Camphill Village Kimberton Hills' 4th Annual Wine and Dine Talkfest: Sunday, April 29 at 5

To my amazement, and due to quite a few requests, we are now talking wineries into helping us out with a few fine bottles for the upcoming Talkfest - Version 4.  Before you forget, put it in your calendar: Sunday, April 29 at 5 at the world famous Birchrunville Store Café in…Birchrunville, Pennsylvania.

And then immediately email your reservation to our most excellent Bernadette Kovaleski, bernadette@camphillkimberton.org, or call her, 610-935-8660.  You probably should do both just to make sure you have a place reserved.  I am pleased to report that we have had a full house the first three times and expect another one this year.

If you happen to be in the horrible situation of finding something already on your calendar on April 29…be calm.  There is plenty of time for you to get out of that other event.  If you can’t think of any great ideas for how to do this, call Bernadette (610-935-8660) and she will share her complete list of ways to politely tell people that you found a better place to be.  And while you’re on the phone with her, don’t forget to make a reservation to Birchrunville’s best event of the year.

You show up.  We will provide:

• Scintillating conversationalists there for the talking
• Exceptional wine to lubricate your ideas
• Spectacular hors d'œuvres flowing continuously from the kitchen of renowned chef Francis Trzeciak
• And…NO…that’s No program at all! 

We think you are the most interesting people with the best ideas and experiences to share.  Who needs someone yakking at you from the front of the room with a PowerPoint behind them?  We have you!  All of you.  All to yourselves.  (We'll certainly tell you all about this wonderful place called Camphill Kimberton, but within the context of other fascinating conversation.)

We thought a lot about the proper fee for such an exceptional event. And after all, it does support a wonderful place.  Finally we decided to offer the spectacular early registration fee of $158.79 per person. This is $6.20 less than last year!  (Mostly because I still have a few bottles of wine left, but don’t tell that to anyone.)

We also have our sponsorships:

• $748.25 gets you 2 tickets and 1 minute 13 seconds to say something to the group.
• $1746.50 get you 4 tickets, 1 minutes 45 seconds to share your thoughts, and best of all I will take you and three friends to dinner at the Café…on him!
• $2287.75 gets you all the $1746.50 stuff but you get to leave Steve home…and talk to the group for 2 minutes 8 seconds.

See you there,

Steve Smolinsky
President, Board of Directors

4^th Annual Talkfest, April 29, 5-7:45, Birchrunville Store Café, $158.79 per person

Be there! You’ll have a great time while supporting an exceptional place.

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Have you ever considered life in Camphill?

Camphill communities are made possible by the many volunteers who serve in various capacities to support each other and build a strong and ethical community.

People with diverse backgrounds, skills and personal goals join our community for a year of service or for a lifetime, volunteering their time and energy; they live, work, learn and grow with us.

There are many opportunities to contribute meaningfully to the life of the village.  To learn more about how you can become a part of Camphill Kimberton, visit  http://www.camphillkimberton.org/volunteer/index.php.

Camphill Kimberton presents "Noah and the Flood" and "Everyman"

Camphill Village Kimberton Hills presents Noah and the Flood and Everyman, two musical productions on one stage, from March 24-25, 2012.   

The musical Noah and the Flood was written by Eugene Schwartz with music by Lawrence Rosenthal.  Schwartz wrote the play for his third grade class. When a third grade teacher in California started to work with it, Lawrence Rosenthal, who had a child in that class, was inspired to write music to it.

Like all productions at Kimberton Hills, this one also features a cast of children and adults from within the Camphill Kimberton community, and from the wider community. The children carry the main part of the play, either as Noah's sons and their wives, or as naughty town children who taunt Noah's sons while they are working on the ark, or as angels in the very first scene, when we hear how all is planned on a spiritual level.

Members of Camphill Kimberton’s music workshop are involved both on stage and among the instrumentalists. The play, in its relative simplicity as a class play, offers immense possibilities as a community play for a cast of very different ages and capacities.

"I want to express my gratitude to Eugene for offering this musical to me," says Veronika Roemer, director. "Every new musical, from looking at it for the first time until it's ready for performance, is like a journey, or making a new friend. This musical has been a journey of discoveries and delights."

