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January
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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, January 5, 6:30 PM
Music Tells Us How We Want to Be
—A Celebration!
Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, Edward Green,
& speakers
from the Opposites in Music class
"Tell Me Why, by the Beatles; or, Can Our Complaint Be Musical?"
By Kevin Fennell
"Tearfulness & Exuberance in Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody
on a Theme of Paganini--Op. 43, Variation 18"
By Lynette Abel
"Georges Enesco's Rumanian Rhapsody #1--Wild & Serene"
By Zvia Ratz
"Mournfulness & Radiance in the Righteous Brothers'
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"
By Michael Palmer
"Passion & Control in Prokofiev's 5th Symphony"
By Alan Shapiro
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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, January 21, 8 PM
2012—& What People Are Hoping For
Early Protest—What Was It Going For? or, H.G.Wells’ Outline of History
“The basic controversy in history, economically speaking, is
about who shall own the land. At the present time, more
and more people are saying, ‘We don’t want to be taken
advantage of.’”
What Will Make You Truly Confident?
A reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
"Many people think if they don’t trust anybody, that means they have confidence in themselves….The technical question is this: would it make us more confident if we liked people more?" —Eli Siegel
Raw Excitement & Sophistication in Ray Charles' “What'd I Say?”
By singer Kevin Fennell
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“Ray Charles brought together two forms of music that had remained very separate: African American gospel music, which is sacred, and rhythm and blues, the very earthy music of the dance floor. This stands for a big desire in all of us: to put together our earthy desires with a sense of reverence.” |
—And more!
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February
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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, February 2, 6:30 PM
A Woman’s Dissatisfaction—What Makes It
Wise
or Foolish, Right or Wrong?
Dissatisfaction is a tremendously frequent and often confusing emotion. What makes us have it? How fair are we as we feel dissatisfied?
This is what the consultation trio The Three Persons--Margot Carpenter, Carol Driscoll, Devorah Tarrow--will speak about. As they comment on the subject in relation to their own lives and the lives of women in history and the arts, they'll show what Aesthetic Realism explains about the difference between true and false dissatisfaction.
And they'll describe how women today are learning to see dissatisfaction accurately through magnificent, pride-giving Aesthetic Realism consultations!
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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, February 12, 2:30 PM
Celebrating the 200th anniversary
of the birth of Charles Dickens,
the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presents—
How Should a Person Be Seen?
or, Charles Dickens' Hard Times
A dramatic enactment of Eli Siegel’s great lecture,
with scenes from the novel; & songs—
about labor, learning, & the human heart
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, February 18, 8 PM
Painting, Music, & Our Lives!
Celebrating the 57th Anniversary
of the Terrain Gallery
Aesthetic Realism & Hieronymus Bosch
by Eli Siegel
"When the painter Bosch took very disgusting, fearful things and related them to things that are more beautiful, it came from a desire to like the world.”
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The Dramatic Opposites in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony by Karen Van Outryve
“Beethoven makes the trip up the scale from E to G (a trip of two notes) an adventure into the unknown.”
To Perceive Is to Be Critical • A reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
"Do you believe that anybody can get anything greater than being understood? Is being understood a oneness of praise and dispraise?" —Eli Siegel
—And more!
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