Summer Courses

Those to whom Nature begins to disclose her revealed mystery feel an irresistible longing for her most worthy interpreter, Art...
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Summer Intensive Week normally runs from Sunday evening through Friday in late June. Exact dates are announced by early spring each year. It consists of intensive practice in the arts within the context of a specifically chosen theme that changes every year. The theoretical work on the theme is deepened by the artistic work. Themes in the past have included:

• Threefold Social Order
• Painting, Sculpture and Eurythmy
• Parzival (Wolfram von Eschenbach)
• Understanding Christ in a Pluralistic Age
• Drama and Creative Writing
• Interpreting Nature's Secrets (An Experimental Immersion on the Farm and in the Arts at Hawthorne Valley)
• High School Arts and Crafts
• Instrument making with Manfred Bleffert

The Summer Intensive is included in the coursework of Foundation Studies and Waldorf Teacher Training, but is also open to the public. Hours are typically from 9 am to 4 pm.