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— 2008-2009,  A 40TH ANNIVERSARY MILESTONE —

2008-2009 is our 40th Anniversary—a glorious and fortuitous arrival made possible by a wide array of individuals who, over four decades, have helped the Center endure and grow as both site and refuge. Looking back, we look forward: we are beginning a new 25-year lease, thanks to Councilman Bill Rosendahl, his staff, a wide array of community leaders, poets, donors, and board, capping forty years of service. We will over the course of the year be celebrating many of those who have been part of this history—one that started only a few blocks away, in a tiny storefront on Abbot Kinney (then West Washington) Blvd., in 1968. After moving into our home at 681 Venice Blvd. in 1979, we have continued and expanded our readings and event series, archive, publications, bookstore, gallery, free workshop program, and public art program. As our activities reach new audiences, we hope to continue to challenge both underground and mainstream, and nurture writers, artists, communities, and thinkers here, across the country, and around the world.

As we look back and honor so many, join us in building together for the years to come.

- Fred Dewey, Director

FALL CALENDAR 08:

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10 October, Friday - 5-7 PM
40th ANNIVERSARY SERIES
Project Room: BRANDON LABELLE
International artist, composer, curator, writer, and publisher BRANDON LABELLE returns to BB for a book signing for his new publication Radio Memory. LaBelle curated the Beyond Music Series and Beyond Music Festivals at Beyond Baroque and served on Beyond Baroque's board. Through Errant Bodies Press, he coedited Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear, Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language, Surface Tension: Problematics of Site, and Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum). He is author of Radio Territories (2007). His construction of a library of radio memories - of songs overheard at special moments in life- was presented in Germany in 2006 and Mexico City in 2008. Radio Memory documents the artist's related installations, along with a CD of new work, with contributions by curator and theorist Bastien Gallet and Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz. FREE.

10 October, Friday - 7:30 PM
40th ANNIVERSARY SERIES
NANCY AGABIAN, with Guitar Boy
INANCY AGABIAN returns to BB from New York with a new book, Me as her again (Aunt Lute), an untangling of identity, desire, trauma, and multi-continent, multi-identity family history via Walpole Mass., Wellesley, Hollywood, New York, Turkey, and home. Agabian taught a workshop at BB for several years and published her first book with us, Princess Freak (to be reprinted in an expanded edition in 2009). Featuring a special reunion of Agabian and ANN PERICH in the folk-punk duo GUITAR BOY. Perich is a composer andvisual multi-media artist. They'll reprise old faves like "Don't Fall Off the Getty Center," "I Could Have Saved Kurt Cobain," and "I'm Not Gonna Be a Victim Anymore.” Perich and Agabian's 2000 CD was Freaks like me.

11 October, Saturday - 7:30 PM
CHARLES BIVINS, HILDA WEISS, and LAUREL ANN BOGEN
CHARLES BIVINS, author of Music in Silence (Heat), lives a hermit's existence in North Hollywood. HILDA WEISS has been published in Rattle, Ekphrasis, Poem, Poet Lore, Salamander, Tar Wolf Review, and other publications. She is cofounder of www.Poetry.LA. LAUREL ANN BOGEN is author of ten books of poetry and short fiction including Washing a Language; Fission, The Last Girl in the Land of the Butterflies, The Burning, Do Iguanas Dance, Under the Moonlight? and Rag Tag We Kiss.A founding member of the poetry performance troupe Nearly Fatal Women, Bogen has read widely and is an influential teacher. Her work has appeared in The Misread City, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Stand-Up Poetry, Grand Passion, and numerous magazines and newspapers.

