Artistic activity makes familiar with creative processes. At the Goetheanum, the art impulse also lives as a stimulus for tasks in agriculture, medicine and education for instance. An Art Intensive Week reveals approaches in architecture, painting and sculpture.
The Goetheanum Stage presents ‘Faust Parts 1 and 2’ this summer in a nine-hour staging directed by Andrea Pfaehler. It is the third year for this production, but the first without Covid restrictions. Many young performers are part of the ensemble.
The exhibition ‘Colour’s Open Secret’, which will be shown at the Goetheanum until 20 July 2022, offers insight into the diverse creative work of the painter Hans Hermann. His work covers a wide range from naive painting to attempts at grasping the sensory and supersensory in abstract pictures to the liberation of colour.
Clowns as developing human beings have moved into the Goetheanum. This sum-mer the two clowns Vanilli und Topolino will offer a course for adults in June and activities for the entire family in August.
The Goetheanum is part of the Federal Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites (ISOS), representing the Canton of Solothurn in the newly published list of 50 selected objects spread around Switzerland in the project ’The Magic of Beautiful Places’.
The Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, was intended as a building that would inspire cultural impulses. It was erected during the First World War by people from seventeen nations. One hundred years after its destruction by fire in 1922/1923, experts are discussing metamorphosis as a creative impulse in architecture, sculpture, painting and glass carving.
Richard Wagner‘s music drama ‘Parsifal’ will come to the Goetheanum Stage at Easter 2023 as a coproduction of Pamy Mediaproductions and the Goetheanum. The venture will bring opera and eurythmy together.
Anthroposophy can add perspectives to the findings of the academic sciences, based on an epistemological foundation, artistic approaches, practical application and ethical considerations. Members of the Goetheanum Leadership present examples of this in a video series.
The Goetheanum uses the platform goetheanum.tv to put together films and recordings of interviews, lectures and artistic presentations. Some of these contributions also appear in the weekly journal ‘Das Goetheanum’ or in book form.
A working group for clowns has been founded within the Section for the Performing Arts at the Goetheanum. In the first issue of a new magazine called ‘red nose’ 24 clowns introduce themselves.
Biodynamic farming is proof that agriculture without pesticides is possible. Intro-duced a hundred years ago, it is by now even applied to demanding cultures such as fruit, cotton, wine, coffee and bananas.
From 25 June to 30 September 2021, the Swiss artist Heikedine Günther will show her latest work, ‘Concentric Circles’, at the Goetheanum. The more than 50 oil paintings and monotypes open up a world of impulses and reveal their effect on the surroundings.
Human societies are undergoing complex transformation processes: At present, the climate crisis, the search for appropriate forms of coexistence, the status of the individual and digitalisation are all drawing attention to issues of relationship.
The General Anthroposophical Society, which runs the Goetheanum, ended 2020 with a deficit of around 476,000 Swiss francs. This was a result of the weeks-long closures due to official Corona regulations. Members endorsed the outcome at the first fully digital General Meeting.
The film maker Benedikt Schulte presents Anthroposophic Medicine in a series of short films entitled ‘The Art of Healing’. The films provide an insight into the medical practice, inviting experts, researchers, students and patients to share their experiences and casting a light on the history of Anthroposophic Medicine.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, teachers, educators and parents have been faced with the challenges of keeping up their relationship with the children, facilitating learning and supporting development. A series of videos provides pedagogical advice.
Eating good quality food improves health while malnutrition can lead to illnesses such as obesity or type 2 diabetes. For nutritionist Jasmin Peschke food quality is connected with people‘s attitude towards soil, plants and animals.
Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, 5 February 2021 “Strengthen health comprehensively” Position of Anthroposophic Medicine on vaccination against Sars-CoV-2 For the Medical Section at the Goetheanum and the International Federation of Anthroposophic Medical Associations, vaccination against Sars-CoV-2 is an important element in containing the Covid-19 pandemic. Anthroposophic Medicine builds on f
Being locked down, teaching children at home and working from home can be very stressful. In February the Goetheanum offers an online course with practical inspiration for becoming creative and feeling more in charge. The programme focuses on dialogue and self-activity.
The Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum has set itself the aim for everyone to be able participate in the biodynamic agricultural and food culture and help to develop it. This assumes access to high-quality seed, a sound training and an environment that enables organic agriculture.