The second piece, Everyman was composed by Colin Tanser for children's choir and lyre orchestra. "I felt inspired to add this beautiful piece of music to the program because it carries a similar message as the musical," says Roemer. "I arranged it for a small instrumental ensemble, instruments that are already needed for the musical like flute and oboe, and others played by cast members. I added bordun lyres and bells, so that everyone cast in the musical can also participate in Everyman."

This is the seventh show produced by Roemer, who lives and works in Camphill Kimberton, an intentional life-sharing community that includes adults with developmental disabilities.

Show times are:

Saturday, March 24 at 3:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 25 at 3:30 p.m.

All shows are in Rose Hall.  Suggested donations are $10 for adults, $5 for children, and $25 for a family. 

The Camphill Cafe will have extended hours on performance days. On Saturday, March 24, the Cafe will be open from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. On Sunday, March 25, the Cafe will open from 2:30-3:30 p.m. The Cafe will also be open both days during intermission.

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Camphill Village Kimberton Hills is located at 1601 Pughtown Road, Kimberton, Pa.

Daria in concert: a free music performance for the special needs community, March 10

Daria, an internationally-known folksinger, will present a free concert at Camphill Village Kimberton Hills on Saturday, March 10 at 4 p.m.  Children and adults with special needs and their families are specially invited to be a part of this performance where Daria shares a wonderful mixture of favorite songs from American and world folk music traditions.  She introduces unique authentic instruments and allows the audience to take part in the performance.

For the last two decades, internationally- known folksinger Daria has traveled the globe, learning, sharing and making music while building communities and encouraging a new view of hope and peace for all the world’s children. In the United States, she has won national awards for her children's CDs including a Parent’s Choice Award, a NAPPA (National Association For Parenting Publications) Award and a Children's Music Web Award.

Daria has spent several days this month working with Camphill Kimberton’s residents to create and learn to play their own instruments. The culmination of this workshop is the concert on March 10, where the Camphill Kimberton villagers will perform live with Daria. 

Reviews of Daria include:

“When Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou makes music, the world listens -- literally!”  -- Christian Science Monitor

“A NAPPA Award-Winner, Daria delivers an eclectic mix of multicultural tunes with strong hooks and sing-alongs in many languages.”  -- www.Parenthood.com

“The children at Melmark have varying special needs, but the music performed and the constant interaction between performer and audience reached all who were present at the assembly. Children who are normally lethargic were moving and dancing to the music. Children who are normally reserved were singing along. The children were actively engaged.”  --  Heather Holt, Music Therapist, Melmark School

The concert is free but donations will be accepted.  Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited.  Rose Hall is wheelchair accessible. 

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Camphill Village Kimberton Hills is located at 1601 Pughtown Road, Kimberton, Pa.  The concert will be held in Rose Hall. 

The mission at Camphill Kimberton is to encourage individuals, especially those with special needs, to discover and fulfill their greatest developmental and creative potential within a farming and handcrafting community.  In valuing persons of all abilities, Kimberton Hills seeks to foster a living and working environment that is sustainable, productive and beautiful.  Residents and volunteers uniquely contribute to the community through meaningful vocations such as gardening, dairy farming, and working in the café, bakery and craft workshops.  As the community cares for one another, it also nurtures and improves the land by practicing biodynamic and organic agriculture and raising environmental awareness. 

For more information on the artist, visit http://www.dariamusic.com/.

For more information about Kimberton Hills, visit www.camphillkimberton.org.

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Camphill Kimberton hosts Ursinus Faculty Exhibition: February 20-April 9

A gallery opening featuring art by Ursinus College faculty will be held Monday, February 20 from 6-8 p.m. in the Wellspring Gallery at Camphill Village Kimberton Hills.  

This group exhibition consists of work by the Ursinus College Fine Arts faculty, including Robert Waddington, Sarah Kaufman, Roger Chavez, Jackie Brown, and Pedro Barbeito.  The works on display represent the variety of media, approaches and conceptual frameworks that this exceptional faculty brings to the learning experience at Ursinus. The exhibition also attests to the College’s ongoing engagement and dialogue with the local community. 

The exhibition will run from Februrary 20 until April 9, 2012. 

  

For more information about the exhibited works please contact Mimi Coleman at mimi@camphillkimberton.orgor 610-935-0300, ext. 17.

Camphill Village Kimberton Hills is located at 1601 Pughtown Road, Kimberton, Pa. The Wellspring Gallery is located in the Kepler Building.

