Images of annunciation: listening, longing, tenderness and wonder

Annunciation (detail), Fra Angelico, c 1442-3, Fresco, Museo di San Marco, Florence

The next Something Else Studio on Saturday 7 December will be our last for 2024. We look forward to welcoming you for this seasonal celebration of the phenomenon of listening. Please note there will be no studio session on Saturday 2 November.

In this experiential presentation, Tanya Coburn will encourage us to explore images of the ‘annunciation’ and ponder how cultivating tenderness and receptivity can help us herald the birth of something new in human life.

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Refreshed, renewed, creative and generative

How do we contribute to a healthy future for anthroposophy in the world?

a recorded presentation by Marjatta van Boeschoten with conversation

The next Studio event will be on 7th September, followed by a related event on 5th October, both sessions featuring contributions from Marjatta van Boeschoten, General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain, London, UK.

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The redeeming of the double in Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’

a performance, commentary and conversation
with Dawn Langman

6 July 2024, 3pm until approximately 6pm

Dawn Langman will explore the initiation journey of Prospero in what is considered one of Shakespeare’s final plays. Her performance will feature key moments in the play which address recognition of the double or shadow in our lives, forgiveness and reconciliation, woven together with a commentary on these themes. After the performance and an interval for refreshments, you are welcome to join us for a shared conversation.

Miranda, Prospero, and Caliban: The Tempest, Study by George Romney (English, 1734-1802)

Dawn Langman has international experience as an actor, educator, and author. Born in Adelaide, she has lived and worked in Europe, the US and the UK, founded a speech and drama studio in Melbourne, and taught students of acting as a performance art at Flinders University in South Australia. She has written a series of books based on her teaching and performance experience combining the work of Michael Chekhov and Rudolf Steiner to inform ‘the actor of the future’. Her work is being continued by the Heart Fire Centre for Speech and Drama.

You can listen to an interview with Dawn Langman from 2017 here.

An offering from the Something else studio (a Uriel initiative)

Saturday 6 July, 3pm-6pm with afternoon tea

Christian Community chapel
319 Auburn Road, Hawthorn Vic 3121

recommended donation $20
members/concession $15 or what you can afford

NO BOOKING available so arrive early to make a donation at the door in cash
or into this bank account under ‘Something else studio’ 

The Christian Community in Australia Melbourne Inc
BSB 313 140, Account No. 12260444

Treasurer’s email

Any queries?

The experience of grace

In the first of our series on Vocation: life, living, struggle and spirit, we welcome Kelly Papas.

Eurythmist, educator, wife and mother, Kelly trained at Aurora Australis Eurythmy training and now teaches at Little Yarra and Sophia Mundi Steiner Schools and at the Melbourne Rudolf Steiner Seminar. She is also part of the Aurora Australis performance group.

In this talk, she will share an experience that emerged when she prepared for Whitsun in 2023. Invited to perform for a festival, Kelly realised she didn’t truly know the significance and meaning of the terms ‘Pentecost’ and ‘Whitsun’. Together with a friend, she went on a journey of reading and research to deepen her understanding. What emerged was a surprising and life-changing experience which she will share with us. As part of her talk, she will also explore the question of grace and what it represents for her.

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the power of caring

Jane Bradshaw head shot croppedJane Bradshaw is a clinical nurse consultant in hepatology and the Tasmanian branch secretary for the Anthroposophical Society in Australia. I was interested in interviewing Jane when I heard her describe her approach with her patients suffering liver disease. She talked about her focus on allowing them to tell their stories. In our conversation, Jane explores this further and describes the power of self-reflection and self-care which enables this kind of work.

You can listen to my interview with Jane here. Continue reading “the power of caring”

a spiritual exploration of trauma, healing and homosexuality

Book 1 Figure 24 (embrace heavens)Dawn Langman, educator and actor, shares her life experiences with great insight, frankness and wisdom.  In this conversation, Dawn places her traumatic early life experiences in the context of her understanding of reincarnation. She shares her own mystical experiences and the experience of dissociation and disembodiment and the impacts these have had on her life. She also relates her experience as a homosexual and her insights from anthroposophy about homosexuality.

You can listen to my conversation with Dawn here.

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risk taking and change making

Siegfried-Gutbrod1 headshotIn a life which has seen him shift from a high-powered job in IT to psychotherapy, from Germany to Australia, from teenage atheism to anthroposophy, and from a fear of death to working with the dying in Australia and Africa, Siegfried Gutbrod has taken risky decisions with the help of meditative guidance. Hear about his adventures in this interview.

You can listen to the interview here.

The music on this recording is by Mick Young, aka Young Werther. You can find him on facebook.
Image credit: adapted from an image by lkphillips34 under CC license