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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12/12 |
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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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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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Table Reading: What Is Freedom?Saturday, December 14, 11:00 AM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Please join us on Saturday, December 14, 11 AM - 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 the holiday spirit of community celebration, the event will feature readings in The Wanda Coleman Theater by contributors Will Alexander, Elena Karina Byrne, Noel Alumit, Pam Ward, and Michael C. Ford. After the main program guests are welcomed to the Poets' Garden for reception outside with a delicious Pizza menu by our food vendor of the afternoon, Amigos Pies, or join us back in the theater for the Open Mic featuring Beyond Baroque's favorite bookseller, Genesis Perez! Guests can read for 5 minutes or less, sign ups on-site. Bring your best poem(s)! This will be the last day to see the exhibition Anonymus Stellar Ravines Vol. 1, a collaboration between artist Byron Baker and Poet-In-Residence Will Alexander in the Mike Kelley Gallery.
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