
EXPLORE HUMANITY’S PATH AND YOUR OWN.
Become a member of the Anthroposophical Society in America, then you are invited to Become a member of the Rudolf Steiner Branch
Branch Membership is $50 (or pay what you can afford) per year - Dear friends that is less than 14 cents a day! Please consider offering your support.
Contacts
Please contact each event coordinator for information on a particular event.
To special order a book or specific item, please call Janis Ignoffo (773) 549-5753
To list your Anthroposophical event or program contact our Web Master KAROLINA NOWAK
Council Members:
President - Chuck Ginsberg
Treasurer - Mihai Rosu
Secretary - Mary Ruud
Program Coordinator - Andrei Onegin
Programs/Festivals Coordinator - Hazel Archer-Ginsberg
Study Groups / Ongoing Events
(CANCELED until Spring) Tuesdays 7:00 pm - 8 :30 pm
Tone & Speech Eurythmy Classes with Mary Ruud - $10
Wednesdays 9:30-11:00 am
Karmic Relationships Vol 3 by Rudolf Steiner.
We incorporate ‘The Calendar of the Soul’, eurythmy, focused discussion and seasonal artistic explorations in our study. All are Welcome. Contact Hazel Archer Ginsberg (773-549-3026) hag@rschicago.org
Wednesdays 7:00-9:00 pm
This study group is working with various lectures by Rudolf Steiner.
All who are interested are welcome to join us.For more information, call David Kavesh (312-451-9872).
Thursday 10 am - Noon - Homeschool Eurythmy withMary Ruud.
Thursday 10:30 – Noon (once a month)
We will read and discuss Lecture 6 in the book titled “ The Inner Nature of Man and the Life Between Death and a New Birth” by Rudolf Steiner. We will also discuss which book to study next year. This study group is opened to everyone. Please join us. Reading material is available at the Branch. For more information, contact Carolyn (773-539-3688) or Alice (773-528-5340).
Thursdays 7:00 – 9:00 pm
We are reading Steiner's lectures on the Apocalypse of St. John, after which we plan to return to the final chapters of An Outline of Esoteric [or Occult] Science. Anyone interesting in joining us is invited to contact Clark Remington (773-595-5793).
Sundays 5:00 – 7:00 pm
This group meets weekly. We are studying “The Challenge of Our Time” (social curs), given by Rudolf Steiner in 1918, GA#186. For more information, contact Andrei Onegin (773-764-2313).
Sunday Evenings 7:00 - 9:00 pm
“Youth Conversation Group: People to People: Social Renewal Through Human Interaction” hosted by Waldorf music teacher Isaac Maier, in the upper room at the Rudolf Steiner Branch. Donations appreciated, to sign up contact isaacmaier@gmail.com
For Members of the First Class...
of the School for Spiritual Science
What is The School of Spiritual Science?
The meeting of the First Class of the School of Spiritual Scienceconvenes on the third Saturday of each month. (with some exceptions) Blue Membership Cards are required.
The lesson begins promptly at 6:00 pm.
The next meetings is: February 16, Saturday, 6:00 p.m.: Fifth Recapitulation Lesson
March 16, Saturday, 6:00 p.m.: Sixth Recapitulation Lesson
April 20, Saturday, 6:00 p.m.: Seventh Recapitulation Lesson
May 18, Saturday, 6:00 p.m.: First Prague Lesson
June 15, Saturday, 6:00 p.m.: Second Prague Lesson
Please arrive ahead of time, so you have a chance to come into the mood of the class before the lesson begins. After the reading of the lesson, we will take a short break. We will reconvene in a circle for conversation about the lesson. Ending time is approximately 9:00 pm.
Over the course of 2018–2019, we will work through the seven "recapitulation lessons" given by Rudolf Steiner in Dornach, in which he presented again the mantras that were first given as the mantras of lessons one through the first part of lesson nine. Then we might go on to do the two lessons that he gave in Prague.
For more information, contact Class Reader Clark Remington (773) 595-5793
Links - Inspired by Steiner
City Garden Early Childhood Waldorf School
Arcturus Rudolf Steiner Education Program
Reverse Ritual - Understanding Anthroposophy Through the Rhythms of the Year
The Christian Community Chicago
The National Anthroposophical Society site
and The Goetheaum in Dornach
Notes - News
Dear Friends – Thanks for Hosting the GC of the ASA here are a few images from that gathering.
