Join us! COMEDY FUNDRAISER for BEYOND BAROQUE on Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 7 PM

Join us on Thursday, January 21, 2016. Purchase your tickets at Eventbrite.

STAND UP FOR BEYOND BAROQUE

A Comedy Fundraiser

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts | Center has been an integral part of Venice since 1968 when it operated out of a store front on Abbott Kinney. In 1971 it was moved to the old Venice City Hall building. The Center supports writers through free workshops and performance space; gives the community access to live literature with over 200 events a year, including monthly art exhibits; and houses Venice’s only new and used bookstore offering focusing on poetry, literature and art.

Everyone knows the El Niño is coming, and we need your help. Beyond Baroque houses one of, if not the only, collection of chapbooks, magazines, zines, books and other art from SoCal artists and writers since 1968. During last year's rain, we had a leak that damaged some our very cherished materials. You can help us keep that from happening again and laugh all the time. Check out our first ever STAND UP FOR BEYOND BAROQUE fundraiser! All proceeds benefit our roof repair!

Support the word. Support Beyond Baroque.

Featuring:
Eddie Brill
Dylan Brody
Kelly Carlin
Talia Harari

Tamer Kattan
Cathy Ladman
Rick Overton
Rick Shapiro
Eric Schwartz
Suzanne Whang
David Zasloff

Doors 7:00PM
Reception 7:15-8:00PM
Show 8:00-9:30PM
VIP after party starts immediately after.

Show Only (seating at 7:45) $50
Show & Reception $75
VIP Afterparty with the comedians and GA/Reception $150

Tickets available at Eventbrite or by contacting carlye@beyondbaroque.org

WHEN
Thursday, January 21, 2016 from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM (PST)
WHERE
HOTEL ERWIN - Larry's Loft, 5th Floor. 1697 Pacific Avenue. Venice , Los Angeles 90291 -View Map 

Thank you for you support!

Your Beyond Baroque Team

Join us! WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY – 8:00 PM – FREE, $5 suggested donation.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY – 8:00 PM – FREE, $5 suggested donation.

The West Coast’s legendary and longest-running free poetry workshop.

Bring 15 copies of your poem to the workshop.

You must be a member of Beyond Baroque to attend this workshop.

Rotating Facilitators for 2016:
January/February: David McIntire
March/April: Hiram Sims (unconfirmed)
May/June: TBA
July/August: Armine Iknadossian
September/October: Steve Goldman
November/December: Jawanza Dumisani

Not a member yet? It is easy to join! Please click here for more information about our available memberships.

We are looking forward to welcoming you at one of our other workshops in 2016 as well!
Please follow the link for more information.


Your Beyond Baroque Team

CANCELLED! 5 December, Saturday - 4:00PM IN DISCUSSION WITH ROBERT SCHEER

We apologize, Robert Scheer has had to cancel today's talk due to illness. 

We will reschedule the talk for a future date. 

Thank you for your understanding. 

Your Beyond Baroque Team

5 December, Saturday - 8:00PM AMY GERSTLER back at Beyond Baroque!

Please join us!

AMY GERSTLER’s ten previous poetry collections include Bitter Angel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Dearest Creature, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She was also editor of The Best American Poetry (2010).

Join us as Amy reads from her recently published Penguin Poets volume, Scattered at Sea, which is a finalist for this year’s National Book Award.

General Admission $10, Students & Seniors $6, Members Free.

Just added! Tomorrow! 5 December, Saturday - 1:00PM NEW IMAGISTS READING

Please join us:

USC PhD students and poets MARY-ALICE DANIEL, LA JOHNSON,‪ PIOTR FLORCZYK and CALLIE SISKEL read a selection of their works. "The New Imagists are re-inventing The Image itself in these poems of visual fire!" - host & teacher, Carol Muske-Dukes. 

Suggested donation $5. 

Join us tomorrow Saturday, 10-31-15 for a fun HALLOWEEN reading!

