Beyond Baroque mourns the passing of Carol Lem

Carol gave her last reading at Beyond Baroque in July 2011.
She will be missed.

FREE Latin American Poetry Monday Night Workshop With Yago Cura!

Starting tomorrow on February, 6th 2012 at 7PM:

Yago Cura, publisher of the online journal Hinchas de Poesia (www.hinchasdepoesia.com), will serve as facilitator of the free workshops. Each session will address the work of a different 20th Century Latin American poet, and allow students to generate a piece inspired by some of their signature poems.

The class will be taught in English but the poems Yago Cura uses will be read in Spanish and English.

Beyond Baroque mourns the loss of Mike Kelley, artist, patron, and friend.

Here is a link to the LA Times obituary.
Our condolences to his family and friends.


R.I.P. You will be missed dearly, Mike Kelley.

Music review: 'Art Jarvinen Birthday Concert' at Beyond Baroque

L.A. Times Review of last week Friday's (1/29/12) Beyond Music event, which was curated by our Beyond Music curator Daniel Rothman.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/01/music-review-jarvinen-beyond-baroque.html

Don't miss it! Music & Poetry at Beyond Baroque

Events for Thursday, January 26th -
Sunday, January 29th

January 26, Thursday 7:30 PM
ELLYN MAYBE’S POETRY RODEOOpen reading featuring L.A.’s inimitable ELLYN MAYBE'S BAND. Bring up to 5-minutes of poetry, and the band will improvise alongside your performance! 
General Admission $8.00, Students/Seniors $5.00, Members FREE.

27 January, Friday - 9:00 PM
BEYOND MUSIC: ART JARVINEN
BIRTHDAY CONCERT
ART JARVINEN (January 27, 1956 – October 2, 2010): “composer, musician, author, excellent cook…” can be read about on his homepage, www.arthurjarvinen.com. While he was known by many throughout the world, he was, to the LA music community, a dear friend whose departure we mourn and birthday we celebrate! Please join us to hear the FORMALIST QUARTET perform Art’s extraordinarily beautiful 100 Cadences with Four Melodies, a chorale, and a coda (with bells on!) and Conspiracy of Crows for three oboes, performed by KATHY PISARO. 
Special Admission $5 Members, $5 Students/Seniors, $10 General.
 Art Jarvinen


28 January, Saturday - 9:00 PM
BEYOND MUSIC: JEFF GAUTHIER Our own JEFF GAUTHIER, whose new CD Open Source was hailed by the New York Times (Oct. 30, 2011) for its electronic haze that adopts the escalating intensity of a groove, performs with the “voluptuously” lyrical (Downbeat) MICHAEL DESSEN and riveting MOTOKO HONDA."
MICHAEL DESSEN, trombone & electronics
JEFF GAUTHIER, violin & electronics
MOTOKO HONDA, keyboard & electronics
Special Adminssion $5 Members, $5 Students/Seniors, $10 General.
 Jeff Gauthier, photo by Yvonne Suter

29 January, Sunday - 4:00 PM 

LOS ANGELES: " BASTARD CHILD" OF LITERATURE
Featuring: MICHAEL C FORD, GERALD LOCKLIN, RON KOERTGE, ELOISE KLEIN HEALY, DOROTHY BARRESI and GARY PHILLIPS.
Six of the most evocative and controversial Southern California based writers in concert commenting,
through their poetry, about why “culture vultures” in so many cities believe that the literature of Los Angeles is of questionable parentage.

REMEMBERING SCOTT WANNBERG AT BEYOND BAROQUE AND SKYLIGHT BOOKS IN LA

19 February, Sunday - 2:00 PM
DEDICATION OF THE SCOTT WANNBERG BOOKSTORE AND POETRY LOUNGE
**At Beyond Baroque** We will be unveiling a painting of the late, great poet  SCOTT WANNBERG as rendered by L.A. artist Louie Metz as part of the dedication for the new SCOTT WANNBERG BOOKSTORE AND POETRY LOUNGE at Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd. in Venice, CA. Also on hand to help launch the new space and lend his bookstore magic will be DOUG DUTTON of the once glorious Dutton's Books, and present Director of Beyond Baroque, RICHARD MODIANO. Afterwards, there will be a screening of one of Scott's favorite films, Budd Boetticher's iconic western 7 Men From Now starring RANDOLPH SCOTT, GAIL RUSSELL and LEE MARVIN. Free popcorn.

**At Skylight Books** February 20th is the birthday of legendary Los Angeles poet SCOTT WANNBERG. Join family, friends and fans at **Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave. in Los Angeles ** as we all sing Scott's simultaneous languages of love at the first whenever SCOTT WANNBERG UNINVIATIONAL BIRTHDAY READ INDEED!, an open reading hosted by S.A. GRIFFIN. Festivities begin at 7:30pm. If you would like to be a part of the open reading, please bring poems by or for Scott. A largely unsung hero while he was here, Scott was a long playing heart beat atDutton's Books in Brentwood. A big man, Scott was and is one of the most original, vital voices in American verse. He never met a soul he didn't touch.
Born February 20, 1953 in Santa Monica, sadly, Scott passed away very suddenly August 19, 2011 in Florence, Oregon.
Come help us celebrate his work and bring him home on what would've been Scott's 59th birthday. 
Both events are free.

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