Speakers on Aesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism at Harlem Health Festival

September 7, 2005 -- In an event free to the public, presented by the eighth annual Harlem Healthfest, Saturday, September 17th, 2005 at 2 pm at the Thurgood Marshall Academy, 135th Street and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd. in Harlem, you can hear speakers on Aesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism, the book launched at the Harlem Book Festival. Five co-authors will tell what they learned from Aesthetic Realism, the education

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 founded by the great American poet and critic Eli Siegel, about the cause of racism: contempt, the “addition to self through the lessening of something else.” Racism, they will show, does not begin with race, but with the human tendency to have contempt for everything different from oneself. Aesthetic Realism enables contempt to change—not into tolerance, but into true respect for other people, and a conviction that we need the difference of the world to be all we can be! The speakers are:

Alice Bernstein, journalist and Aesthetic Realism Associate whose articles and regular column, “Alice Bernstein & Friends” on the arts, education

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, and the answer to racism, appear in newspapers and magazines nationwide.

Julie Jensen was born in and grew up in Nazi Germany. She is an Aesthetic Realism Consultant, and has written about contempt as the cause of the holocaust and Nazism. She was part of People & Nations Need Aesthetic Realism, a formal presentation to United Nations’ representatives.

Monique Michael was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A graduate of Hunter College, she studied with John Henrik Clarke, and majored in Black and Puerto Rican Studies. An elementary school

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 educator for 12 years, she has conducted workshops at educational conferences and has written articles about how Aesthetic Realism can end all forms of prejudice.

Dr. Jaime Torres, born in Puerto Rico, is on the Advisory Board of the National Hispanic Medical Association, and Associate Director of Consultative Services at Coler Goldwater Specialty Hospital. At the 17th Annual COOL Conference at Harvard he spoke on “Racism Can End—Aesthetic Realism Explains How!” His articles in English and Spanish in behalf of universal healthcare appear in newspapers and professional journals.
A Book Signing will follow!

For further information and travel directions see the festival home page: http://mypages.blackvoices.com/hhf2k/hhfspeakerinformation/