Anthroposophy in the Bay Area & Beyond
Connecting Seekers across Northern California
An Epic Tale of Christ’s Coming to Earth
Performed by Glen Williamson
Thursday, December 18, 2025 – 7:00 PM
Please arrive early to allow enough time to settle in
San Francisco Waldorf High School
470 West Portal Avenue,
San Francisco, CA 94127
Suggested Donation $15 – $20
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Or donate at the door.
Online Sunday, December 7, 2025
10AM – 1PM PT
The conference will envision a healthier society that contains three distinct parts. The independence of these parts—culture, state, and economy—is important so that the fundamental values of Freedom, Equality, and Brotherhood/Fellowship can operate in the domain where each belongs! Right now everything is enmeshed into one system which is dominated by the use of money as power; the result is that egotism dominates the Economy which then dominates the rest. Human beings created Money, we created the misuse of Money, and we created our current Economic structure. Thus we have the power to transform our relationships to them. We can create a structure that is in service to humanity and the earth, with Money and the Economy in their rightful places.
Citizens United in the United States magnified the misuse of money and political power. Given the tumultuous time we are in, we may be at a turning point now, before our situation becomes even more chaotic. This conference will help us see how each of us can strengthen that turn toward a healthier society. There will be substantive time for Q&A.
Our two featured speakers, Virginia Solomón, CEO of Common Cause, and Gerald Häfner, co-founder of Mehr Demokratie (More Democracy), are well-positioned to describe the next steps we need to take. A major first step is getting big money out of politics. Common Cause has decades of experience in that area, and we look forward to learning from them what has worked or not worked on the ground. Gerald Häfner is one of the world’s leading authorities on social threefolding which describes how the separation of culture, state, and the economy is based on and meets the needs of individual human beings.
This conference feels historic because it offers real hope in a fraught time. Every voice counts. Together we can move mountains. Please join us! Do feel free to extend this invitation to anyone you know who may also be interested.
Thanks for considering! We hope to see you on December 7!
Camphill Winter Fair
Sunday, December 7,
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM Paloma Hall
4096 Fairway Drive,
Soquel
Winter Craft Fair at Camphill with a small amount of outside vendors – food and drinks available
The Shepherds Play Players
The Shepherds Play
One Performance Only
Friday, December 12, 7:00 PM
Actor’s Theater 1001 Center St.
Santa Cruz
The Oberufer Shepherds play is a unique community Christmas event that has been performed every year since medieval times by people around the world. It takes the Christmas story from the point of view of the shepherds in a unique, humorous, and warm-hearted way, with amateur local actors and musicians. The special community feeling engendered by this event will be palpable to everyone.”City people today are hardly capable any longer of completely appreciating to its full depth what is connected with our annual festivals. It is hardly possible to feel that magic which passed like a spiritual breath through the souls, through the minds of those who believed that they were carrying Christ in their heart during the great festive events at Christmas or Easter. To feel this magic, which passed through humanity in these periods, like a spiritual breath, has become really quite difficult. … If we look at what ordinary people were able to feel when they were presented with the child in the manger…then we can say: such moods, such feelings should awaken in us when we look at what can be born in our soul.” ~ Rudolf Steiner, discussing the Oberufer play, Berlin, December 22, 1910
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$20, $40 for families
Millefolium Cultural Program: Armand Ruby
The Four Elements:
A Scientific/Spiritual Perspective
Saturday, December 6, 12:30 PM
Blossoms Farm,
2033 San Juan Road,
Aromas CA 95004
The four classical elements – Earth, Water, Air, Fire – represent a set of principles that apply widely throughout Earth’s planetary system, AKA Gaia: the Earth as a living organism.
These principles are living at the macrocosmic level: in Earth’s geology, oceans, atmosphere and energy sources; and at the microcosmic level: in the atoms that are fundamental to the composition of all biological life and in the substances needed to sustain life. At both scales, macro and micro, the four elements intermingle in interesting ways that we will touch on.
The “four elements” are commonly understood to represent aspects of – and be integral to – life on Earth: they’re present throughout the natural world, and they can be seen as having a correspondence to the kingdoms of Nature.
