CELEBRATE SCHILLER'S BIRTHDAY WITH MUSIC, POETRY, DRAMA AND GOOD FOOD!!

 We invite you to join us on Saturday, November 9, 2019, as we celebrate the birthday of the great poet of freedom Friedrich Schiller, and the 35th anniversary of the founding of the Schiller Institute. Each year since its founding in 1984, the Schiller Institute celebrates the poet’s birthday with an event featuring works of music, poetry and drama which illustrate these themes. 

Today, we find ourselves at another great moment in history where mankind can emerge into true adulthood and a new renaissance where he realizes his true identity as a creative being destined to explore the universe. Or, leaving his condition to ‘fate,” can plunge into a dark age of violence and brutality.

Schiller realized that the only way to educate people to produce this kind of change, was through great classical art, music, poetry, drama and the plastic arts, for it reaches the emotions as well as the intellect, ennobling and expanding them.

In 1794, when Friedrich Schiller wrote his “Letters On The Aesthetic Education of Man”, Europe was experiencing a period of tumultuous upheaval in the wake the French Revolution and the wars and bloodshed it unleashed. Schiller was keenly aware that in order to bring about any positive change, rather than the tragedy that he witnessed, a people must first be inclined to desire the Good, rather than act out of raw emotion or sterile theories. In saying, “A great moment has found a little people”, he was not only commenting on his times, but committing himself to changing that condition, and his letters were his means to convey that.