Exciting Seminar--On A Very Difficult Subject!

Thursday, July 9th, at 6:30 pm:
How Can a Woman See Time & Age as Friendly?
Marion Fennell, Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman, Karen Van Outryve
Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene Street NYC 10012
212-777-4490

Saturday, June 20, 8 PM

"The Dramatic Opposites in Fatherhood"
Including--
Mind and Fathers by Eli Siegel:

“A father is most often in a dilemma. He wants to be severe; at the same time he wants to be a pal....The first thing a father has to see is that when he's nice to the child, and when he's severe, he should be the same person.”

A Son Can See--Looking at the Rembrandt portrait Man with the Golden Helmet, Steve Weiner writes:

“I did not see my father as a mingling of dignity and uncertainty, or see that he himself could not make sense of these opposites. Aesthetic Realism taught me that the true way of seeing Sam Weiner is the way an artist would see him. Consider this man's thoughtful, stern face and glowing helmet….”

Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene Street NYC 10012
212-777-4490

"Does Art Answer the Questions of Our Lives?" Seminar Thursday, May 7, 6:30 PM

Donita Ellison, Sculptor, on Deborah Butterfield

Dale Laurin, Architect, on Eero Saarinen

Marcia Rackow, Artist, on Claude Monet

Anthony C. Romeo, Architect, on Bernini

Based on this groundbreaking principle stated by Eli Siegel:

"All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one
of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves."

Aesthetic Realism Foundation

141 Greene Street NYC 10012

WHAT POETRY REALLY IS--A CELEBRATION! SATURDAY, APRIL 18 at 8 PM

Poetry Is a Making One of Opposites by Eli Siegel
with examples from Keats, Omar Khayyám, Blake, Poe, & more.
Louis Dienes, Dorothy Koppelman, Ellen Reiss,
Margot Carpenter, & Karen Van Outryve
read their poems
Ellen Reiss will talk on "Poetry, Anna Akhmatova, &
Our Two Ambitions"
How Much Feeling? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
Poems by Eli Siegel, including “To Dylan Thomas” --and--
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of
Personal and Impersonal: 6 Aesthetic Realists
we present poems by: Sheldon Kranz, Louis Dienes,
Nancy Starrels, Nat Herz, Martha Baird, Rebecca Fein

AESTHETIC REALISM FOUNDATION
141 Greene Street NYC 10012 in SoHo off W. Houston

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2:30 PM

IBSEN, BACH, & —WHAT INTERFERES WITH LOVE!
— Part One—

An Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company Production
"How Is One Though Of?"
Eli Siegel's 1969 Lecture on
Ibsen's A Doll's House
—with scenes from the play—
— Part Two—
"Two Melodies Teach Us How to Love!—
or, J.S. Bach's Flute Sonata in E-Flat"
Performance & Comment by
Barbara Allen, flute, & Edward Green, piano
Announcement from AestheticRealism.org

141 Greene Street, New York, NY 10012

212.777.4490

SAT., DECEMBER 20: A Christmas Celebration!

REALITY IS LOOKED AT: THERE ARE POWER AND CHRISTMAS In his 1972 lecture on Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Eli Siegel said: "We're celebrating Yuletide by talking about power. The last thing Scrooge wants to be is powerless, and he feels the way to get power is to stick to money-getting. Scrooge is tough, and as he goes on in life he tries to have less and less feeling. Being able to show something like good will is as easy as falling off an ego log. But having it really, is exceedingly difficult. I've said that being able to have authentic good will is the greatest power in the world."
HOW MUCH KINDNESS DO YOU WANT TO HAVE? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson. "It happens that if anyone makes us uncertain, we get angry…. Do you think that while being uncertain, you can still be kind? "—Eli Siegel
IS LOVE FREEDOM & SECURITY? or, "Sempre Libera" from Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata by Alan Shapiro. "As Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti sing this music, they present in sound what Aesthetic Realism explains true love is: two people strong and free in yielding to the meaning of the outside world they each represent." --and more!
At the Aesthetic Realism Foundation 141 Greene Street in SoHo New York, NY 10012 212-777-4490

Want the Time of Your Life?

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2:30 PM
The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presents
Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites, & Our Greatest Hopes— A Celebration!
AESTHETIC REALISM FOUNDATION 141 Greene Street in SoHo, NYC