S aturday, July 16, 8:00 PM
Aesthetic Realism Dramatic Presentation
141 Greene Street (SoHo), NYC
Hawthorne, Sousa, America, & You 
detail Jasper Johns painting
Don't miss this celebratory event--about music, literature, & everyone's hopes!
Aesthetic Realism & Hawthorne Himself; or,  
The Blithedale Romance
By Eli Siegel
" Hawthorne had the question that everyone has: 'I want to be by myself, and I want to be where others are--how can I manage this?' Hawthorne's books are beautiful stories about hiding. He could see this rhythm of hiding and showing, fright and confidence that is in everyone, and show it clearly, and make beauty out of it."  
Do You Like Seeing People Happy?
Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson 
" If you are feeling miserable and birds are chirping, could you get annoyed?" -- Eli Siegel 
 
Freedom Is a Musical Oneness of Opposites; or, 
John Philip Sousa's  Stars & Stripes Forever
By Karen Van Outryve
What can we learn from this rousing, deeply stirring music? I believe it is this--that an America more thoughtful about what people deserve, both outside and within its borders, will be an America more powerful, more free."

Contri. $10
 
141 Greene Street
New York, NY 10012
212.777.4490