BEYOND BAROQUE
BEYOND BAROQUE
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LA's Leading Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291
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41 years old
United States
Last Login: 11/9/2009
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| General | View our calendar of upcoming readings and events: beyondbaroque.org
View photos of past readings and events: click here to view images | | Music | Beyond Baroque books was founded in 1998 and is dedicated to emerging, over-looked and out-of-print poetry, especially from Los Angeles-based writers. Titles include the first translation of exiled Iranian poet Majid Naficy; American Zen Bones, a collection of stories from Maezumi Roshi, founder of the Zen Center of Los Angeles; Whiting Award Winner Joel Brouwer's first book; OH, TONGUE by
Simone Forti; FROM THE WARRING FACTIONS by
Ammiel Alcalay
Electric Church
Referred to by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as “the most succinct collection of his poetry”, K. Curtis Lyle’s Electric Church is a selection of poems from previous books and chapbooks. Electric Church is a sweeping, lyrical, rhythmic, and surreal force. Born and raised in Watts, Lyle moved to St. Louis in the 1960s. He was fundamental in the founding of the Watts Writers Workshop and instrumental in the Los Angeles renaissance.
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Beyond Baroque magazine, Volume 28 #2, TRUTH ETC, with works by Jean-Luc Godard, Wanda Coleman, Jack Hirschman, Christoph Dreager, Diane di Prima, David Meltzer, Sesshu Foster, Ammiel Alcalay, Yan Li, and more.
Common Objects
In Common Objects, the texts form a collection of exquisite, cinematic portraits, which gain their profundity and truth from real experiences and from plunging the depth of memory. The photographs of Olive Martin are collaborative images that join with the texts to tell a strange story. The images reenact scenes presented by the Thematic Aperception Test (TAT), a Jungian psychological exam developed in the 1940s at the Harvard Psychological Clinic, and evoke the sketchy memories of madness. April Durham is a writer and visual artist and has exhibited in the US and Europe. She has an MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Olive Martin is a photographer and filmmaker. The photographic series, "Apres le TAT," of which the images in Common Objects are a part, is in the collection of the Artotheque Nantaise and was shown at Gallerie Jennifer Flay, Paris (2003) and the Musee de Beaux Arts de Pau (2004).
Unbuttoned Sleeves is a literary/dance/theater cross-genre experiment conducted by renowned dancer and writer Simone Forti, theater artist Terrence Luke Johnson, dancer and composer Sarah Swenson, and Douglas Wade, musician and composer. Drawn from and inspired by two of Forti’s performances, Unbuttoned Sleeves is an all-encompassing experience from page to page, a discourse between the written word, the world at large, the writer and the reader, all in the same brilliant moment.
Click here to check out our titles and purchase Beyond Baroque Books online. | | Heroes | Our members! Support great events, readings, workshops and publishing by becoming a member of your community center for the literary arts. Benefits include FREE admission to most readings and events. Also enjoy year-round free workshops in poetry, fiction, non-fiction and screenwriting. Peruse the bookstore for local, regional and national poets – including an extensive collection of chapbooks by local poets – and get an event calendar mailed to your door. Join today! |
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Aries |
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Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center is based near the beach in Los Angeles’ old Venice City Hall, built 1906. The Center offers an extensive program of public readings, free workshops, a project room, bookstore, publications, and chapbook/small press archive. During our nearly forty years in Venice, we have nurtured and presented many of the best writers, artists, and poets from the West Coast, around the country, and world. The Center is unique for its combined range of activities, constantly moving back and forth between the underground and the literary and artistic establishments.
In a town focused on Hollywood and the music industry, Beyond Baroque has charted an independent, non-commercial path, emphasizing the live experience of challenging art and poetry in an intimate, focused atmosphere. We pride ourselves on enabling poets and artists to envision and present their work outside usual social hierarchies, in an egalitarian and welcoming atmosphere. The Center, continually reinventing itself, has provided a home and incubator for countless styles and approaches, based on its founding spirit from the free-form late 1960s. Many now-famous writers read with us early; others have received celebrations by the community gathering in appreciation of a life’s work. The Center’s peer-based workshop program, where writers of all kinds can gather year round, week after week, for free, is unique not only on the West coast but nationally.