31 October, Saturday - 8:00PM
MONSTER VERSE AND INHUMAN POEMS
Poems with GRANT HIER, JOHN FITZGERALD, HELENE CARDONA, SUZANNE LUMMIS, MARIANO ZARO, RICK BURSKY, TONY BARNSTONE, MICHELLE MITCHELL-FOUST, CALEY O'DWYER, SEAN MORRIS and CHARLES HARPER WEBB. Hosted by editor, TONY BARNSTONE. 
General Admission $10, Students & Seniors $6, Members Free.

Last MAVERICKS & MASTERS MINIS Workshop for 2015 on Saturday, 11/17/15!

MAVERICKS & MASTERS MINIS

The Mavericks & Masters Writing Program was invented to allow writers from all schools and walks of life to immerse themselves in an afternoon. M&M Minis are held in the Beyond Baroque Theater.

Members $35
All Others $50
Audit/Observation Only Seats $20
Class size is limited to 15, Audit Seats are limited to 5.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Register through Eventbrite or email carlye@beyondbaroque.org.

21 November, Saturday - 11:00AM - 3:00PM
WILL ALEXANDER: IMAGINAL FERTILITY
The purpose of this workshop is not concerned with the superimposition of texts, but with discussion and verbal exercise designed to free the imagination from consensus entrainment, thereby igniting imaginal fertility.

WILL ALEXANDER is the Poet-in-Residence at Beyond Baroque. He works in multiple genres. In addition to being a poet, he is also a novelist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, and pianist. His influences range from poetic practitioners, such as Aimé Césaire, Bob Kaufman, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, and Philip Lamantia, to the encompassing paradigm of Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga, and the Egyptian worldview as understood by Cheikh Anta Diop and R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz.

Read more about Will here.

There will be no Professional Workshop on the third Saturday in December 2015.

We will be back next year February!

Your Beyond Baroque Team

NEW Winter hours for Beyond Baroque

Please be advised that we have changed our Winter hours to the following schedule:

Winter Hours:
Labor Day to Memorial Day
Friday, Saturday 1-6pm
Sunday 2-6pm
Closed 4th Sunday

Your Beyond Baroque Team

NEW Event Added to our November calendar!

15 November, Sunday - 2:00-4:00 PM
BAMBI HERE: BANGING AGAINST INCOMPREHENSIBLE WALLS
This event is an art/video/music/poetry performance piece launching Bambi’s newest book of poetry, Banging Against Incomprehensible Walls. Produced by Baz Here. 
Reception at 1:00PM. 
Suggested Donation $5.

Your Beyond Baroque Team

14 October, Wednesday - 8:00PM FULL MOON STAGES: Personal Notes from 50 Years of The Living Theatre

Rare mid-week event! Come and join us!

14 October, Wednesday - 8:00PM
FULL MOON STAGES: Personal Notes from 50 Years of The Living Theatre
As co-founder of the internationally known and highly controversial radical political troupe, The Living Theater, author JUDITH MALINA is one of the leading female countercultural figures of the 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond.

In Full Moon Stages: Personal Notes from 50 Years of The Living Theatre, Malina creates an intimate memoir in a unique format with a collection of personal notes written on every full moon for fifty years from 1964 to 2014.

With O-LAN JONES, MICHAEL HARRIS, LISA THAYER, RONEE BLAKLEY, LEON MARTEL, JOHN DIFUSCO, and SALLY KIRKLAND.

General Admission $10, Students & Seniors $6, Members Free.

See you there!

Your Beyond Baroque Team

Next Professional Workshop: 17 October, Saturday - 11:00AM to 3:00PM GAIL WRONSKY: FLASH POETY EXPLORING THE BORDERLINE BETWEEN PROSE AND POETRY

17 October, Saturday - 11:00AM to 3:00PM
GAIL WRONSKY: FLASH POETYEXPLORING THE BORDERLINE BETWEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Is it a paragraph? Is it a poem? If you can’t tell for sure then perhaps it’s flash poetry. In this workshop we’ll look at some short fiction and some prose poems and discuss ways in which each genre can be defined and/or exploited. Bring your own poems of any kind to the workshop for discussion. 
GAIL WRONSKY’s newest book, The Shortest Farewells are the Best, is a collection of flash noir poems co-authored with novelist Chuck Rosenthal. She is the author of eleven other books of poetry, prose, and translations. 

