Upcoming Events
Monday Night Workshop Reading
Saturday, June 21, 2025
2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join Beyond Baroque and writer Raquel Baker for a reading celebrating the work of Beyond Baroque's Monday Night Fiction Workshop participants. Hear from writers Pat Branch, River Langford, Julia Lopate, Jill Michaels, Jen Thilman, and Sergey Denisov. Readings will take place in The Wanda Coleman Theater.
Skulls & Stairs: Shelby Pinkham, Wes Weisbaum, CD Eskilson
Thursday, June 26, 2025
7:30 PM PT
IIn Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube
Skulls & Stairs reading series is back for the Summer and Fall at Beyond Baroque! To kick off the season, this June features CD Eskilson reading from their new book Scream Queen, a horror-inspired debut poetry collection. Also reading is Bakersfield-based Chicanx poet Shelby Pinkham, and Wes Weisbaum, the 2023 Reef Resident Artist at California Institute of the Arts. Before and after the readings, short films by Wes Weisbaum will be screening in The Wanda Coleman Theater!
Double Book Launch: Paul Lieber & Gail Wronsky
Friday, June 27, 2025
7:30 PM PT
IIn Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube
Join us for an evening of poetry in celebration of two new book-length collections by Paul Lieber and Gail Wronsky. Paul Lieber's book, Slow Return, moves beyond the ekphrastic, while Gail Wronksy's Mockingbird's Proverbs (White Pine Press) shines in its lyricism and urgency. Readings will take place in The Wanda Coleman Theater.
More Upcoming Events
Upcoming Workshops
Poetry and Memory with Kim Dower
Saturday, June 21
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
This workshop provides an opportunity to mine our memories to awaken new, startling poems. We will explore the rich territory of ideas, people, places, and emotions from our past, and examine how memory can inform and affect our writing. The 3-hour workshop will be a mixture of lecture, reading contemporary poetry based on poets’ memories, and practicing “fever writing” or “automatic writing.
Ongoing Free Workshops
Monday Night Fiction Workshop with Raquel Baker
Mondays 7:30 PM PT
Via Zoom
A community writing workshop in which participants are asked to bring 2-3 pages of fiction to read and receive feedback. Facilitated by Raquel Baker via Zoom. Registration required.
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop
Wednesdays 8:00 PM PT
Via Zoom
The West Coast’s longest-running free poetry workshop welcomes new and seasoned poets to share new work and provide feedback. Please be prepared to share one poem. Facilitated by Tom Laichas via Zoom. Registration required.
Exhibitions
SEVEN
April 12 - July 26, 2025
Mike Kelley Gallery at Beyond Baroque
Beyond Baroque presents “Seven” an exhibition for the Mike Kelley Gallery. “Seven” is an exhibition by seven Los Angeles based artists. These seven women have been making work for many years and while Los Angeles, per se is not the theme or subject of their pieces, their surrounds play an important role in their creations. On view are paintings, drawings and mixed media works by Lorraine Bubar, June Edmonds, Linda King, Robin Mitchell, Pam Posey, Fran Siegel & Jody Zellen.
Proxy Gallery Presents
Margaret Morgan: Laocoön
May 9 - June 21, 2025
In the winter of 2024 Morgan exhibited at "Not There Gallery" her work with found twigs and found language. The exhibition was called "Please Try Again." On the wall, made of twigs combined, were words and phrases taken from the various WIFI networks that appeared in her cell phone as she drove around her neighborhood. Morgan then fashioned the twigs into letters and words. The sticks she found on the ground started as natural objects and ended up as symbolic language, but the language itself was also found, floating in the digital air and attaching to nature in unconvincing harmony. This installation, made specifically for the proxy Gallery, spells “Laocoön” with twigs.
For more information visit Proxy Gallery online here.
For past Proxy Gallery shows at Beyond Baroque click here.
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