HONORING:
VIGGO MORTENSEN Alexandra Garrett Award for Service to Beyond Baroque			WILL ALEXANDER Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry
FEATURED PERFORMERS INCLUDE:
Bobby Bradford	Chris D & Julie Christensen	Kamau Daáood	John Densmore	John Doe & Exene Cervenka	Froglab Joe Baiza, Mike Watt, & Brian Christopherson
Dwight Trible	Erika Duran	Brendan Constantine	Jack Grapes	Lisa Finnie	Puma Perl
George Drury Smith

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2018 at 5:30 PM

IN THE VENICE ARTS PLAZA AND GARDENS
BEYOND BAROQUE
681 NORTH VENICE BOULEVARD
VENICE, CA 90291

COCKTAIL RECEPTION  |  LIVE & SILENT AUCTION  |  DINNER  |  ENTERTAINMENT

This November we celebrate 50 years of Beyond Baroque with a Bohemian Bacchanal of art, music, poetry, wine, and revelry. Join us in honoring our dear friend Viggo Mortensen for his selfless support of Beyond Baroque, and our visionary poet-in-residence Will Alexander for his profound achievements in expanding the artistic possibilities of language. We’ll also pay special tribute to our founder, George Drury Smith.

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ABOUT THE EVENT

The Beyond Gala begins with a cocktail reception in the Poet’s Garden at Beyond Baroque, followed by a live and silent auction in our theater. The auction includes rare literary material from our archive; art from some of the world’s most notable artists, including Ed Ruscha, Gronk, Raymond Pettibon, John Baldessari, Shepherd Fairey, Francisco Toledo, George Herms, and many others; and a wide array of items donated by the Venice business community. Click here for the auction catalog.

Following the cocktail reception and art auction, join us for dinner and entertainment outdoors under a lavish tent. An incredible array of musical and literary talent will pay tribute to Beyond Baroque’s literary community.

Performers include:

John Doe & Exene Cervenka founding members X John Densmore founding member, The Doors Bobby Bradford Ornette Coleman Quartet Chris D Divine Horsemen; Flesh Eaters Julie Christensen Divine Horsemen; Leonard Cohen Kamau Daáood poet/founder The World Stage Dwight Trible singer/director The World Stage Froglab - Joe Baiza, Brian Christopherson & Mike Watt (also of the Minutemen) Jack Grape poet; 2018 honoree, Distinguished Service Award Lisa Finnie Dylan Hour / 88.5 Erika Duran winner of Beyond Baroque’s Carlos Segovia Scholarship in partnership with Get Lit Emcees: Brendan Constantine & Puma Perl

ABOUT OUR HONOREES:

Viggo Mortensen
Actor, painter, photographer, poet, musician, and publisher Viggo Mortensen was a member of Beyond Baroque's legendary Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop when it was facilitated by renowned poet and performance artist Bob Flanagan. Born in New York and raised in Venezuela, Argentina, and New York, over several decades he has had roles in over 35 films. Nominated for two Academy Awards, he is currently working on directing his first feature film. Fluent in English, Spanish, and Danish, Mortensen has continued to explore and create in the fields of photography, poetry, art, and music. In 2003 he and Pilar Perez founded Perceval Press, a small, independent publisher specializing in art, critical writing, and poetry. The intention of the press is to publish texts, images, and recordings that otherwise might not be presented. A former trustee and current generous supporter of Beyond Baroque, and a longtime member of the Los Angeles poetry community, he resides now in Spain.

Will Alexander
Born in Los Angeles, Will Alexander has remained a lifetime resident of the city. He is the author of over 30 books of poetry, prose, and drama, including Asia & Haiti (Sun & Moon, 1995), The Sri Lankan Loxodrome (New Directions, 2010), Compression & Purity (City Lights, 2011), Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose Texts, Interviews and a Lecture 1991-2007 (Essay Press, 2012) and Across the Vapour Gulf (New Directions, 2017). Over the years his work has appeared in BOMB, Boston Review, entropy, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Hambone, Fence, jubilat, Chain, The Nation, and elsewhere; anthologies such as Norton’s Postmodern American Poetry, Primary Trouble: an Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, and Nuova Poesia Americana have included his work in their pages. He received the Whiting Fellowship for Poetry in 2001, the California Arts Council Fellowship in 2002, the American Book Award for Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat in 2014, a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Sunrise in Armageddon in 2006, and the Jackson Poetry Prize in 2016. He is currently Poet-in-Residence at Beyond Baroque.

Tickets may be purchased online here or by sending a check to Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Boulevard, Venice, CA 90291.

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Host Committee
John Densmore
William Mohr
Andy Schwartz
Jack Skelley
Rex Weiner

Board of Directors
Laurel Ann Bogen
Shonda Buchanan
Liz Camfiord
Karen Kevorkian
Doug Knott
Diane Luby Lane
Richard Modiano
William Mohr
Andy Schwartz
Diane Silver
Gloria Vando
Rex Weiner
Gail Wronsky
Mariano Zaro
James Zukin

Producer
Sharyl Holtzman, Girl Rock Ltd




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