2026 Summer Festival of Arts and Education

We are, it is said, living in a new era of geological time, the Anthropocene, the ‘human being time’. And yet, far from being the driving force we seem especially vulnerable, as if nature has broken its limits and is redressing the imbalance caused by our unfettered production. Finding our way to that new, harmonious, mutual relationship between humankind and nature calls for new thinking, a thinking that goes beyond the stratification of our sciences and the agendas of our politics and religions, a thinking alive to future becoming, a thinking that recovers the inner light that has dimmed.

We welcome you to our 2026 Summer Festival of Arts and Education, an opportunity to explore new thinking together with people who have been working in their own fields out of this spirit. As Nana Goebel put it so succinctly in the recently published “On The Earth We Want To Live – Anthroposophy’s Contributions to Sustainable Development” (2025), “The qualitative deepening of pedagogical work, in the face of the pervasive superficiality that is spreading everywhere, is one of the most critical tasks of our time.”

We hope you will find the courses this year inspiring for your own, and your children’s becoming.

WEEK 1 July 6-10
Mornings: Grade Intensives – Grades 1-8 Intensives
Afternoons: Classroom Management; Parents as Partners; Eurythmy and Form-Drawing; Science in the Middle Grades (6-8)

WEEK 2 July 13-17 
Mornings: Inner Work – Anthroposophy, the Practice of Meditation and The Spiritual Path of the Waldorf School Teacher; Art as a Spiritual Path; Unlock the Meaning and Purpose of The Philosophy of Freedom, Am I Living the Life I’ve Come to Live – Biography
Afternoons: Manifesting Formative Forces in Organic Architectural Forms – Through Clay; Art in the Upper Grades; Veil Painting; Hidden Powers within Class Plays for Children’s Development

WEEK 3 July 20-24
Mornings: How to Rescue Childhood and Heal the Parent-Child Relationship; Helping Children with Challenges in the 3 r’s – Rhythm, Repetition and Reverence; My Marionette, My Self; Healing the Impact of Technology in Education
Afternoons: The Wonders of Working in Metal; Working with Wood the Waldorf Way; Storytelling, Joyfully; Awakening a Connection to Formative Forces Through Speech and Drama
Full course description is here: https://rscc.ca/summer-festival-of-arts-education-brochure/

Register by May 15-SAVE $75. Plus, register for 2 weeks-SAVE ADDITIONAL 10% OR register for 3 weeks-SAVE ADDITIONAL 20%. Registration NOW OPEN.

Register online at www.rscc.ca/SummerFestival. info@rscc.ca. 905-764-7570

Offered concurrently with the Summer Festival – NEW PROGRAM – for educators, administration staff, parents and anyone wishing to learn about Waldorf education – FLOWER/Foundational Lessons on Waldorf Education Retreat, July 6-24, Toronto Waldorf School. Three weeks, 9:00am – 5:00pm.
Re-treat yourself this summer. Register by May 15 – SAVE $75.
Full program description is here: https://rscc.ca/flower/
This NEW program also serves as a Foundational step into RSCC’s Waldorf Teacher Education programs.