Showing posts with label Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Sheree Rose & Tosh Berman in conversation


Performer and photographer Sheree Rose freaks forth with thoughts on poetic restraints, sadomasochism, love’s lasting impact, and artistic collaboration within the Beyond Baroque scene throughout her life spent with poet and artist Bob Flanagan. This program is part of a series, Beyond Baroque and Beyond, in which Tosh Berman, writer, poet, Los Angeles publisher of the postwar French literati, and beloved host of the 1980s cable talk show Tea With Tosh, returns to the screen to confabulate with figures from the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center’s haunted hallways. Summoned to Berman’s virtual sofa are a host of poetic voices, each of whom have been central to the center’s programs at a point between 1980 and 1996. Not merely interviews, Beyond Baroque and Beyond is equal parts séance, chat show, reunion, literary production, past life regression, tea time. No nostalgia. In conjunction with the exhibition Made in L.A. 2020: a version. This is a recording of a program broadcast live on June 29, 2021.

Thursday, July 1, 2021

Jack Skelley, David Trinidad & Tosh Berman in conversation


I had a wonderful chat with the poets/publishers David Trinidad and Jack Skelley.  The focus of our talks was on Beyond Baroque during the time when Dennis Cooper and Benjamin Weissman were program directors.  Incredible people such as Ed Smith, Amy Gerstler, Sheree Rose, Bob Flanagan, Jim Krusoe, and others become part of the narration that ook place at Beyond Baroque.  

Sunday, June 27, 2021

Beyond Baroque and Beyond: Part 2: Jack Skelley, David Trinidad, & Tosh Berman

 


CONVERSATIONS Part of the series Beyond Baroque and Beyond
Jack Skelley, David Trinidad & Tosh Berman
TUE JUN 29, 2021 7 PM PDT
Poets Jack Skelley and David Trinidad gather to chit-chat about chapbooks, popular culture and its iconographies, self-publishing, Stone Aged-ideas, and, to lend from Skelley's own tongue, poetry’s “archetypal symbologies.”

Thursday, June 24, 2021

Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weisman, Amy Gerstler & Tosh Berman in conversation


The program I did for the Hammer Museum, regarding the Beyond Baroque Dennis Cooper, Amy Gerstler, and Benjmin Weissman years is now on YouTube. As mentioned this has been a very satisying series of programs that I hosted. Beyond Baroque is a very important organization and venue, and it's amazing to share the common experiences we had in this world. Which also includes punk rock venues as well as LACE in Downtown, etc.

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Tosh Berman Interviews Dennis Cooper, Amy Gerstler, and Benjamin Weissman for the Hammer Museum's MADE IN L.A. 2020


 Tosh Berman interviews Dennis Cooper, Amy Gerstler, and Benjamin Weissman regarding their work and times with Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center.  It's unusual to have three of the people on the same platform discussing their times as the curator or literary 'gods!   This discussion is due to Sabrina Tarasoff's Beyond Baroque exhibiton at The Huntington, in conjunction with the Hammer Museum's Made in L.A. 2020

One can watch and hear the interview here:  

Friday, June 18, 2021

Tosh with Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weissman, & Amy Gerstler - Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 7PM PDT

 


An online tête-à-tête between Tosh Berman and poet-auteurs Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weissman, and Amy Gerstler about their so-called poet-gang, the special friendships formed by the L.A. literati in the early 1980s, being influenced by the French (i.e. literary hauntedness), and the specific problems and pleasantries of poetic programming. Introduction by Made in L.A. 2020 artist Sabrina Tarasoff. Twitter/Instagram: @hammer_museum Facebook: HammerMuseum

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Albums That Were Important to Tosh in 1992

 



1992 I was pretty much busy working in the Beyond Baroque world as its Director and Curator. I had a craving for music but it got very unimportant to me at this time. Looking through the releases there are only two albums that made an impression on me, and they are albums by well-known, yet controversial artists. Yoko Ono and Morrissey. Beyond that, on a music level, I must have been focused on buying old Serge Gainsbourg and Joe Meek related music. French Pop made an impression on me, due to my visits to Japanese record stores. The Ono Box was a retrospective of Yoko's recordings, and it is probably the best set exploring her music. The Morrissey "Your Arsenal" was his 'rock' recording, produced by the great Mick Ronson. At this time, I felt Morrissey was at his height as an artist and 'public figure.' At the time, I thought his approach to the Right-Wing was as in a fictional character. Nevertheless, I have always preferred the solo Morrissey to The Smiths. Not a popular opinion by the way! -Tosh Berman

Friday, September 13, 2019

Tosh Berman at Beyond Baroque, Reading from TOSH with Interview with Pat Thomas: Feb 14, 2019


Tosh Berman will read from TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World (City Lights) and also chit-chat with Pat Thomas. Do come and support the Beyond Baroque world as well.

Saturday, September 14 at 8:00 PM

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
681 Venice Blvd, Venice CA 90291

Sunday, September 8, 2019

Tosh Berman at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center on Saturday, Sept. 14th at 8 P.M.






Saturday, September 14th, 8-10pm 
Venice, CA: Beyond Baroque

Join TOSH at Beyond Baroque!  Beyond Baroque is located at 681 N. Venice Blvd. Venice, CA 90291 For more 310-822-3006; info@beyondbaroque.org  Also interview with Pat Thomas.

A reading and discussion with Tosh Berman, former director of Beyond Baroque and author of the memoir Tosh, Growing Up In Wallace Berman’s World. Tosh will be interviewed by journalist and author Pat Thomas.

Monday, January 15, 2018

Tosh Berman Reads at Beyond Baroque Sunday January 21, 2018 plus Interview at 4:30 PM


Ladies and Gentleman, at last, I will be doing a reading of my works (including a touch of my memoir) at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, California on Sunday, January 21, 2018, at 4:30 PM. I will also be interviewed by Jon Hess. Do come. Here's the full info:
Tosh Berman will do a reading of his works, including an excerpt of his upcoming memoir that will be published by City Lights Books this year. Also, Berman will be interviewed by Jon Hess. Tosh is a writer, poet, and former Artistic Director of Beyond Baroque. His two books are “Sparks-Tastic” (Rare Bird) and a book of poems, “The Plum in Mr. Blum’s Pudding (Penny-Ante Editions). He is also the publisher and editor of his press, TamTam Books, which published the works of Boris Vian, Serge Gainsbourg, Guy Debord, Jacques Mesrine, Ron Mael & Russell Mael (Sparks), Gilles Verlant, and Lun*na Menoh. His most recent project is a series of YouTube programs "Tosh Talks." 
Venue: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291
Date: Sunday, January 21, 2018
Time: 4:30 PM
Admission: $10 Students/Seniors/Children $6 Members: Free.