17 October, Friday - 7:30 PM
BRUCE WILLIAMS, JOHN HARRIS, and JOHN BRANTINGHAM
BRUCE WILLIAMS has published three previous chapbooks: Clothes Poems, Stratification, and Everyone In My Support Group Feels Grateful After I Share. His new book is The Mojave Road at Last. JOHN HARRIS founded the Venice Poetry Workshop, the early Wednesday Workshop, at Beyond Baroque in 1969 with Joseph Hansen. As proprietor of the bookstore Papa Bach he published the journal Bachy and books by George Hitchcock, Bert Meyers, and William Pillin. His poems have appeared in many anthologies and periodicals (Harris will be honored in our 40th Anniversary Series in 2009). JOHN BRANTINGHAM's work has appeared in magazines in England and America, on Garrison Keillor's radio Writer's Almanac, and his chapbooks include Putting in a Window and Heroes for Today (Pudding House). His third chapbook is forthcoming from Finishing Line.

18 October, Saturday - 7:30 PM
SHELLEY SAVREN, MARSHA DE LA O, and MARY KAY RUMMEL
SHELLEY SAVREN's book, The Common Fire, was published by Red Hen in 2004. Her new poetry book is The Blue Sky that Follows Me.  MARSHA DE LA O's first book of poetry, Black Hope, won the New Issues Press Poetry Prize and a Small Press Editor's Choice Award. She is coeditor of the literary journal Askew. MARY KAY RUMMEL's new book is Love in the End. Her other books include The Illuminations (Cherry Grove), Green Journey Red Bird, The Long Journey into North, and This Body She's Entered.

19 October, Sunday - 4 - 7 PM
FAREWELL TO BUSH
LA poets say farewell to one of the most ruinous presidents in American history. Come “shave the Bush” with JOHN HARRIS, FRANKIE DRAYUS, CARMEN VEGA, MICHAEL C FORD, SHERMAN PEARL, and more. Join the open mic and relive your horrible memories, poetic woes, and heroic soldering during eight long years of un-elected, fear-based, mass destruction. Open mic-ers are welcome to pre-signup for a secure spot and information on how to get out the vote at http://oct-19-beyond-baroque.wetpaint.com. Hosted by LEE SLOCA.

23 October, Thursday - 7 PM Director Interview; 8 PM Film Screening
BEYOND FILM: MARY JORDAN's JACK SMITH AND THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS
GERRY FIALKA interviews director MARY JORDAN before the film.
Produced by KENNETH PERALTA and directed by MARY JORDAN, Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis is a critically acclaimed portrait of this astonishing counter-cultural figure - photographer, filmmaker, actor, performance artist, and  revolutionary of the imagination. Known for baroque all night improvisations, Smith's films are more widely recognized, most of all Flaming Creatures. Branded “camp” by Susan Sontag, and called an influence on Warhol, Smith went his own way and represents to this day a vibrant alternative to commercial culture. Smith's “Atlantis” was a fantastical utopia imposed upon the reality of the Lower East Side apartment in which Smith staged his world, carrying it periodically into films and clubs. Smith transcended generations, from the late 1950s to the circle around Jonas Mekas to the films of Ken Jacobs and Beth and Scott B. In Jordan's vibrant portrait, Smith jumps off the screen as a force. Entertainment Weekly called the film “a fuller, more ravishing Jack Smith work of art” and “an elegy - for a lost New York, but also for the vanished dream of an American counterculture. Smith created a utopia, a thrift-shop Atlantis.” Don't miss this extraordinary work on an extraordinary person. Followed by Q & A on the film. See Sunday 4 PM for a discussion of Smith's counter-cultural legacy.

