Branch Library For information, to take out a book or to arrange a visit, contact Valerie Hope, info@portlandbranch.net The Book Catalog is now on our website – the ‘search’ function is really helpful. You can now return books at any time to the box on the porch at 2606 SE 58th Ave. To schedule the space for an event or meeting Contact James Knight, j365@yahoo.com Contact the Branch Council: info@portlandbranch.net Website: portlandbranch.net |
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NEWSLETTER CONTENTS 2026 Branch Sponsored Calendar of Events Biodynamic Stir Community Bulletin Board Library News Other Community Events Requirements for Newsletter Submissions On-going study/groups/meetings Advertisers and Sponsors
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| | PORTLAND BRANCH 2026 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Save These Dates! Easter Festival, Saturday, April 4th Social at the Branch, April 9th, 5pm Astrid Schmitt Stegmann, May 15th & 16th Pentecost Celebration, May 24th St. John’s Day, June 24th Michaelmas Festival, September 26th All Souls Observance, November 2nd First Sunday Advent Tea Holy Nights Grind Three Kings Biodynamic Prep, Dec. 31st Epiphany Stir & Spread of Three Kings Prep, Jan 6th
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You are invited! The Portland Stirrers and Spreaders will now be offering a biodynamic stir event on the last Saturday of every month. We hope you can join us. Please contact Denise for further details at deeprootsfarm@harbornet.com. Start time will vary month to month. Fair weather unless otherwise noted. |
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“MENDING AND REPAIR” I have a broad and growing experience with mending and repair. I will consider taking on just about any thing within manageable means. I call it a “rescue mission” in a thread bare world. Compensation negotiable. Call Christine Badura 707-494-6741
Looking to rent: small apartment or larger studio in Milwaukie or SE Portland. Move in early summer, rent up to $1000.- per month. I am a responsible, quiet person and take good care of things. Please call or text Jolanda (Eurythmist) 503 896-3345
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| If you enjoy our newsletters and like being informed about all we have going on please consider becoming a member. We would love to have you join our community.
Updates to our current membership will be made monthly. If you don’t see your name on the list please let me know. kathyrem@gmail.com |
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| | Would you consider joining our festivals group or adding your name to help with hospitality at events? You are always welcome to visit our council meetings and really see the dedicated work being done behind the scenes. |
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| | | CALLING ALL ARTISTS to our ARTIST’S CORNER!
We invite you to contribute a photograph of your art in any modality you work with. This includes photography, watercolors, oils, pastels, ink, collage, sculpture, crafts, or any expression not listed.
Please contact Pablo Feliz at felizpablo@gmail.com |
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| | Christine Badura comes to us this month with a sweet writing and sketch making memories into art. |
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PINK BABY I worked many years for a doll-maker, putting their little bodies together and sewing their suits on. I’m very familiar with “doll-people”. About 9 years ago, I asked Cheri Munski to make a doll for my new granddaughter, Savannah, and she did. This doll became known as Pink Baby. A child’s love gives breath to their doll and they come alive! Oh, how Pink Baby was loved as she accompanied Savannah everywhere through babyhood, into the twos and beyond. Soon enough came a time when Pink Baby was discharged from duty and forgotten. Fortunately, she found her way back to G-ma and the dolly rescue. She now sits on my bed, as lively as ever. As she gets moved around when I straighten and pull up the covers and fluff the pillow she leans against, I’m often taken in by how lithesome and ready to play she still is. As her arms and legs swing this way and that, spontaneous gymnastics go on display before she stops to rest. No matter her position or how her limbs fall, it seems an elemental life presence is always expressed. Her life is now one of contentment and repose as she sits contemplating the moments she helped to make so precious.
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Steiner Books Study Group Ideas and Book Discounts Multiples of Some Books Available at the Branch Library
When a group of people join together to study a particular book and wish to purchase that book in quantities of five copies or more, Steiner Books will give a 20% discount for that order. You must purchase five copies or more of a single title, and payment in advance is required. Order using the offer code STUDY at checkout.
