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.  Librarian: Paulette Arnold

Dear friends, many books are missing from the Libray, Please return any over dues books.

Our library is open during the Wednesday morning Study Group from 9:30 am - 11 am

for more open hours contact Info@remove-this.RSchicago.remove-this.org 

and also by appointment, contact our Librarian: Paulette Arnold

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  

Please contact each event coordinator for information on a particular event.

Council Members:

President - Mary Spalding

Treasurer - Mihai Rosu

Secretary - Jonathan Hadley 

Programs - Andrei Onegin

Chuck Ginsberg 

Dottie Zold

Festivals Coordinator/Programs - Hazel Archer-Ginsberg

Librarian: Paulette Arnold

Elderberries Bio-Dynamic Outpost and 3Fold Cultural Hub is the new pick-up spot for Angelic Organics CSA click link to sign up

Learn more about the Outpost at their Facebook Page. or contact Dottie Zold (323) 975-6468

Elderberries Bio-Dynamic Outpost and 3Fold Cultural Hub is the new pick-up spot for Angelic Organics CSA starting June 23, 2020 click link to sign up

The Elderberries Biodynamic Outpost and 3fold Cultural Hub is inspired by Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner’s myriad indications for agriculture, economics, art, and social life. (Steiner inspired many additional initiatives, such as Waldorf Education, Anthroposophical Medicine, Eurythmy, and Architecture as a Synthesis of the Arts.) It is next door to the Rudolf Steiner Branch-Chicago.

The Outpost will soon be showcasing Biodynamic products with an emphasis on local Biodynamic farms. The Outpost will eventually be sponsoring educational programs to highlight Biodynamics and other Steiner-inspired initiatives. They wish to build a bridge between Biodynamic farmers and the city and to have a space specifically dedicated to those who work out of Biodynamic principles.

They will also be working to build up community and cultural life in Chicago. They will be working with, empowering, and learning from the youth of Thresholds, a live in high school for youth who have aged out of the foster care system.

Young people from around the world come to work, live and intern throughout the year at their Have Seeds House in Los Angeles that works with youth in distressing living conditions and adults who live in special care facilities.

Learn more about the Outpost at their Facebook Page.

***

Dottie Zold, originally from the Philadelphia/New Jersey area, is a community activist working out of Rudolf Steiner’s Threefold Commonwealth. She was inspired by her experience at the Goetheanum in Dornach at the youth section house at the bottom of the hill and opened a cafe in Hollywood called Elderberries Threefold Cafe. Her imagination was that she could create a safe space for the graduating Waldorf youth, and those who were more at risk, to meet around peer to peer conversations while finding their work and making a difference in their community. She began to work more deeply with the houseless youth from the foster care system and adults facing social and mental challenges. She, along with a few of the coworkers of the cafe, founded the Have Seeds House in Los Angeles that houses the coworkers and other at risk youth, and a cultural hub – Urban First Aid: Art As Medicine down the street from the cafe. Now in Chicago Dottie is hoping to bring greater awareness of the farmers working out of the biodynamic principles founded by Rudolf Steiner in 1920. She is also striving to make these foods and available to those in more economically challenged areas.

Frank Aleph Agrama is an organizer, artist and educator, co-founding Have Seeds House, Urban First Aid: Art as Medicine, and Elderberries Biodynamic Outpost & 3Fold Cultural Hub. He is working to seed a society shaped by creativity and community well-being. He found his love for the living social art after graduating from film school, questioning how to create a real life miracle rather than make one up in a movie. Born and raised in Hollywood, Frank walked into the original Elderberries on his lunch break, and had to ask himself ‘what in the world is in this salad?’ Then he went walking through Raphael Gardens, and asked himself ‘what in the world is going on in this garden?’ He soon told himself ‘I better learn about Waldorf Education.’ He uses his Waldorf certification as a foundation for cultivating sustainable relationships with co-workers, the stars, and the international Youth Section, which he is helping to lead in North America (until he gets too old.)

***

Dottie Zold of Elderberries Bio-Dynamic Outpost was voted in as a new council member.

And Mary Spalding is now the new Branch President. 

If you are interested in helping to hold open public hours at the branch contact Info@RSchicago.org