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: General $50, Members $35, Audit (observaion only) $20
Register at Eventbrite or email carlye@beyondbaroque.org

Read more about Gail here.

Find out more about our Professional Workshops here.

Just announced! 4 September, Friday - 8:00 PM THE RUSKIN PRESENTS: CLIVE WILMER

For LABOR DAY WEEKEND 9/4-9/7

4 September, Friday - 8:00 PM
THE RUSKIN PRESENTS: CLIVE WILMER
Join us for a rare US visit from poet/lecturer CLIVE WILMER. Since 2009, he has been Master of the Guild of St George, the charity founded by John Ruskin in 1871. He is also Emeritus Fellow in English at Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, an Honorary Fellow of Anglia Ruskin University, and an Honorary Patron of the William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow. In the first half of 2015, he was a Visiting Professor at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. In 1985 he edited Unto this Last and Other Writings by John Ruskin for Penguin Classics and is the author of several books of poetry, including New and Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2012). 

Regular Admission: $10 General, $6 Students & Seniors, Members Free.

Thank you!

Your Beyond Baroque Team

Event has been cancelled! 15 August, Saturday - 7:30 PM PHILOMENIAN 8

Dear Beyond Baroque friends,

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the annual Philomenian planned for Saturday, 8/15/15 at 7:30 PM had to be cancelled.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Best regards,

Your Beyond Baroque Team

CELEBRATING AT THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION - 21 August, Friday - 8:00 PM

21 August, Friday - 8:00 PM
CELEBRATING AT THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION

7:00 PM Dedication in the Front Garden - West
7:15 PM Reception 
8:00 Show

Everyone is welcome to the dedication in the garden, only ticket holders can attend the show. 

An Evening Celebrating the Forming of The Doors
Join Michael C Ford and some very special musical guests John Densmore and Robby Krieger, as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the forming of The Doors in Venice. 

Regular Admission $10, Students & Seniors $6, Members Free.

Opening Reception: Jim Coke, The Doors: July 15, 1967

Celebrating The Doors: 1965 - 2015


Jim Coke photographed The Doors one time, on July 15, 1967, at LA's first rock music festival, the Fantasy Faire and Magic Music Festival at Devonshire Downs in Northridge. It was one month after the Monterey Pop Festival and two weeks before "Light My Fire" hit number one on the Billboard charts.

Over 20 years later, after seeing Oliver Stone's movie, "The Doors", Coke discovered his unprinted black and white negatives stored in his old darkroom at his family home in Long Beach. He began work on his Doors series just as the digital revolution was dawning, and produced his "Scream Sequence" of Jim Morrison using early versions of scanning, Photoshop and digital inkjet printing. As technology changed he eventually used the updated, higher resolution, archival processes available today. A few pieces are collaborations with Victor Raphael, who added gold and metal leaf to some of my prints. He's in the Polaroid permanent collection, and is noted for his experimental treatments of the photographic image.

Other subjects Coke photographed during 1967, that crucial "Summer of Love" year in America, were found along with the shots of The Doors: the Human Be-In at Griffith Park, Allen Ginsberg reading at USC, the Monterey Pop Festival, and the Stop the Draft Week protests in Oakland, where he found himself after transferring from USC to UCBerkeley.

Coke's most recent project is the mural in downtown Long Beach, the 20 foot long "Flying Morrison", which is derived from the climactic image in the Scream Sequence. He continues to photograph events on a freelance basis and welcomes inquiries into his catalog of counterculture images.www.jimcoke.com or jimcoke@usa.net

BEYOND BAROQUE MAVERICKS & MASTERS SUMMER WORKSHOP - Monday, August 10, 8:00AM to Friday, August 14, 7:00PM

BEYOND BAROQUE MAVERICKS & MASTERS SUMMER WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP DATES:
Opening reception Sunday, August 9, 4:00 - 6:00 PM 
Workshop runs Monday, August 10, 8:00AM to Friday, August 14, 7:00PM
SUMMER WORKSHOP IN VENICE
Come for the poetry, stay for the weather. Reinvigorate your writing with daily poetry meditation and writing in the beautiful city of Venice, California. Start your day with light yoga and meditation. Spend the afternoon with instructors shaping your words. Later find a quiet place in the Poet’s Garden to write, or meander down to the beach or stroll along the hippest street in Venice: Abbot Kinney with a guided literary walking tour of the area.
Snacks/refreshments are provided. Registration required. Please click here to pre-register through 7/24/15 with special rates.
Please click here for further instructions and forms.

