beyond baroque calendar
Beyond Baroque offers a wide variety of workshops, readings, performances, art exhibits, and community events and meetings. Click on one of the calendar links below to find something to enjoy.
Welcome to Beyond Baroque's Performances & Readings calendar. Note that the event schedule may change without prior notice. The best way to stay up to date is to sign up for our newsletter or follow us on
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REGULAR ADMISSION
$10 General Admission,
$6 Students/Seniors, Members free
Selected events will have a special admission price. |
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Suggested Donation $5-10,
no one turned away for lack of funds. |
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7/9 |
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L.A. Book Launch: Chabóchi Doll by féi iká shumarí
Thursday, July 9, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Book launch for féi iká shumarí’s Chabóchi Doll. The author will be reading excerpts from her collection of essays, alongside co-features Chekwube Danladi, Jade Phoenix, Myriam Gurba, and Richard Villegas Jr. in The Wanda Coleman Theater.
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7/10 |
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Poetry, Like Fútbol, is for Everyone
Friday, July 10, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us for a poetry reading organized around the principle that fútbol brings all people together while FIFA's machinations seem always to divide people along economic, nationalistic, or even ethnic lines. This reading highlights a diverse array of thought centered on the idea that who makes a sport are the people that play it, not the people that pay it. Featuring SoCal writers Jennifer Doyle, Yago Cura, Romeo Guzmán, George B. Sánchez-Tello, and Jose Oseguera.
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7/11 |
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Charles Harper Webb & Ron Koertge
Saturday, July 11, 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
An afternoon of book celebrations with Charles Harper Webb and Ron Koertge. Webb's newest collections include a collection of prose poems, The Elephant of Surprise (Moon Tide Press) and Old Gnu (Winner of the Editor's Choice Prize at Longleaf Press). Koertge's Pandora's Kitchen (Red Hen Press) creates brilliant mashups of ancient and contemporary human frailties, from Persephone's unhappiness to Jane Austen at the mall.
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7/11 |
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L.A. Book Launch: Todos Somos Sagrados by Rey M. Rodriguez
Saturday, July 11, 7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us for the L.A. Book Launch of Rey M. Rodríguez's poetry collection, Todos Somos Sagrados (El Martillo Press, 2026) with Rey M. Rodriguez, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jose Hernandez Diaz, and William Archila in The Wanda Coleman Theater.
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7/16 |
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Beyond Certainty: Poetry as Prismatic Inquiry
Thursday, July 16, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Organized by DoppelHouse Press, this event reunites three Southern California poets at Beyond Baroque -- Eve Wood, Ed Schad and David Starkey -— for readings and conversation about how they approach the reframing of events through question-and-answer, multi-vocal or multi-temporal epistolary constructions, and by subverting assumptions.
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7/17 |
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A Night of Blues & Poetry with M.L. Liebler & Special Guests
Friday, July 17, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Detroit poet M.L. Liebler celebrates the release of Hound Dog: A Poet's Memoir of a Revolutionary Poet with a reading from his new memoir. Liebler will be joined by the LA Coyote Monk Poetry Band for a live set featuring Willie Aron, Pat Thomas, Dave & Carolyn Soyars. Special performance by acclaimed Los Angeles singer-songwriter Bonnie Murray Tamblyn.
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7/18 |
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The Lit Show
Saturday, July 18, 7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Join us for The Lit Show starring Suzy Williams and Brad Kay! This is the 19th annual celebration of song and literature. No advance tickets, first come, first served. More information on laughtears.com.
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7/23 |
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Beat Poetry & Poetry in Translation: Michael Amitin & Doreen Stock
Thursday, July 23, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
International Beat Poet Laureate (2020-2021) Michael Amitin reads from his new collection Rainy Night Paris; described as a noir-soaked chronicle of Amitin's travels; anti-authoritarian to the bone, the poems burn with jazzy riffs and folk undercurrents for misfits and night owls. Author and translator, Doreen Stock, presents La Cuenta Mundo a bilingual collection of poems originally written in Spanish by Nobel-Prize winning Chilean author Gabriela Mistral with English translations by Stock.
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7/24 |
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Flash Photography by Genesis Perez: 5th Anniversary Celebration
Friday, July 24, 7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us in celebrating five years of Flash Photography by Genesis Perez. This debut collection was published by Spit Shine Press at the end of Perez's time as the Youth Poet Laureate of Ventura County. Flash Photography acts a time capsule of Perez's teen years and earliest published writings. Be prepared for angst, cringe, and an honest look into the teen years. Co-features include Ga'agé Taya, Fernando Albert Salinas, and more surprise special guests reading original work and poems from Flash Photography in The Wanda Coleman Theater.
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