24 October, Friday - 7:30 PM
40th ANNIVERSARY SERIES
BILL MOHR, ELLYN MAYBE, & MARK SALERNO
BILL MOHR's books of poems and spoken word recordings include Hidden Proofs (Bombshelter), Vehemence (New Alliance), and Bittersweet Kaleidoscope (If). His writing was included in BEST OF THE WEB 2008 (Dzanc). He edited and published two major anthologies of Los Angeles poetry, The Streets Inside and Poetry Loves Poetry and typeset the latter, along with many other books from his Momentum Press, at BB. He has served as advisor and volunteer to the institution from its beginnings on Abbot Kinney Blvd, and recently served on its board. ELLYN MAYBE is author of The Cowardice of Amnesia (2.13.61), The Ellyn Maybe Coloring Book (Sacred Beverage), Walking Barefoot in the Glassblowers Museum (Manic D), Putting My 2 Cents In, and Praha and the Poet, as well as the CD, Ellyn Maybe Live. She has appeared in many anthologies and has read internationally. Ellyn worked in our bookstore for several years and facilitated the Wednesday Night Workshop. MARK SALERNO is author of Odalisque (Salt), So One Could Have (Red Hen), Method (The Figures), and Hate (96 Tears). He edited the important literature and arts magazine Arshile. Salerno has served as guest curator at BB for some of its most important events.

25 October, Saturday - 7 PM Project Room Opening, followed by Reading & Music
BETTER ANGELS - Paintings by DIANA BONEBRAKE
Our Project Room features a show of paintings by DIANA BONEBRAKE, an LA native and one of the progenitors of punk. Her LA cityscapes tinged with the surreal can be found from album covers for The Knitters and Skip Heller to Orchestra Superstring and her long-time collaborations with poet SA Griffin. Her paintings have been used as cover art for Griffin's book Numbskull Sutra and francEyE's latest book, Call. With poetry readings by CRAIG DANIELSEN, SA GRIFFIN, DOUG KNOTT, S.F.'s own DAVID SMITH, and Toledo's JOHN DORSEY. Music by the D.J. Bonebrake Trio, plus special guests. FREE.

26 October, Sunday - 4 PM
RECONSIDERING THE REVOLUTIONARY JACK SMITH
It's hard when not many have heard of seminal filmmaker and artist JACK SMITH. It is harder still when, starting years ago with Susan Sontag, discussions of Smith's genius and dissent were labelled “camp.” Might Smith have been getting at something deeper, and pointing the way somewhere new? A thoroughgoing discussion of the importance of this utterly unique, anti-commercial counter-force to the “pasty stage show” of democracy and Hollywood, Smith points toward untapped possibilities of imagining and re-imagining in a country desperate for a true, resistant counter-culture. With MARY JORDAN, director of the film Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, writer and BB Director FRED DEWEY, and SPECIAL GUESTS. (to see film, see earlier screening Thursday, 10/23.)

26 October, Sunday - 7:30 PM
BEYOND MUSIC:
17 LYRICS OF LI PO by HARRY PARTCH
17 Lyrics of Li Po by HARRY PARTCH will be performed by STEPHEN KALM (intoned voice) and THEODORE MOOK (tenor violin). Special guest JOHN SCHNEIDER will perform Partch's "By the rivers of Babylon," and the Adapted Guitar and Voice version of Partch's opera Barstow. Hosted by DANIEL ROTHMAN. $15.

31 October, Friday - 7:30 PM
JESSICA GOODHEART and MOLLY PEACOCK
JESSICA GOODHEART began her poetry writing at a Beyond Baroque workshop more than a dozen years ago. Since then, her work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Salamander, Spillway, and The Best American Poetry 2005. Her first book, Earthquake Season, is due to be published in 2010 by Word Press. MOLLY PEACOCK is author of six volumes of poetry, including The Second Blush and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems (Norton), and is the writer/actor of a one-woman show in poems, The Shimmering Verge. Her work is widely anthologized, appearing in The Best of the Best American Poetry and The Oxford Book of American Poetry, as well as in The New Yorker, Paris Review, and TLS. 

1 November, Saturday - 7:30 PM
JAN WESLEY and DAVID ST. JOHN
Finally she's returned to Los Angeles! Welcome back! JAN WESLEY's first book of poetry, Living in Freefall,was published by Main Street Rag in 2007. Her poems have been published in journals and anthologies such as Iowa Review, Rattle, Pool, and Psychological Perspectives. DAVID ST. JOHN is author of nine collections of poetry, most recently, The Face: A Novella in Verse. He is, with Cole Swensen, coeditor of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (forthcoming).

