A New Hive
In his Bee lectures, Steiner gave a picture of the intimate connection between the beehive and the development of human culture as a whole – he also foreshadowed the current global honeybee crises. This relationship between today’s bee crises and human culture is a central theme of our Festival – a theme of absolute practical and spiritual importance.
The Festival, therefore, will be an opportunity for us to co-create a new ‘hive’ – a symbol for a vessel of cultural renewal – both spiritual and physical. This will be a social deed, where the weaving of warmth that unfolds within our drama, lectures and workshop activities will extend to the co-weaving of a new beehive – an actual working hive for honeybees.
Through this activity – and all the interweaving activities of the Festival – we will seek to create a space in which we, as individuals within community, can encounter not just words, but the living experience of a Festival of the future – a Michael Easter Festival.