Threefold Educational Foundation | Chestnut Ridge NY

Living Questions of Our Time
2024-05-01 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
A conversation with Mark Finser
What are the pressing questions that you live with on a daily basis?
You are invited to bring your living questions to a conversation with Mark Finser in which he will share out of his 40 years of experience working with organizations in social finance.
Wednesday, May 1st at 7:30,
Admission: free
Information: Melissa Lyons,
melissa@threefold.org
* Mark Finser started his career in social finance in 1984 as a founding member of the Rudolf Steiner Foundation (RSF). Mark has run an impact venture fund, served on the board of Gaia Herbs and B Lab (B Corp), and is currently serving on numerous not-for-profit boards such as The Fellowship Community, Anthroposophia Foundation, and Living Lands Trust. He was a founding member of New Resource Bank, a dedicated green bank, acquired by Amalgamated Bank in 2018 and remains an Independent Director of Amalgamated, a socially responsible bank with $7 billion in assets. Mark is also an advisor for high net-worth families, assisting them in their impact investing and socially minded financial goals.

A Spring Evening Filled with the Musical Works of Grigory Smirnov
2024-04-27 20:00 - 22:00 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Benefit for the Postgraduate Student Project to perform in Witten-Annen, Germany.
Saturday, April 27, 8:00 pm
We are delighted to host this musical evening that offers a rich experience of Grigory Smirnov’s compositions, with the program and other musicians to be announced soon. Save the date and treat yourselves to an evening of the light-filled qualities of Grigory Smirnov’s musical works, as you support the efforts to send off ESV postgraduate students to share their work at the international eurythmy festival, Forum Eurythmie!
Admission/Fee Tickets at the Door: $18 (regular), $12 (students and seniors)
For more information please email marta@eurythmy.org.

Knotless Netting Workshop with April Saladino
2024-04-27 13:00 - 17:00 | The Fiber Craft Studio, 275 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Saturday, April 27, 1 pm – 5 pm

April Saladino returns to the Fiber Craft Studio to introduce beginner knotless netting techniques. We will create a small pouch or covered stone that can be worn or held.
No experience is necessary.
Those with previous knotless netting/looping experience will be instructed using various additional looping techniques, for example, flat looping within a frame of forked or coiled branches.
All are welcome to join us in this contemplative practice!
Fee: $100, materials included
For more information please contact information@fibercraftstudio.org

The Dynamics of Play
2024-04-26 - 2024-04-27 | Virtual
Friday evening, April 26 – Saturday afternoon, April 27, virtual.

A workshop for early childhood and early grades teachers on observing, understanding, and relating play to educational objectives and the foundations of academic achievement.

For information, contact: Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x20

Mysteries of Music Composition - Classicism Presentation by Grigory Smirnov
2024-04-22 19:30 - 21:30 | School of Eurythmy, 289 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Saturday, May 11, 2024
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
A composer’s outlook on the mystery of music creation, musical expression, and perception; music as a higher form of communication and spiritual activity. The third lecture will focus on exploring the music of the era of classicism through active listening and imagination.
$15 per session
Tickets will be on sale at the event.
For more information, please email marta@eurythmy.org

Speech and Drama Workshop with Séamus Maynard
2024-04-21 14:00 - 17:00 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Sunday, April 21, 2024, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The arts of speech and drama stand in a dynamic position at this time. There are many highly trained and gifted artists in the world currently, while a deeper understanding of the purpose of the arts remains theoretical. Rudolf Steiner’s indications on speech and drama and Michael Chekhov’s approach to acting shed light on what could be a practice for the theater of the future, yet those approaches to speech and drama continue to exist in early stages of development, while the world of commercial art making accelerates forward. In this workshop, we will strive to understand how to bring ourselves into relationship with the living arts of speech and drama, illuminated by the light of anthroposophy, in such a way that our practicing may remain connected to the future.
Admission/Fee: $50
For more information, please email marta@eurythmy.org.

