Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Rent Beyond Baroque for your Monster Bash HALLOWEEN event!


Our theater and beyond is now available for rent on
Friday, 31 October 2014
for your Monster Bash HALLOWEEN event! 

When witches go riding
And black cats are seen,
The moon laughs and whispers
It is HALLOWEEN!
(Author unknown)
 

Have some fa-BOO-lous fun at our venue on HALLOWEEN night!

Inquire about rates at jim@beyondbaroque.org

Your Beyond Baroque Team


Monday, July 28, 2014

Diane Raptosh: interviewed in Page A1 New York Times story, Monday July 28, 2014



Beyond Baroque is happy to share that The New York Times interviewed Diane Raptosh for a page A1 piece on Poets Laureate that will appeared in July 28, 2014 paper.  

The article was just early-posted on-line and includes 2 quotes, and a link to her author website.

Please click here for the article.


 



Monday, July 21, 2014

R.I.P. Bill Hickok


Beyond Baroque mourns the passing of Board Member and Green Poets Workshop leader Bill Hickok

Bill was an outstanding poet who's book The Woman Who Shot me & Other Poems was praised by Al Young who described the book as "...a pillow-book of personable back-stories. 
Bulging with all of life’s male stuff — aims vs. goals, family, fortune, shame, love, wine, women, Kansas City-proof jazz, savvy, fish and game — this thickly beautiful, late-life collection shines like a golden retriever.”
 

1931 - 2014

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Join Kiss the Ground as we amend the soil at Beyond Baroque!


June 13 9am-2pm
681 N Venice Blvd in Venice

Join Kiss the Ground as we amend the soil by digging 12 inches down and layering compost and alfalfa.  

And we want your help!  

Reasons to swing a pick or shovel with us:

It's fun
Release aggression
You can dance while you do it
You'll have a new appreciation for farmers

What to bring?

A pick and/or shovel if you have it
A reusable water bottle

What we will provide:

Music 
Water
Some tools

Kiss the Ground is a non-profit dedicated to rebuilding soils to improve human and planetary health.  Visitwww.thesoilstory.com

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Barry Spacks RIP

Beyond Baroque stalwart Barry Spacks passed away January 28. 

Barry was a UCSB Professor and Santa Barbara Poet Laureate who read 
at Beyond Baroque several times over the decades, most recently in 2012. 

Barry was an active supporter of the poetry community and leaves behind 
a distinguished body of poetry.