beyond baroque calendar
Beyond Baroque offers a wide variety of workshops, readings, performances, art exhibits, and community events and meetings. Click on one of the calendar links below to find something to enjoy.
Welcome to Beyond Baroque's Performances & Readings calendar. Note that the event schedule may change without prior notice. The best way to stay up to date is to sign up for our newsletter or follow us on
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REGULAR ADMISSION
$10 General Admission,
$6 Students/Seniors, Members free
Selected events will have a special admission price. |
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Suggested Donation $5-10,
no one turned away for lack of funds. |
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6/25 |
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Skulls & Stairs: AJ Luxton, Consuelo, J. Saravia, Charlie Stuip
Thursday, June 25, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Skulls & Stairs is back! This reading series at the infamous staircase of the original Venice City Hall building features poets writing with a countercultural, punk, and goth attitude. This installment features Venice-based AJ Luxton, and hailing from the inlands and concrete streets of Los Angeles, Consuelo, J. Saravia and Charlie Stuip.
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6/26 |
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L.A. Book Launch & Theatrical Reading: The Sun Has Fallen by Tyler Neufeld
Friday, June 26, 8:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
The Sun Has Fallen is an epic fantasy poem and Tyler Neufeld's authorial debut. It follows a fateful tale of magic, ghosts, children, second chances, and a battle between good and evil across an abstracted chessboard map. Told entirely in rhyme, an ensemble of 10 actors will bring 24 characters to life in this staged reading accompanied by props, costumes, and animated background visual graphics.
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7/9 |
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L.A. Book Launch: Chabóchi Doll by féi iká shumarí
Thursday, July 9, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Book launch for féi iká shumarí’s Chabóchi Doll. The author will be reading excerpts from her collection of essays, alongside co-features Chekwube Danladi, Jade Phoenix, Myriam Gurba, and Richard Villegas Jr. in The Wanda Coleman Theater.
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7/11 |
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Charles Harper Webb & Ron Koertge
Saturday, July 11, 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
An afternoon of book celebrations with Charles Harper Webb and Ron Koertge. Webb's newest collections include a collection of prose poems, The Elephant of Surprise (Moon Tide Press) and Old Gnu (Winner of the Editor's Choice Prize at Longleaf Press). Koertge's Pandora's Kitchen (Red Hen Press) creates brilliant mashups of ancient and contemporary human frailties, from Persephone's unhappiness to Jane Austen at the mall.
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7/11 |
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L.A. Book Launch: Todos Somos Sagrados by Rey M. Rodriguez
Saturday, July 11, 7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us for the L.A. Book Launch of Rey M. Rodríguez's poetry collection, Todos Somos Sagrados (El Martillo Press, 2026) with Rey M. Rodriguez, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jose Hernandez Diaz, and William Archila in The Wanda Coleman Theater.
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7/16 |
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Beyond Certainty: Poetry as Prismatic Inquiry
Thursday, July 16, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Organized by DoppelHouse Press, this event reunites three Southern California poets at Beyond Baroque -- Eve Wood, Ed Schad and David Starkey -— for readings and conversation about how they approach the reframing of events through question-and-answer, multi-vocal or multi-temporal epistolary constructions, and by subverting assumptions.
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7/18 |
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The Lit Show
Saturday, July 18, 7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Join us for The Lit Show starring Suzy Williams and Brad Kay! This is the 19th annual celebration of song and literature. No advance tickets, first come, first served. More information on laughtears.com.
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