Threefold Educational Foundation | Chestnut Ridge NY

High School Teacher Education Meet & Greet
2024-05-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
Wednesday, May 8, 7:00 pm-8:00 pm ET on Zoom
Join us for an informal online conversation with representatives from Sunbridge’s High School Teacher Education program, enrolling this summer.
For information, contact: Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x20

Eurythmy as Visible Singing: A Public Course with Sea-Anna Vasilas
2024-05-09 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-05-16 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-05-23 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-05-30 10:00 - 11:00 | School of Eurythmy, 289 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Thursdays, May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2024
10:00 am – 11:00 am
You are warmly invited to this four-week series to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the tone eurythmy course. We will explore the fundamental elements of eurythmy that bring the inaudible experience of music into visibility.
All are welcome, no experience necessary.
Course Fee: $60
For more information, please email marta@eurythmy.org

King Matt The First by Janusz Korczak
2024-05-10 08:00 - 2024-05-12 17:00 | The Arts Building – Green Meadow Waldorf School, 307 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10707
Friday, May 10, 7:30pm
Saturday, May 11, 4:00 pm
Sunday, May 12, 2:00pm
What happens when a 5 year-old boy orphan becomes king? Initially published in 1923, this internationally acclaimed book is infused with the philosophies of child’s rights activist and hero of the Holocaust Janusz Korczak, who also famously ran an orphanage in Warsaw. It addresses the importance in the role of the adult to show children how to be; and that children should have a voice and the same rights as adults. Though a children’s book, the story takes a look at right and wrong, rich and poor, those who have power and those who don’t… even the absurdity of war and racism. All this and more from the view of a child.
A puppet play for all ages.
Green Meadow Waldorf School, Arts Building/Music Room
Suggested donation: $10
For more information please contact bella@freuman.com

5K to Farm (and back)
2024-05-11 09:00 - 12:00 | Wulsin Field, 307 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977
May 11th, 2024
Start Time (warmup) 9am, (run/walk) 10am
Finish Line Fun 10am – 12pm
Location:
Start Line (and warmup) – Green Meadow Wulsin Field (307 Hungry Hollow Rd.)
Finish Line (and finish line fun) – Hand and Hoe Lawn (241 Hungry Hollow Rd.)

Our annual 5K to Farm (and back), highlights our Community Campus and the various organizations who share the land with us. The event also includes a mini fair at the finish line featuring live music, food, and games. The 5K is an event that brings together key elements of our program – fun, nature, and movement – while helping us raise necessary funds to keep the school operating and accessible.

ESV Open Day: A Morning Inside the Eurythmy Training for Prospective Students and Avid Eurythmy Lovers!
2024-05-11 09:00 - 13:00 | School of Eurythmy, 289 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Saturday, May 11, 9:00am – 1:00pm
Come move with us on this spring morning whether it’s your first experience or you’ve enjoyed eurythmy before!
Join us for a full morning experience of the harmonizing and healing power of eurythmy. This is an intensive half-day of eurythmy to enter the world of poetry and music, and to experience new vistas and insights into oneself—a first introduction for those considering a part-time Frontier or full-time eurythmy training, or for anyone just interested in a eurythmy immersion.
Our Open Day will include tone and speech eurythmy classes, with time for conversation and reflection.
A FREE EVENT – NO COURSE FEE FOR PARTICIPATING
For more information, please email marta@eurythmy.org

The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the First Goetheanum, and How the Spirit of the Goetheanum Lives on Today
2024-05-13 19:30 - 21:30 | School of Eurythmy, 289 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Presentation by Karl Fredrickson
Monday, May 13, 2024, at 7:30 pm
One year after the burning of the Goetheanum, Rudolf Steiner was asked, “Why do you keep speaking of the Goetheanum? We have no Goetheanum.” “No,” he replied. “The Goetheanum exists. It stands before our spiritual eyes.” We will consider the First Goetheanum from its inception, construction, spiritual significance, and the fateful New Year’s Eve of 1922 when it was consumed by fire. How, during 1923, did the Spirit of the Goetheanum live on, leading to the Christmas Conference and the Foundation Stone Meditation? How did this form “a turning point in time”?
Tickets at the Door: $15
For more information, please email marta@eurythmy.org.