About the artists:

Mr. Waddington is currently represented by the Rodger Lapelle Gallery in Philadelphia. His work is based in Pop Art Culture and Photorealism. He has shown his work extensively and is in many corporate and private collections. Mr. Waddington is an in-depth historian and scholar of ancient manuscripts and treatises on painting techniques and materials. He, in collaboration with another author, is writing the definitive book of portrait painting, titled “The Definitive Book of Portrait Painting”.

–Robert Waddington



"My work is an inherently human investigation. I visit people in their homes and ask them to try to show me the world that they inhabit when they are alone. The resulting photographs chase glimpses of this world and explore the relationships among the subjects, their bodies, and their spaces. They reveal the possibility for a quiet intensity within the everyday by prolonging reflective silence as it seeps into the environment."

 –Sarah Kaufman


"Fueled by quotidian reality, there are psychological, residual outcomes in the works: auras of mortality, timelessness, and identity. My painting process involves a significant amount of adding and subtracting of painterly forms, resulting in forms overlaying preceding forms, increasingly concealing the real appearances of the subject matter. In the process, my color palette results in the use of muted colors and tonal grays, arriving from the use of the prismatic hues as these afford more vibrant and colorful grays and allow for subtle changes in color and temperature in the paintings."

–Roger Chavez



"At the core of my work is an interest in biological processes and the transformative potential that is possible through adaptation and mutation. I aim for the works to be electrically charged, conveying a feverish sense of immediacy and through the use of viscous porous surfaces I attempt to provide a sense that the work is alive. Brain Sprouts are offshoots from the recent series of installations collectively titled Brain Fruit, which stem from an interest in neuroscience, specifically the elastic potential of the mind. I hope for the works to suggest an active meshwork of synaptic exchange where the green rods and orange linear elements serve as active pathways, implying circuitry and the continual pulsing of inputs and outputs."

 –Jackie Brown



"The works included in this exhibit are from a 2005 series of paintings and drawings that examine how digital imaging can be used to inform the aesthetic and formal makeup of cubist painting. I began this project by making multiple drawings of family and friends in a style similar to that of Picasso. These were then scanned, manipulated with 2-D and 3-D programs and then translated into paint on canvas."

–Pedro Barbeito

Camphill Cafe announces expanded hours

The Camphill Cafe announces new expanded hours!
Starting this week: 10 am to 2 pm, Wednesday-Saturday
June-August: 10 am to 2 pm, Tuesday-Saturday

Join us for a local and organic lunch, mostly vegetarian, but always delicious!

This week's special is: Jason's Black Bean Burritos with enchilada sauce and cheese. The soup of the week is: root vegetables with coconut milk, basil, lemon and ginger.

In the meantime, check out this great review about the Camphill Cafe on Eat Local Philly:  http://eatlocalphilly.com/2010/10/27/camphill-village-cafe/

Camphill Village Kimberton Hills presents Astral Artists concert - January 30

Camphill Village Kimberton Hills presents a free concert on Monday, January 30, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.

Operatic performers Jonathan Beyer, baritone and Kristin Okerlund, piano, from Astral Artists, an organization that guides and promotes the nation’s most extraordinary emerging classical musicians, will offer an evening of music in Kimberton Hills’ Rose Hall. 

Astral Artists is a non-profit organization whose mission is to discover the most promising classical musicians residing in the United States, assist their early professional career development and present their world-class artistry to the community through concerts and outreach programs.  Camphill Kimberton is pleased to once again host these gifted musicians.  

Reviews of Jonathan Beyer include:

“The audience found its treat in a young, fresh-faced baritone named Jonathan Beyer. The 27-year-old appeared natural, plowing through an ambitious program. Beyer’s voice is big and virile. He produced tones evenly throughout the registers, showing no strain when pushing high and loud.”  -- The Washington Post

“Baritone Jonathan Beyer (Papageno) was the substantial voice that carried the piece. He brought proportion and context to difficult writing and maturity to his stagecraft. His Papageno was a model of articulation, but also of nuanced singing. An able comedian, he was musically arresting and brightly funny, his timing in both boosting the opera’s impact.” – Broad Street Review, Philadelphia

There is no charge for the concert, which is underwritten by the generosity of the Phoenixville Community Health Foundation.