Saturday, May 17, 8 PM

Ethics—the Answer to Our Troubled Economy!

  MONEY & OUR PURPOSES WITH PEOPLE by Ellen Reiss

“Much is being written about the mortgage crisis, and its effect on banks and markets. But what I think important to point out is that it is a matter of ethics all the way. The biggest question for the people and nations of the world, Eli Siegel said, is this ethical question: ‘What does a person deserve by being a person?' And one of the things persons across America feel they deserve is a home.”— The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, issue 1706

  DO YOU WANT TO BE IN A CONTEST WITH THINGS? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson

"What is more important: to be all you can be, or to beat out other people?" —Eli Siegel 

 

  SONGS from GOODBYE PROFIT SYSTEM —A Musical Play
By Tom Shields and Martha Baird

	—including the title song “Goodbye Profit System,” I'm a Little Wall Street Share,” “Body and Apartment,” “Heaven for the Landlord,” & more

  HOW DO PEOPLE WANT TO SEE PEOPLE ?; or, IT HAS TO BE AESTHETICS

A historic lecture in which Eli Siegel discussed James Stephens' story of 1912 “The Wolf at the Door”:

“The present economic situation will not change essentially for the better until people like the way they are seen, and like the way they see others!”

— AND MORE!

Saturday, June 21, 8 PM

Love—Its Beauty & Turmoil!

  IT IS DIFFICULT TO LOVE & DIFFICULT TO STOP by Eli Siegel

“Aesthetic Realism definitely says love for a person is a love for persons, a love for humanity, a love for reality. And if it isn't that, the thing is a phony.”

  SEX HAS ITS LOGIC Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson

"Do you think, Mr. Boyce, that women make their own charm, or did the universe have a preliminary hand in it? Aesthetic Realism says that you're affected by the world in being affected by a woman." —Eli Siegel 

 

  POWER IN LOVE IS GOOD & BAD Class Chairman Ellen Reiss discusses the historic character Don Juan, his operatic form in Mozart's Don Giovanni, & the education in Aesthetic Realism consultations:

“The bad power of Don Juan—to be more important than all things and people and the world itself to someone, to have a person fall foolishly at one's feet while one smiles coolly—has been desired too by well-behaved men and women. In us, it is intertwined with other desires, unclear, covered up. We want to see it sheer, entire—and that is why we have needed Don Juan.”

— AND MORE!