2 November, Sunday - 5 PM
Open Reading for Falling Star Magazine
With MATT MCGEE and DEBORAH KOLODJI MATT MCGEE is publisher of Falling Star Magazine, a collection of short fiction and poetry from writers all over the world. He is a director and producer of theatre, recently staging David Mamet's American Buffalo and Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons of Cotton. DEBORAH KOLODJI is president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. She's a member of the Haiku Society of America and her work can be found in Modern Haiku and Frogpond, in addition to Star*Line, Scifaikuest, and Mythic. Hosted by MARIE LECRIVAIN. Open sign up 4:45 PM, 2 poem limit. FREE.

7 November, Friday - 7:30 PM
MAKETA GROVES, AGNETA FALK, and JACK HIRSCHMAN
Poet and social activist MAKETA GROVES has been published in Left Curve, Poetry USA, Image and Imagination: Encounters with the Photography of Dorothea Lange (Freedom Voices),and Adam of Ife (Lotus). Her first collection Red Hot on a Silver Note (Curbstone) won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. AGNETA FALK is a poet, visual artist, translator, and editor. Her work has been translated into many languages. With Judi Benson she coedited The Long Pale Corridor: Contemporary Poems of Bereavement (Bloodaxe). It's Not Love / It's Love, a bilingual collection of poems, and a forthcoming book are both from Multimedia Edizione. JACK HIRSCHMAN is outgoing Poet Laureate of the City of San Francisco. He has published more than 100 books and chapbooks of poetry, including some 58 translations from 9 languages. His masterwork is The Arcanes, a large collection of them recently published in Italy by Multimedia Edizione. His Poet Laureate poems and inaugural address were published in All That's Left (City Lights). Sore Dove Press has published his jazz poems, Look a Hear. Now Poet-in-Residence with the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, he is active in the League of Revolutionaries for a New America.

8 November, Saturday - 7:30 PM
THE POET AS ACTIVATING FORCE: In Memory of Vincent Ferrini
Join us for an evening celebrating the poet as activating force in the public life of the community. WANDA COLEMAN's latest books are Mercurochrome (Black Sparrow) - 2001 National Book Awards finalist, Ostinato Vamps (Pitt Poetry Series), The Riot Inside Me (Black Sparrow), Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales (Black Sparrow). PAUL SAWYER is a Unitarian Minister and active in Interfaith and political projects. He will present out-takes from HENRY FERRINI's documentary on his uncle, Gloucester poet VINCENT FERRINI, who passed recently and whose near-century of activity spanned the Depression and factory strikes to Charles Olson, recent development mania and collapse of Atlantic fisheries. Also with JACK HIRSCHMAN, AGNETA FALK, MAKETA GROVES, and writer, activist, and Beyond Baroque Director, FRED DEWEY.

14 November, Friday - 7:30 PM
JOSEPH SAFDIE and RAE ARMANTROUT
JOSEPH SAFDIE's books include Mary Shelley's Surfboard (Blue), September Song (Oasis), Spring Training (Zephyr), and Saturn Return (Smithereens). He waseditor and publisher of the literary magazines Zephyr and Peninsula (1981-1991). While living in Venice, he co-ran Beyond Baroque's Wednesday Workshop and edited an anthology from it, Net Weight. His poems, essays and reviews have appeared in Chicago Review, Exquisite Corpse, Nedge, non, Poetry Flash, The Poker, Read Me, Skanky Possum, The Temple, andothers.Award winning poet RAE ARMANTROUT's most recent book Next Life (Wesleyan) was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times. Recent books include Collected Prose (Singing Horse), Up to Speed (Wesleyan), The Pretext (Green Integer), and Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan). Her poems have been included in the anthologies Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Language Meets the Lyric Tradition (Wesleyan), The Oxford Book of American Poetry, and Best American Poetry of 1988, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2007. 

