Time to Play Kim Hunter Waldorf Education and Douglas Cardinal
Channel: Marianne Else
Date: 2017-10-05

October 11 2017 6:30 pm at the Large Pavillion - Springwater Provincial Park 1331 Highway 26, Midhurst, Ontario, L0L 1X0 just outside Barrie: "Time to Play" https://youtu.be/_RasrbkPNPc  is a self funded film about the importance of early childhood education. Kim Hunter is an ECE, Waldorf teacher from Salt Spring Island in B.C. I interviewed her at The Hesperus Village just North of Toronto - and before I could post the interview we had a date for the screening of her film just outside Barrie - please see the poster in the film... I came across the work of Douglas Cardinal a few years ago in a video by James Brian as it was linked to Anthroposophy and Waldorf Education. https://youtu.be/nqCceJ4pGAY
A new video published on Jun 27, 2017 states that: “Architect Douglas Cardinal's path in life has seldom been as smooth as the lines on the buildings he designs. Anishinaabe raised in Blackfoot territory, Cardinal's curvilinear vision has produced instantly-recognizable monuments to Indigenous culture in the national capitals of both Canada and the United States to world acclaim. But even his landmark successes have not come without controversy. The film offers an intimate portrait of an artist guided by his Anishinaabe culture to uplift humanity towards hope and social justice.”  https://youtu.be/pDAz-JIGa6U

The most interesting turn of events to me was that he tried to get into Canadian Universities to study Architecture and was told that his family background was not conducive to being included in the ranks of the Royal Architectual Institute of Canada  https://www.raic.org/

He then went to Texas to do his archtectural studies and met a person who studied Anthroposophy. The rest is history – because they had something in common – a love for humanity and the way that children could be taught in Waldorf Education and this also influenced him greatly in his work with architecture.

Douglas Cardinal is now involved with a new endeavor with the Rudolf Steiner Centre in Toronto http://www.rsct.ca/index.cfm?pagepath=Waldorf_Teacher_Education&id=40173
 to focus on Waldorf Education:  https://indigenouswaldorf.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/may-6-2017-launch-photos.pdf