Upcoming Events
Tom and Robert's Back Porch Blues
Friday, February 13, 2026
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us in the Wanda Coleman Theater for Back Porch Blues, a live acoustic concert featuring lead vocalist Tom Nolan of The Tom Nolan Band and lead guitarist Robert Resnick of the band 1969. Expect classic blues songs, ranging from 1905 to the present. Tom Laichas and Jeffrey Graham will support and weigh in with some blue-sy poesy. Wine and cheese reception prior.
Table Reading: What is Authority?
Saturday, February 14, 2026
11:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Join us for a session of careful, attentive live reading and interpretation of “What is Authority” by Hannah Arendt and The School of Public Life by the late Fred Dewey. Table Reading sessions are hosted at Beyond Baroque, led by Renée Petropoulos and the Fred Rogers Dewey Legacy Project (FRDLP). There is 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.
L.A. Book Launch:
This Time This Place by Susan Suntree
Saturday, February 14, 2026
3:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
An evening of poetry in celebration of Susan Suntree’s poetry collection This Time This Place. Join us for a celebratory reading featuring Susan Suntree alongside poets Tom Laichas, Richard Modiano, and Stan Oropesa. Both meditative and urgently present, This Time This Place offers poems as contemplations of our current moment—works that pause, listen, and open outward.
Heidi Seaborn, Erin Marie Lynch, Matthew Gellman, & Nick Martino
Saturday, February 21, 2026
7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us for an evening of poetry in celebration of Heidi Seaborn's collection tic tic tic. The author will read alongside poets Erin Marie Lynch, Matthew Gellman, & Nick Martino, all sharing new and selected work. In a special format, tic tic tic offers poetry for the soul and 23 beautiful and stunning black and white photographs that tell their own story. This is a poetry collection to read, to share and display.
Woke in a World: Poetry Performance by Alyesha Wise featuring Muki Brewster
Friday, February 27, 2026
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us for a curated poetry performance by the author, poet, educator, and speaker, Alyesha Wise featuring music by Muki Brewster. Woke in a World is a never-before-seen showcase of storytelling and select poems from Wise's latest collection, My Older Brother, A Famous Rapper.
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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 Martin Jago via Zoom. Registration required.
Exhibitions
Víctor Mortales: Language is a Place
January 17 – March 7, 2026
Performance: Thursday, February 19, 7:30 PM
Language is a Place is a solo exhibition by Oaxaca-based visual artist Víctor Mortales. The exhibition takes its conceptual starting point from the book Language is a Place: 14 Voices that Change Language to Explore Literature and Life in Different Contexts a publication that gathers reflections by writers who explore the conditions, transformations, and possibilities of language across cultures and identities. Víctor Mortales (born 1985, Oaxaca, México) is a visual artist with a background in linguistics whose site-specific practice examines the ephemeral nature of creative processes and the relationships between space, language, and materiality.
More information here.
Proxy Gallery Presents
Sandeep Mukherjee:
Observer, Observed
January 31 to March 14, 2026
Mukherjee’s installation is a fiberglass head, made by rotating in a 3D printer his own profile horizontally 360 degrees. The translucent fiberglass is lit from within. The light is reflected and refracted in many pieces of irregularly broken mirrors affixed to all five surfaces of the proxy gallery. The idea harkens distantly to the 1915 perceptual experiment by Edgar Rubin, the face/vase illusion, where the shapes of two identical profiles facing each other form the shape of a vase in the negative space between them. The concept became very important in gestalt psychology, showing how the human brain organizes information about figure and ground.
For more information visit Proxy Gallery online here.
For past Proxy Gallery shows at Beyond Baroque click here.
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