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), Exhibits, Program/Lectures, Workshops, and Festivals. The Branch Calendar is online.
Ongoing events are listed below. Festivals and Special events are in the column to the right.
We have an Open House / Work Party every Tuesday 7 - 9 pm, Thursday's 6 - 7 pm & many Weekends. Read more about our Campaign .
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 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, exhibit or festival.
Please take advantage of a 40% off book sale at the Rudolf Steiner branch. In addition to Anthroposophical books, our store carries products from True Botanica and Dr. Hauschka as well as Waldorf-style greeting cards.
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
Read about the last AGM “ Rise Up! – Life as a Labor of Love” Conference in Phoenix, Arizona
Become a member of the Rudolf Steiner Branch
Contacts
Please contact each event coordinator for information on a particular event.
For general questions or to be added to the email list to receive notices about upcoming events contact Hazel Archer-Ginsberg
To special order a book or specific item, or for information on lodging, please call Janis Ignoffo (773) 549-5753
Council Members:
President - Chuck Ginsberg
Treasurer - Mihai Rosu
Secretary - Mary Ruud
Program Coordinator - Andrei Onegin
Programs/Festivals Coordinator - Hazel Archer-Ginsberg
Kurtis Heath Estep
Study Groups / Ongoing Events
Sunday Evenings, 5:00 -7:00 pm: The Apocalypse of St. John, by Rudolf Steiner. For more information, contact Andrei at (773) 764-2313. Location:Rudolf Steiner Branch-Upstairs
Wednesday Mornings, 9:30am - 11am, Over the Summer we will explore St. John's-Tide, incorporating: The Calendar of the Soul, Eurythmy, Focused Discussion, & Seasonal Artistic Explorations. In September we will resume our study with Karmic Relationships Vol. 3, by Rudolf Steiner. For more information, contact Hazel Archer Ginsberg (773) 549-3026 Location: Rudolf Steiner Branch
Wednesday Evenings, 7:00-9:00 pm. This study group is working with The Boundaries of Natural Science, by Rudolf Steiner. All who are interested are welcome to join us. For more information, call David Kavesh (312-451-9872)
Third Thursday mornings, 10:30 am - Noon. Once a month this group will study “Sleep and Death”, Chapter 3 in Rudolf Steiner’s book, An Outline of Esoteric Science. Please feel free to join us. Books are available at the Branch. For more information, contact Alice (773-528-5340) or Carolyn (773-539-3688).
Thursday Evenings, 7:00 - 9:00 pm. The Apocalypse of St. John, by Rudolf Steiner. Anyone interested in joining us is invited to contact Clark Remington (773- 595-5793)
Ongoing event:
Explore forms & do hygienic exercises in this fun weekly group
For more info. contact Mary Ruud (email)
$10 suggested donation
For Members of the First Class...
of the School for Spiritual Science
First Class is on Hiatus for the Summer
In September we will resume meeting on the third Saturday of each month. (with some exceptions) The lesson begins promptly at 6:00 pm. Please arrive ahead of time, so you have a chance to come into the mood of the class before the lesson begins. What is The School of Spiritual Science?
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.
To Members of the First Class in the Chicago area:
Over the course of 2018–2019, beginning on Saturday September 15th, 2018, 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.
Many thanks, 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’ which will attract a tenant, either long-term or more Peerspace clients, is going full swing. These kind of raw industrial loft-style spaces are very desirable in the rental market now. We have made a lot of head way by we still have to:
1. Insulate the ceiling
2. Install a furnace / air conditioner and related infrastructure
3. Flooring
Dana Erickson is coming back to donate her skills, come join her Aug. 23-30. (then its How We Will) Work will resume after HWW from Sept. 4-10.
The Branch Council is requesting tax exempt donations and/or loans, in order to meet our $7,000 goal for this restoration. The loans are for 2-3 years, simple interest of 5%, paid yearly. More favorable terms are welcome.
You may drop off any checks or mail them directly to the Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago 60618.
If you'd like to support the Branch through service, come by on our ‘Work Party’ Days to help in the renovation. Contact Mihai Rosu
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. (Also, look forward to receiving new information on an improved email communications system coming very soon) Read more about our Campaign
Thank you! to all our friends who have already donated & given generous loans to insure the financial stability of our community treasure!
