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And find out about The Beauty & Urgency of Justice--A Holiday Event of Music & Vivid Comment! on Sunday, Dec. 20, at 2:30, Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Str., SoHo, NYC, 212-777-4490, www.AestheticRealism.org .

Hear a deeply moving, new podcast at http://web.me.com/aestheticrealism/presentations/podcasts/podcasts.html -- Bennett Cooperman speaking on Toughness and a Feeling Heart -- Can a Man Have Both? In this wonderful podcast, he speaks not only about what he learned from Aesthetic Realism about these important opposites, he also speaks about Jack London's great story "The Call of the Wild." Hear it!

Podcast features Bennett Cooperman on Call of the Wild

Hear a podcast at http://www.aestheticrealism.org/ --Bennett Cooperman, Aesthetic Realism consultant, on Call of the Wild!

The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method brings out children's intelligence!

NYC teachers will present a powerful public seminar about the teaching method that is revolutionizing education in NYC schools--The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Brings Out Every Child's Intelligence--& Education Succeeds!" At 6:30, 141 Greene Street, SoHo, NYC. Presented by teachers on every grade level, you'll hear real classroom demonstrations, and know this is the method that can save America's schools! Devorah

Back by Popular Demand--an unforgettable musical event!

By popular demand: Sunday, Nov. 15, 2:30 PM: "The Great Fight of Ego vs. Truth--Songs about Love, Justice, & Everybody's Feelings!" The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Co. performs pop songs, ballads, rock 'n' roll, labor songs, and more, with sizzling commentary about America now! Call 212-777-4490 for reservations. You will have a great time! Devorah

Great reading online--by Eli Siegel and more

Dear friends,

For great reading--go to the Aesthetic Realism Online Library. This is where you'll find lectures, essays, poetry by Eli Siegel; and works by those who study and teach Aesthetic Realism. We've given Aesthetic Realism a critical workout and seen it to be true--and a terrific, analytic means of understanding what goes on in the world and in people. --So read and have a wonderful time! Devorah

Do you want to laugh and have a great time?

You will be laugh and have also a thrilling, deep good time at the Dramatic Presentation of Aesthetic Realism, on Saturday, August 15, at 8 PM -- titled "There Are Comedy & Comprehension"! Featured will be Eli Siegel's wonderful lecture "Entertainment Is with the Profit System," in which he discussed Arthur Kober's comic and moving play about the Catskills, "Having Wonderful Time." And there will be much more, including Michael Palmer on Tommy Dorsey's "Well, Git It." Make reservations at 212-777-4490. Devorah

Did you know there are two kinds of anger?

Attend this seminar and you'll find out! Thursday, Aug. 6, 6:30 PM, at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street, in SoHo: Hear Dr. Jaime Torres, Christopher Balchin, and Joseph Meglino speak on "What Do Men Most Need to Know about Their Anger?" All great speakers and knowledgeable on this subject--as they speak about their own lives and what they learned in Aesthetic Realism consultations. Consultations are the best thing that can happen to a person.

Evil Seen Beautifully! or Voltaire's Candide

Come to see this great show--on Sunday, June 7, 2:30 PM, at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street, SoHo, NYC. Read a description at www.AestheticRealismTheatreCo.org .

South Pacific!

Saw the show at Lincoln Center--fantastic! If you go, read Michener's Tales of the South Pacific first. It really helps, besides being a deep and affecting book to read.

The Dickens Fellowship of New Yorkhttp://www.dickensNewYork.com

I'm a very happy member of this organization. See www.DickensNewYork.com !

Enjoy and Learn about Poetry!

Here's the announcement for a wonderful event of poetry--and visit http://www.aestheticrealism.org/ http://www.aestheticrealism.org/

Saturday, April 18, 8 PM at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street, NYC 10012

What Poetry Really Is—a Celebration!


Poetry Is a Making One of Opposites with examples from Keats, Omar Khayyám, Blake, Poe, & more, Eli Siegel describes what poetry truly is:

“All poems have in them a oneness of opposites: as seen by the individual who wrote the poem. For example, Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey is a oneness of meditation and excitement, or, more philosophically put, rest and motion. Yet, oneness and manyness are in Tintern Abbey—as are order and freedom, continuity and discontinuity—and other opposites.”


Poems by Eli Siegel, including “To Dylan Thomas”


Poetry, Anna Akhmatova, & Our Two Ambitions by Ellen Reiss

“When Anna Akhmatova wrote Russian verse, she was terrifically fair to herself and fair to the world at the very same moment. She could describe a thing—a certain kind of light, bridges across the Neva, a sound—in such a way that it stuck, was there, and also reverberated with suggestion.”



How Much Feeling? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson of Leo McDonald

"One's greatest question can be put very simply: Do I feel the world in the right way? Do I have the best feeling for people and things not myself, near and far?" —Eli Siegel


Poems by Ellen Reiss, Margot Carpenter, Karen Van Outryve

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.

What Poetry Really Is--a Celebration!

I've come to love poetry through studying Aesthetic Realism, and I urge everyone who can, to come to the April 18th Dramatic Presentation of Aesthetic Realism. It will feature Eli Siegel's beautiful lecture "Poetry Is a Making One of Opposites," in which he discusses Keats, Khayyam, Blake, and more! It will also feature Ellen Reiss's talk "Poetry, Anna Akhmatova, & Our Two Ambitions." And there will be much poetry read! It's at 8 PM, at 141 Greene Street, off West Houston Street, SoHo, NYC. I'd suggest making reservations by calling 212.777.4490. And visit http://www.AestheticRealism.org .

What Kind of Power Does a Man Really Want?

Thursday, 6:30 PM to 8 PM, at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation in New York City, see and hear three men talk honestly about what a man really hopes for and what in him interferes with his liking himself. They talk about the great effect of Aesthetic Realism on each of their lives and what men learn in Aesthetic Realism Consultations. See and hear the real story, 141 Greene Street, NYC, 212.777.4490. Visit www.AestheticRealism.org .

Celebrating Humanity's Opposites--Beginning with Ireland

Sunday, March 15--You have to come to this event, 2:30, in New York's SoHo, at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation! It's the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presenting 1) A moving lecture that was given by the poet and critic Eli Siegel in 1971 about Sean O'Casey's JUNO & THE PAYCOCK--with many scenes from the play. The lecture is called "Words Are Everywhere: Comedy & Tragedy Are Two of These." And it will have Mr. Siegel's love of words and theatre, and great performances! 2) Songs of Ireland, like "Danny Boy," "Molly Malone," "Johnny, I hardly knew ye" and more, beautifully sung! 3) Ellen Reiss's important essay "Good Will, The Greatest Practicality." This essay is so immediately about what's needed in our world--good will. So, come enjoy, make reservations at 212-777-4490.

Jeffrey Carduner, my husband, and I at swing dancing event

Here's me and Jeffrey all dressed up, ready to swing at a swing dancing event at the Edison Ballroom, on January 3, 2009. We had a great time!

I'm giving a public seminar on love!

Dear friends,

On Thursday, Feb. 5, at 6:30 PM, Margot Carpenter, Carol Driscoll, and I will give a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, on "Can a Woman Be True to Herself in Love?" The answer is Yes! And come to hear what we learned for our own lives that's made love successful, and what the women we teach in Aesthetic Realism consultations are learning. It will be at 141 Greene Street, off West Houston Street, in SoHo, NYC. Call 212-777-4490. And see all events schedules at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, at http://www.AestheticRealism.org .