Halloween Enchantment Festival

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Halloween Enchantment is a festival celebrating the beautiful harvest season.

Visitors enjoy delicious seasonal organic foods (vegan/gluten free options) and beverages. Make sure you try the witches' brew! Children and their parents get to toss corn, meet with fairies, and dance around the bonfire to the sound of live music! The highlight of the festival is the Story Walk, a live theater experience in which the audience is guided through a series of enchanting tales.

More magical than scary, the festival is absolutely appropriate for all ages!

Held annually in October

We opened our October 2022 Halloween Enchantment to the public for the first time in 2 years. It was an enchanting and joyous evening, seeing old friends and welcoming new. Thank you to all the volunteers, attendees, and supporters of our school. We had a fabulous time!

Winter Faire

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Winter Faire at The Valley Waldorf City School is a magical time to greet the coming winter. Enjoy a crackling bonfire, crafting, caroling and cookie decorating with the winter gnomes. Sign up early to make sure your children visit our enchanted Angel Room where they are led by angels into a serene, glimmering space. Once inside, your children make their way along tables filled with handmade candles, soaps, felted angels, fairies, and gnomes, among other handmade gifts, that are perfect for the children to give to family and friends.

Held annually in December

 

May Faire

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Our annual May Faire festival is an exuberant celebration of the sunshine, the feel of your feet on the grass, and the bright, bold beauty of flowers painting the landscape!

A traditional Maypole dance kicks off a whirling delight of rainbow-hued decorations, exciting games and challenges, charming performances, magical springtime crafts, and much, much more! Come and dance in our cake-walk, taste some of our delicious artisanal offerings, and jump into our drum circle as we all exclaim, "Hooray for May!"

Held annually in May

The Oberufer Plays

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The Oberufer Christmas plays, The Paradise Play, The Shepherds’ Play, and The Kings’ Play, were first noted down and collected by one of Rudolf Steiner’s university professors, Karl Julius Schroer. For hundreds of years, ordinary people in the small Austrian village of Oberufer on the Danube gathered in the local tavern at Christmastime to perform these plays for their neighbors. With their roots lost in medieval times, the plays gradually evolved to incorporate a unique blend of folk humor and profound reverence in their celebration of the birth of Jesus. The Paradise Play, acting as a preface, presents the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, but with the promise of future salvation through Christ. The Shepherds Play portrays the birth of Jesus in a stable, where he is sought out by a group of shepherds. The Kings Play depicts the visit of three wise kings to the birthplace of the King of Humanity, as well as the murderous attempts by Herod to thwart Jesus' mission. As part of our winter festival season, our talented faculty and wonderful parents perform The Shepherds Play for the entire community.

Held annually in December