Humanity's Opposites--Beginning with Ireland

The Aesthetic Realism Dramatic Presentation Sunday, March 11 at 2:30 PM will feature a lecture in which Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism, spoke about the first act of Sean O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock. Scenes will be performed by the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Co. This is a quote from it:

"Comedy and tragedy are two words as important as any, because they are about every person's life....The way in Juno and the Paycock the ridiculous, the tawdry, the shoddy mingle with the grand, and the laughable with the unendurable, is notable....Beauty is the only thing that takes the tragedy and comedy of life, its ridiculousness and its tearfulness, and composes them."--Eli Siegel

There will be Irish Songs, with Comment
including "The Minstrel Boy," "Wearin' o' the Green," "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye," "Danny Boy," & Others

And "Good Will: The Greatest Practicality" by Ellen Reiss

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How Can We See People in a Way That Is Truly Good for Us?

If you live in the NYC metro area, don't miss this upcoming Aesthetic Realism seminar given by Michael Palmer, Steve Weiner, and Joseph Meglino. You will learn about this important subject in relation to art, sports, and life! It will be presented Thursday, December 8, at 6:30 pm at:

Aesthetic Realism Foundation

141 Greene Street

New York, NY 10012

For more information call: 212-777-4490 or visit the Aesthetic Realism Foundation website.

About Literature, Love, & What Makes a Person Happy

If you live in the NY metro area, don't miss this event, which takes place Saturday, July 16th at 8 PM. It will feature "Jane Eyre, or, This Girl Had Good Will," a thrilling dramatic presentation of Eli Siegel's lecture, with scenes from the Charlotte Bronte novel. There will also be a reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism lesson which has been given the title "What Does He Appeal To--Your Vanity or Pride?" Also will be "For & Against in Louis Prima's "Just a Gigolo" by Michael Palmer.

All will take place at:

Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene Street
New York, NY 10012
In SoHo, off W. Houston

212-777-4490

Hope to see you there!

Lynette

What Love Is—the Real Thing!

If you are in the NYC metro area, don't miss this Sat. presentation at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation. One of the most popular and confusing things--love--will be explained. It will be a great evening of knowledge and entertainment! Click here for more information.

Runaround Sue - Kevin Fennell & Bennett Cooperman

I love the song "Runaround Sue" performed in the show "Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites, & Our Greatest Hopes--A Celebration! by Kevin Fennell and Bennett Cooperman, with Timothy Lynch and Christopher Balchin of the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Co. Here it is on YouTube

Magnolia Tree at Grace Church

I love this Magnolia tree, which I pass often on my way to work. It takes my breath away and makes for a large emotion of pleasure and gratitude in me. "All beauty is a making one of opposites," Eli Siegel stated "and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves." I think this Magnolia tree is a beautiful oneness of of delicacy and strength, dark and light. It's pale, pink petals are delicate and they emerge from dark, strong branches. It is one of my teachers.

Lynette Abel

Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites, & Our Greatest Hopes--A Celebration!

"Breathless," was a song performed at the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company's presentation of Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites, & Our Greatest Hopes--A Celebration!--August 8, 2010

Click here to see it on YouTube


Videography: Robert Murphy