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Website: www.waldorfconstantia.co.za

Editor: Nanette Snyckers

Tel: 021 794 2103

30th November No. 38/2012

Picnic Concert 1

Staff Hampers

Diary Dates

2

Fair 2013 3

Information and

Announcements

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Anthroposophical

News

9

Classifieds 10

Night Market 4

Inside this issue:

PICNIC CONCERT Saturday 8th Dec @ 2PM!

JOEL FAFARD: Canadian multiple award-winning guitarist and singer/songwriter is in South

Africa to appear in a series of shows for Tony Cox’s International Guitar Night South Africa.

See www.internationalguitarnight.co.za for all show times and booking details.

Joel Fafard performs Southern roots and blues classics with the soul of a purist and the

showmanship of a seasoned entertainer. He sings with the sexy, sandpapered-sounding vocal

style of the new-generation bluesman. He tells his hilarious between-song stories with the

confidence of a late show host Delivering his monologue and when he lets rip a solo on his

resonator guitar, it’s easy to hear how he earned both a Juno nomination and a Western

Canadian Music Award for his skills on the axe.

‘Fafard has begun to set himself apart from the legions of folksy Prairie singer-songwriters with the sort of instrumental

prowess you'd expect from a fingerstyle deity. His style isn't overly busy, but there are moments of pure genius’ - Bartley

Kives, Winnipeg Free Press

TONY COX: Multiple SAMA award-winning guitarist Tony Cox returned to

South Africa after 2 years away touring and performing around the world and

in that time has developed a loyal fan base far and wide, particularly in the UK

and Canada where he performs annually. Known throughout South Africa as

one of its finest acoustic guitarists, Cox's shows are filled with humour and

stories from his life that often reduce his audience to fits of laughter and then

gasps of amazement at the sheer power of his guitar playing. Do not pass up

the opportunity of witnessing for yourself just why this guitarist regularly

moves foreign audiences from Italy to Canada, from the USA to Scotland, to

jump to their feet shouting for more...

'Phenomenally talented' – What's On Cape Town – July 2011 'The strength and precision of what emerges from this man's

Mervyn Davis guitar is quite breathtaking' Andrew Smith, The Press and Journal, Scotland, Jan 2010

MILES SIEVWRIGHT : Miles Sievwright draws that most delicate of lines between a

headlong plunge of feeling and the conscience of shrewd realism, an ambivalence of

fugitive content which makes his music no lazy consumable for the listener. Both

contemplative and restless for the errant and visceral, his music confronts the heart

without the keening schmaltz of she-done-me-wrong lament, but searches for genuine

answers in the thorny passages and inviting cul-de-sac’s of the interior’s beguiling

maze. Cobbling the sylphlike finger picking of a sunnier Nick Drake, the vaulting

textures of Jeff Buckley’s boho-cool and some idiosyncratic takes on the acoustic

songbook, Sievwright is blue-blooded nu-folk with as much substance as he has style.

And that’s a lot.

Opening the Picnic Concert are Guest artists: Christine Weir and the Flying

Lizards: Christine Weir and the Flying Lizards – aka Richard and Jonathan Tait,

perform a folk/rock set which pays tribute to such greats as Shawn Colvin, Leonard

Cohen, Joan Baez, Eva Cassidy, as well as some haunting original tunes. Golden

voiced Christine Weir, who is well-known for her work in the award-winning “Not the

Midnight Mass” will be on lead vocals with The Flying Lizards providing sterling

guitar accompaniment, vocal harmonies and beautiful solo work.

Please Note: Gates open at

12:30. Parking will be on a first come first

serve basis. Alcohol will

not be sold on the premises. Bring your own picnic

and umbrella. This is a litter free zone, please take your litter home with

you!

AVOID THE QUES! TICKETS ON SALE NOW IN THE OFFICE OR CONTACT NANETTE FOR FURTHER INFO

[email protected].

The Grapev ine No. 38 /2012

Dates For Your Diary

30th Friday

Christmas Night

Market

4th Tuesday

The Shepherds'

Play 6:00PM

PG/KG Ends PG

10:20AM and KG

10:30AM.

7th Friday

School Ends

PS/HS 11:15AM

Dec

8th Saturday

Constantia Waldorf

Picnic Concert

2PM-5PM

1st Saturday

Tony Cox guitar

workshop 10AM to

11:30AM

End of year Music

Concert in the drama

hall 2PM

Ground Staff Christmas Food Hampers!

