Upcoming Events
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.
The Manuscript Lab Reading
Saturday, February 28, 2026
4:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us in celebrating the completion of the 2026 cycle of The Manuscript Lab at Beyond Baroque! Participants from this year and last year's cohort will give readings in The Wanda Coleman Theater highlighting the work they have accomplished. Featured readers are Julián Delacruz, Tracy Grikscheit, Elizabeth Leister, AJ Luxton, I. Mesko, SR Montevirgen, Kristina Ortega, Hannah Schoettmer, Yan Sham-Shackleton, Fabrizzio Torero, and Melanie Zoey Weinstein.
Speaking in Tongues / Hablando en Lenguas conversación y lectura de poesía
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Beyond Baroque hosts a presentation of the binational collection Speaking in Tongues / Hablando en Lenguas: Poesía Mexa-Chicanx, comprised of four books that bring together eight Mexa and Chicanx poets who write and translate one another across Spanish, English, and Spanglish. The collection engages themes such as migration, territory, borderlands, language, politics, memory, and love. Featuring: Minerva Reynosa, Aideed Medina, and hector son of hector.
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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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