2008
January 12, Saturday
Camphill Board Meeting, NYC.
February 4, Monday at 7:30 PM
Joan Kwuon, violin and André Previn, piano – Anne Ratner Concert Series in New York City to benefit Camphill Village. Call Madeleine Israel at 518/329-7924 ext. 103 for tickets and information.
March 10, Monday at 7:30 PM
The Brasil Guitar Duo – Anne Ratner Concert Series in New York City to benefit Camphill Village. Call Madeleine Israel at 518/329-7924 ext. 103 for tickets and information.
March 29, Saturday, 10:30-3:00 PM
Camphill Board Meeting.
May 1, Thursday at 7:30 PM
Richard Goode, piano – Anne Ratner Concert Series in New York City to benefit Camphill Village. Call Madeleine Israel at 518/329-7924 ext. 103 for tickets and information.
Ratner Concert Series Begins its 2008 Season
On February 4, the 2008 Anne Ratner Concert Series will be launched at the home of Nancy Wolf and Charles Sims in New York City. Commenting on their second year as hosts to the Ratner Concerts, Nancy and Charles said, “Having our home filled with music and an appreciative audience was a very special experience last season, and we are looking forward to the wonderful music of the upcoming series.”
The opening concert will be performed by American violinist, Joan Kwuon and pianist, André Previn. Joan Kwuon has been hailed by critics for her “impassioned and poised” playing, exhilarating technique and “pure and vibrant” tone. Sir André Previn has received numerous awards and honors for his outstanding musical accomplishments and is a frequent guest with the world’s major orchestras.
João Luiz and Douglas Lora of the Brasil Guitar Duo will perform for the second concert of the 2008 series on March 10. The pair are quickly solidifying their status as one of the preeminent guitar duos of their generation.
One of the world’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music, pianist Richard Goode will close the series on May 1 with his program to include the works of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy.
The extraordinary Ratner Concert Series has once again been brought together by music consultant, Charles Hamlen, to benefit Camphill Village. Seating is limited and reservations are on a first come, first served basis .To attend an individual concert or subscribe to the series, please contact Madeleine at 518/329-7924, ext. 103.
Camphill Village and Friends Celebrate Opening of Hudson
The residents of the new Camphill Village house at 308 Allen Street in the City of Hudson opened its doors to their neighbors on November 4. Later, over 150 people gathered at Stageworks on the Hudson to celebrate the new Camphill Village venture and the Hudson pioneers.
The Camphill Village Ensemble filled the stage and performed Everyman, a piece written by Colin Tanser, a composer and music therapist from Scotland. The Hilo Trio on flute, cello and violin performed Haydn’s London Trio No.1 and Spanish Dance by I. Albeniz. Variety was added to the celebration by Xplicit, a local hip-hop group. President of the Board of Directors, Bob Norris, greeted the guests and Gabrielle Canino of the Taconic DDSO, the regional office for New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, was a guest speaker. Co-worker, Stephen Steen shared a poem written especially for the occasion. After the program, guests enjoyed refreshments—apple cider made in the Village, breads baked in the Village Bakery and cheeses.
For the Opening of the Camphill House in Hudson
By Stephen Steen
There are the forefathered forests and woodlands.
There are the forgotten factories performing dramas.
There are peace protests and taxis.
There are llamas guarding sheep from coyotes.
There are those who are hip and those who hop.
There are courthouses with security.
There are farmyards with cows.
There are grid systems with street names and numbers.
There are ring roads that keep coming back to the same place.
There are streams and creeks that glitter and splash.
There are traffic lights and car lights that indicate or change or crash.
There is the footfall of fall’s leaves sounding like footsteps on the sidewalk.
What is it that pours all this together,
Allaying the sun rays with the starlight?
What is it that flows and knows
The intersections and resurrections?
We all know the answer, but how to bear it?
Push the stone out of the way
Get the plank out of the eye.
Know that we all know
We come out of the invisible, the unheard of, into being.
It calls in our conscience
Each time we meet another human being
Even if it is like a passing car
Or a windswept newspaper
Shuffling off into the alley.
Yes there are the unrelenting forces of destruction
The choruses of misguidance and loss’
But the soul can awake! And the heartbeat a telling story
That the answer is I and you
You and me, I and Thou.
Build this telling story strong across the valleys and the streets
Into a mountain
A peak we can climb together and share a view as wide as the world
As high as the sky’
So the woodlands, factories, peace protests, llamas, hip hop, courthouses,
Farmyards, grid systems and ring roads,
Streams and traffic lights,
The footfall of leaves and footsteps
Rainbow together,
Embracing all light and darkness
Seeing the need to cross the street
Beginning the longing to climb the mountain,
Then the shared view
The being together
Will story into a waking
That will not let us shuffle off or pass each other in our car
But let this day be a celebration
Of realized connections;
An assembly of new friendships.
Changing Your Search Engine Will Support Camphill Village
Change your search engine to GoodSearch.com and for every search you make, Camphill Village will receive $.01. Although a penny seems hardly worth the effort, if 100 supporters search the internet just twice a day, we receive $730 for the year! The more searches made in our name, the more money that is raised for us. GoodSearch is powered by Yahoo and is an excellent search engine.
Go to www.goodsearch.com and select Camphill Village USA as your charity of choice (if cookies are enabled on your computer, Camphill Village USA will remain as your charity, so you won’t need to enter it for every search).
Go to www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/ to download the toolbar to your computer. And now you are ready to search the internet and raise funds for Camphill Village! Pass this information to your friends, family and business associates. Not only is GoodSearch an opportunity to raise funds, but it is a wonderful way to make people aware of Camphill Village and its people.
Documentary Available as Video
Copies of our one-hour documentary film, Let Each Light Shine: A Portrait of Camphill Village, and our 15-minute film, Camphill Village: Inside a Special Place, are available on DVD. Contact Carolyn Race 518/329-7924 x 100 or carolyn@camphillvillage.org
Camphill Village Makes Front Page News
Camphill Village was featured on the front page of the Times Union in an article entitled "A Place to Belong" written by Steve Barnes, Senion Writer. Beautiful photographs of the Village by Philip Kamrass, Staff Photographer for the Times Union, enhanced the front-page story. Another Times Union writer, Frances Ingraham Heins, contributed significantly to the story. Fran spent two full days in the Village, visiting workshops, gardens, houses, working in the Bakery and joining villagers and co-workers for lunch at Kaspar Hauser. Many villagers, co-workers and staff contributed to the success of this story that has resulted in inquiries from potential volunteers, villagers and donors. Above all, we have captured the admiration of a skeptical group of journalists from a major regional paper who each say that they can't stop telling people about the beautiful community life they discovered hidden away in the hills of Columbia County.
To view the article, click here
“A Place to Belong” or call Camphill Village at 518/329-4851 and request a copy.
Reprint permission was granted by the Times Union.