Getty Center Los Angeles present In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945–1980. Curator Virginia Heckert of Photographs, the J. Paul Getty Museum, leads a FREE gallery talk on the exhibition. Meet under the stairs in the Museum Entrance Hall.

What: Curator Talk Virginia Heckert
Where: Getty Center Los Angeles, 1200 Getty Drive LA 90049
When: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Phone: 310-440-7300
Website: http://www.getty.edu

The West Coast’s legendary and longest running free poetry workshop. This months facilitator Billy Burgos.

Billy Burgos is a 38 year old Poet/Portrait Painter from LA is curator/workshop facilitator at Gotpoetry.com. He is the host of Blogtalk Radio’s poetry show Word Ballast where he has interviewed such poets as Nikkey Finney, Nikky Giovanni and Thomas Sayers Ellis. Billy is also the co-editor of the poetry Broadsheet Sic. Billy is currently working on his first one man gallery show tentatively titled “Angeleno Poets- A 20 Year Retrospective”

What: WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY WORKSHOP at Beyond Baroque with Billy Burgos
Where: Beyond Baroque 681 Venice Bl. Venice, CA 90291   
When: 8:00pm until 11:30pm
Cost: FREE
Website: http://www.beyondbaroque.org/