Just a reminder for contributions towards our Food Hampers for our hardworking Estate Management Gents and Ladies. Our Estate Manage-ment team of 11 people work diligently to keep our school looking beautiful and secure. These hampers are always much appreciated. Please bring any canned or 'dry' food items (as long as these are unopened and have not expired) to Marlene in the office. Their children especially enjoy the

biscuits and goodies.

Please find some suggested items below:

• Sugar (white or brown)

• Salt

• Lentils, samp & beans, sugar beans, kidney beans, baked beans,

sweetcorn, chickpeas.

• Rice

• Pasta

• Pasta Sauces

• Soups (canned or packets)

• Canned tomato or tomato onion mix.

• Evaporated mill; long life milk; condensed milk,

• Caramel spread, chocolate spread

• Oil (Sunflower)

• Pilchards, pink salmon, tuna

• Canned meat, spaghetti, meatballs & spaghetti

• Jams, honey

• Juices

• Chips

• Sweets, chocolates, marshmallows, suckers etc

• Biscuits

• Jelly

• Custard (powder or in Tetrapak)

• Savoury Biscuits

• Maize meal (mielie meal)

• Breakfast cereals

• Tea/coffee

• Candles (tapered or tealights)

• Toiletries: Soap, toothpaste, hand cream, shower gel.

Nov

You and your family and friends are warmly invited to

The ShepHERD’S Play

At the Constantia Waldorf School in the Drama Hall on

Tuesday 4th December at 6:00PM.

Each year the teachers practice and perform this play as

a preparation for Christmas and as a gift for the children,

parents and the wider community.

End of year music concert

Our Music Concert will start on Saturday 1st December

at 2:00PM in the Drama Hall.

Everybody is invited to come and celebrate our music students and all

they have achieved this year!

Music Concert Program

2:00PM to 3:00PM - Class 1 to 3 will perform

3:00PM to 3:30PM - Break

3:30PM to 4:30PM - Class 4 to 6 will perform

4:30PM to 5:00PM - Break

5:00PM to 6:00PM - Class 7 to High School and guests will perform

Snacks will be on sale.

Please remember once a segment of our concert begins please

stay seated until the end as it is very disruptive for the perform-

ers and audience members. Thank you


Music

International Guitar Night South Af-rica presents: Guitar Workshop with

Joel Fafard & Tony Cox

Venue: Constantia Waldorf School Hall Date: Sat 1 Dec 2012 Time: 10h00 (duration 75min) Cost: R120 Bookings: [email protected]

Canadian Joel Fafard is blessed with a particular set of guitar skills that give him his unique fingerpicking sound. Add to that his talents on slide guitar and his ability to sing over complex guitar accompaniment and you have a very sumptuous package that any student of the guitar would simply love to have in their bag of tricks.

Come and find out why Canada has awarded this man several times for his music and take home a bunch of guitar stuff

that will have you fascinated and practising for months. www.joelfafard.com

Tony Cox has been teaching the guitar to what by now is a multitude of students over the last thirty years and is known far and wide not only for his stage perform-ance and recorded work but also for his technical prowess on the six-string acoustic

guitar and the depth of his teaching abilities.

If you are a student of the guitar and you miss this workshop you definitely will have missed out a real opportunity to get up close and personal with two internationally recognised, great players of the instrument. The workshop will take the form of a mini-concert with questions taken from the audience and demonstrated answers

given. www.tonycox.co.za or www.internationalguitarnight.co.za

SPONSORSHIP REQUEST

Constantia Waldorf Fair 2013, 16th March

This event is one of our community’s largest fundraising events of the year, a significant portion of the funds raised are used for fee relief for our community, support of the school’s wish list and support of our sister

schools.

As this is a fundraiser we ideally want to minimise our equipment hire and general costs for the day. Herewith a list of some of the items we need, and their respective

costs, to ensure the success of the day.

Tents R 20 000,00

Entertainment R 18 000,00

Material R 3 000,00

Tables and chairs R 5 000,00

Cold drinks &

water stock for class stall R 5 000,00

Staff wages R 4 000,00

Advertising printing costs R 12 000,00

Prizes – of any value, size or nature i.e. weekend get-away, restaurant meal vouchers, product hampers etc.

