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Line 1: {{expand_list}} ~~<!-- Please do not remove or change this AfD message until the issue is settled -->~~ ~~{{AfDM\|{{{1\|Beatrice Ensor}}}\|Beatrice_Ensor\|{{SERVER}}\|2007\|May\|18}}~~ ~~<!-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point -->~~ ~~<br>~~ ~~[[Image:beatrice_ensor.jpg\|thumb\|Beatrice Ensor]]~~ '''Beatrice Ensor''' (1885-1974) was a [[theosophy\|theosophical]] educator, co-founder of the [[New Education Fellowship]] (later [[World Education Fellowship]]) and editor of the journal ''[[Education for the New Era]]''. This is a partial list of [[festivals]] and celebrations in [[Louisiana]]. Born in [[Marseille]] on 11th August 1885 as Beatrice Nina Frederica de Normann was the eldest child of Albert Edward de Normann and Irene Matilda (née Wood). Her father was in the shipping business and her early years were lived in Marseille and Genoa, hence her fluency in Italian and French. She was greatly influenced by a theosophical book that a visitor to her home had left. This led in 1908 to her joining the [[Theosophical Society]], which came to play an important part in her life. ==Arts and crafts festivals== Coming to England to complete her education, she trained as a domestic science teacher and for a short while taught the subject at a college in Sheffield. This led to her being appointed Inspector of women’s and girls’ education by Glamorgan County Council. She became very interested in the ideas of [[Maria Montessori]][http://www.montessori-ami.org/] who she met and corresponded with. Angola Prison Rodeo & Arts and Crafts Festival — [[Angola, Louisiana\|Angola]] Louisiana [[Book]] Festival — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] Cultural Crossroads — [[Minden, Louisiana\|Minden]] Fall Festival in Antique Village — [[Denham Springs, Louisiana\|Denham Springs]] Hot Air Balloon Festival Championship — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] Louisiana Tournoi — [[Ville Platte, Louisiana\|Ville Platte]] Nicholls State University Jubilee — [[Thibodaux, Louisiana\|Thibodaux]] [[Shakespeare]] Festival — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] [[Tennessee Williams]] Literary Festival — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] Three Rivers Art Festival — [[Covington, Louisiana\|Covington]] ==Community festivals and celebrations== In the early months of [[World War I]] she was appointed by the Board of Education as H. M. Inspector of domestic science in South West England based in Bath. But she found civil service work uncongenial and, having played a major part in founding the Theosophical Fraternity in Education, she was invited to become Organising Secretary of the Theosophical Education Trust in 1915. In this role one of her main tasks was the consolidation of the Society’s educational work at Letchworth Garden City into St Christopher School, which was co-educational and boarding, with Isabel King as its Headmistress. One of the teachers at the school for a while was [[V. K. Krishna Menon]]. Baton Rouge Fest For All Festival — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] Greater Baton Rouge State Fair — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] Downtown on the Bayou Fest — [[Houma, Louisiana\|Houma]] [[Contraband Days]] Festival — [[Lake Charles, Louisiana\|Lake Charles]] [[French Quarter]] Festival — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] Gretna Heritage Festival — [[Gretna, Louisiana\|Gretna ]] Hemingbough Festival of [[Blues]] — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] Louisiana Highland Games — [[Jackson, Louisiana\|Jackson]] Jim Bowie Festival — [[Vidalia, Louisiana\|Vidalia]] [[Marshland]] Festival — [[Lake Charles, Louisiana\|Lake Charles]] [[Red River Revel]] — [[Shreveport, Louisiana\|Shreveport]] [[River]] Fest Festival — [[Alexandria, Louisiana\|Alexandria-Pineville]] [[Sabine]] Free state Festival — [[Florien, Louisiana\|Florien]] Slidell Heritage Festival — [[Slidell, Louisiana\|Slidell]] [http://www.eatel.net/~fred/boucherie/index.html\|Sorrento Boucherie Festival] — [[Sorrento, Louisiana\|Sorrento]] [[Southern Decadence]] — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] Terrebonne's Annual Cultural, Heritage & Industrial Festival — [[Houma, Louisiana\|Houma]] Tri-Parish Fair and Festival — [[Eunice, Louisiana\|Eunice]] Yambilee Festival — [[Opelousas, Louisiana\|Opelousas]] Holiday In Dixie — [[Shreveport]] ==Food, harvest and wild game festivals== In 1917 she married Robert Weld Ensor, of Ulster