Posts by Eric
Tuesday, November 18th – 7pm
Brian Shepperd and Friends: A Reading
Brian Shepperd, a formerly incarcerated, currently recalibrated man and the author of Confessions of a Compassionate Felon convenes a conclave of friends to share spoken word, poetry, chapter & verse reading from their own books. Read more at th3rdbridge.com
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Wednesday, November 19th – 6pm
A fundraiser for
8 Palestinian families
in Gaza
Bird & Beckett, a privately owned bookshop, weighs in: The contemporary suffering and persecution in Gaza, and in the West Bank, has been extreme and continues, though you’d hardly know it from the newspapers lately. What Hamas did on 10/7/23 is unforgivable and indefensible from where we stand. However, it is obvious to us that…
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Thursday, November 20th – 7:30pm
Walker Talks! A Monthly Live Stream
Tonight: Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, published in 1962, helped spark the environmental movement, offering us a comprehensive understanding of the intricate and fragile relationships between living beings and the oceanic environment. Her previous three books, now called the Sea Trilogy, convey truly unfathomable mysteries, both scientifically accurate and poetically charged. Her childhood in the Alleghanies,…
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November 21-23 – Four shows!
Jazz duo / Jazz Quartet / Jazz Quintet / Country Noir Combo
Friday, November 21st – 5pm to 7pm – Foster/Vincent Guitar Duo! A twenty dollar bill works wonders to support the Jazz Happy Hour that’s been all but continuous since the fall of 2002, 23 years and counting… byob… bring the kids… the kids and student musicians get in free this evening. Guitarist Scott Foster has…
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Fundraising for the future of
Bird & Beckett in Glen Park!
Here at Bird & Beckett Books, we’ve always relied on the kindness of neighbors and strangers to make it all work; and we’ve always found that strangers don’t stay strangers long! Your tax-deductible donations to our 501(c)3 nonprofit, the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project, FEIN 261906810, are the secret sauce. Book sales and cover…
Read MoreWater under the bridge…
The posts that follow show you what’s come and gone. Search the videos on our youtube channel or facebook page to find evidence of what you remember, or what you missed! Then, make sure you catch the next thing that catches your fancy. The live streams are great, but live music in a room with…
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