We would be most appreciative if you are able to con-

tribute to this special day in any of the above.

Alternatively you may want marketing exposure for your business on our “Carnival of Wonder” sponsor pad. The sponsor pad will have 20 places for sponsor contact details and logos at a cost of R 2 000 per sponsor place. The sponsor pad will be a free give-away to ticket buyers on entrance and based on last year’s attendance figures, we are estimating 4,000 people will attend this event. The advantage to any sponsor is that the pad is

useful, has long life with high visibility.

Please contact me for further details and I look forward

to your support.

Jessica Hudson

084 7908517

[email protected]


Christmas Night Market!

Come and join us for the last Night Market of the year:

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FROM 5 PM FROM 5 PM FROM 5 PM FROM 5 PM –––– 9 PM 9 PM 9 PM 9 PM Browse for Christmas presents, enjoy the entertainment and relax around the brazier fires with a delicious freshly cooked meal from one of our many stalls.

This market's entertainment line up includes:

5PM to 5:30pm: Constantia Waldorf High School Voice Ensemble, will perform some of their work for the year. This A capella group is lead

under the loving hands of Christine Weir.

5:30 pm: Sky Cope, a Constantia Waldorf student, has been playing and composing his own piano music since 2003. His music takes you through sweeping Beethoven-ish Classical pieces (Tidal wave) to quiet Jazz (Moon). His album flows from piece to piece like a

river and is a truly unique experience. CD’s for sale at the evening.

6pm: Jungle Theatre Metamorphosis is a larger than life production which brings elements of street theatre including stilt walking, dance, music and audience participation. The story follows the journey of metamorphosis of a butterfly from egg, through larva and pupa to caterpillar and broaches big transformation in our own lives. Metamorphosis is 45 minutes in duration and is fun for

the whole family. A part of a National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund funded trained program.

7pm: Since Free was born in 2011, with a song on the lips and a distinct taste for fortune cookie quotes. Raised by Gershan Lombard & Ronél van Lingen, Since Free is always in search of describing a deeper meaning and awakening enlightenment. Singing of a

sweeter reality than most, Since Free takes you on a soulful acoustic & melodic journey to an alternate time in space.

8pm: Jennifer Eaves Lyrically driven folk music with strong melody lines and carefully crafted guitar parts. With lifting violin accom-

paniment and melodic bass lines. The music supports the story telling.

https://www.facebook.com/jennifereavesmusic/app_2405167945

Entrance is R5 pp and secure parking is available at R20 per car. Children to be accompanied by parents/guardian. No alcohol is sold on the

premises, See www.facebook.com/groups/155863517757055/for more info.

Potential stall holders are encouraged to visit the site and book their stalls online. For queries email [email protected]

or leave a message on 0714595066. Musicians interested to perform at the market, please call Hildegarde 0834979057.

The organizers would like to thank TANGO’s Grill in Plumstead for their ongoing support!

All classes and pupils: Please remember that the Nightmarket offers a great opportunity to fundraise for you next camp or increase your pocket

money! We are always looking for stalls offering children activities (Face painting, games, etc.). Tables are only R50 for pupils.

Sky Cope Jungle Theatre Since Free Jennifer Eaves

Information and Announcements


Primary School Sport: Cricket: Our U\12 boys played their final match on Monday this week. It was a fantastic game, with our captain, Finnen Wyly scoring 40 runs not out! Our boys won the match at the end of the day. Well done to you all - you have all played very well this season! Gym Wizards: Please remember that Tuesday 4th December will be the last lesson of Gym Wizards for the year. If you DO NOT want your child to continue into 2013, please contact their admin office to give notice. [email protected] Basketball: All those children who still have their basketball kit - please return it to Robyn as soon as possible! Please remember: The last day for ALL After School Sport will be on Tuesday 4th December. Thank You, Robyn Austin Primary School Sports Coordinator

Sports News

Some days summer is here in full force, and the garden seems to rest in stillness as it waits for the heat of the day to pass. And then

a cool day arrives, and some welcome rain and the plants can soak this in and revitalise. The first of the summer fruits have

arrived – yesterday we picked our first tomato, and there is gem squash hiding under some leaves waiting to be discovered. The

granadillas are growing out of their intricate flowers, and arti-chokes are dotted all over the garden. Visit the Outdoor

Classroom to see a huge artichoke in flower, calling to the bees

and the beetles with it’s sweet scent and purple plumage.