The transformation of the ‘Flex Space’ has attracted more Peerspace clients. These kind of raw industrial loft-style spaces are very desirable in the rental market now. We have made a lot of head way. Thanks to your generous donations & loans we have:
1. Insulated the ceiling
2. Installed a furnace / air conditioner and related infrastructure
We still need to update the flooring & get a new garage door
The Branch Council is requesting tax exempt donations and/or loans, for this restoration. The loans are for 2-3 years, simple interest of 5%, paid yearly. More favorable terms are welcome.
The Rudolf Steiner Branch Council hopes you will support these efforts, as we continue to provide Programs, and Festival Events, Monthly 1st Class Lessons, Study Groups, Library / Bookstore, and weekly Public Open House hours, in one of the few Branch homes in America to own their own building.
Thank you! to all our friends who have already donated & given generous loans to insure the financial stability of our community treasure!
The Branch 'Flex Space' & the renovated Elderberries 3-Fold Space are currently available for rental on PEER SPACE: for Classes, Trainings, Meetings, Retreats, Art Exhibits, Rehearsals, Production: Video/Photo shoots, etc...
In other news, we have a new Building Maintenance Engineer: Antonio Morales, a longtime resident & neighbor. Tony happened to stroll by with his wife as they were taking their dog on a walk when we were working on the Flex Space this summer, he was excited to see what we were doing & offered to help. Tony is a retired CTA engineer who has many skills, he even build his own home in Guatemala. He helps with the Peerspace events & does general building maintenance. We are lucky to have his kind & helpful spirit at our Branch.
Also, we are happy to announce the addition of our new Web Master KAROLINA NOWAK. Contact Karolina if you would like your Anthroposophical event or program listed on the web site
Thanks to all in our community who are stepping up to help with all the many tasks to keep Anthroposophy alive here at the Rudolf Steiner Branch of Chicago!
Don't forget to send in your memebership dues for 2019!
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Special Events
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All events take place at the Rudolf Steiner Branch, 4249 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618 except as noted.
Friday 22 February 2019 - The Social impulse of Ita Wegman and Karl Koenig
(Ita Wegman's Birthday) Community Potluck at 5:30 pm Presentation 7 pm, 8 pm Conversation
Seeding Circles for a Renewal of Culture: A conversation around the social impulses of Ita Wegman, Karl Konig and the future they inspired, with Frank Agrama, Elizabeth Roosevelt, and Dottie Zold
AGM Sunday 24 February 2019, 2 pm – 4 pm
Our local Annual General Meeting of the Rudolf Steiner Branch, Chicago.
All members in good standing invited to attend.
Not a member? This is the perfect time to join
or re-up by paying this year’s dues.
(It's less than 14 cents a day! Please consider offering your support)
"Anthroposophy opens its wellsprings, and the human will, carried by love, may draw from the waters. It brings to life love for humankind and thereby works creatively in impulses for moral action and true social interaction.” ~Rudolf Steiner
EXPLORE HUMANITY’S PATH AND YOUR OWN.
Become a member of the Anthroposophical Society in America, then you are invited to Become a member of the Rudolf Steiner Branch
Membership is $50 (or pay what you can afford) per year -
23-24 March 2019 'May Human Beings Hear It' with APO founder Fred Janney from Ann Arbor
Sat. 23 March, 7 pm - 9 pm & Sun. 24 March, 1 pm - 4 pm
Saturday March 23th, 2019, 7:00-9:00 p.m: Personality and spiritual biographies of the original Vorstand members and group healing meditation.
Sunday March 24th 2019, Identifying your spiritual stream and recognizing its opposite stream with directions for bringing cohesion and direction for members on both sides of the threshold.
Minimum contribution $25 with proceeds donated to APO.
2019 marks the reinstatement of Ita Wegman and Elisabeth Vreede back into the General Anthroposophical Society after 84 years. This 12x7 combination is a very important number combination in microcosmic and macrocosmic dynamics. Their return from banishment is only a first step in healing the karma of our organization and embracing the ongoing leadership of Rudolf Steiner into the future. Long standing and exacerbating problems have ensued since the ouster of these two leading lights chosen esoterically by Rudolf Steiner.
It is essential and imperative in our time to reconcile and forge harmony with these and other members on both sides of the threshold so that anthroposophy can flourish.
Sergei Prokofieff through his research tells us that all the original Executive Council members were chosen representatives and archetypes of the different and divergent karmic streams that came together under the direction of Rudolf Steiner for the esoteric tasks required well into the future.
The birth and development of the New Mysteries that was initiated at the Christmas Conference at the end of 1923 called on the free and active participation of these individuals.
