Posts in Community Events
3 Reasons Why Journey Through the Grades is the Can't-Miss Parent Evening of the Year

I’m here to tell you why you should mark that evening on your calendar IN PEN and set an alert on your phone. It all comes down to three little reasons why you should attend Journey Through the Grades.

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Community Study Group: An Impulse of Healing & Self-Education

In the Community Study Group, parents, grandparents, and friends have sat together and thought on the children, our own lives (past, present, and future), on education, and aspects of being human in today’s world and more.

The space we weave with our own thoughts and interests in each other leaves us feeling more connected and ready to start our week.

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The Winter Spiral: Offering an Inner Light as a Realization of Individuality

The darkness is actually an invitation for each individual to find and shine their personal light. One by one, as the small lights are offered from each person gathered as a community at the Winter Spiral, we create a starry heaven on earth.

The answers to these questions shift as the children get older, and by middle school, exploring possible answers may best be done by the students themselves.

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Diwali: Festival of Lights

So many cultures celebrate holidays and festivals with similar gestures at the same time of year. Why is this?

It is because, no matter our culture, religion, ethnicity, gender, race, etc., we are all living in relation to the seasons and the cycle of the year. Like Michaelmas, Martinmas, and the Lantern Walk, Diwali calls on us to celebrate and cultivate our inner light to bring with us through the darkness of winter.

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The Art Hall at Cedarwood Waldorf School

While still one of the youngest Waldorf schools in the country, Cedarwood already enjoys a well-deserved national reputation for offering a most innovative Waldorf education to its students, both inspiring and supported by its vibrant community of parents, faculty, staff, and children.

Consistent with this tradition for innovation — and its broader mission to bring other Waldorf-inspired initiatives to the greater Portland community — the school has opened its space to host The Art Hall, a gallery designed to showcase art inspired by anthroposophy, the initiative that gave rise to Waldorf education.

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