Events at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation!

Bookmark the events page on the Aesthetic Realism website to find great seminars, presentations & special events in New York City!

For example, here's some of what you'll find at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street, in SoHo, New York, NY 10012, phone: 212 777-4490:

• Thursday, June 7 - Public Seminar 6:30 pm
  "A MAN'S IMAGINATION: WHAT KIND STRENGTHENS HIM;
  WHAT KIND WEAKENS HIM?"
  Dan McClung, Joseph Spetly, Jeffrey Carduner
  
• Sunday, June 10 - Special Event at 2:30 PM
  A Dramatic Reading of Selections from
  GWE: Young Man of New Guinea
  By anthropologist Arnold Perey, PhD
  —with slides and music—
  
• Saturday, June 16 - Dramatic Presentation at 8:00 PM

Celebrating the Real Meaning of Marriage!

MIND AND WIVES A groundbreaking lecture by Eli Siegel, in which he spoke about George Sand, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Milton, & more:

"A wife is a tremendous point in emotion, accompanied by a clear legal situation. In being married, women are saying they want a man to affect them. Yet in being affected, they don't want to lose themselves. So they face the aesthetic problem of how to have themselves by giving themselves to another."

AFFECTION & RESPECT, BODY & MIND, IN REMBRANDT'S THE JEWISH BRIDE by Carol Driscoll & Harvey Spears

"As the groom in this painting embraces his bride, Rembrandt shows visually that a man's desire to embrace a woman and his desire to understand her can be the same thing!"

MAXIMS ABOUT MARRIAGE — humorous, educative, & romantic — from Damned Welcome by Eli Siegel

-- And More!

Click on www.AestheticRealism.org/events2.htm for details.

And look for the announcement for August 12th at 2:30 PM
A Special Event --

The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presents:
Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Opposites,& Our Greatest Hopes—A Celebration!

Aesthetic Realism & Nature by Eli Siegel

Now that the warm weather is here, and like so many people, I find myself thinking about "the great outdoors" and nature, I'd like you to know about a delightful & deep lecture on this subject by Eli Siegel.

It is titled: Aesthetic Realism & Nature by Eli Siegel—This lecture is published in series in The Right Of — & available on the Aesthetic Realism Online Library. To give you an idea of this fresh way of seeing nature, I quote some here:

"Once more people are going to go out into the country, and be on the hillsides, and in the grass, and hear the birds, and look at the insects, and watch the sky; and they won't do it really, I'm afraid, with any love for what those things represent, and they won't do it with any deep wisdom for themselves. So far, nature has been used too much to hate people with, and to be against oneself….
Nature is defined by Aesthetic Realism as the way the world goes about being itself and changing. Aesthetic Realism sees man's mind as nature at its highest, but as a continuation of all that went before. And if you don't like the way your in-laws behave, you don't like nature, because in-laws are just as much nature as hummingbirds are. If you are going away from in-laws to hummingbirds, you're going from one aspect of nature to another, not from something called in-laws to something called nature."