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.

Earth Day Cabaret

Saturday, April 20, 2:00 PM PT
In person at Beyond Baroque

Join us for an exploration in word, music & song, and metaphysical vaudeville in celebration of planet earth. Hosted by Gregory Bell and featuring performances by poets & musicians Joan E. Bauer, Lee Boek, Bj Cotton-Jeffords, Mary Lou Newmark, Anika Paris, Susan Suntree, ReRe Duce, Steff James, & Gloria Vando.

International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2024: Opening Night

Friday, April 26, 7:00 PM PT
In person at The Wanda Coleman Theater at Beyond Baroque

Beyond Baroque presents the third season of the International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles. This year’s Opening Night features a special screening of Life is a Saxophone, a documentary that captures legendary poet Kamau Daáood as he considers survival as an oral poet in an electronic age, filmed in 1984 and shot in 16 mm. After the screening, hear from S. Pearl Sharp, Roberto Miguel Miranda, and Gale Fulton Ross in a conversation and audience Q&A moderated by poet Benin Lemus.

In addition to the feature-length documentary, the Opening Night event includes screenings of three Official Selection poem-based films accepted to this year’s festival. The full selection will be screened at the festival on Saturday, April 27, 1-6 PM. Get tickets before they sell out! Discounted tickets available for Beyond Baroque members!

International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2024: Official Selection

Saturday, April 27, 1:00 - 6:00 PM PT
In person at The Wanda Coleman Theater at Beyond Baroque

The third annual International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles, at Beyond Baroque features screenings of nearly 40 poetry-based films from around the world, including selections from France, India, Belgium, Ireland, and U.S. Selected by festival director Lynn Holley and Beyond Baroque, the films will be screened in The Wanda Coleman Theater.

The official schedule for the festival’s program will include a wide variety of experimental, narrative, documentary, and animated poem-based films. This year, we are excited to debut a short poetry film using components of AI made by Mike Gioia. In The Mike Kelly Gallery, we’ll showcase Photo News, a project by visual artist Jody Zellen composed of montages of newspaper headline fragments combined with images of news or nature. Delicious food and drinks will be available on-site. Get your tickets before they’re gone! If you’re a Beyond Baroque member, tickets are available at a discount. For more about selected films and previous winners of the festival, visit poetryfilmfestival.org.

The Devil Cruises Pacific Coast Highway: Katherine Williams + Guests

Friday, May 3, 8:00 PM PT
In person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube

Beyond Baroque welcomes poet Katherine Williams to Los Angeles in celebration of her debut collection, The Devil Cruises Pacific Coast Highway (Kelsay Book). The program will feature readings and musical performances by poet Brendan Constantine, musician and publisher Matthew Mars, and composer Eliot Douglass, with MC of the evening, Philip Littell. Book signings to follow the performances.

The Intimacies of Roots & Wards

Saturday, May 4, 7:00 PM PT
In person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube

Celebrating newly published poetry collections, authors Diana Khoi Nguyen (Root Fracstures, 2024), Dindy Juyoung OK (Root Toward, 2024), and Taneum Bambrick (Intimacies, Received, 2022) will be reading from their latest works at Beyond Baroque! Book signings will follow after the readings.

Interart and Iconotexts: Five Poets Read Images

Saturday, May 11, 7:00 PM PT
In person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube

Interart and Iconotexts features five dynamic authors, Joanna Roche, Ed Rosenthal, Ed Schad, David Starkey, and Eve Wood reading their original work with references and inspirations by painters like Liat Yossifor, Joseph Cornell, and Caravaggio. Visual artwork will accompany each of the authors’s readings, and will culminate in a discussion with the group and Q&A open to the audience.

L.A. Book Launch: Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle Eastern Fiction

Thursday, May 16, 8:00 PM PT
In person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube

Presented in partnership with The Markaz Review & City Lights, editor Jordan Elgrably and actor, Reza Sixo Safai read from Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction (City Lights, 2024), an anthology of new short stories from 25 emerging and established writers from the greater Middle East (or SWANA), a vast region that stretches from Southwest Asia, through the Middle East and Turkey, and across Northern Africa. The 25 authors included here come from a wide range of cultures and countries, including Palestine, Syria, Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, and Morocco, to name some.; a unique collection of voices and viewpoints that illuminate life in the global Arab/Muslim world.

L.A. Book Launch: Creature by Marsha de la O

Saturday, June 15, 7:00 PM PT
In person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube

Written during the last five years of the poet’s father’s life, Creature is a book about love, destruction, and the self, all standing in relation to family and the natural world. The poems themselves try to move toward what can’t be said by finding connection with other life forms. By moving past linguistic walls into otherness, words become proximate to mystery and inhabit territory where expanses open and embodiment is always on the verge of transformation. The author will be joined by poets Kim Young and Holaday Mason for readings in The Wanda Coleman Theater. Readings will be followed by book signings and a reception.

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club: J. Ryan Stradal & Guest Authors

Saturday, June 21, 8:00 PM PT
In person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube

From the New York Times bestselling author, J. Ryan Stradal delivers a story of a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club is a window into a colorful, vanishing world of relish trays and brandy Old Fashioneds. The author will be reading alongside L.A.’s literary couple, Alison Turner (author of The Second Split Between), and Lou Mathews (author of Shaky Town & L.A. Breakdown). Book signings to follow after the readings.