Biodynamic Plant Sale
2024-05-17 - 2024-05-19 | The Pfeiffer Center Garden, United States
May 17-19, 2024
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Beautiful biodynamic vegetables, herbs & flowers for your garden. The 100 Years of Biodynamics celebration kicks off at 11:00 am on Saturday.
For more information please click here
hello@threefoldcommunityfarm.org or call: 845-352-5020 ext 120

Rudolf Steiner's Cultural Epoch Indications as a Path to Tolerance
2024-05-17 19:30 - 2024-05-18 16:30 | School of Eurythmy, 289 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
A Public Workshop for Beginners and Professionals with Jan Ranck
Friday, May 17, 2024, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday, May 18, 2019, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Both professionals and lay enthusiasts are invited to become acquainted with the styles of eurythmic movement that characterize successive stages of human consciousness. Stepping out of our own frame of reference into these expressions of states of being that are foreign to our own can strengthen our ability in day-to-day life to remain open to opinions that may be contrary to those we hold. Such individual practice may be essential if contemporary humanity is to manage to slip through the needle’s eye of the anti-social Consciousness Soul into the super-social realm of the Spirit Self rather than disintegrate into a tragic war of all against all. In Waldorf schools, students are taken through these experiences in the 5th grade. Perhaps that is why they are often considered outstanding in collegial contexts!
Admission/Fee: $100
For more information, please email marta@eurythmy.org

Whitsun Festival
2024-05-18 20:00 - 22:00 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Saturday, May 18th, 8:00 pm
Join us in a celebration of Whitsun with choral singing, eurythmy and a festival address by Judith Brockway.
Admission: donations appreciated
Information: Melissa Lyons meliska.lyons@gmail.com

Sheep & Wool Festival
2024-05-19 10:00 - 16:00 | The Fiber Craft Studio, 275 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Sunday, May 19, 10:00am-4:00pm

On the lawn in front of Orchard House
Held under the leafy shade trees of the Threefold community campus, this family-centered event features child-friendly craft activities, a petting zoo, pony ride, live music, local craft vendors, and delicious food.
Admission and parking are free. A small fee is charged for activities.
VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED! Volunteers are needed for jobs for all skill levels, so bring a friend to help demonstrate a craft activity or to give a hand with set-up or clean-up. The success of this wonderful event depends on our loyal and dedicated volunteers. Please click here to sign up! We look forward to seeing you there!
For more information please contact information@fibercraftstudio.org

Songs of Joan of Arc
2024-05-24 20:00 - 22:00 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
May 24th, 8:00pm
An original cycle of songs composed and performed by Jen Zimberg.
The songs guide the audience through the inner landscape of Joan’s story, through potent lyrics and music that unfold with beauty and simplicity.
Jen Zimberg is a singer, composer and leader of choral singing who contributes to Developing the Self Developing the World Programs.
Admission: $12/$7
Information: Melissa Lyons, melissa@threefold.org

Graduation Performance by Carley Horan
2024-06-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Graduation Performance
by Carley Horan
And the Wind Blew
Saturday, June 1st, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Reception following.
Admission: Free
More information contact Barbara Renold barbararenold@yahoo.com

Monday Night Music Salon
2024-06-03 19:00 - 21:30, 2024-07-01 19:00 - 21:30 | Christian Community Church, 15 Margetts Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10952, United States
June 3 rd, July 1st, August 5th, 7:30 – 9:00 pm
Join us for a monthly Music Salon where we gather in a Café atmosphere for artistic sharing and time together in community. Bring your talents and strivings in music, speech, eurythmy!
All abilities are welcome!

Spring End-of-Term Festival Sharing
2024-06-06 19:30 - 21:30 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Thursday, June 6, 2024, at 7:30 pm
As another school year comes to a close, our students are pleased to share with us the fruits of their labors! It is here where we have a glimpse of the elements that have prepared them to step into the next
school year.
Our first-year students are working on personal pronouns and creating words out of sounds, integrating many different musical elements, and preparing the C major scale, their first!
Our third-year students are exploring different styles of poetry and music, and learning to create duet forms.
Join us as we experience the enhanced levels of skill attained this year by our first-year and third-year classes.
DONATIONS ARE WELCOME!
For more information, please email marta@eurythmy.org or call Eurythmy Spring Valley at 845-352-5020, ext. 113.