On many occasions Rudolf Steiner called on each member of the Anthroposophical Society to uncover and research the spirituals stream for which he/she came to earth. Then, in order to heal the individual and group karma of the General Anthroposophical Society, members were urged to reach out to members of conflicting spiritual streams, so as to find ways to harmonize the conflicts.
In our time, these steps in self and social development are essential as we seek future work together for the development of humanity.
References: May Human Beings Hear It (2004) by Sergei Prokofieff. Chapter Five: The Esoteric Archetype of the Original Council.
https://www.rudolfsteiner.org/articles. Anthroposophical Society: What Ails Thee (2017) by Fred Janney
Fred Janney in 1999 joined with six other members of the Anthroposophical Society from around the country to start what soon became known as Anthroposophical Prison Outreach. We are celebrating twenty years of service to incarcerated individuals based on the good will and donations of our member.
HOLY WEEK 2019 Begins 14 April Palm Sunday 2pm - 4pm Then every evening 7pm - 9pm & Easter Sunday 2 pm - 4 pm
For our study this year, we will take up the Mystery of Kaspar Hauser
In the New Mysteries we follow the path of the Christian initiation thru the Holy Week before Easter - With every step, from the recognition of the old Sun on Palm Sunday, thru to the meeting of the Saturn-Spirit and The Harrowing of Hell, which sparks the rising of the New Sun of Easter.
For our study we will take up: 'Kaspar Hauser: The Struggle for the Spirit' by Anthroposophical researcher Peter Tradowsky
I have ordered 5 copies to be given out on a 1st come basis at cost: $23
Come to any or all of the gatherings:
14 April Palm Sunday, 2pm - 4pm
Holy Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Good Friday & Holy Saturday, 7pm - 9pm
& Easter Sunday, 2 pm - 4 pm - The Rose Cross Meditation
Easter Sunday 21 April 2019, 2 pm – 4 pm The Golden Legend and The Rose Cross Meditation – Leading Thoughts, Social Art & Discourse with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg
Using our head, hands & heart we will enact this powerful Rosicrucian tool given to us by Rudolf Steiner, as a soul path of initiation, using imaginative cognition to build spiritual etheric forces; a Metamorphoses of Self & of World evolution.
$10 for Art Supplies & Snacks to Share Encoraged
Sat. 25 May 2019 - Climbing Jacobs Ladder: Celebrating the Feast of Ascension
7 pm - 9 pm
Leading Thoughts & orignal art-collage projections with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg
Eurythmy with Mary Ruud
Social Art with Nancy Melvin
$10 Donation & Snacks to Share Encouraged
Friday 21 June 2019, 7 pm - 9 pm Rudiger Janisch: The 3 fold human being , the foundation stone & the 3 fold social organism
Friday 21 June 2019, 7 pm - 9 pm & Saturday 22 June 2019, 10 am - 1 pm
Rüdiger has been working in Curative Education and teaching in professional training programs in Germany and the United States for over 40 years. A long-time student of anthroposophy, he serves on the Collegium of the School for Spiritual Science in North America. His contributions to adult education methods were recognized in the context of an international research project sponsored by the European Union. He has been a member of the core faculty of a joint ‘Training for Trainers’ program supporting Curative Education and Social Therapy in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan. He has also taught as an adjunct faculty member of the M.S. Ed program in Waldorf Remedial Education at Antioch University N.H. Having taught many different aspects of anthroposophy and Curative Education, he currently is focused on action research and the development of artistic and experiential approaches to the spiritual scientific study of the human being.
Contact rjanisch@camphill.edu
Stay Tuned to Details on the Weekend!
Saturday 22 June 2019, 10 am - 1 pm Rudiger Janisch: The 3 fold human being , the foundation stone & the 3 fold social organism
Rüdiger has been working in Curative Education and teaching in professional training programs in Germany and the United States for over 40 years. A long-time student of anthroposophy, he serves on the Collegium of the School for Spiritual Science in North America. His contributions to adult education methods were recognized in the context of an international research project sponsored by the European Union. He has been a member of the core faculty of a joint ‘Training for Trainers’ program supporting Curative Education and Social Therapy in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan. He has also taught as an adjunct faculty member of the M.S. Ed program in Waldorf Remedial Education at Antioch University N.H. Having taught many different aspects of anthroposophy and Curative Education, he currently is focused on action research and the development of artistic and experiential approaches to the spiritual scientific study of the human being.
Contact rjanisch@camphill.edu
Stay Tuned to Details on the Weekend!
