653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood

1-415-586-3733
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Open to walk-in trade and browsing
Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six

 

Live Streams every weekend!
Refresh your browser
to catch a show in progress!
Visit our Facebook page or
YouTube channel!

But nothing beats being in the room
with the music & the musicians!

Sunday, May 31 – 2:30pm
Walker Talks! on Boccaccio’s Decameron
Walker Brents III in a live stream from Bird & Beckett


Boccaccio’s Muthologos

Boccaccio (whose name means “mouth”) offers to us his purpose in composing The Decameron:  “to tell a hundred tales, or fables or parables or histories, call them what you will, told in ten days by a worthy group of seven ladies and three young men formed in the recent season of deadly pestilence, along with certain songs…”

          And prose-fiction, relative to all we see, hear, and speak, has never been the same. 

          Why?  Because of all Boccaccio says, as words upon the page.  Even as they arise from a specific location, there are further worlds in these words, composed in times as interesting, dare we say it, as our own.

 

No in-store audience is allowed due to the pandemic,
but you can find the facebook live stream link by clicking here.
Scroll down to find the video screen with the red “live” rectangle.
Refresh your screen if you don’t see it–you might just be a little early to the party!

If you prefer, look for the stream on the Bird & Beckett YouTube channel.

You can, and we hope will,
reward Walker for his prodigious intellectual investigations by sending $5 or $10 or $20 his way via PayPal at this link.
or by Venmo @birdandbecket

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The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project

Our events are put on under the umbrella of the nonprofit Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project (the "BBCLP"). That's how we fund our ambitious schedule of 300 or so concerts and literary events every year.

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The Independent Musicians Alliance

Gigging musicians! You have nothing to lose but your lack of a collective voice to achieve fair wages for your work!
The IMA can be a conduit for you, if you join in to make it work.

https://www.independentmusiciansalliance.org/

Read more here - Andy Gilbert's Feb 25 article about the IMA from KQED's site

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