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Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, Education, Graduate & Professional Schools, Humanities
Programs: Aesthetic realism courses and classes: aesthetic realism classes and semester courses, including on poetry, anthropology, marriage, music, the visual arts, history, education, current events. In each class students see how the subject, in all its richness, is a making one of the opposites that are present in all art and reality, and that people are trying to put together in themselves. Total attendance: 961
presentations: public seminars and dramatic and musical presentations, all based on the principles of aesthetic realism. Seminars include such subjects as love, anger, ambition, parenting; groundbreaking talks by artists and scholars on this new way of seeing the arts, people, and reality itself. The aesthetic realism theatre company offers pioneering musical and dramatic productions-from shakespeare to rock 'n' roll-with performance and comment. Total attendance: 2,043
outreach programs: the foundation's outreach program includes workshops for seniors in both english and spanish and for children at schools and youth centers; dramatic and musical performances by the aesthetic realism theatre company; talks on subjects from parenting to jazz, education to architecture and the arts; anti-prejudice and anti-bullying workshops for people of all ages. Total attendance: 3,948