by Sara Lucassen | Jan 8, 2024 | Events, review
Paradise play A long, long time ago, during the 16th or early 17th century, a group of Germans migrated to a little island on the Danube called Oberufer. With them, they brought a cycle of religious plays which had been passed on to them by tradition from their...
by Sara Lucassen | Aug 16, 2023 | review
Our Narrow Boat Holiday In July, an Esk Valley crew headed to Anderton Marina to commandeer the Black Necked Swan narrow boat for a week cruising the canals of Cheshire. As the name would suggest, a narrow boat is in fact quite narrow. There are four bunk beds at the...
by Sara Lucassen | Feb 27, 2023 | Events, review
Sharing our Lives conference In February, Esk Valley Camphill Community hosted an inclusive conference for life sharing communities in the English region. This involved around 30 community members from Sturts Farm, The Mount, Gannicox, as well as several other small...
by Sara Lucassen | Nov 2, 2022 | News, review
The Value of Work The well-being of a community of people working together will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of his work, i.e. the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow-workers, the more his own needs are...
by Sara Lucassen | Aug 17, 2022 | News, review
Art Exhibition In June, a group of EVCC artists exhibited their paintings in a small community gallery in a Middlesbrough shopping centre. It’s a modest place and yet the two people who run it, Adrian and Miranda, have worked miracles with it. It’s such an...
by Sara Lucassen | Aug 17, 2022 | review
The Homecoming of Odysseus Over many years, Botton-as-it-used-to-be would set aside a week in July or August for summer school. All but essential work came to a halt and pretty much the whole community devoted itself to a project, usually culminating in a performance...
