Posts by Heather World

You’ll find Walker’s Talk on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. Please donate to help us pay Walker for his heroic & eloquent locution. Tonight, Walker Brents III delves into the thought of Henry David Thoreau, whose genius lay in seeing nature for itself, with no need to be any other thing. We grow spontaneously…

Erik von Buchau, vibraphone Jeff Marrs, drums David Ewell, Bass Matt Clark, piano $20 cash cover charge at the door. BYOB For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733  

The Oaktown Jazz Workshops at Jack London Square have been cultivating and training young talent for three decades now. Recent alumni of the program come to Bird & Beckett at 5pm to perform as the Oaktown Jazz Workshops’ Youth Mentors. This quartet will show what early training, talent, intense study and a strong community-based environment…

Avotcja, poet and prose writer, musician, musicologist, dj and cultural warrior, has just brought out With Every Step I Take 2 (Taurean Horn Press, 2022). Join us at Bird & Beckett for a publication party and help us celebrate with Avotcja and master percussionist & steel pan wizard Val Serrant. No charge! Donations appreciated. “Introducing…

New album, new date at Bird & Beckett. Country music, sweet, tart and pretty. Bring your sweetie, or just bring yourself, and bring a twenty for the band. And do byob, if you care to. Give a listen here.

Tate Swindell, researcher, writer and editor, engages his friend and colleague Hilary Holladay, author of a recent biography of poet Adrienne Rich  (1929-2012), in conversation about the poet and Holladay’s experience and process, diving into the complexities of Rich’s ever-evolving thought and expression. Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) published dozens of influential books in her long career,…