Art of Clothing Exhibition
2024-06-15 13:00 - 15:00 | The Fiber Craft Studio, 275 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
June 15, 2024, 1:00-3:00pm
Over the course of ten classes, students in the Art of Clothing course have designed, created, and hand-sewn their own garments from cotton, wool, silk, and linen. Come to Orchard House to admire their artistic handwork and the lovely apparel fashioned with the new skills they have acquired.

Introduction to Waldorf Early Childhood Education
2024-06-16 08:00 - 2024-06-21 17:00 | Virtual
An Immersion in the World of the Waldorf Nursery/Kindergarten
Sunday, June 16, 2024 – Friday, June 21, 2024
This week’s course will be taught remotely in real-time. For those who would prefer attending in person, this course is also being offered on campus from June 23-28. Read all about Summer Series 2024.
Open to everyone, including current and prospective early childhood educators, parents, grandparents, and caregivers.
Join us for a wondrous journey! In this comprehensive course, you’ll explore the essential elements of Waldorf early childhood education. Through the guidance of highly experienced Waldorf early childhood educators you’ll delve into child development; learn about rhythms, transitions, and the cycle of the year; explore the importance of play; examine the inner development of the teacher; experience circle time activities, lessons in handwork, art, and movement, and the essentials of a morning in a Waldorf early childhood setting; and develop a true practical understanding of Waldorf early childhood education. A perennial Sunbridge summer favorite, this rich and extensive course has launched many early childhood careers.Join us for a journey in Waldorf early childhood education! Guided by experienced educators, you’ll explore child development, play, rhythms, transitions, and the teacher’s inner growth. Experience activities in circle time, handwork, art, and movement. This comprehensive course, a Sunbridge summer favorite, has launched many early childhood careers
Cost: $615. Discounts available
For information, contact: Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x20

Future Paths in Anthroposophy
2024-06-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
A discussion on potential future pathways for the life of Anthroposophy, introduced by Ezra Sullivan.
Tuesday, June 18, 7:30 pm
The development of Anthroposophy is crossing an important biographical moment. How can the opportunities and challenges be practically, and idealistically, addressed? What is Anthroposophy tomorrow?
Admission: Free
For more information contact Karl Fredrickson contact kfredson@gmail.com

Plant Dye Café: Indigo, Black Walnut, and Cutch
2024-06-21 14:00 - 16:00 | The Fiber Craft Studio, 275 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Friday, June 21, 2:00-4:00 pm
$3/ounce
Bring your fiber, textile, or clothing item to the Studio to dye. Indigo, black walnut, and cutch dye pots will be ready for you. The price is $3/ounce (8 ounces maximum for indigo). Natural fibers only, please.
Planning to attend? Please RSVP (with the weight of materials you plan to dye) to information@fibercraftstudio.org.

Introduction to Waldorf Early Childhood Education (In Person)
2024-06-23 - 2024-06-28 | Sunbridge Institute, 285 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States, 285 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
An Immersion in the World of the Waldorf Nursery/Kindergarten
Sunday evening, June 23 – Friday afternoon, June 28
This week’s course is being taught in-person at Sunbridge. For those who would prefer attending online, this course is also being offered virtually on June 16-21 and again on July 28-August 2. Read all about Summer Series 2024.
Open to everyone, including current and prospective early childhood educators, parents, grandparents, and caregivers.
Join us for a wondrous journey! In this comprehensive course, you’ll explore the essential elements of Waldorf early childhood education. Through the guidance of highly experienced Waldorf early childhood educators you’ll delve into child development; learn about rhythms, transitions, and the cycle of the year; explore the importance of play; examine the inner development of the teacher; experience circle time activities, lessons in handwork, art, and movement, and the essentials of a morning in a Waldorf early childhood setting; and develop a true practical understanding of Waldorf early childhood education. A perennial Sunbridge summer favorite, this rich and extensive course has launched many early childhood careers.
Cost: $945. Discounts available
For information, contact: Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x20