descent, who had served in the Canadian North West Mounted Police and was then a Captain in the Canadian Army. It was theosophy that brought them together. They had one son, Michael, born in 1919. [[Annie Besant]] and [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]] were his godparents. [[Alligator]] Festival — [[Luling, Louisiana]] [[Andouille]] Festival — [[La Place, Louisiana\|La Place]] [[Blues]] and [[BBQ]] Challenge Festival — [[Hammond, Louisiana\|Hammond]] [[Catfish]] Festival — [[Des Allemands, Louisiana]] [[Catfish]] Festival — [[Washington, Louisiana\|Washington]] Franklin Parish [[Catfish]] Festival — [[Winnsboro, Louisiana\|Winnsboro]] Louisiana [[Cattle]] Festival — [[Abbeville, Louisiana\|Abbeville]] Louisiana [[Cotton]] Festival — [[Ville Platte, Louisiana\|Ville Platte]] Bayou Lacombe [[Crab]] Festival — [[Lacombe, Louisiana\|Lacombe]] [[Cracklins\|Cracklin]] Festival — [[Port Barre, Louisiana\|Port Barre]] [[Crawfish]] Festival — [[Breaux Bridge, Louisiana\|Breaux Bridge]] [[Crawfish]] [[Etouffee]] Cook-off Festival — [[Eunice, Louisiana\|Eunice]] [[Duck]] Festival — [[Gueydan, Louisiana\|Gueydan]] [[France\|French]] Food Festival — Larose, Louisiana [[Frog]] Festival — [[Rayne, Louisiana\|Rayne]] [[Gumbo]] Festival — [[Bridge City, Louisiana\|Bridge City]] Louisiana [[Gumbo]] Festival — [[Thibodaux, Louisiana\|Thibodaux]] Cajun [[Hot Sauce]] Festival — [[New Iberia, Louisiana\|New Iberia]] [[Jambalaya]] Festival — [[Gonzales, Louisiana\|Gonzales]] [[Mudbug]] Madness Festival — [[Shreveport, Louisiana\|Shreveport]] Natchitoches [[Meat]] Pie Festival — [[Natchitoches, Louisiana\|Natchitoches]] Giant [[Omelette]] Celebration — [[Abbeville, Louisiana\|Abbeville]] Plaquemines Parish Fair & [[Orange (fruit)\|Orange]] Festival — [[Buras, Louisiana\|Buras]] Ruston [[Peach]] Festival — [[Ruston, Louisiana\|Ruston]] Louisiana [[Pecan]] Festival — [[Colfax, Louisiana\|Colfax]] Lecompte [[Pie]] Festival — [[Lecompte, Louisiana\|Lecompte]] Louisiana [[Pepper]] Festival — [[St. Martinville, Louisiana\|St. Martinville]] [[Rabbit]] Festival — [[Iowa, Louisiana\|Iowa]] [[Rice]] Festival — [[Crowley, Louisiana\|Crowley]] [[Seafood]] Festival — [[Mandeville, Louisiana\|Mandeville]] [[Shrimp]] Festival — [[Delcambre, Louisiana\|Delcambre]] [[Shrimp]] and [[Petroleum]] Festival — [[Morgan City, Louisiana\|Morgan City]] [[Strawberry]] Festival — [[Ponchatoula, Louisiana\|Ponchatoula]] [[Sugarcane]] Festival — [[New Iberia, Louisiana\|New Iberia]] [[Tamale]] Fiesta — [[Zwolle, Louisiana\|Zwolle]] Louisiana [[Wildlife]] and Whitetail Festival — [[Washington, Louisiana\|Washington]] ''Viande Boucannee'' [Smoked Meat Festival] — Ville Platte Louisiana [[Watermelon]] Festival; [[Farmerville, Louisiana]] ==Earth and nature festivals== After the war she added new activities, one of which was helping to bring under nourished Hungarian children to Britain for a spell to recover their health. She travelled to Budapest and returned with the first party. For this she was awarded a medal by the Hungarian Red Cross. But a more enduring role to her Theosophical role was the production, with [[A. S. Neill]] for a time as joint editor, of the Journal ''[[Education for the New Era]]''[http://www.neweraineducation.co.uk/], which still flourishes some 85 years later. Co-operating magazines in French and German followed. Bayou Teche [[Bear]] Festival — [[Franklin, Louisiana\|Franklin]] Earth Fest at Audubon Zoo — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] [[Earth Day]] Festival — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] Louisiana [[Nursery (horticulture)\|Nursery]] Festival — Forest Hill [[Swamp]] Festival at the Audubon Zoo — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] ==Film and media festivals== In 1921, together with [[Iwan Hawliczeck]], she organised a conference in [[Calais]] on the ‘Creative Self-Expression of the Child’, with attendance of over 100. Although this was inspired by theosophists anxious to prevent another world war, what emerged was the New (later World) Education Fellowship[http://www.wef-international.org/], an entirely non-political and non-sectarian forum for new ideas in education. It was not to advocate any particular method but to ‘seek to find the thread of truth in all methods’. It still has active sections in some 20 countries. Beatrice Ensor, together with the editors of the other two journals, formed the initial organising committee of the N.E.F., which held international conferences at two yearly intervals, presided over by distinguished