In addition, the Branch Library has multiple copies of some books, which you can look up on the searchable catalog on our website here: https://portlandbranch.net/community-library-1/
Steiner books also has suggestions for how to organize study group discussions here: https://steinerbooks.org/pages/study-group-guidelines?_pos=7&_sid=1fa05784a&_ss=r
If you have outstanding books please complete the process by returning them when you are finished. They can be returned 24/7 to the book box located on the porch at 2606 SE 58th Ave. Portland, Or. Books can be checked out during all our events. For more information you can call Valerie Hope at 503-775-0778 |
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There will be an Art Dispersal April 9, 2026 at the Art Hall at Cedarwood Waldorf School where this series will be available at the Art Dispersal. An Art Dispersal is a way of bringing original art into your home, office, or school for a donation of your choosing. This distribution of art was established by Laura Summer bringing art out of the economic sphere and into the cultural sphere where it belongs. At the Dispersal April 9, if a painting speaks to you, enjoy it in your home. Then you may donate to the cause with what meets your individual musing. Sometimes a person may have difficulty coming up with what they can give but, believe me, it is about getting the work out into the world where it can do its work not the amount you choose. A portion of the donation will go to the Art Hall, a percentage towards the framing cost, and a percentage to the artist.
I have been involved with Art Dispersals, over the years in Atlanta, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Hudson NY and Portland.
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| ON-GOING STUDIES/GROUPS/MEETINGS |
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| First Class of the School of Spiritual Science. April 12th. 9:30 am sharp • (no admittance after the class starts) • Bothmer Hall, 5915 SE Division St. • Remember your Blue Card. For more information contact: Cheri Munske cherimunske@gmail.com or Diane Rumage drumage@comcast.net
Portland Branch Council Meeting: Monday, April 13th, 6:30 pm, Branch Library/Community Space, 5415 SE Powell Blvd, entrance off parking lot in the back. All Branch members are welcome to attend, and/or call us with agenda items, proposals, suggestions, or to observe. Please contact us at info@portlandbranch.net to let us know you are coming. Meetings are normally held on the second Monday of each month.
First Monday Study, we will read together, The Michael Mystery (GA 26) which includes Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts (leading thoughts 79 through 185) Please join us for lively discussions. • First Monday of the month, Study 7:00pm - 8:30pm, •In person (with zoom option TBD) • Contact Heidi Sheppard, HSHEPPAR@LHS.ORG Free
Astrosophy Class First and Third Wednesdays, 7-8:30 pm • 8654 NE Boehmer St. • Contact Diane Rumage, 971-271-7479 drumage@comcast.net This class will introduce participants to the basic principles of Astrosophy in a study of the works of Willi Sucher and Diane Rumage’s work with the stars, with indications that Rudolf Steiner gave for those interested in the cosmos. No previous knowledge necessary. Please bring blank paper and colored pencils to the class in case we need to use them. If you are just curious if you’d be interested, please feel free to come and check us out. Free
Speech Formation and Mystery Drama Group 2nd & 4th Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm • 8654 NE Boehmer St, Portland, OR 97220 • Contact Diane Rumage drumage@comcast.net or 971 271-7479. Free. No experience necessary, just enthusiasm and a love of the Word. Besides speech formation and acting exercises, we are currently reading and discussing Rudolf Steiner’s book of lectures, Speech and Drama, copies of which are available in the Branch Library. Free
The Tarot in Light of Spiritual Science • Presently once per month For more information contact James Knight (j365k@yahoo.com) Registration for the class happens through Meetup (meetup.com) where you can learn more about the class and RSVP at this page: https://www.meetup.com/experiences-in-spiritual-science/. Free |
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REQUIREMENTS FOR NEWSLETTER SUBMISSIONS
We are happy to promote local activities in this newsletter, which is a primary purpose of this publication. We want to thank our community members for sharing your local events, and advertising your anthroposophical initiatives here.
Because there are so many anthroposophical initiatives from outside the Portland Metro area that have asked to be included, your Branch Council has worked to clarify the parameters for placing an ad or community event in the monthly newsletter. We have had feedback asking us to keep it from getting too long. We hope the guidelines below will be helpful.
1. All events or services offered should be local within the Portland area.
2. If a registration fee is required, or there is a charge for services, that will be considered advertising.
3. The fee for advertising is $10 per ad or $100 per year. This helps to cover our newsletter costs, and rent for the Library/Community space.
4. Local community events that are free will not require an advertising fee.
5. Flyers need to be jpg or png ready. Keep in mind that small print will not read well when placed in the newsletter. Make your font bold and big - font size should be a minimum of 16 point.
6. Calendar announcements can be sent directly to newsletter editor Kathy Rem.
You may contact Kathy if you have any questions – kathyrem@gmail.com |
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| Embryo in Us & Embryo in Motion: Two Seminars with Jaap van der Waal. Two separate DVD sets recorded live in Portland in 2010 & 2017. These two seminars explore human prenatal development and show how biology is expressing the essence of human spiritual enfoldment. Jaap van der Wal, PhD, MD now retired, was an associate professor for anatomy and embryology at the University of Maastricht, Holland. Contact the Portland Branch. |
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