Approaching Grade Three
2024-06-23 - 2024-06-28 | Virtual
Inspiration and Guidance for Your Year
Sunday evening, June 23 – Friday afternoon, June 28
Taught remotely in real time, this course offers you an invaluable opportunity to focus entirely on your upcoming third grade school year in five days brimming with presentations, discussions, and practical activities.
Under the guidance of an experienced class teacher, you’ll discover ways to enliven your teaching and how to approach the blocks so that they may meet the third grader in a deep and meaningful way. With the insights of anthroposophy, gleaned through a discussion of child development focusing specifically on your class’s age group, you will get to know the third grade child in depth as they as they experience the nine-year change.
Along with time and space to consider and hone your skills in such practical matters as main lesson books, block planning, projects and activities, and classroom management, your course will include such key topics for third graders—and their teachers—as:

Multicultural approaches to the creation stories and the role of Old Testament stories in the third grade curriculum
Topics in language arts, reading groups, and class plays
Topics in math
Third grade approach to science and gardening
Third grade approach to social studies, class trips and community service
Third grade morning circle
Third grade assessment
Parent work and colleagueship

These subjects will be supported by explorations in art and music, giving you practical tools to take into your school year. In addition, you’ll gain many valuable opportunities for building connections among a community of parallel colleagues from across the country to carry with you throughout your teaching. And participation in an anthroposophical study undertaken in common with all Grades participants will help enable you to build bridges between colleagues and parents once you return to your school.
Grade-specific resource materials useful for your year, including poems, songs, stories, and main lesson book ideas, will be provided to you electronically.
NOTE: This course is taught with the expectation that you have a foundational background in Waldorf education.
Cost: $615. Discounts available
For information, contact: Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x20

Approaching Grade Four
2024-06-23 - 2024-06-28 | Virtual
Inspiration and Guidance for Your Year
Sunday evening, June 23 – Friday afternoon, June 28
Taught remotely in real time, this course offers you an invaluable opportunity to focus entirely on your upcoming fourth grade school year in five days brimming with presentations, discussions, and practical activities.
Under the guidance of an experienced class teacher, you’ll discover ways to enliven your teaching and how to approach the blocks so that they may meet the fourth grader in a deep and meaningful way. With the insights of anthroposophy, gleaned through a discussion of child development focusing specifically on your class’s age group, you will get to know the fourth grade child in depth as they step into a more objective relationship to learning.
Along with time and space to consider and hone your skills in such practical matters as main lesson books, block planning, projects and activities, and classroom management, your course will include such key topics for fourth graders—and their teachers—as:

Topics in language arts, reading groups, and class plays
Pre-colonial/indigenous approaches to local geography
Norse mythology and beyond: fourth grade stories of world-making
Topics in math
Fourth grade approach to zoology and gardening
Fourth grade approach to geography and local/state history
Fourth grade morning circle
Fourth grade assessment
Parent work and colleagueship

These subjects will be supported by explorations in art and music, giving you practical tools to take into your school year. In addition, you’ll gain many valuable opportunities for building connections among a community of parallel colleagues from across the country to carry with you throughout your teaching. And participation in an anthroposophical study undertaken in common with all Grades participants will help enable you to build bridges between colleagues and parents once you return to your school.
Grade-specific resource materials useful for your year, including poems, songs, stories, and main lesson book ideas, will be provided to you electronically.
NOTE: This course is taught with the expectation that you have a foundational background in Waldorf education.
Cost: $615. Discounts available
For information, contact: Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x20

Approaching Grade One
2024-06-30 - 2024-07-05 | Virtual
Inspiration and Guidance for Your Year
Sunday evening, June 30 – Friday afternoon, July 5
Taught remotely in real-time, this course offers you an invaluable opportunity to focus entirely on your upcoming first grade school year in five days brimming with presentations, discussions, and practical activities.
Under the guidance of an experienced class teacher, you’ll discover ways to enliven your teaching and learn how to approach the blocks so that they may meet the first grader in a lively and meaningful way. With the insights of anthroposophy, gleaned through a discussion of child development focusing on your class’s age group, you will get to know the first grader as they cross the bridge into elementary school.
Along with time and space to consider and hone your skills in such practical matters as main lesson books, block planning, projects and activities, and classroom management, your course will include these key topics for first graders (and their teachers):

Multicultural archetypes in fairy tales from around the world
Introducing the letters
Introducing the numbers and topics in math
First grade approaches to science and social studies (perceiving the natural world experientially and socially)
First grade morning circle
First grade assessment
Parent work and colleagueship