educationists. Just as Theosophy had a profound influence on the N.E.F. (WEF) so did the N.E.F. have a profound influence on the creation of UNESCO. It has been an an NGO of UNESCO since 1966 (see Hiroshi Iwama). New Orleans Media Experience Festival — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] [[Outhouse]] Film Festival — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] Red Stick International [[Animation]] Festival — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] Contraband Film Festival (sponsored by [http://www.lakeareafilmgroup.com/ LAFG]) — [[Lake Charles, Louisiana\|Lake Charles]] ==Heritage and folk festivals== ~~[[Image:Beatrice_Ensor_Jung_Montreux_1923.jpg\|thumb\|Beatrice Ensor and Professor [[Carl Jung]] - [[Montreux]] 1923 - Second International Conference of the N.E.F.]]~~ International [[Acadian]] Festival — [[Plaquemine, Louisiana\|Plaquemine]] [[Festivals Acadiens]] — [[Lafayette, Louisiana\|Lafayette]] [[African American\|Black Heritage]] Festival — [[Lake Charles, Louisiana\|Lake Charles]] Balfa [[Cajun]]/[[Louisiana Creole people\|Creole]] Heritage Week — [[Ville Platte, Louisiana\|Ville Platte]] [[Buggy]] Festival — [[Church Point, Louisiana\|Church Point]] Baton Rouge [[Cajun]] Day Festival — [[Port Allen, Louisiana\|Port Allen]] [[Celtic nations\|Celtic Nations]] Heritage Festival — [[Madisonville, Louisiana\|Madisonville]] Louisiana Folklife Festival — [[Monroe, Louisiana\|Monroe]] [[Northwestern State University]] [[Folk]] Festival — [[Natchitoches, Louisiana\|Natchitoches]] French Settlement [[Louisiana Creole people\|Creole]] Festival — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] Greek Festival — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] International Heritage Celebration Festival — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] [[Oktoberfest]] Festival — [[Gonzales, Louisiana\|Gonzales]] Mensaje Spanish Festival — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] Louisiana [[Renaissance]] Festival — [[Hammond, Louisiana\|Hammond]] Wooden Boat Festival — [[Madisonville, Louisiana\|Madisonville]] ==Holiday festivals== Meanwhile problems were building up within the [[Theosophical Education Trust]] leading to tensions in the Letchworth community in which the termination of her husband’s appointment as Secretary of the Trust played a part. In 1925 Isabel King and Beatrice Ensor left to establish [[Frensham Heights]], a co-educational school in [[Surrey]], from [[Montessori]] to university entrance level, for which Mrs. Edith Douglas-Hamilton (one of the Wills tobacco heiresses) provided the capital. Some of the St Christopher staff and children moved to Frensham to form its nucleus. However, two years later, Mrs. Douglas-Hamilton died unexpectedly without having established the financial independence of the school that she had intended. The dramatic change produced a situation where Beatrice Ensor and Isabel King did not feel they could work. They both left but the break was without bitterness and they both remained on the board of governors for several years. Festival of the [[Bonfire]]s on the Mississippi River — [[Gramercy, Louisiana\|Gramercy]], [[Lutcher, Louisiana\|New Iberia]], and [[Paulina, Louisiana\|Paulina]] Baton Rouge [[Bonfire]] — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] Port Allen [[Bonfire]]s on the Mississippi River — [[Port Allen, Louisiana\|Port Allen]] [[Christmas]] Festival — [[Natchitoches, Louisiana\|Natchitoches]] Baton Rouge [[Festival of Lights]] — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] Go 4th On The River — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] [[Holiday Trail of Lights]] — [[North Louisiana]] [[New Orleans Mardi Gras]] — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] [[La Grande Boucherie des Cajuns]] — [[St. Martinville, Louisiana\|St. Martinville]] ==Music festivals== ~~[[Image:Beatrice_Geheeb.jpg]]~~ Ark-La-Tex Jazz & Gumbo Music Festival — [[Shreveport, Louisiana\|Shreveport]] Beatrice Ensor then concentrated her work on the New Era and N.E.F. and undertook two lecture trips to [[North America]], speaking on new movements in education. She was one of an educational group that was invited to tour [[Poland]]. [[Blues]] Week Festival — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] Bluegrass on the Bayou Festival — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] [[Cajun music\|Cajun Music]] Festival — [[Mamou, Louisiana\|Mamou]] [[Cajun music\|Cajun French Music]] Association Festival — [[Lake Charles, Louisiana\|Lake Charles]] [[Cajun