FW: A/S E-News 27 May 2011: Arts Visual, Performing, Healing, Literary; Humanities; Ideas...

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Good Stuff happening in the arts… enjoy… (scroll down…) Phoebe Phoebe , US LiaisonAAATNA - Association of Anthroposophical Art Therapists in North Americawww.aaatna.org NYC: cell: phoebe@... From: as-in-a_news@... On Behalf Of Beck, Anthroposophical SocietySent: Friday, May 27, 2011 6:07 AMTo: Phoebe Subject: A/S E-News 27 May 2011: Arts Visual, Performing, Healing, Literary; Humanities; Ideas... Doesn't look right? View the online version here. (To unsubscribe or change emails use the link at page bottom.)May 27, 2011Focus for this issue: Arts Visual, Performing, Healing, & Literary; Humanities; IdeasNews in BriefELIANT, the European Alliance of Initiatives for Applied Anthroposophy, has presented on May 13th over a million signatures to the European Union in support of measures to protect the availability of anthroposophical products and services, as NNA reports. ELIANT will continue working in part as a model of citizen initiative in the EU governmental framework. Cheers to ELIANT!Filmmaker Stedall is now traveling in the USA filming anthroposophical initiatives. The long-time BBC documentarian and his crew began in upstate New York, visited Washington DC, and are presently in California. They were previously in Austria and India, interviewing people from across Asia. June is the UK, and September is Dornach. $300,000 has been raised and a further $75,000 is sought. Details in the linked PDF. Hats off to Mr. Stedall!Wonderful New Art Section BlogsiteAn ambitious new blogsite for the Art Section in North America, of the School of Spiritual Science, has blossomed unexpectedly this spring. You can read the Art Section Newsletter online, connects to schools and trainings, and already read posted articles and see works of visual art by , Summer, , iel , and Van .Sound Archetypes as Sacred SymbolsWe've come to recognize, through eurythmy, the powerful movement of sounds and tones. So, we were impressed when we ran across this blog on sound archetypes from Suresh Emre in New York. While Emre identifies sound archetypes as sacred symbols that have been " imprinted in our genes and in our collective mind, " he does a very interesting job of connecting the divine word to the sounds 'hu' in many languages and through many different sacred texts.Werner Herzog's " Art Film " From the very new to the very old... At the gathering with the US General Council at the House of Peace last week, a local friend gave a strong recommendation to the new film by Werner Herzog: " Cave of Forgotten Dreams. " More than fifty films have come from this Munich-born director, winning prizes as far back as a special grand jury prize at Cannes for " The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser " in 1974. The new film takes us to the Chauvet caves of southern France, whose works of art are dated back over 30,000 years. More on Herzog's official site (note: scroll down for the trailer which begins automatically and with loud noises).Two Exhibits in New YorkOne goes often for visual art to big cities, and New York City is a great place for that. Through July 11th the Museum of Modern Art " MoMA " is serving up " German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse. " As painter and graphic artist, Rudolf Steiner would be considered among the expressionists. Of their shared concerns MoMA's site says that the expressionists' works " reflect a period of intense social and aesthetic transformation, and several themes of continuing resonance emerge. These include a focus on urban experience, an uncompromising approach to the body and sexuality, and an abiding preoccupation with nature, religion, and spirituality. " While impressionist art seems to play most often delightedly with the perceptual field, expressionism took on the newly seen eruptions from the unconscious: and then the civilizational disaster of " The Great War. " If not afraid of the ugly side, it renders insight and great beauties. (Pictured is Oskar Kokoschka's " Hans Tietze and a Tietze-Conrat, 1909. " )Visual art is a longtime and lively concern also at Anthroposophy NYC, the New York branch of the Anthroposophical Society, whose " Centerpoint Gallery " shows a diversity of art impulses. The current wall-filling exhibit is by long-time member of the NY branch and noted painter Dan Marshall. Alongside huge paintings are a wonderful array of new works, including drawings of statues at Chartres cathedral (seen earlier this year at the SteinerBooks Spiritual Research Seminar at NYU) and meditation triptychs. The exhibit will be up through June, so you could visit MoMA during the day and view Dan's work while taking in one of the branch's June events, which include two visual arts workshops and visits by Ulrich Roesch from the Goetheanum and Dr. Selg of the Ita Wegman Institute.Light Notes: Seattle band, The Head and the Heart, have been making waves with their music, catchy tunes, simple and accessible lyrics and beautiful music videos: " Lost in My Mind. " Enjoy! And a Dutchartist depicts his childhood room in wood blocks... Anthroposophy in America E-News is sent to those who request it fromAnthroposophical Society in America1923 Geddes AvenueAnn Arbor, MI 48104 ... To unsubscribe or change subscriber options visit:http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?HEysbJystMzsrGysbBxstEa0nJwcLJzsjA==