These subjects will be supported by explorations in art and music, giving you practical tools to take into your school year. In addition, you’ll gain many valuable opportunities for building connections among a community of parallel colleagues from across the country to carry with you throughout your teaching. And participation in an anthroposophical study undertaken in common with all Grades participants will help enable you to build bridges between colleagues and parents once you return to your school.
Grade-specific resource materials, such as poems, songs, stories, and main lesson book ideas, will be provided electronically.
NOTE: This course is taught with the expectation that you have a foundational background in Waldorf education.
Cost: $615. Discounts available
For information, contact: Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x20

Approaching Grade Five
2024-06-30 - 2024-07-05 | Virtual
Inspiration and Guidance for Your Year
Sunday evening, June 30 – Friday afternoon, July 5
Taught remotely in real-time, this course offers you an invaluable opportunity to focus entirely on your upcoming fifth grade school year in five days brimming with presentations, discussions, and practical activities.
Under the guidance of an experienced class teacher, you’ll discover ways to enliven your teaching and learn how to approach the blocks so that they may meet the fifth grader in a meaningful and lively way. With the insights of anthroposophy, gleaned through a discussion of child development focusing on your class’s age group, you will get to know the fifth grade child in depth as they stand on the balancing point between childhood and adolescence.
Along with time and space to consider and hone your skills in such practical matters as main lesson books, block planning, projects and activities, and classroom management, your course will include such key topics for fifth graders—and their teachers—as:

Topics in language arts, including paragraph writing and class plays
Fifth grade approach to ancient cultures, including Greek history and mythology
Topics in math: fractions to decimal fractions
Teaching free-hand geometry
Fifth grade approach to botany
Fifth grade approach to country/continental geography of North America
Pentathlon
Parent work and colleagueship

These subjects will be supported by explorations in art and music, giving you practical tools to take into your school year. In addition, you’ll gain many valuable opportunities for building connections among a community of parallel colleagues from across the country to carry with you throughout your teaching. And participation in an anthroposophical study undertaken in common with all Grades participants will help enable you to build bridges between colleagues and parents once you return to your school.
Grade-specific resource materials useful for your year, including poems, songs, stories, and main lesson book ideas, will be provided to you electronically.
NOTE: This course is taught with the expectation that you have a foundational background in Waldorf education.
Cost: $615. Discounts available
For information, contact: Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x20

Opening the Future: Questions of Community
2024-07-11 - 2024-07-14 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
A Gathering For Young Adults Ages 18-40
July 11-14, 2024

Join us for a weekend of exploring the spiritual striving of youth, as well as intergenerational conversation, biography work, eurythmy, speech, biodynamics, and painting.

Click here for more information and to register.

The Path of the New Mysteries
2024-08-04 - 2024-08-10 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
The School of Spiritual Science in North America
The Path of the New Mysteries
Engaging with the 19 Lessons of the First Class of the School of Spiritual Science
A conference for members of the School, Blue Card required
August 4-10, 2024
Does Anthroposophy have a future? This question seems to have been very much alive for Rudolf Steiner in the weeks leading up to the Christmas Foundation Meeting. Was it this question that inspired his decision to inaugurate the esoteric work of the School for Spiritual Science? He knew that it was only through an esoteric deepening that new life could flow into the spiritual work and allow anthroposophical practice to bear fruit in the world.
For more information and registration click here

EVIL. A talk by Stephen Usher
2024-08-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Saturday, August 10, 2024, at 7:00 pm

Inspired by attending the Association for the Rescue of Children conference in Indiana in March, Stephen Usher has focused his attention on the great challenge of evil in the fifth cultural epoch. Evil is an enormous topic connected with the awakening of the consciousness soul, the reappearance of Christ in the etheric, and the tendencies toward evil that live in all human beings since the start of the fifth epoch. Stephen will address the inner psychological aspects as well as the larger spiritual questions about the beings that goad us toward evil.

Stephen E. Usher received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan where he met Anthroposophy in Ernst Katz’s physics course. He served as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, was managing director of the Anthroposophic Press, and taught history at the Austin Waldorf School. He leads a Steiner study group in Austin and has authored many articles about Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy.

Admission: $12/7