Thank you!

The Estate Team would like to say a very spe-cial thank you to Saskia Johnson for her initia-tive in tackling the flower beds around the front of the school. Together with a team of gardeners Saskia pruned, weeded and fertilised the areas bordering the car park and tuckshop. This took a significant load off the Estate Gardeners who were short of manpower due to injuries. Thank

you Saskia!

Jon Stodel

IMPORTANT REMINDER

FROM THE LIBRARY

Please ensure that all overdue library books are returned and come

and take out some good reads for the holidays!

Our dynamic and enthusiastic Parent Rep Team has an opening for a Chairperson for 2013. If you are, or have previously been, a Rep and are excited by the thought

of Chairing this very active team please contact Kirsten Day (Chair, 2012) at [email protected].


Information and Announcements

Anthroposophical News


FORTHCOMING COURSES & EVENTS UPDATE

Dear Members and Friends of the

Anthroposophical Society in the Western

Cape.

Herewith an update of the program of coming events in the Western

Cape:

REGULAR EVENTS at Sophia House:

School of Spiritual Science – Monthly Class Lesson for School of

Spiritual Science members

The last Saturday of the month unless otherwise advised. 8:15am for

8:30am. Except for September as there is a retreat.

School of Spiritual Science – Monthly members' forum

First Wednesday of the month unless otherwise advised. 8pm

Eurythmy for Adults

Every Monday 5:30pm to 6:30pm

The next block will start September 3rd on the theme of the Zodiac

Painting to Strengthen the I-Forces

Every Tuesday from 31st January 2012 from 7pm to 9:30pm - Open art

group for adults:

World Economy (Associative Economics Forum)

Every Friday beginning August 24th from 4pm to 6pm

Thursday Morning Study Group

Every Thursday 9am to 10am - - Various works by Rudolf Steiner.

Enquiries: Debbie Ludik 021 761 9600

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The Lord’s Prayer: A Study In Three Parts With Eurythmy

With the aid of Eurythmy we will acquire and deepen insights into

“The Lord’s Prayer”. The course stands as a whole but the parts can

also be done separately.

1st & 2nd February 2013

Venue: Sophia House

Cost: R180 per part

Booking essential

Enquiries: Cobie Roelvert

Constantia Waldorf School Opening 2013 Date

Announcement

Primary School and High School: Tuesday 15th January 2013

Play Group and Kindergarten: Thursday 17th January 2013


Classifieds

Disclaimer: Not all articles or advertisements are necessarily the views or opinions of the Editor or the Constantia Waldorf School.

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Babysitting services: I am Teneal Norwitz, a Constantia Waldorf matriculant with a drivers licence and lots of free time, looking to entertain and

care for your children in the holidays. I am also available for babysitting. Please call me on 0725753395, I come with good references.

WAVESCAPE SURF FILM FESTIVAL 2012: Don’t forget the Wavescape Surf Film Festival and special art board project. The exhibition, which includes works by Brett Murray, Wim Botha, Guy Tillim and Roger Ballen, starts at Superette, Woodstock Exchange, and will be sold at a special charity auction for the NSRI and others on Wednesday 5 December. The films begin with an open air screening on Clifton 4th Beach on Saturday 8 December, with indoor screenings starting at Brass Bell on Sunday 9 December until Wednesday 12 December. The screenings then move to the Labia on Orange street from Thursday 13 December to Friday 19th. The festival also introduces the Wavescape Slide Night, an evening of 10 talks by ocean celebrities, including big wave surfers, scientists and activists on Thursday 13 December (Superette). For more details:Online www.wavescapefestival.com

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Back by popular demand - The Rainbow Puppet Theatre presents The Christmas

Rose accompanied by carol singing

on Tue 18th, Wed 19th, Thurs 20th and

Fri 21st Dec at 5pm sharp!

Tickets are R35 for adults and children (recommended age 4+), BOOKING is ESSENTIAL as space is limited! CALL

021 7832063!

There will be NO SATURDAY SHOWS during the month of December.

Parking is ample and free. Delicious food

and refreshments will be on sale.

The Rainbow Puppet Theatre is situated at the Constantia Waldorf School, Spaan-

schemat River Road, Constantia.

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