About this Event
Skulls & Stairs is back! This reading series at the infamous staircase of the original Venice City Hall building features poets writing with a countercultural, punk, and goth attitude. This installment features Venice-based AJ Luxton, and hailing from the inlands and concrete streets of Los Angeles, Consuelo, J. Saravia and Charlie Stuip.
Doors Open: 7:00 PM I Readings: 7:30 PM
About the authors
AJ Luxton, M.F.A., is a feral queer autistic performance poet, bioethicist by training, and one half of the Venice art collective Faery Church. Luxton's work is philosophical and raw by turns, throwing multivalent lenses on personhood and alienation, disability and divinity, the limits of embodiment, and the tesseracts of language. Their poems have been featured in Abyss & Apex, Chronogram, Pop Fic Review, Best of Craigslist, and gallery exhibitions "TELEPHONE" and "Mommy Dearest".
Consuelo is an artivist, student, and Pushcart Prize nominee from the Inland Empire. Her debut poetry book, Water Damage, is published through Riot of Roses Publishing House, and it explores divinity, mental health, queerness, and Chicanisma. You can find her at open mics across the IE and LA, experimental art shows, your local public library, or spiritual apparitions.
Charlie Stuip is a writer and cook from Oakland, CA living in LA. She has written poems since preschool and is now published in WORMS Magazine, Grotto Journal, Midcult, PLAYGIRL and more. Her chapbook Hex of Steel is out this spring with Bottlecap Press.
About Beyond Baroque
is one of the United States' leading independent Literary | Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to expanding the public's knowledge of poetry, literature and art through cultural events and community interaction. Founded in 1968 as an experimental literary magazine, Beyond Baroque is based out of the original City Hall building in Venice, California. The Center offers a diverse variety of literary and arts programming including readings and workshops. The building also houses a bookstore with a large collection of new poetry books for sale.
Livestream: If you can’t join us in person the event will be livestreamed on at the scheduled time of the event. If you are tuning in this way, no ticket purchase is necessary.
If you are attending in person, ticket purchase is required. Tickets will be available at the Beyond Baroque bookstore on the day of the event, but we recommend registering in advance through Eventbrite. Masks are encouraged while inside our center. Please arrive early.
Event attendees are expected to behave in a respectful and considerate manner while in our space. Beyond Baroque reserves the right to remove individuals from our events, virtual or otherwise, if they are not respecting the space, staff, fellow attendees, or performers.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, United States
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