The Branch 'warehouse space' & the renovated Elderberries 3-Fold Space are currently available for rental on PEER SPACE: for classes, events, meetings, retreats, art exhibits, etc...
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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.
Branch Calendar - Festivals - Nov-Jan Programs - Exhibits
Sunday, Oct 28, 2-4pm Theme of the Year Group Work
Join us for group work with the entire worldwide Anthroposophical Movement!
It has long become a tradition that the Executive Council at the Getheanum publishes an annual theme as a proposal for the anthroposophical branches and groups worldwide to work on. This proposal has also always extended to a recommendation of texts or lectures that were suitable for joint studies.
The Annual Motif for The Anthroposophical Society 2018/19
The second verse of the Foundation Stone Meditation is at the center of the Anthroposophical Society’s new working year (Anthroposophy Worldwide 3/2018). This verse refers us to the human middle, the feeling and the element of time, and it is related to the Christ being.
group work on topics
Community Building Element Of the Anthroposophical Society.
&
Realm of the Sun as the spiritual source of principle Equality in Social Organism.
Material for conversation: Ga # 186, part of lecture 4.
....Therefore if we want to understand man, such as he appears before our eyes to-day, we must look at a wonderful tissue, woven out of many and various forms. It must be quite clear to us, that only when we, in a sense, draw this tissue apart and observe the activity of the several Beings, do we learn to understand how through the co-operation of these Beings man has come into being. We are then able to say, that the chief Being who comes into consideration for the present-day man, is the one who has given him the possibility of saying ‘ I ’ to himself, of gradually coming to the consciousness of the ‘ I ’, and we know that this possibility was first given by the Spirits of Form, those Beings whom we call Powers, Exusiai. If we listen to the activity of these particular Beings which they direct to man and ask ourselves what would happen to him if these Beings alone — and of these only those who are in normal evolution, — were chiefly to be active in him, we should find that these are the donors of the ‘ I ’-organization. If we consider them according to their own nature, we find that their chief interest lies in bringing to man his ‘ I ’. But now what these Beings have really to accomplish in man, only actually comes about in the life of present-day man at a certain age; it can only appear at a certain age.
To read part of the lecture, which we will discuss during the meeting,
please this attachment.
(To read the entire lecture, please click the link below.)
https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA/GA0121/19100610p01.html
For more information: aonegin@rschicago.org
Thursday-Sunday, Nov 1-4 - Fall Youth Conference
High School students - Our Ideas – Our Ideals – Working together to create together
Tamarack Waldorf School will stay as a group though Friday evening- the rest of us will carry on through Sunday at 1PM.
Sponsored by the Christian Community in coordination with
Tamarack Waldorf School,
Bart Eddy and Detroit Community School,
Elderberries Chicago
and musician Jen Zimberg
High School students that want to come together to work- build- paint- create – in conversation and singing - Our Ideas – Our Ideals – Working together to create together
Thursday, Nov 1st 2PM it begins – Meet each other – Agreements on our working together
Thursday evening – Project Descriptions and goals – Mural Painting – Work Bench Building- Cooking – T Shirt stenciling- Singing - Games
Friday – 8AM Day Begins
Morning Conversation Singing and Project Work
Lunch
Afternoon Conversation Singing and Project Work
Dinner
Evening Reflections – Tamarack Waldorf School leaves and Sleep
Saturday 8AM – Day Begins – Morning Conversation and work projects continue
Lunch
Afternoon- Projects continue – (possible trip into the city – Blackstone Bike Coop) – Ken Dunn
Dinner
Saturday evening – Conversation singing and talent show
Sunday AM – Sing for the children’s service and adult service
Lunch – 1PM Finish!