From an anthroposophical viewpoint, these four principles also are exemplified in the human being as a spiritual/physical organism; this more comprehensive, spiritually-oriented fourfold composition can then also be related back to life on Earth more broadly.
This presentation draws upon modern scientific understanding, as well as the anthroposophical (spiritual scientific) teachings of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of biodynamic agriculture.
4 Elements Presentation – Armand RubyArmand Ruby was educated at Cornell University (B.A., Biology; Ecology Concentration) and University of CT (M.S., Ecology), as well as informally in anthroposophical and biodynamic study groups, courses and lectures at Rudolf Steiner College and elsewhere.
He has had a long (>40 year) career as an environmental scientist, specializing in freshwater surface water quality. He has for decades also been a supporter of biodynamic agriculture and practitioner of biodynamic gardening, and is an anthroposophist of long standing.
He is also a musician, composer, playwright and aspiring filmmaker of musical films focused on topics of social and cultural relevance.
$30.00 donation to support Millefolium, the non-profit organization associated with Blossoms Farm. Pay at the door or online: add the talk to the cart at: 4 Elements Presentation – Armand Ruby
Coleman Lyles
The Mystery Dramas
Tuesday, November 18, 7:00 PM
Paloma Hall
4096 Fairway Drive, Soquel
Once again Coleman leads us further into insight into the Mystery Dramas. The evening will be sure to include interaction, anecdotes from Coleman’s own work with the Mystery Dramas, and insights that help us look ahead to Spring when we will be visited (again) by Laurie Portocarrero.
The ultimate Mystery Drama is life itself. In this regard every branch meeting is a scene from an ongoing play conceived before we were born. This reality, arising out of the karmic ground of previous earth existence, finds artistic expression in Rudolf Steiner’s four Mystery Dramas written between 1910-1914.
It is sure to fun, illuminating and social.
We request our usual donation of $20
or $10 for current paid branch members.
November 19 – 7 PM Pacific Time
Admission – $10 non-members, $5 regular members,
Supporting members no fee.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Fees may be paid in advance via PayPal at
faustbranch.org and clicking “donation”,
or by check to Sacramento Faust Branch,
mailed to Treasurer Carol Nordaas,
7620 Woodglen Drive, Fair Oaks, CA 95628.
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Dr. Michael Hernandez
Music in the Light of Anthroposophy
Camphill California Proudly Presents: An Afternoon Recital with Concert Saxophonist Dr. Michael Hernandez
Sunday, November 23, 4:00 PM
Paloma Hall
4096 Fairway Drive, Soquel
Join us for a captivating experience as Dr. Hernandez showcases an exquisite selection of works inspired by the Anthroposophical Impulse. Experience how Rudolf Steiner’s visionary ideas have profoundly influenced music over the past 100 years.
Featured Composers:
Ullmann, Hába, Scelsi, Denhoff, Bach and more!
Dr. Michael Hernandez is an internationally acclaimed saxophonist whose performances span major venues across Europe and the Americas. A founding member of the award-winning MANA Quartet, he brings a deep interpretive insight to both classical and contemporary repertoire. Hernandez currently serves as Assistant Professor of Saxophone and Music Entrepreneurship at San José State University.
Come enjoy the music! Admission is free, but donations are always welcome.
Sauerkraut Making Day
Put up your Kraut for the winter with our beautiful biodynamic “Late Flat Dutch” cabbage
Bring Your Own cutting board, knife, bowl, crocks and jars for our annual kraut-making festival…
Sunday, November 2nd, 11am-3:30pm; $30 per family; free for CSA & Patron Members
RSVP for Nov. 2nd Kraut Making Event
If you are a current CSA Farm Member and can’t make it to the event, click here to let us know if you would like us to send down extra cabbage in your share next week for you to make into sauerkraut at home.
Fall on the Farm…
Join Us for Our Upcoming November Volunteer Day
Join us at Three Springs Community Farm on Nov. 15th to help maintain our herb garden. All ages are welcome. Bring family, friends, and a potluck dish if you can stay for lunch. Last month was very alive with conversation, learning, and making new friends. Bring a Potluck Lunch Dish to Share & Favorite Gloves and Hand Tools if You Wish 🙂
Arrive 10:00-10:30
10:30 Welcome Circle
1:00 Lunch
DROP-INS AT ANY POINT DURING THE DAY WELCOME!
