Mark your calendar for the opening night – March 10 at 6 pm – of the 2012 GBRSS Art Show presented by the Good Purpose Art Gallery.

Featured artists are past and current Steiner parents: Dan Bellow, Christine Casarsa, Ben Junta, Christina Lane, John Lawson, Michael McManmon, Alan Papscun, Paula Shalan and Alix Von Avenmueller and Steiner alum, Luke Shalan. Look for your invitation, but get the sitter now!

All proceeds from the art show will be divided by Good Purpose which is the supporter of the not-for-profit Student Educational Development Fund (SEDF) foundation and GBRSS. Visit the Good Purpose Art Gallery for more information coming soon.

You are invited to an Open House on Tuesday, February, 14th, at 9 a.m. Open Houses offer an opportunity to meet our faculty, see our students’ work, and learn more about Waldorf education. We look forward to seeing you!

Open Houses are scheduled for the second Tuesday of every month in the 2011 – 2012 school year. If you can’t make it to the March one, plan on coming to a future monthly open houses or call the school at (413)528-4015 to arrange a tour.

Mark your calendars.

Café Night is March 17.

Doors open at 7 p.m.

Contact Jenny O’Haver at jenny@ohaver.net if you are interested in performing.

Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School (GBRSS) celebrates the joys of mud season in the Berkshires with a free children’s puppet play at Matrushka Toys and Gifts, 309 Main Street, Great Barrington, with the performance of “Mud Muffins” on Saturday, March 24, 2012. There will be two show times at 10:30 and 11:30am, appropriate for toddler through kindergarten age children.

“Mud Muffins” is a story about the coming of Spring, and the sweet surprises it brings.  Puppeteer Somer Serpe received her BFA at Parsons School of Design and her Masters in Education at Sunbridge College. As an Early Childhood teacher at GBRSS, Somer makes the puppets herself and uses them frequently to enact stories for her Rose Room Nursery class of children nearly-3 to 4 years old. She is also a parent at the school, with 2 daughters in the grades, and is an avid Morris dancer who performs at May Day celebrations at the school and throughout the community.

Matrushka Toys and Gifts, located at 309 Main Street in Great Barrington, brings a love of “action” to children of the Berkshires, specializing in a unique collection of “child-powered” toys, entertaining games, classic books, beautiful children’s clothing and natural baby gifts, in a store that makes room for imaginative play. Matrushka enhances the community with free in-store events, such as partnering with GBRSS to present puppet plays that come to life in the hands of an experienced early childhood teacher. Matrushka is open Monday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm, Sunday 11am – 4pm. For more information about Mornings at Matrushka, please call the store at (413) 528-6911.

You are invited to an Open House on Tuesday, February, 14th, at 9 a.m. Open Houses offer an opportunity to meet our faculty, see our students’ work, and learn more about Waldorf education. We look forward to seeing you!

Open Houses are scheduled for the second Tuesday of every month in the 2011 – 2012 school year. If you can’t make it to the April one, plan on coming to a future monthly open houses or call the school at (413)528-4015 to arrange a tour.