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Winter Warmer Week
As we approach the winter solstice, the longest night and the season for natural hibernation Schumacher College invites you to a Winter Warmer Week. Two courses will run during the week to inspire and nourish you: Baking for a New Food Culture and Darkness and Transformation.
Darkness and Transformation How can the darkness inspire us to see our society and the cosmos as a whole differently? What can it tell us about our relationship to the natural world?
Baking for a New Food Culture On a cold winter’s day, the smell and taste of warm bread brings sustenance to all. The role of food in our society is practical, social and political. We will bring these aspects together, looking creatively at food through teaching sessions and fulfilling, hands-on experience of baking in workshop sessions.
We do hope you will join us for one of these warming events
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Baking for a New Food Culture
November 30 – December 4, 2009
Teachers: Andrew Whitley, Sheila Dillon
Sheila Dillon of Radio 4’s Food Programme will discuss her investigations into various aspects of the modern food industry, and reflect on prospects for the future in light of a renewed interest in local, seasonal and quality food. Andrew Whitley will be exploring territory that he first mapped out in his award-winning book Bread Matters, in which he links the emergence of widespread intolerance to wheat, yeast and bread in general to changes in wheat breeding, milling and baking technology. With his passion for baking, Andrew will lead workshop sessions in the Schumacher kitchen.
£495 inclusive, for all sessions, food and accommodation.
Taught by award winning teachers at the internationally renowned Schumacher College at Dartington, this course fits the college’s reputation for excellent food within the context of personal and professional engagement with sustainable living.
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Darkness and Transformation
Teachers: Tchenka Sunderland and Jules Cashford
December 1 – 4, 2009
We live in a culture that, in a desire to understand and control chaotic Nature, has deified the Light at the expense of the Dark. The light of reason has banished the dark of superstition; the light of electricity has blotted out the dark of the night sky. The consequences are becoming clear for all to see and at this darkest time of the year, it seems appropriate to seek ways of redressing the balance.
It is vital that we renew our relationship with the Mysteries of Darkness so that we come to understand and appreciate its powers and gifts, not just as the tomb of death, but also as the womb of creation and source of renewal. It is arguably through our flight from it that we have become alienated from Soul and from a healthy relationship with our natural environment.
In early lunar and solar myths, the time of darkness was always the time of transformation when death was followed by rebirth as the new crescent of the Moon and the new disc of the Sun. This pattern of Nature has informed our mythological consciousness and offers us a way of understanding the mysteries of our own darkness. Jules Cashford will explore these ideas with the group through story, image and poetry.
During this short course, we will seek Wisdom by following a thread through the mysteries of the night sky and the ancient wisdom of astrology, in the alembic of Alchemy and through the serpentine coils of the labyrinth. Via teachings, discussion, meditation, creativity and labyrinthine ceremony we will search for an understanding, appreciation and connection with the true Source of all.
£395 inclusive, for all sessions, food and accommodation.
Beautifully set at Dartington, Schumacher College brings transformative learning to life, under light and dark skies.
Schumacher College is part of the Dartington Hall Trust, a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and as a charity (company no. 1485560, charity no. 279756). Registered office: The Elmhirst Centre, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL, UK.