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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2/27 |
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Woke in a World: Poetry Performance by Alyesha Wise featuring Muki Brewster
Friday, February 27, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us for a curated poetry performance by the author, poet, educator, and speaker, Alyesha Wise featuring music by Muki Brewster. Woke in a World is a never-before-seen showcase of storytelling and select poems from Wise's latest collection, My Older Brother, A Famous Rapper.
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2/28 |
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The Manuscript Lab Reading
Saturday, February 28, 4:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us in celebrating the completion of the 2026 cycle of The Manuscript Lab at Beyond Baroque! Participants from this year and last year's cohort will give readings in The Wanda Coleman Theater highlighting the work they have accomplished. Featured readers are Julián Delacruz, Tracy Grikscheit, Elizabeth Leister, AJ Luxton, I. Mesko, SR Montevirgen, Kristina Ortega, Hannah Schoettmer, Yan Sham-Shackleton, Fabrizzio Torero, and Melanie Zoey Weinstein.
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3/4 |
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Speaking in Tongues / Hablando en Lenguas conversación y lectura de poesía
Wednesday, March 4, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Beyond Baroque hosts a presentation of the binational collection Speaking in Tongues / Hablando en Lenguas: Poesía Mexa-Chicanx, comprised of four books that bring together eight Mexa and Chicanx poets who write and translate one another across Spanish, English, and Spanglish. The collection engages themes such as migration, territory, borderlands, language, politics, memory, and love. Featuring: Minerva Reynosa, Aideed Medina, and hector son of hector.
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3/7 |
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Poetry Goes To The Movies Reading & Discussion at Burbank Public Library
Saturday, March 7, 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Burbank Public Library
Taking place the weekend before the 2026 Academy Awards, this reading and conversation at The Burbank Public Library draws from Beyond Baroque’s anthology Poetry Goes to the Movies, which brings together editor and poet Suzanne Lummis with contributing writers Sesshu Foster, Beth Ruscio, and Mariano Zaro in a conversation moderated by author and film scholar Elena Karina Byrne.
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3/13 |
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Xicanx Futurism: Flash Fiction, Poetry, and Essays Exploring Xicanx Sci-Fi
Friday, March 13, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us for a night of readings from Xicanx Futurism: Gritos for Tomorrow, Codex I. Featuring Natalia Rivas, Elindioartscopyright1985, Peter Lechuga, Henry Madrid, Osmani Ochoa, Brenda Vaca, and Ernesto Ayala. Hosted by Anthology editor, Scótt Rusell Dúncan. The authors will present speculative futurist thought, art, flash fiction, poetry, and essays exploring the Xicanx tomorrow.
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3/19 |
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Godlike: Richard Hell at Beyond Baroque
Thursday, March 19, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Join us for a solo presentation by Richard Hell, who will be reading from his novel, Godlike. An outrageous spectacle of love between two untamed poets, a 27-year old man and a teenage boy, written by one of America’s original punks and finest writers. Based on Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine’s notorious affair, but set in the epochal downtown poetry scene of filthy 1970s New York, Godlike is a tribute to poetry and the beauty and mess of art, desire, and New York City. Richard Hell will read excerpts from the novel in The Wanda Coleman Theater. Book signing and reception to follow.
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