INSTRUCTORS: STEVE ABEE - Maverick, Primary Instructor; SUSAN AHDOOT - Yoga & Meditation Instructor; BRENDAN CONSTANTINE - MFA, Primary Instructor; SARAH MACLAY - MFA, Mini Workshop Instructor; TERRIE SILVERMAN - MFA, Mini Workshop Instructor.

Please mail your registration to Beyond Baroque with a check, money order or the receipt from your Eventbrite registration payment. Acceptance is first come, first served.
TUITION PAYMENT Members $400.00, Non-Members $495.00, Students & Seniors $450.00
Registration Deadline: July 31, 2015
Questions? Call 310.822.3006 or email carlye@beyondbaroque.org

NEXT MINI MAVERICKS & MASTERS WORKSHOPS - 15 August,11:00AM to 3:00PM ELLINE LIPKIN - THE BODY ELECTRIC: GENERATING NEW WORK

MINI MAVERICKS & MASTERS WORKSHOPS
These are monthly workshops led by the best and the brightest that Los Angeles has to offer. Spend 4 hours in a small class setting focusing on your work with a professional poetry teacher. Upcoming classes:

15 August,11:00AM to 3:00PM
ELLINE LIPKIN: THE BODY ELECTRIC: GENERATING NEW WORK
Poets have been writing about the body for as long as there have been poems. This workshop takes on this ancient theme and makes it new again. Students will try a variety of exercises to generate new work and look at a range of poems, which explore the body as its central theme. We'll also talk about the body of a poem and what construction makes for a satisfying body of work. This workshop will be thought-provoking, generative, and open to all ranges of ability and creative interest. Bring a work in progress, or create a new poem in class.

ABOUT ELLINE LIPKIN: Elline Lipkin is a scholar, poet, and nonfiction writer who has also worked as an editor for a variety of newspapers, magazines, and journals. Her first book, The Errant Thread, was chosen by Eavan Boland to receive the Kore Press First Book Award and was published in 2006. From 2004-2006, Elline was a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Beatrice Bain Research Group on Gender at UC Berkeley where she also taught for the departments of Gender and Women’s Studies, Comparative Literature, and College Writing. Since 2008, she has been a Research Scholar with the Center for Study of Women at UCLA. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature. Her areas of academic expertise include Twentieth-Century Poetry and Feminist Poetics, as well as Gender and Girls’ Studies.

Members $35
All Others $50
Audit/Observation Only Seats $20

Class size is limited to 15, Audit Seats are limited to 5.
Workshop location:
Beyond Baroque Literary | Arts Center
681 North Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA 90292

Just added! FUNDRAISER for Beyond Baroque - 24 July, Friday - 8:00 PM

24 July, Friday - 8:00 PM
THE END OF THE TOUR: CELEBRATING DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

L.A. Times book critic and Culture Page editor DAVID ULIN moderates a discussion with JAMES PONSOLDT, director of End of the Tour, which has inspired renewed interest in Wallace's oeuvre, and is based on the book, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace. 

Also participating, and reading of the works of David Foster Wallace: writer DANNY BAKER, poet DOUG KNOTT, and book reviewer and Libros Schmibros bookstore owner, DAVID KIPPEN.

Fundraiser for Beyond Baroque: General Admission $20, Students & Seniors $10, Members $8.
Advanced General Admission Tickets available at Eventbrite for $15 up until July 23rd.

Thank you so much for your continuous support!

Your Beyond Baroque Team

**NOTE**: we will be closed on July 3 but open on July 4.

Have a fun and safe July 4th weekend!

Your Beyond Baroque Team