music\|Le Cajun Festival Music]] Awards — [[Lafayette, Louisiana\|Lafayette]] Lagniappe [[Appalachian dulcimer\|Dulcimer]] Fete Festival — [[Port Allen, Louisiana\|Port Allen]] [[Essence Music Festival]] — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] [[Festival International]] — [[Lafayette, Louisiana\|Lafayette]] Gas, Food and Lodging Music Festival — [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana\|Baton Rouge]] [[New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival]] — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] [[Satchmo]] Summer Fest — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] [[Swamp Pop]] Festival — [[Gonzales, Louisiana\|Gonzales]] [[Voodoo Music Experience]] — [[New Orleans, Louisiana\|New Orleans]] Cane River [[Zydeco]] Festival and Poker Run — [[Natchitoches, Louisiana\|Natchitoches]] Creole [[Zydeco]] Festival — [[St. Martinville, Louisiana\|St. Martinville]] [[Zydeco]] Festival — [[Opelousas, Louisiana\|Opelousas]] ==See also== Her husband had moved to [[Louterwater]] in [[South Africa]] where he acquired a large farm in a little developed valley, recently found to be suitable for the growing of deciduous fruit. The orchards he planted were just beginning to bear by 1933 when he died. This meant that Beatrice had to move to South Africa and take over the farm. Although she had no experience of farming she made a success of it. But this greatly restricted her educational work. She managed to be one of a group invited to lecture in [[Australia]], where she was awarded an [[honorary doctorate]] by the [[University of Western Australia]]. She helped the South African section of the N.E.F. and had built on her farm, and financed, a school for mixed race children, for whom no provision existed in the area. [[List of festivals in the United States]] [[Acadian World Congress]], occasionally held in Louisiana ==External links== When it became clear that her son would be pursuing a civil service career, just as her brothers had done, and did not want to take on the farm she sold it and moved to a house on the coast near [[Plettenberg Bay]]. But when her family were settled in England she moved there to be with her grandchildren, living first at [[Blackheath]], then in [[London]], at [[Dolphin Square]], where she died in 1974. Her ashes are buried at [[Catford cemetery]]. [http://neworleanswebsites.com/cat/en/fe/fe.html New Orleans and Louisiana Festivals] [http://www.cajunradio.org/louisianafestivals.html Clarence's Louisiana Festivals Guide] {{Louisianarootsmusic}} [[Category:Festivals in Louisiana\|]] ~~== '''Reference Sources''' ==~~ 'An Investigation into the Origins of UNESCO (The Genesis of UNESCO, the New Education Fellowship and the Theosophical Fraternity in Education)' - by Hiroshi Iwama - Orion Printing Company, Tokyo December 20, 1998 ~~'St Christopher School 1915-1975' by Reginald Snell - first published in 1975~~ ~~'Paedogogica Historica' Volume 40, Numbers 5-6, Numbers 5-6/October 2004, pp. 733-755(23)~~ ~~by Kevin Brehony~~ ~~== '''External Links''' ==~~ ~~UNESCO - http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/neille.PDF~~ ~~http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/obarae.pdf~~ ~~http://www.unesco.org/education/pdf/FERNIG_2.PDF~~ ~~Institute of Education, University of London (abstract): http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=9347&9347_0=15400~~ ~~University of Geneva - http://www.unige.ch/fapse/SSE/erhise/ECER2002.html~~ ~~Taylor and Francis: http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/T98JDRFAHHT8B68K.pdf~~ ~~Association Montessori Internationale: http://www.montessori-ami.org/ami/milestones1929.htm~~ ~~Informaworld on the WEF: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a713997366&fulltext=713240928~~ ~~[[Category:Educators]]~~ ~~The World Education Fellowship International: http://www.wef-international.org/~~ ~~The New Era in Education: http://www.wef-international.org/new_era.html~~ ~~[[fr:Beatrice Ensor]]~~ ~~Frensham Heights School: http://www.frensham-heights.org.uk/ethos/history.html~~ ~~Paedagogica Historica: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cpdh/2004/00000040/F0020005/art00009~~ ~~Naruto University of Education, Japan: http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110004471362/en/~~ ERIC (Education Resource Information Center:http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ042250&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&objectId=0900000b800dc443

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