Emerson's 50th Anniversary

Celebrating fifty years of community

Our special day is coming soon!

Fifty years ago this September 20th, Francis Edmunds founded Emerson College. Five years later it moved to its current home on Pixton Hill in Forest Row.


We will be celebrating our fiftieth year throughout the coming academic year and will announce more events in the near future.


To begin with, we invite all Emerson friends, students, alumni and current and former staff and faculty to our opening events.

Emerson's 50th Anniversary Celebrations

Thursday, Sep. 20th 2012 at 5pm to Saturday, Sep. 22nd 2012 at 7pm

Emerson College, Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5JX, United Kingdom

Thursday, 20th September

5pm: College Meeting in Ruskin Hall — Keynote presentation from Michael Spence, reports from John Lees and Robert Lord, and birthday cake!


6.15pm: Pot-Luck Dinner — Bring a dish and share with current and former students, staff, faculty and friends.


7.30pm: Celebration — Stories, music, Eurythmy, games, poetry and more! Presented and facilitated by Paul Matthews, anthroposophist extraordinaire!

Friday, 21st September

3.00pm – 6.30pm: Peace walk organised by Forest Row residents from the Forester's Arms in Forest Row to Emerson Campus, tea, singing circle and Gaiafield Global Attunement.

Cost: £5


Also on Friday, at 7.30pm: Rudolf Steiner’s Core Mission — Lecture by Thomas Meyer, based on his book Rudolf Steiner's Core Mission: The Birth and Development of Spiritual-Scientific Karma Research, Ruskin Hall.

Cost: £10, concessions £5


Saturday, 22nd September

More peace walk events starting in Forest Row and walking up to the Emerson Campus from 12–6pm — crèche, Shakti dance, Worldcafé, singing circle, clowning, Healing Water Institute presentation, Hiroshima petition, interfaith peace blessing.

Cost: £5


Also on Saturday, 10am-12.30pm: Rudolf Steiner’s mission and the Tao — workshop led by Thomas Meyer, based on his book Clairvoyance and Consciousness: The Tao Impulse in Evolution, Foundation Studio.

Cost: £18, concessions £10


And at 3.00pm: The life and work of Mabel Collins, whose work Rudolf Steiner used in his earlier esoteric lessons — lecture by Thomas Meyer.

Cost: £7, concessions £4


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