Parzival and the Three Drops of Blood
2024-04-20 20:00 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Parzival and the Three Drops of Blood
Written & Performed by Séamus Maynard
Fundraiser for the Postgraduate Trip to Europe
Saturday, April 20, 2024, at 8:00 pm
In this dramatized poetic verse adaptation from the Parzival legend, written and performed by Séamus Maynard, two paths of initiation intersect — the Arthurian path (representing working in a group) and the Parzival path (the initiation path of the individual). Here we can experience this unexpected interaction in a dynamic exchange. The performance echoes the time of the bards when entire legends were offered via the spoken word. Through this ancient way of engaging with story, we can enter the world of imagination to find relevance for the time we live in through the wisdom that still lives on in the myths and legends of the distant past.
Tickets at the Door: $18 (regular), $12 (students and seniors)
For more information, please email marta@eurythmy.org

Begin a Garden
2024-04-20 09:00 - 16:00 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
April 20, 9:00am-4:00pm
Come learn and get hands-on-experience to start your own vegetable garden this spring! Learn more and register here.
Admission: $95
hello@threefoldcommunityfarm.org or call: 845-352-5020 ext 120

Celebrating 100 Years Of The Foundation Stone Meditation in Eurythmy
2024-04-19 20:00 - 2024-04-20 12:00 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Friday, April 19, 8:00 pm
The Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble will perform the Foundation Stone Meditation before and after talks by Karl Fredrickson and Dorothea Mier.

Saturday, April 20, 10:00 am
A hands-on workshop by Dorothea Mier for all levels of familiarity, followed by a performance by the Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble at 11:00am.
Admission: $12/$7
Please consider making an additional donation as your means permit.
For more information contact Melissa Lyons meliska.lyons@gmail.com

Elementary and World Languages & Cultures Teacher Education Meet & Greet
2024-04-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual
Wednesday, April 17, 7:00 pm-8:00 pm ET on Zoom
Join us for an informal online conversation with representatives from Sunbridge’s Waldorf Elementary and World Languages & Cultures teacher education programs, both enrolling this summer.
For information, contact: Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x20

SUNY Master's Degree Info Session
2024-04-17 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
Wednesday, April 17, 5:00 pm-6:00 pm ET on Zoom

Join us as Dr. Tina Wagle, coordinator of the SUNY Empire MEd program, discusses the specifics of Sunbridge’s partnership with SUNY, and learn how a Sunbridge diploma can earn you credits toward an online MEd or MA degree with a focus in Waldorf education.

For information, contact: Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x20

Bonnie Sings Beatles
2024-04-14 16:30 - 18:30 | The Fellowship Community, 241 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, 10977, United States
Bonnie Sings Beatles
with a little help from her friends
Sunday, April 14, 4:30 pm
Admission: Free

Water: H2O or More?
2024-04-14 09:00 - 17:00 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Water is crucial to biodynamics: Not only to water plants, but for the process of stirring, which potentizes the preparations. But do we really know what water is, what tasks it has in life processes, or how it carries them out? Jennifer Greene of the Water Research Institute takes us far beyond what we commonly know, or suppose we know, of this element.
Jennifer Greene is Executive Director of the Water Research Institute of Blue Hill, ME. Since the 1980s, she has been a pioneer of flow forms in the United States, and continues the work of Theodor Schwenk in documenting water quality through the “drop picture” method.
Fee: $125
For more information, hello@threefoldcommunityfarm.org

Plant Dye Café: Indigo
2024-04-12 14:00 - 16:00 | The Fiber Craft Studio, 275 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Friday, April 12, 2:00-4:00pm
Bring your fiber, textile, or clothing item to the Studio to dye. An indigo dye pot will be ready for you.
Price: $3/ounce, 8 ounces maximum, natural fibers only, please.
Planning to attend? Please RSVP (with weight of materials you plan to dye) to information@fibercraftstudio.org

Working With Conflict as a Catalyst for Change in the Workplace: Practical Applications
2024-04-12 08:00 - 2024-04-13 17:00 | Virtual
Friday evening, April 12 – Saturday afternoon, April 13, on Zoom
Learn how to tackle real-world workplace conflicts using Collaborative Leadership insights and techniques.

For information, contact: Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x20

Speech 101 Weekend
2024-04-12 - 2024-04-14 | Red Barn Painting Studio, 185A Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
With Barbara Renold and Jennifer Kleinbach
New! Get the Speech 101 experience in a single weekend. This brief intensive serves as an introduction to the artistic forming of speech through Rudolf Steiner’s exercises in articulation and breathing.
Information: For more about Speech 101, visit this page. To register online, visit this page.

