SEL & SocRealism: SEL's Stalinist Artistic Roots, with Special Guest Ooana Trien

What if I told you that Drag Queen Story Hour has nothing to with Drag, LGBTQ has nothing to do with individual autonomy and human rights, and the dancing nurses have nothing to do with nursing or dance?
And what if I told you that the arts have always been instrumental in ushering in, but also defeating totalitarianism?
Then what if I told you that SEL is another delivery system for a philosophy expressed through an art-form developed under Stalin called SocRealism, AND that this philosophy was directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of men, women and children?

I will be joined for this dispatch by my special guest, Ooana Trien, a graduate of Tish school of the arts with a concentration in experimental and classical theater. Daughter of a Hungarian mother, and survivor of both Hitler and Stalin, whose father--a former nobleman--who died in Stalin's Romanian Gulag, otherwise known as the Pitesti Prison experiment (an experiment to prove that human beings were nothing more than reactive MEAT).

Find Ooana on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@Ooana and on Twitter @oona

She is also the Artistic Director of Radio Orchid, whose latest production of The Rhinoceros, by Eugene Ionesco she will be directing June 15 - June 17 in St. Petersburg Florida.

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