Friday, Nov 2, 7-9pm - All Souls Festival
Our Annual ALL SOULS Festival
Come Experience the Journey of the Soul in the Life between Death & Rebirth
6:45 pm – 9:30 pm Friday 2 November 2018
Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 North Lincoln Avenue. Chicago, IL 60618
Cello by Martin Brenman, Didgeridoo by CG
The Descent of Inanna - An archetype of the soul in the spirit world
with Hazel Archer Ginsberg
Take a Leminscate Journey thru the Planetary Spheres & the Zodiac
In Eurythmy with Mary Rudd
an Artistic Exploration & the Circle of Remembrance
$10 Donation & Snacks to Share Encouraged
For more info. contact Hazel Archer Ginsberg
Monday, Nov 5 8:15am - The Festival Life
at the Chicago Waldorf School Andersonville Campus
withHazel Archer Ginsbergfestivals coordinator at the Rudolf Steiner Branch
for WITH = Waldorf in the Home
Monday 5 November 2018 from 8:15 am – 9:30 am
at theChicago Waldorf School Andersonville Campus
5200 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL · (773) 465-2662
In the cafe(on far north east side of first floor)
after the Day of the Deadassembly
For more info. contact Judy Shaver jlshaver9832@gmail.com
Friday, Nov 30 7pm - Margaret Shipman, Apocalypse
Hidden In Plain Sight: The Mystery of The Apocalypse
‘Apocalypse’ today almost always means war, but its primary definition is REVELATION. The Book of Revelations seems warlike until we begin to delve into the messages, seals, trumpets and bowls as stages of initiation! We will explore the complexities of this amazing book of the Bible by taking a journey through the 7-pointed star and the Apocalyptic Seals of the 1907 Munich Conference.
$15 or pay what you can, Snacks to Share Encouraged
Margaret Shipman has been a member of the Anthroposophical Society for 30 years and considers the work of Rudolf Steiner to be the core of her life. In 2002 she started a national study group for anthroposophy - ‘Geographically Engaged Members Studygroup’, or G.E.M.S. She is also a cellist and pianist and spent 36 years repairing and making instruments of the violin family. She co-authored the book titled Violin Restoration with her mentor, Hans Weisshaar, who was in the second-ever Waldorf class and met Rudolf Steiner as a child.
For more info. contact coordinator Hazel Archer Ginsberg hag@rschicago.org
AND:
Saturday 1 December 2018 - 10 am - noon
THE CHRISTMAS CONFERENCE with Margaret Shipman
How can we begin to understand the importance of The Christmas Conference of 1923/24? Can it be understood as so profound to consider it a second turning point of time?
We will take a journey with the foundation stone, beginning with the laying of the first stone, a physical one, for the first Goetheanum, in 1913. Then — through the phoenix experience of the 1922/23 fire, and its journey back to earth a year later—we find it again, as a foundation stone meditation planted into our hearts. The introduction of The Foundation Stone Meditation was a central focus of the Christmas Conference week. It was one of three great gifts which Rudolf Steiner brought at this time as powerful spiritual tools for human evolution.
$15 or pay what you can, Snacks to Share Encouraged
Saturday, Dec 1 10am-Noon - Margaret Shipman, Christmas Conference
The Christmas Conference, with Margaret Shipman
Saturday 1 December 2018 - 10 am - noon
THE CHRISTMAS CONFERENCE with Margaret Shipman
How can we begin to understand the importance of The Christmas Conference of 1923/24? Can it be understood as so profound to consider it a second turning point of time?
We will take a journey with the foundation stone, beginning with the laying of the first stone, a physical one, for the first Goetheanum, in 1913. Then — through the phoenix experience of the 1922/23 fire, and its journey back to earth a year later—we find it again, as a foundation stone meditation planted into our hearts. The introduction of The Foundation Stone Meditation was a central focus of the Christmas Conference week. It was one of three great gifts which Rudolf Steiner brought at this time as powerful spiritual tools for human evolution.
$15 or pay what you can, snacks to share encouraged
Margaret Shipman has been a member of the Anthroposophical Society for 30 years and considers the work of Rudolf Steiner to be the core of her life. In 2002 she started a national study group for anthroposophy - ‘Geographically Engaged Members Studygroup’, or G.E.M.S. She is also a cellist and pianist and spent 36 years repairing and making instruments of the violin family. She co-authored the book titled Violin Restoration with her mentor, Hans Weisshaar, who was in the second-ever Waldorf class and met Rudolf Steiner as a child.
For more info. contact coordinator Hazel Archer Ginsberg hag@rschicago.org