Early Childhood Teacher Education Meet & Greet
2024-04-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual
Wednesday, April 10, 7:00 pm-8:00 pm ET on Zoom
Join us for an informal online conversation with representatives from Sunbridge’s Waldorf Early Childhood Teacher Education program, enrolling this summer.
For information, contact: Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x20

Songs for Sam
2024-04-05 18:00 - 21:00 | Threefold Café, 285 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
April 5, 6:00-9:00 pm
An evening of song and celebration honoring Sam Leopold who so enriched our community life with his gift of music and his loving warmth for over 35 years.
Join us for an evening of fellowship and music complemented by a special Threefold Cafe dinner menu for this occasion!

Monday Night Music Salon
2024-04-01 19:30 - 21:30 | Christian Community Church, 15 Margetts Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10952, United States
Mondays February 5, March 4, and April 1.
Time: 7:30 pm
Join us for a bi-monthly Music Salon where we gather in a Cafe atmosphere for artistic sharing and time together in community.
Bring your talents and strivings in music, speech, and eurythmy! Please feel free to use this opportunity to try out new material, improvise, bring something newly polished or an old piece that you would like to dust off as long as it is family-friendly and acoustic. All ability levels are welcome. All listening ears are welcome as well.
For information and to sign up to perform, contact Sally Willig, swillig2@optimum.net

Winter 2024 End-of-Term Festival
2024-03-26 19:30 - 2024-03-27 19:30 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Winter 2024 End-of-Term Festival
Tuesday, March 26, 2024, at 7:30 pm
Wednesday, March 27, 2024, at 7:30 pm
Since the beginning of ESV’s winter term, our students have been immersed in learning the diverse elements presented at each stage of the training. It is always remarkable to see the progressive levels of development and refinement fostered in our training, through watching our student presentations from the first class through the post-graduate year. We invite you to join us in celebrating their work at our Winter End-of-Term Festival.
Join us for two festive evenings this March!
Donations welcome!
For more information, please contact marta@eurythmy.org

The Tempest
2024-03-24 16:00 - 18:00, 2024-03-23 19:30 - 21:30 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
William Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, presented by the Ragtag Community Players (Barbara Renold, director).
Admission: Donations gratefully accepted at the door.
Information: Contact Barbara Renold at barbararenold@yahoo.com.

Seeing Nature Whole and Life Rhythms and Planting Calendar
2024-03-23 09:00 - 17:00 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Seeing Nature Whole and Life Rhythms and Planting Calendar
Saturday, March 23, 9 am – 5 pm
In the morning, Craig Holdrege explores how to work with the living dynamic qualities of plants and animals to better understand the world around us. In the afternoon, Sherry Wildfeuer, a long-time editor of the Stella Natura planting calendar, explains how the calendar is created, what it tells us, and how we can use it to learn to work with, rather than against, nature’s rhythms and forces.
Craig is a biologist, an educator, and Director of The Nature Institute in Ghent, NY, a research and education organization for a unique qualitative approach to science. Craig is the author of many books and articles on genetic engineering, genetics, and a holistic, Goethean approach to science.
Sherry is the editor of the Stella Natura Biodynamic Planting Calendar, a co-worker at Camphill Village Kimberton Hills, PA, and a long-time active member of the Anthroposophical Society and the Agriculture Section of the School of Spiritual Science.
Registration Fee: $125
For more information, email hello@threefoldcommunityfarm.org

Open Studio at the Fiber Craft Studio
2024-03-22 14:00 - 16:00 | The Fiber Craft Studio, 275 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
March 22, 2024
2:00 – 4:00 pm
The Fiber Craft Studio’s open studio days are resuming this spring, and we will be focusing on mending and up-cycling clothing. We invite you to join us in Orchard House to learn how to repair and revive your clothing. Let’s gather to examine an article of clothing and recreate it, making it more relevant, necessary, or stylish.
Admission: Free

Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble Presents A Shovel of Stars Overhead: Where To? What Next?
2024-03-16 19:30 - 21:30 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble Presents A Shovel of Stars Overhead: Where To? What Next?
March 16, 7:30pm
A Shovel of Stars Overhead: Where to? What next?” embodies the longing, questioning, and bewilderment that belong to this moment in America, while asking where, from whom, and how something greater can come to be. The program is inspired by the words and compositions of a diversity of artists who poignantly reflect the tensions of their own time. These include the beloved and influential Langston Hughes, statesman Archibald MacLeish, the modern lyric Denise Levertov, and great American bard, Walt Whitman. Levertov and other poets in the program orient us to the transcendent presence of the invisible in our midst. Evocative 20th-century American composer Henry Cowell sets the stage, while contemporary composer Grigory Smirnov threads through the tensions to a quieter, inner place. The rich harmonies of Sibelius and Chopin weave past into future, and east into west, leading us to the grandeur, purpose, and elemental urge in Antonin Dvorak’s final movement of the “Dumky” piano trio. Written not long before Dvorak’s maiden voyage to America, the trio’s changing harmonies and rhythms seem to anticipate the dawning vistas of a new land, and reflect something of the elusive and vast, young and surging, fighting but maturing American spirit.
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Eurythmy:
Colleen Foglia, Virginia Hermann, Cameron MacArthur, Wei Rung, Barbara Schneider-Serio, Sea-Anna Vasilas
Recitation: Jennifer Kleinbach
Piano: Grigory Smirnov
Violin: Elena Hirsu
Cello: Christoph Grieder
Tickets at the Door: $18 (regular), $12 (students and seniors)
For more information please contact marta@eurythmy.org.

Sheep to Yarn - An Experience of Fiber Transformation
2024-03-16 09:00 - 15:00 | The Fiber Craft Studio, 275 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Sheep to Yarn – An Experience of Fiber Transformation – Three classes total
Dates & Times:
Saturday, January 27: 9am – 3pm
Saturday, February 24: 9am – 3pm
Saturday, March 16: 9am – 3pm

Over the course of three workshops this winter and spring, develop new skills and enliven your creative capacities in the company of fiber artists.
Starting with the fleece of two distinctive breeds of sheep – Jacob, Shetland – we will experience a transformative process from sheep to yarn through studying, washing, carding, spinning, and weaving. Working with natural fibers, with time-honored tools and techniques guiding the pace of our work and drawing us into an intimate relationship with our materials, we will find new meaning in these traditional fiber crafts.

For more information click here

Fostering Belonging in Our Classroom Communities
2024-03-15 19:00 - 2024-03-16 14:00 | Virtual
With Randolph Carter
A workshop for educators, administrators, board members and staff exploring the benefits of anti-bias education and the equitable teaching practices that lead to healthy school environments.
Information, and to register: Visit this page.

The Path to the Christmas Foundation Meeting and the Role of Curative Education
2024-03-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Upper Brookside, 285 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
March 14, 2024 7:00 pm
Tasks Arising in the Creation of the New Section for Inclusive Social Development of the School for Spiritual Science.
A lecture by Richard Steel.
To be given during the Regional Meetings of the Camphill Communities in North America.
All are welcome
Admission: $20/$12 suggested

The Calendar of the Soul and Karl König's Drawings A New Experience of Time and Rhythm through the 52 Verses
2024-03-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
March 8, 7:00pm
How can we meet the challenge of working with the 52 weekly meditations of Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in new ways? In ways that will bring healing and transformation to our lives and to the world?
Richard Steel will share his insights and experiences gained from working with the Soul Calendar and Karl König’s drawings over more than fifty years.
This talk is the opening lecture for a weekend conference; for more information about the conference and to register:
threefold.org/soulcalendar
Richard Steel is founder and CEO of the Karl König Institute. A speaker and poet, Richard travels widely to lecture and teach. He has been a lifelong student of the Calendar of the Soul since first experiencing it in 1972.
Admission: $20/$12
Information: Melissa Lyons, melissa@threefold.org

Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul and Karl Konig’s Drawings
2024-03-08 - 2024-03-10 | Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY, 10977, United States
Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul and Karl Konig’s Drawings
An Inner Journey Through the Year
March 8-10, 2024
A conference featuring lectures by Richard Steel, an exhibit of Karl Konig’s original drawings and eurythmy performances of the soul calendar verses. Each verse of the Calendar is part of a group of four corresponding verses. These cross-correspondences were elaborated by Karl Konig. A selection of four of the crosses will be performed in eurythmy accompanied by talks by Richard Steel.
For more information and registration please click here
