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.

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.

17 Place Vendôme: Les Frères Crozat et Cie, by Vincent Johnson

Saturday May, 4, 2:00-6:00 PT
In person in the Mike Kelley Gallery at Beyond Baroque

17 Place Vendôme takes its name from the home of the most significant gallery for 20th century European Modernism. Both the history of the physical address, and the arts ecosystem it housed, cannot be separated from the slave trade. 17 Place Vendôme had been the 17th century palace of Antoine Crozat, the wealthiest slave owner in French history and the country’s first billionaire. His younger brother, Pierre Crozat, was a connoisseur and patron of art, and acquired the greatest art collection of the the 18th century. Through wide-ranging scholarship and a series of collages, Johnson resituates the social, financial, intellectual, and physical architecture of Western Art in the profound violence enacted by European and North American slavers. The exhibition opens on May 4 with a reception and a discussion between Johnson and art historian Nizan Shaked, moderated by Renée Petropolous.

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, 3:00 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.

Zine Launch: No me hables de amor + Open Mic

Friday, May 17, 7:30 PM PT
In person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube

Los Angeles poets Maestro Gamin, Ingrid M. Calderón, Charles Kehkeh Williams, and Iván Salinas are celebrating their newest collaborative project, No me hables de amor: Shapes of Love (Resurrection Press), a zine exploring love and all its multitudes from 4 distinct perspectives. The poets will read and engage in a brief discussion on their creative process and the many ways love moves though their spirits. The readings will follow an open mic. Limited slots available, arrive early to sign up!

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.

Bloomsday Psychedelia

Sunday, June 16, 7:00 PM PT
In person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube

Join us for PSYBERNETIC DREAMING with RIA LIVE CINEMA and LIVE MUSIC. Imagine the flaneur Bloom wondering around Dublin tripping on mushrooms ala mind-altering psychogeography. 6 to 9pm, free admission. Laughtears.com

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.