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May
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Public Seminar
On the first Thursday of every month the Aesthetic Realism Consultants and Associates present public seminars. Representative subjects include: “Real Communication in Marriage—How Can We Have It?”; “What's the Difference between Wowing People & Liking Yourself?”; “Kindness: Is It Strong ?”; “The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Succeeds: Knowledge Wins, Prejudice Loses!”
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Thursday, May 3, 6:30 PM
Care for Oneself & Justice to Others:
Do They Have to Fight?
Aesthetic Realism answers that question with a resounding “NO!” It shows--as nothing else has--this great fact which people need desperately to know: to be fair to others and to be good to ourselves are really the same thing.
Consultant Robert Murphy and Associates Leila Rosen and Michael Palmer will give evidence from their own lives, and from history and literature. And they’ll describe the invaluable education about the world, art, and oneself that is the study of Aesthetic Realism.
Come and learn about yourself and all people!
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Special Event
Pioneering dramatic and musical presentations take place at the Foundation, and elsewhere as part of the Foundation's Outreach Program. These productions—a new dramatic form with performance and comment—include "Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; or, Earthy Whirl," by Eli Siegel; "Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites, & Our Greatest Hopes!"; "Ibsen, Bach, & What Interferes with Love"' and more.
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Sunday, May 6, 2:30 PM
Film—&
"The Art of Enjoying Justice"!
Emmy-Award-winning filmmaker
KEN KIMMELMAN
Speaks on & shows six of his films—
“The Heart Knows Better”; “Brushstrokes”;
"What Does a Person Deserve?"; "Thomas Comma";
& the film of Eli Siegel’s 1925 prize-winning poem,
"Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana."
Also—The 1968 documentary of Eli Siegel
teaching an Aesthetic Realism class,
"People Are Trying to Put Opposites Together"
Contri. $15
To print information, click here
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Dramatic Presentation
These feature dramatic readings of some of the great lectures on literature, ethics, economics, history, everyday life, and art given by Eli Siegel. There are reenactments of Aesthetic Realism lessons he taught, upon which Aesthetic Realism consultations today are based. And there are groundbreaking talks by artists and scholars in many fields—including jazz, architecture, photography, film—on this new way of seeing the arts, sciences, and reality itself.
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Saturday, May 19, 8 PM
About Humanity, Money, & Love
Wow! Public & Private In this historic lecture of December 4, 1970, one of the
Goodbye Profit System series, Eli Siegel said:
“Is it the abuses, corruptions, excesses of the profit system that are bad, while the profit system is a good thing, subject to abuse? The profit system has to make profit either through the persons employed or consumers. As soon as you have to make such a profit, you have to take an antagonistic attitude to the employee and buyer. To say that you don’t have to is unconscious hooey.”
A Man, a Woman, Romance, & Money A reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
"Every person’s dissatisfaction is a feeling that 'I’m getting more than I deserve and also less than I deserve.' A woman could say, 'Kisses I get aplenty, but esteem too little.'
...Money happens to be a very deep evoker of the worst in us and the best." —Eli Siegel
Simplicity & Complexity in The Temptations' "My Girl!" by singer Kevin Fennell
“In its casual and easygoing way, this song has amazing richness of structure with its syncopated rhythms, risings and fallings. And I think the message is:Through this one person, the whole world looks good to you!”
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June
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Public Seminar
On the first Thursday of every month the Aesthetic Realism Consultants and Associates present public seminars. Representative subjects include: “Real Communication in Marriage—How Can We Have It?”; “What's the Difference between Wowing People & Liking Yourself?”; “Kindness: Is It Strong ?”; “The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Succeeds: Knowledge Wins, Prejudice Loses!”
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Thursday, June 7, 6:30 PM
The Mistakes Daughters Make about Fathers; or,
What Do We Really Want from Dad?
Speakers: Consultants Rosemary
Plumstead & Marcia Rackow,
and Associate, Donita Ellison
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Dramatic Presentation
These feature dramatic readings of some of the great lectures on literature, ethics, economics, history, everyday life, and art given by Eli Siegel. There are reenactments of Aesthetic Realism lessons he taught, upon which Aesthetic Realism consultations today are based. And there are groundbreaking talks by artists and scholars in many fields—including jazz, architecture, photography, film—on this new way of seeing the arts, sciences, and reality itself.
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Saturday, June 16, 8 PM
What People Are Hoping For—Summer 2012
George Gershwin—& Why Men & Women Are Unsure Speaking about Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess, the life of the composer, and the confusions of men and women today, Chairman of Education Ellen Reiss writes:
"In Porgy and Bess are many of the ways through which
people try to get sure of themselves. But the one real way
to be sure of ourselves is to put no limit on our desire to
know. It is because our deepest desire is to know the
world, that we get so unsure when we try to like ourselves
in another way."
"Love & Pretense" A Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
"Do you want a man to see you as you truly
are—or as you can arrange yourself?...Do you think we
can be afraid of a person about whom we have the
wrong motives?" –Eli Siegel
Can We Have Pleasure & Self-Respect at Once?—“Picasso’s “Two Women Running on the Beach” by Devorah Tarrow
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"“Through form and color, Picasso relates the women to the
land and water and sky, even as they are different…. Stability
is at one with abandon.”
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Past Event in April
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Dramatic Presentation
These feature dramatic readings of some of the great lectures on literature, ethics, economics, history, everyday life, and art given by Eli Siegel. There are reenactments of Aesthetic Realism lessons he taught, upon which Aesthetic Realism consultations today are based. And there are groundbreaking talks by artists and scholars in many fields—including jazz, architecture, photography, film—on this new way of seeing the arts, sciences, and reality itself.
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Saturday, April 21, 8 PM
What Poetry Really Is—a Celebration!
Poetry Is a Making One of Opposites With examples from Keats, Omar Khayyam, Blake, Poe, & more, Eli Siegel describes what poetry truly is:
“All poems have in them a oneness of opposites: as seen by the individual who wrote the poem...Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey is a oneness of meditation and excitement. Yet, oneness and manyness are in Tintern Abbey—as are order and freedom, continuity and discontinuity—and other opposites.”
Poems by Eli Siegel, including "To Dylan Thomas"
Poetry, Anna Akhmatova, & Our Two Ambitions
By Aesthetic Realism Chairman of Education Ellen Reiss
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"When Anna Akhmatova wrote Russian verse, she was terrifically fair to herself and fair to the world at the very same moment. She could describe a thing—a certain kind of light, bridges across the Neva, a sound—in such a way that it stuck, was there, and also reverberated with suggestion."
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"How Much Feeling?"
Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson of Leo McDonald
"One’s greatest question can be put very simply: Do I feel the world in the right way? Do I have the best feeling for people and things not myself, near and far?" –Eli Siegel
Poems by Ellen Reiss, Margot Carpenter, Karen Van Outryve,
Dorothy Koppelman
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From the 1959 book Personal and Impersonal: 6 Aesthetic
Realists we present poems by: Sheldon Kranz, Louis Dienes,
Nancy Starrels, Nat Herz, Martha Baird, Rebecca Fein. |
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