Upcoming Events
L.A. Book Launch: I Woke a Lake by Susan McCabes
Saturday, June 7
6:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Join poet Susan McCabe for a reading from I Woke a Lake, a lyrical and layered exploration that traverses deep time and personal history—moving from the Ice Age to ancient, pre-human Los Angeles, from Sweden’s 377-million-year-old Siljan lake to the eerie hush of a melting ice hotel. The poems ripple across haunted terrains: abandoned mines, blasted orchards, a Veterans’ Cemetery, a cryopreservation site, and Elizabeth Bishop’s childhood home. With dreamlike reverie and sharp elegy, I Woke a Lake tunes into what remains, what is vanishing, and what can still be overheard. She will be joined in The Wanda Coleman Theater by scholars and authors, David St. John, and Anna Journey.
Stories From Furtherer Down The Road: Vagabond Tour with Mark Lipman
Saturday, june14, 2025
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
The Vagabond Poetry Caravan makes a stop at Beyond Baroque in their tour across the U.S. Hosted by Mark Lipman with featured guest poets.
Bloomsday Psychedelia
Sunday, June 15, 2025
6:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Celebrate James Joyce at this psychedelic art party! This event will feature live readings, rare films, and stellar music. Free Admission, held at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center.
Venice Art Crawl
Thursday, June 19, 2025
6:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
The Joy of Summer and Art in Venice! This vibrant event will showcase local talent and transform this section of Venice into a colorful and creative showcase. Meet inspiring artists, discover hidden gems, and experience the magic of this iconic neighborhood stretch. Focused on Venice Blvd near Beyond Baroque, SPARC, Pacific Resident Theatre, and the Walk Streets east of Abbot Kinney and nearby areas, including businesses on Lincoln and Abbot Kinney Blvds.
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Upcoming Workshops
Unpacking History: A generative poetry workshop with Andrew Navarro
Saturday, June 7
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
In this workshop we will explore how history as a subject can act as a valuable toy chest filled with stories footnotes and biographies waiting to be discovered and incorporated into our work. Through our time together we will examine work from poets such as Wisława Szymborska Eavan Boland and Rodger Reeves to see just how expansive poetry can be when infused with history.
Poetry and Memory with Kim Dower
Saturday, June 21
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
This workshop provides an opportunity to mine our memories to awaken new, startling poems. We will explore the rich territory of ideas, people, places, and emotions from our past, and examine how memory can inform and affect our writing. The 3-hour workshop will be a mixture of lecture, reading contemporary poetry based on poets’ memories, and practicing “fever writing” or “automatic writing.
Ongoing Free Workshops
Monday Night Fiction Workshop with Raquel Baker
Mondays 7:30 PM PT
Via Zoom
A community writing workshop in which participants are asked to bring 2-3 pages of fiction to read and receive feedback. Facilitated by Raquel Baker via Zoom. Registration required.
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop
Wednesdays 8:00 PM PT
Via Zoom
The West Coast’s longest-running free poetry workshop welcomes new and seasoned poets to share new work and provide feedback. Please be prepared to share one poem. Facilitated by Tom Laichas via Zoom. Registration required.
Exhibitions
SEVEN
April 12 - July 26, 2025
Mike Kelley Gallery at Beyond Baroque
Beyond Baroque presents “Seven” an exhibition for the Mike Kelley Gallery. “Seven” is an exhibition by seven Los Angeles based artists. These seven women have been making work for many years and while Los Angeles, per se is not the theme or subject of their pieces, their surrounds play an important role in their creations. On view are paintings, drawings and mixed media works by Lorraine Bubar, June Edmonds, Linda King, Robin Mitchell, Pam Posey, Fran Siegel & Jody Zellen.
Proxy Gallery Presents
Margaret Morgan: Laocoön
May 9 - June 21, 2025
In the winter of 2024 Morgan exhibited at "Not There Gallery" her work with found twigs and found language. The exhibition was called "Please Try Again." On the wall, made of twigs combined, were words and phrases taken from the various WIFI networks that appeared in her cell phone as she drove around her neighborhood. Morgan then fashioned the twigs into letters and words. The sticks she found on the ground started as natural objects and ended up as symbolic language, but the language itself was also found, floating in the digital air and attaching to nature in unconvincing harmony. This installation, made specifically for the proxy Gallery, spells “Laocoön” with twigs.
For more information visit Proxy Gallery online here.
For past Proxy Gallery shows at Beyond Baroque click here.
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