Fred Dewey - Beyond Baroque
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Located in the old Venice City Hall, built in 1906, is Beyond Baroque, L.A.'s preeminent center for literature and arts. Created by George Drury Smith in 1968 as a meeting place and home of a newsprint 'zine that shared its name, the center followed the lineage of the Venice beats and filled an important gap left by the closing of the Gas House venue and the decline of the poetry scene. Humble to its core, Beyond Baroque has become one of the city's only refuges for free speech and poetry. But even as funding dwindles, Fred Dewey, the center's current Executive Director, has continued to push the organization's mission into the 21st century.
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