Advent Fair, 2011.

If you have nothing to do tomorrow, this is where you should spend it with your kids.

It's the ADVENT FAIR of Manila Waldorf for 2011. There will be games, food booths, wreath making, performances and many more! From 9 am to 5 pm, we promise a whole day of fun and activities at the beautiful grounds of Manila Waldorf at Timberland. 

Hope to see you guys there!!!

Green Couture - 6 days away!

11 Fashion Designers

RAJO LAUREL, DENNIS LUSTICO,

IVARLUSKI ASERON, PUEY QUINONES, TIPPI OCAMPO,

KATE TORRALBA, PATRICE DIAZ, JOJIE LLOREN,

JAMES REYES, MICHI CALICA-SOTTO and

KAREN MIJARES (USA)

Creations made of 100% recycled materials like

sando bags, tansan, flour sacks, rice sacks,

bubble wrap, plastic bottle caps,

mineral bottles, paper cups,

plastic straw and old magazines.

A fashion show directed by Robby Carmona at the Rigodon Ballroom of Peninsula Manila.

Sunday, March 20 at 5 pm.

Tickets are sold for P1,000. Cocktails will be served.

A fund-raising project for the Manila Waldorf School

by Grade 8 parents and students.

Please come, please support and be amazed at the how trash can be couture.

GREEN COUTURE.

Green Couture!

What happens when these.....




....are dumped into the hands of these people??

Jojie Lloren

Puey Quinones

Michi Calica-Sotto

Tippi Ocampo

Patrice Ramos-Diaz

Rajo Laurel

James Reyes

Ivarluski Aseron

Kate Torralba

Dennis Lustico

From the US of A, Karen Capili-Mijares.

GREEN COUTURE

is one of the most exciting fashion events so far. Not only will it be hip to fashion trends but also to the great trend that is to be eco-friendly.

11 Top Designers will present their collection using only recycled materials. Great idea, right? The challenge to these designers' creativity gets doubled because they are limited to using only materials like bubble wrap, discarded stuff and packing straw.

These designers have agreed their names for this fashion event as a nod to Mother Nature and to benefit the Manila Waldorf School.

So please show these children and designers - and Mother Nature - your love. Come to Green Couture, the Rigodon Ballroom of the Manila Peninsula on March 20, 2011 at 5 p.m.

This is a Sunday so this will be a fun leisurely afternoon for you.

Tickets are sold at P1,000 each.

HARRY POTTER with LOTS of FREE GOODIES!!

Dear Friends of Candifier,

I need your help. I am helping Manila Waldorf School raise funds. Class 7 is hosting a movie premier on Nov. 18, 2010 at Trinoma, Cinema 4 and I would like to ask you to participate in this fundraising by enjoying the movie in this particular screening.

I LOVE FREE things. Who doesn't? By watching with us, you have a chance to win the following gifts from our sponsors:

Five GC's from Red Images, Inc.

One Senso Memory Pillow from Uratex.

One Therapoint pillow from Uratex

Twenty bottles of Kamiseta perfume

Five Mini Travel Bags from Kamiseta

Here's more. As a ticket holder, you will automatically be given the following:

1. Lemonade or Ice Tea from Fish & Co

2. Cup of coffee from De Longhi

3. One bag of Kettle Korn

4. Krispy Kremes (first 120 people to arrive in the cinema)

5. Bag of Jelly Beans from Candy Corner

6. Soya Chips from SOYAMI

Tickets are sold at P800 each. For more details, please click on photo below or click here.

Watch the trailer here.

Thank you so much!

Love, Candifier.

Waldorf School in Timberland!

The second home of the Dizon kids is already open. High up in the mountains where the air is fresh. Inside Timberland where it is safe and secure. The grounds are spacious and clean. Trees are sprawled all over. The classrooms are brand new, well studied and carefully constructed.

For the first time in my life, I witness my Jacqueline waking up 10 minutes before her alarm sets off. She gets up without my usual nudging. She gets dressed, eats her breakfast and waits in the car for the other Dizon kids to get in so they can all go to school. When I get home, I see her working on her homework with a smile on her face while humming to a song.

Excitement and happiness is what Waldorf has brought into my daughter's school life. I am sorry to say this but it was totally the opposite when she was in STC two years ago. Back then, my life was like GROUND HOG DAY, (the movie) where every morning it was torture for me to wake her up. To make her get dressed and eat breakfast. When I get home, she would still be doing her homework even if she had started on it hours before. To make this short and simple, she hated it. The academic pressure to memorize without reason was too much.

From Panjee Tapales' website she quotes from the Waldorf Parenting Handbook,

“Consider how Waldorf Education works. There is no early, forced intellectualisation; simple toys of natural materials are used to stimulate the child’s powers of fantasy and imagination. It is a balanced education of the whole child of thinking, feeling and willing. Teaching methods are based on the child’s natural stage of learning: imitation in the early years, a beloved trusted authority figure in the middle years, and the intellectual search for truth after puberty. There is a natural unity of art, science and moral/spiritual values in the curriculum material.

Waldorf education is in harmony with Ralph Waldo Emerson who said, “There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. The hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.” This is just what the Waldorf school does: correlates the hours of the child’s life with the ages of mankind’s development. Just as the embryo, in utero, repeats man’s biological evolution, so the growing child retraces the evolution of man’s consciousness, his spiritual odyssey.”

Ms. Panjee Tapales said, "People have asked me what I would like my son to be and I always say the same thing. I would like him to grow up whole and balanced in thinking, feeling and willing, able to stay true and connected to his essence and all parts of his being. This seems like such a Herculean task but with the invaluable Waldorf education behind him, I know I am completely supported in my journey."

I couldn't agree more. Seriously, consider Waldorf. See you at the open house.

Photos courtesy of Ms. Leah E. Saldivar.