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BACWTT Annual Appeal 2025-2026

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Waldorf Education Needs Well-Prepared Teachers to Meet the
Challenges of Our Time.
 
BACWTT Annual Appeal 2025-2026

Dear Friend,

We have nearly reached our goal to meet the $20,000 matching donation by the end of this year. We need to raise less than $5,000 to achieve that match and then we will be over the halfway point towards our annual fundraising goal! If you haven’t donated yet, please consider doing so now.

Your donation directly supports the effort and commitment of our students. When you give to BACWTT, you make a direct impact on the educational experience we are able to provide and the quality of learning for many children in Waldorf classrooms.

Help us meet our matching donation by the end of the year!
We need to raise less than $5,000 before December 31st.
Every dollar you donate will be doubled till we meet our matching donation goal.

Donations received with matching donation by December 16th: $15,285

By supporting our students, you are shaping the future of Waldorf
education and the world!

Make your tax-deductible donation by using our website’s secure online donation form or through the PayPal Giving Fund. Or, if you prefer, please mail your check to:

BACWTT | P.O. Box 21265 | El Sobrante, CA 94820

Use This Link to Give Using Our Online Donation Form

Use This Link to Give Through the PayPal Giving Fund

The Incarnation of the Logos

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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

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San Francisco Waldorf High School

470 West Portal Avenue,
San Francisco, CA 94127

Suggested Donation $15 – $20

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Support Regenerative Farming and Education

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Three Springs Community Farm, Biodynamic Educational Farm in Bodega, Sonoma County, California

Three Springs Community Farm is a classroom without walls, where regenerative agriculture and nature connection ignite true learning and empowerment.

Your gift today provides hands-on experiences for our children that foster future leaders for a resilient planet.

We need your help to reach our goal of raising $25,000 by December 31st. 

Your gift will close the funding gap—ensuring no school is turned away and allowing us to confirm essential school visits for 2026.

Invest in Our Growth, Invest in Their Future
We have made great progress this year in expanding programming for these powerful learning moments:

Growing our Campus: We secured a $100,000 matching grant to build out a K-12 Educational Campground, allowing us to host more school groups and families throughout the year.

Training Future Stewards: Our young adult farmer intern program is fully enrolled, training the next leaders in regenerative agriculture.

Expanding Access: We are expanding our CSA reach in 2026 and launching new adult workshops to share biodynamic practices with the wider community.

With your continued support, we have a chance to ensure this land continues to flourish and grow for the future.

DONATE HERE

THREE SPRINGS COMMUNITY FARM FOUNDATION GuideStar Profile
Three Springs Community Farm Foundation, PO Box 44, Bodega, CA 94922, USA

 Baumheier Conference 

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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!

Register Here

The Shepherds Play

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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

The Four Elements:A Scientific/Spiritual Perspective

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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

100 Years Rudolf Steiner Conference

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at the Harvard Divinity School – online participation

Harvard’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality is delighted to host this special conference at Harvard Divinity School on December 15 and 16,  online and in person. In person registration is at capacity and no longer possible, however, online registration is still available:

Register here for free online participation of the 100 Years Rudolf Steiner Conference .

….The centennial of Steiner’s death in 1925 offers a perfect opportunity for scholars, practitioners in areas of “applied anthroposophy,” such as Steiner education and biodynamic agriculture, and interested members of the public to come together to debate major issues. Our conference goal is to offer new perspectives on Steiner and critical approaches to his legacy, which has been extremely fruitful in multiple fields, from education and organic farming to modern art and architecture. By bringing together a diverse range of scholars and researchers, we hope to shed new light on this legacy and provide a forum to explore complex issues.

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The Spiritual World in the Eyes of Rudolf Steiner

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Karthik Bala

Tuesday, December 2
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
550 Laguna Street, San Francisco

RSVP Required – follow ‘register’ link

“Rudolf Steiner is an incredible philosopher and mystic with an immense body of work and a highly original thought. 

His work touches an all areas of human life, from politics, to agriculture, to education, medicine, energy work, poetry, science, and much more. He offers perspectives on the grandest cosmic mysteries to the most mundane of life’s questions (e.g: do journalists benefit more from coffee or tea?).

I think he’s severely underrated and more people need to be exposed to him. In this talk I will discuss some of the ideas that really struck me.”

Some possible topics:

  • ​Simple exercises to maintain discernment when things get weird 
  • ​Moral imagination and the moral world hidden in nature 
  • ​How we can discover ourselves through the careful observation of plants 
  • ​Ahriman and Lucifer: the two tempters of our time 
  • ​Angels and elementals beings: guardian angels, nation-angels, the spirit of our age, apartment spirits, elementals 
  • ​Eurythmy: the living reality of phonemes and how we can express them in movement 

​About me: I used to work in tech but I got Steiner-pilled so hard I now spend all my time studying his works. 

Schedule:
6:30 – 6:45 – Settling in and snack
6:45 – 8 – Talk and Q&A
8 – 8:30 – Mingling, Informal discussions, and follow-up plans

PLEASE RSVP (REQUIRED)

follow register link

The Mystery Dramas

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The Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay Branch
of the Anthroposophical Society
is pleased to present:

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.

The Seven Planetary Seals and their Metamorphosis – Brian Gray – Zoom Talk

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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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Music in the Light of Anthroposophy

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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

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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

  • Potluck lunch at 1pm
  • Drop-ins welcome: allow about 1 1/2 hours minimum to make your kraut
  • PotluckPlease RSVP with your name, phone number and the number of adults and children in your partylunch at 1pm

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

RSVP for December 21st Solstice Event

All Souls Day Gathering, this Sunday!

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November 2, 2025 3 pm @ SFWS Eurythmy Room, 470 West Portal Ave.

Reminder: This is a quiet event and children are welcome if they can sit calmly. Please plan ahead and arrive in a timely way for parking etc. doors will close once the program has started.

Questions or more information? contact skyleitz@gmail.com

Staying Connected Death Cafe

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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”  

In Preparation for All Souls Day, the Culmination of Michaelmas,
and Our Journey through Advent and the Holy Nights

Hosted on Anthroposophy.Social 

Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025

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:

  • The Living Nature of our Connection with Those who have Died
  • Clarity of Connection from a Purified Heart Space
  • What’s Needed to Be in Service to the World in Partnership with those on the Other Side.
  • Practical Meditations to Be in Connection
  • Ongoing Support and Mutual Practices through the Coming Months

To Join: 

  1. If you’re not already a member of Anthropsophy.Social, go to http://anthroposophysocial.com 
  2. Join the Platform with one of the two options at the bottom of the page ($3.46/month for members of the Anthroposophical Society and/or Youth Section with code ASYSDISCOUNT2 and/or $7 for a basic foundational membership)  
  3. You’ll be Welcomed with an Overview of the Platform
  4. Once Inside, Go to the Navigation Bar on the Left 
  5. Click on Events in the Upper Left of the Navigation Bar on the Left
  6. Find the Death Cafe on  the Calendar
  7. RSVP to receive updates
  8. Join through the zoom link on the Calendar or with an email link sent to all platform members 1 hour before the Event starts   


Questions? Email Vivianne at viviannerael@gmail.com or Sally at supersallyg@gmail.com


We hope to see you there!