Upcoming Events
¡LA DI DADA! 12, West Coast Launch of MAINTENANT 19
Friday, December 12, 2025
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
An evening of provocative, exuberant, eclectic performance and poetry is slated to hit the stage as Three Rooms Press and Beyond Baroque present the Ninth Annual ¡LA DI DADA! Salon: a wild ride of contemporary DADA performance and poetry by leading LA-area maverick artists. The event includes the West Coast launch of the internationally-renowned MAINTENANT 19: Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (2023, Three Rooms Press), which features more than 230 visual and literary works by artists and writers from six continents. Costumes encouraged. Come as you aren’t!
Table Reading: What is Authority?
Saturday, December 13, 2025
11:00 AM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Join for a session of careful, attentive live reading and interpretation of The School of Public Life by the late Fred Dewey. andHannah Arendt's Between Past and Future. Table Reading sessions are hosted at Beyond Baroque, led by Renée Petropoulos and the Fred Rogers Dewey Legacy Project (FRDLP). There is no need to read anything ahead of time—the text will be passed out at the table. Just come, sit, and read with us.
East of Western Closing: L.A. Poets Read Charles Bukowski
Saturday, December 20, 2025
2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Join us for the closing reception of East of Western curated by Joan Ganny. In tandem with the exhibition's closure, this intergenerational reading of Charles Bukowski’s poetry features several poets from across Los Angeles at The Wanda Coleman Theater. The lineup includes: Ingrid M. Calderon, Rhiannon Cielos Chavez, Michael C. Ford, S.A. Griffin, Bill Mohr, Iván Salinas, Laura Sermeño, Paul Vangelisti, jimmy vega, Pam Ward, Charles Harper Webb, and more TBA.
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Upcoming Workshops
Manuscript Lab with Sara Ellen Fowler
Application Deadline
December 13, 2025, 11:59 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Beyond Baroque’s second Manuscript Lab seeks ten poets who will each revise and complete their first manuscripts over the duration of eight in-person sessions. The lab will create an active space in which peer feedback, one-on-one conferences, and a braintrust of our community is generated and shared among writers who are working on their first full-length manuscript. The Manuscript Lab will focus on building a workshop community centered around collaborative discussion and discovery.
Hosted by author Sara Ellen Fowler, this program is an opportunity to learn with and from an intimate cohort and analyze what compels a successful first book of poetry–the hows and whys of architecture, craft, and thematic energy. Poets will create and develop their first manuscripts in daring new ways which expand the visions of each collection.
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 Martin Jago via Zoom. Registration required.
Exhibitions
East of Western: Close Ups of Charles Bukowski by Joan Ganny
October 11 - December 20, 2025
Gallery Tour with Joan Ganny:
October 11, 4:00 PM
Opening Conversation with Joan Ganny & Mike Sonksen:
October 11, 5:00 PM
East of Western: Close Ups of Charles Bukowski by Joan Ganny, an extraordinary photography exhibition offering an intimate portrait of the legendary Los Angeles poet.
More information here.
Proxy Gallery Presents
Leo Mondor: Just a Short Distance from Here to the Convenience of Abstraction; rendered four times.
October 18 - December 13, 2025
It is common to assert that form and content are inseparably intertwined, but with this work, the artist launches them into dialogue by presenting a fragment of language, a phrase without a verb. Without other context we cannot know whether abstraction is the opposite of the real, the opposite of representation, or the opposite of “here;” and, what is “convenient” about it.
Language is by definition an abstract system, so its material form becomes singularly important; like a head with an open mouth, the Proxy Gallery pours forth a cascade of letterforms and words repeated and entangled with each other, that in their resistance to being read, call attention to their presentation in a way that is in dialogue with graphic design and communication design.
For more information visit Proxy Gallery online here.
For past Proxy Gallery shows at Beyond Baroque click here.
We have new merch for you!
New arrivals include our new tote bags, zip bags, journals, candles, and of course, our classic Metaphors Be With You shirt. All proceeds support Beyond Baroque programming!
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