Gwe—Young Man of New Guinea—A Dramatic Reading

A thrilling event—which families can enjoy and learn from together, and which, at the same time, can combat prejudice in America—will take place on Sunday, April 24, at 2:30 PM, at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.  It is a dramatic presentation of selections from Gwe: Young Man of New Guinea—a Novel against Racism, written by Arnold Perey, PhD, anthropologist and Aesthetic Realism consultant. And Dr. Perey will be joined in this presentation by actors Anne Fielding and Bennett Cooperman. There will be magnificent photographs from New Guinea and examples of indigenous music.

This dramatic event—about love, war, family turbulence, and more, in the central mountains of Papua New Guinea—is of wide cultural meaning.  It is about two very different people: Gwe, of the Mengti tribe, whose Stone Age culture is thousands of years old; and Alan Hull, a white New York anthropologist who travels thousands of miles to study the Mengti.

The event shows how the two young men—who first look at each other with wonder and suspicion, who both have mothers, and who both have many intricate emotions, told of deeply—are much more alike than different.  Dr. Perey says about Aesthetic Realism, which he studied with its founder, American poet and critic Eli Siegel, and which forms the book’s basis:

“Thanks to this education, I began to understand the people of New Guinea more exactly by far than when I was living amongst them. I began to realize how alive the people were, how their flesh, like mine, contains a heart that can beat slower or faster with emotion; that I had the same feelings they did.”











When: Sun., Apr. 24, 2016 at 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene St.
212-777-4490
Price: $15 suggested contribution
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A thrilling event—which families can enjoy and learn from together, and which, at the same time, can combat prejudice in America—will take place on Sunday, April 24, at 2:30 PM, at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.  It is a dramatic presentation of selections from Gwe: Young Man of New Guinea—a Novel against Racism, written by Arnold Perey, PhD, anthropologist and Aesthetic Realism consultant. And Dr. Perey will be joined in this presentation by actors Anne Fielding and Bennett Cooperman. There will be magnificent photographs from New Guinea and examples of indigenous music.

This dramatic event—about love, war, family turbulence, and more, in the central mountains of Papua New Guinea—is of wide cultural meaning.  It is about two very different people: Gwe, of the Mengti tribe, whose Stone Age culture is thousands of years old; and Alan Hull, a white New York anthropologist who travels thousands of miles to study the Mengti.

The event shows how the two young men—who first look at each other with wonder and suspicion, who both have mothers, and who both have many intricate emotions, told of deeply—are much more alike than different.  Dr. Perey says about Aesthetic Realism, which he studied with its founder, American poet and critic Eli Siegel, and which forms the book’s basis:

“Thanks to this education, I began to understand the people of New Guinea more exactly by far than when I was living amongst them. I began to realize how alive the people were, how their flesh, like mine, contains a heart that can beat slower or faster with emotion; that I had the same feelings they did.”

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