Begun in 1968 with a newsprint ‘zine titled BEYOND BAROQUE, printed and distributed free in an edition of 20,000 by George Drury Smith, Beyond Baroque started as a meeting place, with workshops and space for readings, art, and music. The workshops, over the years, have generated numerous writers, presses, and some of the leading poets in Los Angeles. The facilitators have included founders Joe Hansen and John Harris, Leland Hickman, Bob Flanagan, John Thomas, Will Alexander, Jeff McDaniel, Philomene Long, Simone Forti, Sarah Maclay, Liz Gonzales, and others. The Center’s first librarian was Exene Cervenka of the band X, which was formed when Exene and John Doe met at the Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop. Some of world famous LA artist Mike Kelley’s first performances were at the Center, and the cover of one of the Center’s early issues of BEYOND BAROQUE, featuring an array of experimental filmmakers, was displayed in the Pompidou’s 2006 show on LA art. The Center archives chapbooks, small press poetry and experimental fiction and sells them (an index of our chapbook archive is online). Our reading series, featuring over 200 writers a year, has included Christopher Isherwood, Allen Ginsberg, Raymond Carver, John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Philip Levine, Ed Dorn, Wanda Coleman, CK Williams, Lewis MacAdams, James Tate, Alice Notley, Patti Smith and thousands of others both famous and infamous. Center series include experimental music, film screenings, and visual art. The Center has facilitated or organized festivals, including the citywide World Beyond Festivals, with the World Stage and other LA organizations, and the Beyond Text Festivals, with LACMA and others. Its yearly event with the LA Poetry Festival, the Younger Poets, has consistently presented the best emerging voices from around the LA region at the Downtown Central Library. In addition to on-site work, the Center has curated and organized permanent public art projects highlighting Los Angeles poets, including the Poetry Walls on the Venice Boardwalk and the lobby of the Junipero Serra State Office Building downtown.
Publications that have come out of the Center, some originally through its typesetting facilities, include Momentum Press, edited by Bill Mohr, Little Caesar edited by programs curator Dennis Cooper, a series edited by David Trinidad, the magazine FOREHEAD edited by Benjamin Weissman, also a readings curator, and more. The Center’s imprint was launched in 1998 by Fred Dewey and has published fourteen books, including works by April Durham, Olive Martin, Eve Wood, Majid Naficy, Philomene Long, Nancy Agabian, Simone Forti, K. Curtis Lyle, Benjamin Hollander, and Ammiel Alcalay, along with anthologies from both the Wednesday Workshop, the World Stage, and several magazines featuring challenging writing and art from around the country and the world, including the recent TRUTH ETC, with works by Jean-Luc Godard, Wanda Coleman, Jack Hirschman, Christoph Dreager, Diane di Prima, David Meltzer, Sesshu Foster, Ammiel Alcalay, Yan Li, and more.
The Center’s staff and board have historically included writers and artists, from the Center’s founding by Smith, an experimental fiction writer, in 1968, through key programming figures including Manazar Gamboa, Dennis Cooper, Dennis Philips, Amy Gerstler, Benjamin Weissman, and the current director, Fred Dewey.
Beyond Baroque is located at 681 Venice Blvd., in Venice, CA, 90291. Our bookstore and archive are open Fridays and around events.
You can find us on the web at beyondbaroque.org
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Become a member of Beyond Baroque!
Mail us your chapbooks and zines to be added to our extensive chapbook archive and/or to sell in our bookstore. Send to: BEYOND BAROQUE BOOKSTORE, 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA, 90291
Come to our YEAR-ROUND FREE WORKSHOPS & OPEN READINGS
Since 1969, Beyond Baroque has provided a free workshop and open-reading program as a gathering place for writers to develop their voice, find support, build communities, and experiment. Bring copies of your work.
1ST SUNDAY FREE OPEN READINGS except Aug., Sept., Jan.
5 PM, sign-up 4:45.
MONDAY NIGHT FICTION - - 8 PM FREE
Bring copies of sections or short pieces. With ANGIE KIRK.
TUESDAY NIGHT CREATIVE NON-FICTION - 8 PM FREE
Bring works of creative non-fiction, memoir, and prose. With TONGA NGUYEN.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY - 8 PM FREE
A legendary gathering & the West Coast's longest running, free poetry workshop. December with ELLYN MAYBE.
THURSDAY ALT.SCREENPLAY - 8 PM FREE
Documentary, narrative, art film scripts, actor readings. Independent projects only. With PETER COOGAN(on hiatus through first week in January 2009).
NEW - THURSDAY WORKSHOP (upstairs in the Gallery) - 8PM FREE.
POESÍA MÁS ALLÁ DE LO BARROCO- Bilingual.
Taller-Espacio de escritura-publicación-performance. Bring 10 copies. With ANTONIETA VILLAMIL.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON POETRY - 1:30 PM FREE
Bring a poem & 10 copies. With BOB FOSTER.
Check our
calendar to keep up to date on upcoming open mic readings and events.
Please send us a message with your name, address, and email if you'd like to be added to our mailing list.
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