Questions or Details, Text Farmer Willow at: 510-409-3214
RSVP below with the number of adults & children in your party
RSVP for November 15th Volunteer Day
RSVP for December 7th Wreath Making Event
RSVP for December 13th Wreath Making Event
Staying Connected Death Cafe
For those who feel called to deepen their inner work and spiritual understanding
of living with and loving the “so-called-dead”
9:30 am Pacific, 12:30 Eastern, 16:30 UK (with time change), 1:30 CET (with time change)
Facilitated by Sally Greenberg and Vivianne Sinclaire
All are welcome to join the First of a Series of Death Cafes as we enter the time of year when the spiritual world draws nearer to us, including those we know who have loved and crossed.
Free offering with a small platform membership fee to support Anthroposophy.Social
(between $3.46 and $7/month) – cancel anytime
Together, we’ll Research, Practice and Share:
To Join:
Questions? Email Vivianne at viviannerael@gmail.com or Sally at supersallyg@gmail.com
We hope to see you there!
The Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay Branch
of the Anthroposophical Society
is pleased to present:
Perez Griselda Pineda
Susan Cook
Dia de los Muertos/All Souls Day
Sunday, November 2, 4:00 PM
Paloma Hall
4096 Fairway Drive, Soquel
You are invited to join together in remembrance of friends, family and ancestors who have crossed the threshold in a mood of reverence and gratitude. There will be thoughts shared about the meaning of dia de los Muertos as well as Rudolf Steiner’s consideration of staying connected to the dead.
Everyone is invited to bring a photo or memento of a loved one to place on the altar during the time together. We will end with candle lighting and quiet music.
There will be a donation basket at the door.
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Arrive 10:30-11:00
11:00 Welcome Circle
1:00 Lunch:
Bring your own Picnic Lunch or Potluck Dish to Share
& Favorite Gloves and Hand Tools if You Wish 🙂
4:00 Clean up Tools & Depart
DROP-INS AT ANY POINT DURING THE DAY WELCOME!
15300 Bodega Hwy, Gate code #8629. After entering, take the 2nd Left, pass the farm field, then Right at the T, through the second gate (#8629), and park straight ahead
Questions or Details, Text Farmer Willow at: 510-409-3214
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Herb Garden Volunteer Day RSVP
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Ita Wegman after Rudolf Steiner’s death – the struggle with the executive board and her path to the future” – Peter Selg – Zoom Only
It will be recorded.
October 18 – 10 am Pacific Time
Admission $10. Registration Required – Register Here
The Zoom link will be included in the registration acknowledgement email AND an email reminder with the Zoom link will be sent on the day before the event.
Dr. Peter Selg is one of the leading figures in the Anthroposophical movement. Trained as a medical doctor with a specialty in pediatric psychiatry, he has practiced, done research, and taught at several noted Anthroposophical medical institutions. In 2006, he founded The Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthroposophy in Arlesheim, Switzerland, and still directs that organization. Dr. Selg is Co-leader of the General Anthroposophical Section of the School for Spiritual Science and member of the Goetheanum leadership committee. A prolific author, he has written literally scores of books and articles dealing with Dr. Steiner, Anthroposophy, and the many sister movements.
Sponsored by The Faust Branch
of the Anthroposophical Society in America
Any questions email
faustbranch@gmail.com
Wednesday, Oct 8 – 7-8:30 pm
Admission – $10 non-members, $5 regular members,
Supporting members no fee. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Fees may be paid in advance via PayPal at
faustbranch.org and clicking “donation”,
or by check to Sacramento Faust Branch,
mailed to Treasurer Carol Nordaas,
7620 Woodglen Drive, Fair Oaks, CA 95628.
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Robert McDermott is president emeritus and professor emeritus of the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and is the former president and board chair of many anthroposophical institutions. He has written and lectured extensively on the evolution of consciousness, the spiritual mission of America, eastern and western spiritual masters, Rudolph Steiner, and anthroposophy.
Bruce Donehower is the representative to the Goetheanum for the North American Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science. For more information, visit TheLiteraryArts.com.
Sponsored by The Faust Branch of The Anthroposophical Society in America
