PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO PUT OPPOSITES TOGETHER
Saturday evening public presentations feature dramatic readings of some of the lectures on literature, ethics, history, and art given by Eli Siegel, and talks by artists and scholars on this new way of seeing all the arts and sciences. |
AUGUST  SEPTEMBER OCTOBER
Saturday, AUGUST 19
• MIND AND PERSISTENCE by Eli Siegel
“The fact that the heart keeps on beating from the moment one is born is a tremendous showing of persistence….We can go through thousands of events and still be ourselves. Then, though every self is the same self, whether at the age of 2 or 92 or 64, every day something new happens.”
• SUSAN GLASPELL’S SUPPRESSED DESIRES; or, FREUD IS PIFFLE
Of this one-act comedy of 1915, Eli Siegel says:
“This play is a merry refutation of Freud. What are the desires we’re really suppressing?…There is one suppressed desire in Iowa and in all the other states in the Union: the desire to know oneself. That’s the big suppressed desire.”
• WHY THE GATES OF CRISTO & JEANNE CLAUDE WERE BEAUTIFUL—BEGINNING WITH SERIOUSNESS & GRACE by photographer Vincent DiPietro
“Draped from the top of each structure was a saffron-colored fabric. And whenever the wind blew, the fabrics danced as if they were overjoyed to have something outside themselves move them.”
Saturday, SEPTEMBER 16
Parents & Children — What Do They Really
 Want from Each Other?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW & UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN By Eli Siegel
“Shaw was one of the very first who talked about children in a bold manner. He could be sentimental, and he could be very tough. He never did make up his mind about how much a child wanted to be good. Aesthetic Realism says a child wants to be good like nobody's business—but can also forget that he wants to be good like nobody's business.”
WHY HAVE CHILDREN LOVED THESE SONGS? For example: Brahms' Lullaby; “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”; “Oif'n Pripichik”; “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.” With singers from the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Co.
WHY DOES OUR BABY CRY? or, THE TUMULT OF ARTHUR BANDINI
Aesthetic Realism Discussion with His Parents
Eli Siegel. Children are uncomfortable for the same reason philosophers are uncomfortable: they cannot make sense of their world.
PARENTS, CHILDREN, & OUR EMOTIONS Ellen Reiss writes about what's called “separation anxiety”—which parents and children are experiencing this month as the little ones go to kindergarten:
“A child wants to feel that what takes place at home and what takes place in the classroom are about the same thing, for the same thing. A child wants to feel something like this from a parent: ‘Dear, as I serve you food, and tuck you in at night, and hug you, my purpose is to show you that the world itself, which food comes from and which I'm a part of, is something you should see as a friend and want to know….And when you learn about numbers and letters—they're the world we've been trying to know and like together.'" —The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, issue #1650
POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN by Eli Siegel
Saturday, OCTOBER 21
On Music, Evil, & Love!
THE TRIAL OF MR. PICKWICK: A consideration of Chapter 33 of Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers, by Eli Siegel
“This chapter is a high point in the relation of mirth and evil. Serjeant Buzfuz is a person as much representing evil as anybody in fiction, though he's also exceedingly funny. Samuel Weller represents good sense—he is an angel in London with an accent.”
MODESTY & PRIDE, TRIUMPH & SELF-QUESTIONING IN RACHMANINOFF'S PIANO CONCERTO #2 by musician and teacher Alan Shapiro
“As the famous Rachmaninoff melody reaches its height, its greatest pride, on a high
E  —the mingling of major and minor, confidence and self-questioning, is at its most intense.”
ABOUT LOVE AND MARRIAGE—from Damned Welcome: Aesthetic Realism Maxims by Eli Siegel
DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE? Aesthetic Realism Lesson
Eli Siegel. A person should be interested in pleasure, but a person should also be interested in the effect she or he has on another person….Is it possible to have ecstasy and self-respect?
—AND MORE!
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