Archive for February 2013
Saturday, April 6th, at 7 pm: AMERARCANA 2013 Release Reading & Celebration
The 4th annual Bird & Beckett Review, AMERARCANA 2013 is here now, so please come down to the bookshop to check it out, and join us on Saturday, April 6th to celebrate and hear from a few of the contributors, including, but not necessarily limited to: Patrick James Dunagan, Christina Fisher, Jack Hirschman, Ava Khoobor,…
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“Fifth Friday” jazz in the bookshop
The Michael Parsons Quintet
March 29th, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Our Friday evening jazz series has been going strong for more than a decade, and features four great bands in rotation each month– but on those lucky occasions when there’s a fifth Friday, we get the opportunity to bring in a different aggregation for your pleasure…Â this Friday, it’s pianist Michael Parsons with a fine…
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Sunday, March 31st at 2:30 p.m.
Walker Brents III on W. B. Yeats
Each month, Walker Brents gives a talk on a subject literary, poetic, mythological, or wherever his investigations lead…Â This month, the poet William Butler Yeats and his enigmatic system articulated in the work called “A Vision”
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Sunday, March 31st:
Sarode / Tabla Duo
Mallar Bhattacharya and Ferhan Qureshi
which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, March 24 – 4:30-6:30 pm: Hindustani (North Indian) Classical Music. Bird & Beckett is pleased to present two concerts of Hindustani classical music on the last two Sundays in…
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Monday, March 25th:
Patrick James Dunagan, Derek Fenner, Christina Fisher, poets
Monday, March 25th at 7:00 pm, Poets Patrick James Dunagan, Derek Fenner and Christina Fisher read poems and engage in repartee. Dunagan’s upcoming booke, Das Gedichtete, may or may not be hot off the Ugly Duckling Presse, in Brooklyn, and if so, may be read from. Regardless, there will be words to be heard, and,…
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Sunday, March 24th
Hindustani Classical Vocal Recital
Pooja Chaudhuri
accompanied by Ferhan Qureshi
which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, March 24 – 4:30-6:30 pm: Hindustani Classical Vocal Recital. Perhaps as long as three thousand years ago, the Vedic chant tradition originated in ancient India, setting the Sanskrit Vedas…
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