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