THE BEYOND BAROQUE AWARDS DINNER
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ABOUT THE EVENT:
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
--DOROTHY PARKER, The Paris Review, summer 1956
This November we launch the next 50 years of Beyond Baroque at our 9th Annual Awards Dinner. Held at the historic Santa Monica Bay Woman’s Club The Beyond Salon will be a sparkling evening of words, music, food, wine, and wit. Join us in honoring our executive director emeritus Richard Modiano for his years of exemplary service to Beyond Baroque; the visionary poet Harryette Mullen for her outstanding achievements in poetry; Get Lit-Words Ignite founder and director Diane Luby Lane for her service to the young poets of Los Angeles; and UCLA professor and writer Johanna Drucker for her extraordinary generosity in organizing and cataloguing Beyond Baroque’s 50,000 item archive.
The Beyond Salon takes its inspiration from the legendary Algonquin Round Table, where a circle of supremely inventive writers, actors, critics & playwrights gathered for a daily mixture of lunch and biting wit. Guests at The Beyond Salon have the option of purchasing a regular ticket to the dinner, or of selecting a special salon seating ticket that will allow them to be seated at a table host from the poetry, literary, music, and art worlds, and which will allow them entry to a pre-dinner reception with the hosts. All guests will get to enjoy an evening of entertainment and lively conversation.
ABOUT OUR HONOREES:
Richard Modiano
Richard Modiano is the Executive Director Emeritus of the Beyond Baroque Foundation. He has served Beyond Baroque first as a member of the board of trustees, and then as executive director from 2010 to 2019. In that time he produced and curated hundreds of literary events; oversaw the creation of the Young Poets’ Development Program with then Board President Sherman Pearl; established the Mike Kelley Art Gallery by naming Robert Branaman as curator; organized the landmark 2018 Beyond Beat Festival with S.A. Griffin; oversaw the organization’s historic 50th anniversary celebrations; and helped launch the Pacific Coast Poetry Series imprint of Beyond Baroque Books to widespread acclaim. His devotion to poetry and literature relaunched Beyond Baroque for a new generation of writers and artists. Richard is a globally respected poet, a rank and file member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and the publisher of the Moon & Sun Review.
Harryette Mullen
Harryette Mullen teaches courses in American poetry, African American literature, and creative writing at UCLA. Her poems, short stories, and essays have been published widely and reprinted in over one hundred anthologies, and her work has been selected four times for the Best American Poetry anthology series. She is a recipient of a Jackson Poetry Prize, United States Artist Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Katherine Newman Award for Best Essay on Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry. Her poetry books include Recyclopedia (Graywolf, 2006), winner of a PEN Beyond Margins Award, and Sleeping with the Dictionary (University of California, 2002), a finalist for a National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A collection of her essays and interviews, The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be, was published in 2012 by University of Alabama Press. Her most recent collection of poetry, Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary, was published by Graywolf Press in 2013.
Diane Luby Lane
Diane Luby Lane is the founder and executive director of Get Lit–Words Ignite, a Los Angeles-based arts education nonprofit that is transforming the landscape of teen literacy by empowering new generations in literature, self-expression, and performing arts. She is also the founder of the Get Lit Players, an award-winning classic teen poetry troupe that has collaborated with the United Nations, Dove, and Women in the World, and toured at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and the White House, and more, igniting communities across the globe with art and social consciousness. Lane is also the founding producer of Get Lit's Classic Slam, the largest youth classic poetry festival in the world.
Johanna Drucker
Johanna Drucker is the inaugural Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. In addition, she has a reputation as a book artist, and her limited edition works are in special collections and libraries worldwide. Her most recent titles include SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing (Chicago, 2009), and Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide (Pearson, 2008, 2nd edition late 2012). She is currently working on a database memoire, ALL, the online Museum of Writing in collaboration with University College London and King's College, and a letterpress project titled Stochastic Poetics. A collaboratively written work, Digital_Humanities, with Jeffrey Schnapp, Todd Presner, Peter Lunenfeld, and Anne Burdick is forthcoming from MIT Press. In 2017 and 2018, she selflessly donated innumerable hours to cataloging Beyond Baroque’s extensive archive of rare literary material.
TICKETS
THE BEYOND SALON SPONSORSHIPS:
Support Los Angeles literature and art by becoming an organizational or individual sponsor. All sponsorships include Beyond Baroque marketing visibility, memberships, and other benefits.
Sponsorship opportunities at the Beyond Salon include:
Tables: $1250 (Table of 10 seats)
Reception balcony: $500
Dinner bar: $500
Sherry Port Bar: $500
Buffet: $600
Performance Stage: $750
Further sponsorship opportunities are available!
More about sponsorships & benefits
For further inquiries about sponsorship please contact
sharyl@beyondbaroque.org.
PLACE AN AD IN OUR PROGRAM BOOK
Promote your business or pay tribute to our honorees in our Program Book.
Back Cover: $550
Inside Front Cover: $500
Inside Back Cover: $450
Full Page: $400
Half Page: $300
Quarter Page: $200
Business Card: $100
Friends Mention: $50
All ads will be full color.
Deadline for ad artwork is Wednesday, October 24.
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here for information about Ad Specs.
For further inquries about ads please contact
emmitt@beyondbaroque.org.
SALON HOSTS:
Will Alexander
David Amram
Barbara Bain
Victoria Chang
S.A. Griffin
Susan Hayden & Steve Hochman
Kim Dower
Ronnie Schneider
Hiram Sims
David St. John
Russ & Bonnie Tamblyn
Pat Thomas
V. Vale
EMCEE:
Brendan Constantin
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Laurel Ann Bogen
Shonda Buchanan
Liz Camfiord
Siria Contreras
Karen Kevorkian
Doug Knott
Diane Luby Lane
Quentin Ring
Andy Schwartz
Diane Silver
Gloria Vando
Rex Weiner
Gail Wronsky
Mariano Zaro
James Zukin
PRODUCER:
Sharyl Holtzman, Girl Rock Ltd