15 November, Saturday  -  7:30 PM
Nuclear Winter Poetry: An Evening of Small Presses
With KILL POET PRESS, d/e/a/d/b/e/a/t press, & GUERRILLA LIT
Join us for an evening from three small presses dedicated to emerging and underground poets: KILL POET PRESS, d/e/a/d/b/e/a/t press, & GUERRILLA LIT. With SA GRIFFIN, DAVID SMITH, JASON NEESE, JACK HENRY, BILLY BURGOS, CAT BENITEZ, AMELIE FLORENCE, DYLAN MCTURK, ANGEL PERELES, BRYAN TOWNSLEY, TOBIAS DEEHAN, and MELISSA HANSEN. KILL POET PRESS is a leading on-line poetry/lit 'zine focusing on the cutting edge;  d/e/a/d/b/e/a/t press, through it's magazine, HEROIN LOVE SONGS, and it's imprint, BLACK/book MAD/ness, seeks out the best of the underground;  GUERILLA LIT is an on-line project designed to bring poetics out of the darkness by focusing on unconventional methods of marketing and creating poetry.

16 November, Sunday - 3 PM until LATE
A MARATHON HARVEST MOON BASH
Come for an extended creative gathering to celebrate the harvest moon, with some of LA's finest artists, poets, musicians and other-worldly talents joining for a community potluck, song and moondance. Celebrate the harvest season and break bread with activists and artists. Experience the creative spirit, your neighbors, and a high-Venice variety show, with SUZY WILLIAMS, KATHY LEONARDO, ZEBRA PARTY, WAILIENS, REX BUTTERS, ORDELL CORDOVA, and DJ NOJ. Sponsored by THERESA HULME, AVA BIRD, and THE MOZAIC FAMILY.

5 December, Friday - 7:30 PM
BEYOND FILM:
THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS: A Centenary Celebration of the Work of KENNETH REXROTH
Join us for a screening of the film of the December 5, 2005 Centenary Celebration of poet, essayist, translator, critic, and instigator of the San Francisco renaissance, KENNETH REXROTH, here at Beyond Baroque. Filmed before a live audience, The Signature of All Things will be screened followed by interviews with poets and the filmmakers, the crew who helped make the recent groundbreaking Sir, No Sir. With MAY RIGLER, LINDSAY MOFFORD, TUCKER, and others. Co-producer MICHAEL C FORD will host. Following the screening, there will be a Q & A with the poets & filmmakers.

6 December, Saturday - 7:30 PM
URI HERTZ, DOREN ROBBINS, and SHARON DOUBIAGO
Uri Hertz's books include Poems Torn from a Life (highmoonoon) and a CD of his jazz-poetry performances, Inner Cities. He founded the literary/arts journal Third Rail with Doren Robbins in 1975 and together they edited it until 1989. Hertz publishes Third Rail online at www.literatureandarts.com. His interviews with Henry Miller, Burroughs, Snyder, McClure, Kantor, and Jodorowsky have appeared nationwide. DOREN ROBBINS is author of the short fiction collection Parking Lot Mood Swing: Autobiographical Monologues and Prose Poetry (Cedar Hill) and nine collections of poetry. His most recent books are Driving Face Down and My Piece of the Puzzle (both Eastern Washington University). SHARON DOUBIAGO has published over two dozen books of poetry and prose. Her new books are Love on the Streets: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh) and My Father's Love, Portrait of Poet as a Girl, Volume One (Red Hen), a memoir of childhood in Southern California.

7 December, Sunday - 5:00 PM
Open Reading with JACK BOWMAN and JC SULLIVAN
JACK BOWMAN, author of several poetry books, is a musician and a member of the Furniture Guild Poets. His work has appeared in numerous online and print journals. JC SULLIVAN is an avid traveler whose goal is to join the Century Traveler Club, those who have visited at least 100 countries on a list of 317. She is currently at 95. Her new chapbook, Subway Stories: Tales to Ponder Above and Underground, is due out soon. Hosted by MARIE LECRIVAIN. Open sign up 4:45 PM, 2 poem limit. FREE.

