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A Movement is Born
After 21 years of pioneering and widening of Camphill – at St.
John’s Festival 1961 a foundation stone could be laid for a space
where Karl König’s lectures, his plays, artistic contributions and
the festivals would have their place. 1962, between Karl König’s
60th birthday and the Michaelmas Festival, Camphill Hall could
be officially opened and became the center piece of the growing
movement. For many years it was the meeting point of the international Camphill Movement – after Easter each year there would
be a large conference to work on ideals, tasks and current themes,
strengthening the connection of this de-centralised movement.
Karl König drew the sketch and Gabor Tallo was the architect of Camphill
Hall. Through Gabor «Camphill Architects» began, joined later by Joan de
Ris Allen and Wolodymyr Radysh. The company still exists in Newton Dee.
Where the image of the human being is distorted and humiliated, the
Movement is going to have its place. And this is another important step.
Because we now have to work for curative education – and this will
continue; and perhaps with this all our new settlements may start. But
we have now also the branch of the village: and, dear friends, it will not
always be a village for handicapped young men and women – it may be,
in all what is going to come, that it will be a village for stranded people,
a village in Africa for black and coloured people. A village in Malaya, a
village here and there: because the economic life of the world is going
to break down and village seeds will have to be sown here and there
and in many other places. Therefore I foresee this branch as a very important one – not confined at all to Botton and the Grange, but giving
many more possibilities if we are permitted and allowed to start them.
Karl König, Report to the Camphill Movement, January 1960
Camphill Hall: the chapel with the «logo» above it