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L.A. Artist Guild Monthly Assembly

Jom Rivers Studio 801 East 7th Street, Unit 109, Los Angeles, CA 90021, Los Angeles

The Guild brings together visual, literary and performing artists to build community and collaborations across disciplines. The Guild aims to make the arts community more connected, accessible, and collaborative through monthly Assemblies, artist spotlights, professional development, critiques, gallery meetups, film screenings, spoken word/poetry, exhibitions, community partnerships, and an ongoing exchange of opportunities. The Guild brings together visual, literary and performing Read More ...

Learned Ladies and Notorious Whores: The Women of the Scandalous Memoir

Los Angeles Union Station 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles

Presented by Rare Books LA at Los Angeles Union Station: ejected from polite society, three generations of courtesans turned the scandalous memoir into a genre of their own, exposing the hypocrisy of the men around them and reclaiming the worth of women that history tried to erase. This one-hour talk traces how these "learned ladies and notorious whores" wrote themselves Read More ...

Free

Poetry & The Archive: Creating Poetry from Photographs

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center 681 Venice Blvd, Venice Beach, Los Angeles

Poetry & The Archive: A Workshop on Creating Poetry from Photographs Poetry & The Archive: Creating Poetry from Photographs is a generative workshop on the use of photographs from historical (and personal) archives to create poetry. Participants will generate new work through a series of prompts and be invited to use their own photographs to create new (or revise existing) Read More ...

$74.49

L.A. Book Launch: 88 Unashamed Black Mental Health Stories

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center 681 Venice Blvd, Venice Beach, Los Angeles

Join us for an evening with contributors of this newly anthology published by Inlandia Institute’s Blacklandia Beyond Baroque presents a poetry night highlighting resilience and mental health journeys within the Black community with contributors of 88 Unashamed Black Mental Health Stories. Published by Inlandia Institute’s Blacklandia, the evening features readings by anthology editor, Romaine Washington, and contributors: Brandon Allen, Akilah Read More ...