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Edward Green on Duke Ellington,
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Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism
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“The deepest desire of every person is to like the world on an honest or accurate basis." — Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism
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SPECIAL EVENT  SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2:30 PM |
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The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presents
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Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites,
& Our Greatest Hopes—
A Celebration!
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Why has Rock 'n' Roll affected people so much?
Singing & commenting on songs from the ‘50s and ‘60s to the present, we illustrate these sentences from an Aesthetic Realism lesson Eli Siegel gave to a rock musician:
Rock 'n' roll has the answer to people's problem of, on the one hand, wanting to be very private and sad, and on the other, wanting to have something like sunlight and public force. Every person has to make a one of the most secret thing in him and the most public thing. Rock 'n' roll shows it can be done.
Kevin Fennell • Carrie Wilson • Bennett Cooperman
Timothy Lynch • Christopher Balchin • Lynette Abel
Sally Ross • Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman
Marion Fennell • Ann Richards
Alan Shapiro, keyboard • Rob Colavito, drums
Allan Michael, bass
Barbara Allen • Edward Green
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Current issue Justice to People—& What's Against It • August 6, 2008
We have been serializing a lecture I consider historic: the 1974 Poetry Is of Man, by Eli Siegel. His text is an article that would have been lost in time had he not seen its value—he says it is one of the most important articles ever written. First published in the Quarterly Review, January 1850, and reprinted in Littell's Living Age, March 16, 1850, it is—nine years before Darwin 's Origin of Species—a discussion of five books relating to human evolution.
...In the section of the lecture printed here, Mr. Siegel points to passages in which the writer of the article says humanity is one species—not, as various “scientists” of the time were trying to show, composed of different species. And the anonymous writer's prose takes on a might, a beauty, as he gives logic for the fact that all humans, black, white, Asian, are deeply the same. more
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PUBLIC SEMINAR |
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 6:30 PM
THE DRAMA OF LOVE & ANGER IN A WOMAN'S LIFE Women Are Various: Carrie Wilson, Karen Van Outryve, Nancy Huntting
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DRAMATIC PRESENTATION |
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 8:00 PM
Splashing Around in Reality!
 MIND AND SCHOOLS In this definitive lecture, given by Eli Siegel in 1949, is the understanding children, parents, & educators today are looking for. Mr. Siegel said:
“A child leaves the family and goes to something called a school. The child is meeting the world in a new way....All learning, if it is honest, means a giving of ourselves to something in such a way that that thing becomes ourselves. If a child learns a new word like door, the spelling of the word door becomes part of him.”
OUR TWO HUGE DESIRES Discussing the “authentically funny and deeply wild” poem “The Mock Turtle's Song” from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Ellen Reiss writes:
“Throughout this strange, lovely, really sensible poem, the fish tries to convince the snail to join others in being thrown into the ocean, but the snail doesn't want to. And every child who ever read or heard this poem, and every adult, was affected because, without knowing it, they were hearing about the biggest dispute within themselves.” —The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, issue 1244
WHEN CRITICISM IS KINDNESS IN LOVE Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
"The problem of man and woman is how to have kissing go along with cogitation.... If you have anything like a sexual response, do you believe you're the same person as when you are working out a mathematics problem?" —Eli Siegel
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The Aesthetic Realism Foundation is in the midst of our Annual Fundraising Campaign for 2008!