12 December, Friday - 7:30 PM
I Shall Be Released:
Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS: with ROSS ALTMAN, ERIC GORDON, LESLIE LEVY, SUSAN SUNTREE, & ADRIENNE ALBERT
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed on December 10th 1948, join us for a show of graphic art, poetry, prose, and song to underscore the struggle for human rights across the globe. Highlights include eyewitness poems from Tiananmen Square in June of 1989 by human rights activist LESLIE LEVY, a special appearance by THE GODDESS OF DEMOCRACY, readings from The Night of Murdered Jewish Poets by Workmen's Circle Exec. Director ERIC GORDON, a choral version of the Declaration by poet/translator SUSAN SUNTREE and composer ADRIENNE ALBERT, and ROSS ALTMAN's performance of songs from his new CD I Shall Be Released. Altman will present a show of posters from his archive to document memorable moments of recent history and doctrines that contributed to formulating the most far-reaching commitment to human rights since Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man. This commemoration is produced by ROSS ALTMAN and co-sponsored by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL.

13 December, Saturday - 7:30 PM
40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE FREE VENICE BEACHHEAD
Forty years ago, a heading in the first FREE VENICE BEACHHEAD proclaimed, "This Paper Is A Poem." Come celebrate the 40th Anniversary of this protector of all that makes Venice unique historically and politically. Join current collective members KARL ABRAMS, CV BECK, CAROL FONDILLER, DELLA FRANCO, DON GEAGAN, MARK LIPMAN, LYDIA PONCE, JIM SMITH, ERICA SNOWLAKE, ALICE STEK, and past staff members for an evening in celebration of one of the country's historic volunteer-run local papers. Readings, short films, refreshments.

14 December, Sunday - 7:30 PM
The MONDAY NIGHT LITERARY & EXPERIMENTAL FICTION WORKSHOP
With special guest PETER ORNER, ANGIE KIRK, and Workshop members
PETER ORNER is author of the novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and story collection, Esther Stories. A film version of one of Orner's stories, The Raft, is currently in production and stars Ed Asner. The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a San Francisco Chronicle Best-Seller, won the Bard Fiction Prize. Orner has published in the Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, and The Southern Review. ANGIE KIRK facilitates the Monday Night Literary and Experimental Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque. Most recently, her work was published in Transfer and Nimble Magazine. Members of the Workshop will read.

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PROJECT ROOM: Open Monday - Friday 11 am - 6 pm, Saturday & others by appointment

OPENS OCTOBER 25: BETTER ANGELS - Paintings by DIANA BONEBRAKE

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FREE WORKSHOPS & OPEN READINGS
Since 1969, Beyond Baroque has provided a free workshop and open-reading program as a gathering place for writers to develop their voice, find support, build communities, and experiment. Bring copies of your work.

1ST SUNDAY FREE OPEN READINGS except Aug., Sept., Jan.
5 PM, sign-up 4:45.

MONDAY NIGHT LITERARY AND EXPERIMENTAL FICTION - 8 PM FREE.
Bring copies of sections or short pieces. With ANGIE KIRK.

TUESDAY NIGHT CREATIVE NON-FICTION - 8 PM FREE.
Bring works of creative non-fiction, memoir, and prose. With TONGA NGUYEN.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY - 8 PM FREE.
A legendary gathering & the West Coast's longest running, free poetry workshop. August & September with FRANKIE DRAYUS.

THURSDAY ALT.SCREENPLAY - 8 PM.
Documentary, narrative, art film scripts, actor readings. Independent projects only. With PETER COOGAN.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON POETRY - 1:30 PM FREE.
Bring a poem & 10 copies. With BOB FOSTER.

