Dramatic Presentations Third Saturday of each month, 8:00 PM
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.

Saturday, May 17, 8 PM

Ethicsthe 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

Anne Fielding, Carrie Wilson & Derek Mali of the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company
—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!
Contributions to the Aesthetic Realism Foundation are tax-deductible.
 Contri. $10

Saturday, June 21, 8 PM

LoveIts 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!
 
Contributions to the Aesthetic Realism Foundation are tax-deductible.
 Contri. $10

 

   
Public Seminars: First Thursday of each month, 6:30 PM
Speakers: Aesthetic Realism Consultants and Associates

MAY 1

UNDERSTANDING IN MARRIAGE: WHAT REALLY INTERFERES WITH IT? There Are Wives: Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, Pauline Meglino


JUNE 5

WHY ARE PEOPLE SO “DIFFICULT”?—& COULD IT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH ME? Steve Weiner, Carol McCluer, Joseph Meglino

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Music Seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation
Alan Shapiro, Helena Simon, and Rhonda Rosenthal
presenting an Aesthetic Realism Seminar on Music
 
Contributions to the Aesthetic Realism Foundation are tax-deductible.
 Contri. $10
Special Event in June
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SUNDAY, June 8, 2:30 PM

SHAKESPEARE, MOZART, &—
THE VICTORY YOU WANT MOST!

An Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company
Production of Eli Siegel's 1951 Lecture on

Shakespeare's The Tempest

and—

Mozart's Flute Concerto in G Shows
the Victory of Self-Questioning!

Barbara Allen, flute • Edward Green, piano

Contributions to the Aesthetic Realism Foundation are tax-deductible.
  Contri. $12

 

 
 

Current Exhibition

"In reality opposites are one; art shows this."--Eli Siegel

The Terrain Gallery presents the work of 10 artists in various styles and media—all showing the meaning of these great sentences from Eli Siegel's The Opposites Theory: "Shapes widen and narrow; come to a point and curve; rise, fall—and these things we do too. The drama of colors and shapes and lines is humanity's drama."

  Hours: Wednesday - Friday 12-5, Saturday 12-4.

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