Upcoming Events
826 LA & Beyond Baroque Present: Community Open Mic
Friday, July 18, 2025
6:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube
Beyond Baroque and 826LA welcome you to showcase your talents on stage! Youth and community members will have a chance to share their poetry, music, storytelling, and creative energy. Students from 826LA's summer writing workshops will be featuring new work, so be sure to come join them on the mic or support our future creatives! The event will be MC'ed by Ariadne Makridakis Arroyo. Sign-ups start at 5:45.
Table Reading
Saturday, July 19, 2025
11:00 AM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Join for a session of careful, attentive live reading and interpretation of “What is Freedom” from The School of Public Life by the late Fred Dewey. Table Reading sessions are hosted at Beyond Baroque's bookstore, led by Renee Petropolous and the Fred Rogers Dewey Legacy Project (FRDLP). No need to read anything ahead of time—the text will be passed out at the table. Just come, sit, and read with us. We look forward to your presence.
The LIT SHOW
Saturday, July 19, 2025
6:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube
Join us for the 18th annual LIT SHOW! L.A.’s Diva Deluxe Suzy Williams and pianist/composer Brad Kay lead an unforgettable celebration of literature-inspired songs, featuring new pieces based on Tennyson, Joyce, Zelda Fitzgerald, and more, alongside past favorites based on Whitman, Pynchon, and Hughes. With a stellar band and special guests, this beloved event blends music, wit, and the written word. Seating is first come, first serve (arrive early!). Admission: $20. Free parking available. For more info visit laughtears.com or reach out to Gerry Fialka at 310-306-7330 or pfsuzy@aol.com.
Poets Say ICE out of LA: A Night of Resistance, Poetry, and Community
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
$20 donation. All proceeds from ticket and raffle sales will go directly to families impacted by ICE raids. The evening will feature organization resources and poems of solidarity by first and second generation immigrant poets: Janel Pineda, Pam Concepcion, Claudia Hernandez, Luivette Resto, Xóchitl-Julisa Bermejo, Marc J. Cid, Andy Sanchez, Taz Ahmed, and more.
Skulls & Stairs: Facundo Rompehuevos, Brendan Constantine, Jeanetta Rich, Dominic Xalli
Wednesday, July 24, 2025
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Join us for a showcase of experimental, obscure, and punk poetry! This July features SFV punk novelist Facundo Rompehuevos, reading from his new book Children Chasing Tigers; zinester and emerging poet Dominic Xalli Anaya Gulaya; Brendan Constantine, one of the most prominent voices in the Los Angeles poetry scene; and Jeanetta Rich, who will be reading from her debut collection Black Venus Fly Trap with screenings of her short films playing before and after the readings.
The Press, Shelter, and The Pact: Three Plays by David Lloyd
Friday, July 25, 2025
8:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube
The evening opens with staged readings from The Press and The Pact, written by David Lloyd and directed by filmmaker Liza Johnson, known for her cinematic explorations of power and identity. Alexandra Poulain writes in the foreword, "the three plays, is no less than the dark secret of Western capitalist modernity: that it is grounded in violence, and always harbors the possibility of collapsing into fascism."
Punk Show: Rusty's Birthday Party, No Reaction! Sick Sense, Swingin Johnny
Saturday, July 26, 2025
12:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
No Reaction's lead singer, Rusty, will celebrate his 60th birthday at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. Join us for a day full of punk rock and art in the poets' garden! Featuring sets by No Reaction!, Sick Sense, The Right Handmen, F.H.M, Swingin Johnny, 1sm, and Clouds We Chase.
Exit Interviews: A Community Celebration with Quentin Ring
Friday, August 1, 2025
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Please join us for a special farewell reading & party for Beyond Baroque’s Executive Director, Quentin Ring! The evening will feature readings by just a few of the many writers who have helped build Beyond Baroque’s community with Quentin, and whose work reflects the depth and range of Beyond Baroque’s literary life. After the readings, we’ll have a special reception & party in the Poets’ Garden and share food and drinks together.
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Upcoming Workshops
Time and Poetic Structure: A Workshop with L.A. Johnson
Saturday, July 12
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Poems are concerned with time—the recounting of events and experience—but are also outside of time, existing in a place beyond the limits of linear time. Our lives are made up both by what is happening in the moment, what has happened in the past, and what will happen in the future, but how do we write poems that capture this experience of time? In this three-hour workshop, we will explore how to layer multiple scenes within a poem, and how a poem can capture nonlinear time. This workshop will be a mix of lecture, guided close readings of poems, and generative writing. In considering time, we will focus on poetic structure, considering the many ways the container of the poem can capture at once the past, present, and future. - L.A. Johnson
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 Jose Hernandaz Diaz 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.
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