2ND AND 4TH SATURDAY MORNING PROSE & POETRY - 11 AM FREE.
Workshop for publication. Bring 10 copies. With ANNETTE ROBINSON.

SUNDAY WORKSHOP - 2PM FREE.
SUNDAY POESÍA MÁS ALLÁ DE LO BARROCO- Bilingual.
Taller-Espacio de escritura-publicación-performance. Bring 10 copies. With ANTONIETA VILLAMIL

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LIFE STORIES Performance Workshop -  5 & 10 week workshops, tuition-  $200/$400, classes Sat 10:30 - 1:30 or Sun 11 - 2.
Call 310.281.3175. Writing workshop utilizing spontaneous writing, music, movement, and drawing to mine autobiographical stories for memoir or performance. All levels welcome. Culminates with Work-In-Progress performance at Beyond Baroque. TERRIE SILVERMAN is Artist in Residence at Beyond Baroque.

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Staff, Board, Funders and Patrons

BEYOND BAROQUE STAFF: Executive/Artistic Director: Fred Dewey o Assistant Managing Director: Annette Geisler o Membership Director, PR, & Development Asst.: Lisa Lane o Bookkeeping etc: Francesca Corrado, Deb McFarland o Open-reading curators: Marie Lecrivain, Carlye Archibeque o Sound/Lights: TK ooo Wednesday Workshop Poet in Residence: Neil Aitken oo Tuesday Non-Fiction: Tess Whitehurst oo Thursday alt/screenplay: Peter Coogan oo Saturday Poetry: Bob Foster oo Saturday Publication Workshop: Annette Robinson ooo Interns: Peter Eirich, Antonieta Villamil, Shiv Kotecha, Lenka Minkowski ooo Artist in Residence: Terrie Silverman ooo Garden & Landscaping: Marina Borawick o Gardener: Miguel Aguilar o Building Services: Chris Urgeleit

BEYOND BAROQUE BOOKS: Editor/Publisher/Design: Fred Dewey o Marketing/Bookstore Outreach: Will Alexander oo Printing: LETTRA; Distributor: SPD

SPECIAL THANKS: For wonderful book donations, SA Griffin, FrancEyE, Scott Wannberg, Elizabeth East, Ed Ruscha, and all our book and chapbbook authors

BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Frederick Dewey, Amelie Frank, Richard Modiano ooo NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL: Ammiel Alcalay, Bill Mohr, Jerome Rothenberg, George Drury Smith (Founder), David St. John, Judith Taylor, Ryan Tranquila, Paul Vangelisti ooo WEST COAST ADVISORY COUNCIL: Carlye Archibeque, Mike Bonin,  Laurel Ann Bogen, Marina Borawick,Wanda Coleman, Gerry Fialka, Michael C Ford, Sesshu Foster, S.A. Griffin, Eloise Klein Healy, Jen Hofer, John Kertis, Chris Kraus, Jim Krusoe, David Lloyd, Linda Lucks, Suzanne Lummis, Lewis MacAdams, Jerry Manpearl, Harry Northup, Holly Prado, Mark Salerno, Paul Sawyer, Suzanne Thompson, Roy Ulrich, Emily Winters ooo BEYOND BAROQUE IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY: The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, LA County Arts Commission, Lawrence Lipton Trust, the Murray and Grace Nissman Foundation, and the Dibble Foundation ooo INDIVIDUAL ANGELS: George Drury Smith, Brooks Roddan, Ed Ruscha, Mike Kelley, Richard Grossman, Lucas Reiner & Maud Winchester, Astrid & Howard Preston, Daniel Saucedo & Juanita Davis, Michael Meloan, Sue Abbe Kaplan, Christine Jan Fox, Stanley Grinstein, Gillian McCain, Bill Berkson and Constance Lewallen, George Day, Jeff Beall and Mary Kite. A very special thanks to all our members.