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. |
Upcoming Events
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12/5 |
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An Evening With What Books Press/Giant Claw Thursday, December 5, 8:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube
In partnership with What Books Press and Giant Claw, Beyond Baroque presents a program dedicated to uplifting a diverse array of writers, featuring David Quiroz, Stella Hayes, Paul Lieber, Holaday Mason, and Tamar Perla Cantwell. These selected readings explore a wide range of emotion - from within oneself to connections with a lover, to family, to community, to the world and beyond - these authors brilliantly showcase their deeply personal moments of the universal human experience.
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12/6 |
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100 Venice Stories: Book Signing with Jason Hill & Film Premiere Friday, December 6, 7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube
Each month for the past ten years, Venice Stories has been published monthly in LA’s westside weekly, The Argonaut. For the first time, this new anthology compiles all 100 Venice Stories pages into one book. Included are first-person accounts in their own words by local Venice icons, including Beyond Baroque founder, George Drury Smith, photographer Josh 'Bagel' Klassman, punk artist Ric Clayton surfboard shaper Guy Okazaki, skateboard legend Ray Flores, and many more. The series has covered historical figures in Venice like founder Abbot Kinney, actor Charlie Chaplin, director Orson Welles and author Ray Bradbury. Copies of the book will be available for purchase with a book signing by Venice Stories founder, Jason Hill. Attendees will get a first look at Episode 1 of the all-new Venice Stories Video Magazine, with a 1/2 hour film screening in The Wanda Coleman Theater at 8 PM.
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12/7 |
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Table Reading: What Is Freedom?Saturday, December 7, 11:00 AM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Join us for a session of careful, attentive live reading and interpretation of “What Is Freedom?” from Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt. This reading is the 17th installment of a series of Table Reading sessions as part of the Fred Rogers Dewey Legacy Project (FRDLP), hosted by Renée Petropoulos. No need to read anything ahead of time—the text will be passed out at the table. Just come, sit, and read with us!
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12/7 |
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One Poem Festival: Celebrating 20 Years of Letras LatinasSaturday, December 7, 7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube
One Poem Festival at Beyond Baroque culminates the nation-wide celebration of Letras Latinas' 20th anniversary. The final grand finale event will take place in partnership with Alternative Field, Red Hen Press, and Tia Chucha Press, featuring a powerful gathering of twenty prominent and contemporary voices in Southern California, curated by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo and Luivette Resto. The line up features Annalicia Aguilar, William Archila, Rocío Carlos, Anatalia Vallez, Luis J. Rodriguez, Erika Ayón, Lisbeth Coiman, Yago S. Cura, Blas Falconer, Vickie Vértiz, Jenise Miller, Olga García Echeverría, Christopher Soto, Cynthia Guardado, Adolfo Guzman Lopez, Annalicia Aguilar, Lisbeth Coiman, and Raul Herrera Jr. The event will be MC'ed by poet and Letras Latinas associate, Brent Ameneyro.
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12/12 |
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Skulls & Stairs: Rhiannon Cielos Chavez, Maestro, Valerie darling, & Oren PineThursday, December 12, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube
The 4th installment of our "Skulls & Stairs" reading series will take place in the staircase at the historic original Venice City Hall Building, aka BB headquarters! Featuring poets embodying the occult and goth, with punk and rebel attitudes, come and hear poetry from current Development Intern and 818 scooterhead Rhiannon Cielos Chavez, poet and visual artist Valerie, darling, who has performed with The Poetry Brothel, and the Born This Way Foundation, Marketing Intern and playwright Tyler Neufeld; and revolutionary spirit of Maestro Gamin who has been active in the LA literary scene for over 15 years. After the poetry readings, electronic composer Oren Pine, will deliver a fusion of words and beats unlike any other on the calavescalera stage.
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12/13 |
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La Di DADA: The West Coast Launch of MAINTENANT 18 Friday, December 13, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube
Join us for the West Coast launch of the internationally-renowned MAINTENANT 18: Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (2023, Three Rooms Press), which features more than 246 visual and literary works by artists and writers from six continents. Costumes encouraged. Come as you aren’t. The line-up features DADA artists Mahnaz Badihian, Mona Jean Cedar & Jeff Boynton (Circuitry & Poetry), Alejandro Escude, Rich Ferguson, Kathleen Florence, S.A. Griffin, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Bronwyn Mauldin, Richard Modiano, Mike M. Mollett, Harry E. Northup, Travis Richardson, Neal Skooter Taylor, Jimmy Vega and Daniel Yaryan. Three Rooms Press co-founders and MAINTENANT editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges host.
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12/14 |
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Table Reading: What Is Freedom?Saturday, December 14, 11:00 AM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Please join us on Saturday, December 14, 11AM -2 PM, for a session of careful, attentive live reading and interpretation of “What Is Freedom?” from Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt. This reading is the 18th installment of a series of Table Reading sessions as part of the Fred Rogers Dewey Legacy Project (FRDLP), hosted by Renée Petropoulos. For the last year we have delved into the final chapter of Fred Dewey’s book, the School of Public Life, reading the text "What Is Power?"
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The Writing Life: A Book & Community CelebrationSaturday, December 14, 2:00 AM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube
In 2023, Beyond Baroque Books published The Writing Life: 55 Years at Beyond Baroque, a unique historical narrative about the legendary literary arts center, Beyond Baroque in Venice, California–told by those who know it best. In the holiday spirit of community celebration we invite authors and the literary arts community of Los Angeles to celebrate the end of the year and celebrate one final time for the year! The event will feature readings in The Wanda Coleman Theater, Food & Drink, and an Open Mic. Stay tuned for more details! "
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