Kimberton Community Chorus
The next rehearsal of the Kimberton Community Chorus (led by KWS music teacher Carol Diven) will be held on Monday, February 6 at 7:00pm in the music room of the HS Gym. All are welcome! We look forward to seeing our old members and greeting new friends. To join the group email list, please .
Annual Waldorf Winter Camping Trip
February 17-22, 2012
For students in Grades 7 through High School
Teachers: Andy Dill, Kimberton Waldorf School and Lisl Hofer, KROKA Expeditions
Cost: $350, $450, $550 (sliding scale depending upon need)
On this trip we will experience a traditional way of life and travel in the winter wilderness, as generations of native people, explorers, and trappers of a by gone era once did.
We will begin by meeting at the KROKA Base Camp in Marlow, New Hampshire. In the comfort and warmth of our lodge, we will prepare for the trip, pack gear and go over what we need to know to travel safely and comfortably in snow country. We will ski and snowshoe through the forest and over frozen lakes carrying our gear in packs and on toboggans. Establishing our camp on a frozen beaver pond, we will set our canvas wall tent and make a fragrant floor of fir boughs. We will cut and split fire wood, chop a hole in the ice to get water and finally set our meal to cook over the wood stove or open fire. At night, the stars and the moon will illuminate the scene of a winter paradise with ice crackling in the cold and snow blanketing the firs. There will be stories, songs and great conversations in our candle-lit canvas wall tent. For the next few days we will live in our new home in the woods, learning winter camp craft, making snow shelters and practicing the ways of people and animals in the winter. We will explore nearby mountains and lakes, looking for beaver, coyote and moose. Sooner than we will wish, it will be time to break camp and leave this enchanted world behind.
Contacts: Lisl Hofer, phone: 603-835-9087, website: www.kroka.org, email: office@kroka.org; Andy Dill, phone: 610-933-3635, email: ajadill@juno.com.
Kimberton Hills Thrift Shop Grand Opening
On Saturday, February 11 at noon, Camphill Village Kimberton Hills will celebrate the grand opening of the Kimberton Hills Thrift Shop. The shop will be selling good-quality natural fiber clothing, books and toys, kitchen and household items, and more.
Following the official Grand Opening, the Kimberton Hills Thrift Shop, located in the space adjacent to the Camphill Café, will be open Wednesdays-Saturdays, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Camphill Café, which is also open for lunch during Thrift Shop hours, serves locally-grown, organic food, including soups, salads, sandwiches and desserts.
Donations for the thrift shop are welcomed, and may be delivered to the side door of the Kepler Building at Camphill Village Kimberton Hills. Please bring donated items – natural fiber clothing, books, toys and household goods -- during business hours, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Proceeds from both the Kimberton Hills Thrift Shop and the Camphill Café help support Camphill Village Kimberton Hills, a non-profit community that lives and works with adults with developmental disabilities.
Camphill Village Kimberton Hills hosts Fiber Arts Workshops
Camphill Village Kimberton Hills announces several fiber arts workshops to be held in the winter and early spring of 2012.
• Nuno Felting, learn to use silk and wool to create unique handmade scarves.
Saturday, January 21, 9 a.m. to noon
$50 in advance – strongly recommended as workshop space is limited
$60 day of, no guarantee if workshop is full
Materials included.
• Spinning with a Drop Spindle, learn to spin your own yarn
Saturday, March 10, 9 a.m. to noon
$50 in advance – strongly recommended as workshop space is limited
$60 day of, no guarantee if workshop is full
Includes wool and your own drop spindle.
• Beginning Spinning with a Wheel, learn to card with hand and drum carders and spin and ply wool using a spinning wheel
Saturday, March 24, 9 a.m. to noon
$45 in advance
$50 day of
$80 both spinning workshops in advance
• Beginning Weaving on a Rigid Heddle Loom, learn to warp a loom and weave a scarf
Saturdays, April 14 and 28, 9 a.m. to noon
$120 in advance
Materials included.
For further information and to reserve a place, please call Felicity at 610-935-0350. All workshops are held in the Fiber Arts Workshop, Kepler Building, Camphill Village Kimberton Hills. Camphill Village Kimberton Hills is located at 1601 Pughtown Road, Kimberton, PA.
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Three former Kimberton students working and playing in Kenya
Last Spring, Kyle Schutter '06 started a company, Takamoto Biogas, in Kenya to help rural farmers convert their cow dung to fuel and fertilizer. Kyle and his Kenyan team have built about a dozen biodigesters northwest of Nairobi. This Fall, two more former Kimberton students joined the company-- his sister Laura '07 and former classmate Graham Benton.
Kyle spoke to the 6th through 11th grade last June to tell them about some of his experiences in Africa both culturally and starting up a business. The company has since entered a business plan competition for social entrepreneurs and is looking to raise funds to start designing and building lamps and stoves to be used with the biogas. The three companies who raise the most funds automatically make it to the next round of the competition. For more information go to http://www.takamotobiogas.com/takamoto-biogas-newsletter-october-29-2011/.
Kyle, Laura and Graham say if you're ever in the area or know anyone who might be interested in interning with them, please send them an email at .
Soltane Shines Tours
Have you ever wondered what Camphill Soltane is all about? Come to our campus for an inspiring 60-minute program and tour, and learn more about our innovative life-sharing, educational and vocational programs for individuals with developmental disabilities! To register, visit www.camphillsoltane.org/soltaneshines, email , or call 610-469-6602. Bring a friend!
2011-2012 Schedule
Tuesday, November 15th, 9 AM - 10 AM
Tuesday, December 13th, 9 AM - 10 AM
Tuesday, January 10th, 9 AM - 10 AM
Thursday, February 9th, 4 PM - 5 PM
Tuesday, March 13th, 9 AM - 10 AM
Tuesday, April 10th, 9 AM - 10 AM
Thursday, May 10, 4 PM - 5 PM
Tuesday, June 5th, 9 AM - 10 AM
Eden Energy Medicine Study Group in PA - Beginning November 3, 2011
Topics – Daily Energy Routine, Building the Foundations to Your Energy Systems - And - Simple Exercises to Balance the Metal Element Cost - $15
“Learning Energy Medicine is like getting a Ph.D. in my body.” Eden Energy Medicine student
First Thursday of Each Month. Morning & Evening Groups 10:30am – 12:00pm or 7:00 – 8:30pm
2500 DeKalb Pike, Suite 200 East Norriton, PA 19401
Hosted by MaryAnn Tellinghusen, EEM-CP
Eden Energy Medicine, Certified Practitioner
Call 610-331-3580 or e-mail to register.
The Syokithumbi Farmers Self Help is located in Southeast Kenya in the District of Kitui West. Traveling Mercies Director Aldo Magazzeni is directly responsible for this project with his partners in Kitui.
Problem: Drought-Stricken Villages in SE Kenya
Helping Who: 100 Families, 800 People!
How: Your Dollars will Directly Make it Happen.
The Solution: Community-Based Implementation of A Solar Powered Water Well, A Community Meeting/Storage Building, A Greenhouse, A Small Farm with Drip-Irrigation.
This region and community is well known to Traveling Mercies. Over the past 4 years, Aldo Magazzeni has completed several projects in the region. In 2007, Aldo spent over 6 months in the area helping to build a self sustaining village and installing a very large water system with Father Angelo D'Agostino and his organization the Nyumbani Village. Today this village cares for 900 HIV orphans and their grandparents. In 2009, a water system was built at a public school in Nairobi and today hundreds of children and their families have clean drinkable water. Please click here for more information and to donate to this cause.